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Call for Submissions: Haiti Cultural Exchange Offers Small Grants to Artists

Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) is offering an opportunity for 15 artists of Haitian descent in New York City and Haiti to create and present new work to be shared via the HCX online platforms. Artists...

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UN response to Haiti cholera epidemic lambasted by its own rights monitors

Ed Pilkington (The Guardian) writes about cholera—the disease brought to Haiti by UN peacekeepers that killed at least 10,000 people—saying that “top officials have denounced ‘illusory’ promises to...

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A Virtual Evening with Edwidge Danticat and Francesca Momplaisir

On May 14 at 7:00pm, Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present “A Virtual Evening with Edwidge Danticat and Francesca Momplaisir,” to celebrate the publication of My Mother’s House, a literary...

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New Book: Francesca Momplaisir’s “My Mother’s House”

My Mother’s House, Francesca Momplaisir’s debut novel is described as “a literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person’s...

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Cardi B declares that “she will not return to or speak of the DR”

The original title of the following article is “Cardi B is upset by the attacks she has received and assures ‘she will not return to or speak of the DR.’” According to Dominican Today, the singer,...

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Haiti’s president pardons more than 400 prisoners

Jamaica Observer reports that Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has pardoned 415 prisoners in a bid to reduce overcrowding at prisons. President Jovenel Moise has pardoned 415 prisoners in a bid to...

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Edwidge Danticat’s “Everything Inside”

Named one of the best books of the year by Esquire, NPR, TIME, and BuzzFeed, Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside (2020) is now available in paperback. Esquire writes, “In these eight narratives of...

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Art Exhibition: “Map danse anba lapli” in tribute to the Haiti’s Grand Rue...

[Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye for bringing this item to our attention via Critical.Caribbean.Art.] Le Nouvelliste reports that there will be an exhibition—“Map danse anba lapli” [I will dance in the...

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HCX Rasin Lakay presents: An Artist Talk with Steven Baboun

Haiti Cultural Exchange presents “An Artist Talk with Steven Baboun,” this Saturday, August 15, 2020, at 5:00pm EST via Zoom and live on HCX FB. Description: Join HCX and Steven Baboun in conversation...

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A Life with Art at the Center, in “Yves & Variation”

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Fergus McIntosh features Haitian musician Yves Deshommes and Lydia Cornett’s fifteen-minute documentary film on his work: Yves...

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