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05.14.18
Lakou NOU 2018 Collaborative Performance & Youth Activities
Lakou NOU 2018 artists Madjeen Isaac, Richard Louissaint, Stefani Saintonge, and Sirene Dantor Sainvil will be merging their artistic talents together to present a collaborative work featuring a youth activities center at the East 43rd Street Community garden, a 501 c(3) non profit organization. Join us for an eventful evening of Haitian drumming, singing, painting, and community youth banner writing about “What does your Lakou and garden mean to you?”
A Note From Our Community Partner:
The East 43rd Street Community garden a 501 c(3) non profit organization located at 1087 East 43 street, between Ave I and J, in Brooklyn. It is a 4000 square feet garden featuring a dozen raised beds and a children’s section. The garden is recruiting young people, adults, and senior adults to work with us in maintaining a place where the community to grow food and relationships.
For more information:
Email: e43scommunitygarden@yahoo.com
Website: e43rdcommunitygarden.org
Instagram: @engagedresidents
Selebrasyon! is New York City’s only festival dedicated to the promotion of the highest caliber film, dance, music, literature, and visual art of Haiti and its Diaspora. Haiti Cultural Exchange’s 3rd Biennial celebration will bring artists and diverse communities together to experience Haitian culture, its creative foundations, and its powerful legacy.
This year, HCX is pleased to announce that six Haiti-based artists will be participating in Selebrasyon! programming. This is all thanks to the support we have received for our HaitiXNY initiative, which aims to bring more artists from Haiti to present their work.
Download the Selebrasyon! Event List.
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05.01.18
During Selebrasyon! 2018, Haiti Cultural Exchange will be participating in the Hudson Guild’s Cultural Kaleidoscope Festival taking place from June 1st to June 20th in the heart of Chelsea.
The goal of the festival is to widen the vision for the Guild’s arts programs and locate new and passionate sources of creativity. Through the exchange between new audiences and performers of a wide variety of cultural expressions, the festival will celebrate the rich and diverse heritages of the many individuals and families who are part of the Hudson Guild community.
Through a collaboration with Sans Limites Dance, HCX will present six dance concerts that feature choreographic works exploring themes of immigration and diasporic experiences. Each of these performances will feature one choreographer of Haitian descent, along with additional companies representing cultures from around the globe. Featured groups include Dance Caribbean Collective, Kriyol Dance! Collective, and Renegade Performance Group. A seventh dance performance will be an evening-length work by Compagnie de Danse Jean-René Delsoin, a Haiti-based dance group that brings the richness of cultural expression and dances in Haiti to the world.
HCX is also partnering with the Caribbean Film Academy to present five film screenings that present diverse narratives and unique cinematic perspectives from Haiti and additional Caribbean nations. HCX will facilitate discussions around themes and topics explored at each screening and provide opportunities for audience members to share their points of view. The Hudson Guild is providing the theater-space at no cost and will be supplementing this work with outreach efforts within the local community.
To find our more visit haiticulturalx.org/selebrasyon or visit our Facebook events here.
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