Join HCX at Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Thursday, July 17, 2025 for Mizik Ayiti! featuring Rasin Okan!

Join us for a powerful evening of music, memory, and movement as Rasin Okan presents original songs channeling the revolutionary pulse of Haitian folk music and echoing the deeply ancestral courage of Haiti’s freedom fighters to remember, reconnect, and rise. Let the music move your spirit. Let the memory ignite your soul. Come ready to celebrate culture, connection, and the enduring power of Haitian roots.

Born of Haiti’s mizik rasin movement, Rasin Okan is the only Brooklyn-based rasin sèch band. In the spirit of rasin sèch (directly translated to dry roots), Rasin Okan emphasizes the sounds and songs of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial music without much electric accompaniment. Led and co-founded by Jean E. Montina, Sanba Mayombe, the group writes original songs and evocative folk music to insight the revolutionary spirit of Haiti’s freedom fighters, to a pulsating rhythm.

Presented in collaboration with Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Free with Garden admission. Click here to purchase tickets for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden »