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Haiti - France Diaspora : A week of Haitian culture in Paris
20/09/2012 12:39:08

Haiti - France Diaspora : A week of Haitian culture in Paris
As part of the foreign cultures week in Paris, the Canadian Cultural Centre gives carte blanche to Haiti and hosts a week of Haitian cultural programming around the tangible and intangible heritage of 21 to 29 September 2012.

An exhibition of photographs, which will be held from September 24 to 30, offers a traverse of Haitian heritage, tangible and intangible presenting the Citadelle Henry Christophe and the National Historic Park, powerful symbols of the Haitian nation, gingerbread houses in lace of wood, portraits of insiders and places of worship and voodoo flags. Witness of a rich past, the Haitian heritage is a key element of the national identity.

Besides the exhibition, the discovery of Haiti, will allow to appreciate some moments of its history, its traditions and the expression of its contemporary artists through various cultural events : a roundtable on the heritage of Haiti, a concert trouba-voodooby Erol Josué, a poetic and musical encounter with Carlton Rara, film screenings, a tale of Mimi Barthelemy and Creole slam !

PROGRAM :

Monday, September 24 :
3:00 pm
Roundtable "The heritage at the service of tourism"
With the participation of the Ministry of Tourism, of Robert Henry Jolibois, Director General of the Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN) and Bruno Favel of the Heritage Directorate, French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
Free entry subject to availability

Wednesday, September 26 :
3:00 pm
« Mimi B. raconte »
Tale in Creole of Mimi Barthélémy. Honneur et respect Messieurs Dames la société ! Cabri, le petit chasseur Colibri, le jeune taureau Loraj Kalé, « trop pressé le fougueux » and lavandière se meuvent entre rêve et réalité. Born in Port-au-Prince, actress, storyteller and writer Mimi Barthélémy offers an immersion in Creole and French in the oral tradition of Haiti since 1982 by collecting and adapting stories from Haiti and the Caribbean.
Free admission by reservation : 01 44 43 24 92 marine.ferry@international.gc.ca

4:00 pm
« Lonbray pou lanmo /une ombre pour la mort »
Slam of Emmanuel Vilsaint
Yon pwezi ki mouri pou reviv... It is a poetry that is dying to make room for other future lives in a world surrounded by brutality. Between spoken world and a literature in the tradition of Latin American authors, he published his first text, Lonbray pou lanmò (A shadow to death) in 2010. Comedian and speaker, Vilsaint now lives between Paris and Port-au-Prince, and remains faithful to the two languages, French and Creole.
Free admission by reservation : 01 44 43 24 92 marine.ferry@international.gc.ca

Thursday, September 27 :
4:00 pm
Screening of « Divine horsemen » of Maya Deren (1997, 50 minutes documentary)
The initial project of Maya Deren, when she realized « Divine Horsemen », was to study voodoo dances. She got more than she expected and this film is one of the most outstanding papers done on this ancient practice.
Free entry subject to availability

6:00pm
« Paroles d’Haïti » of Carlton Rara
Composer, singer and percussionist, Carlton Rara offers a poetic and musical travel in which he puts in voice and in space the largest Haitian authors as Frankétienne, Yanick Lahens, Anthony Phelps, René Depestre... His compositions marked by strong Haitian roots mix blues, reggae and soul music.
Free admission by reservation : 01 44 43 24 93 marine.ferry@international.gc.ca

Friday, September 28 :
8 pm « Trouba-vaudou », exceptional musical encounter around Erol Josué.
Ayibobo ! Voodoo priest, author, composer, singer and dancer, Erol Josué is an artist who embodies all the modernity of voodoo. His singing and dancing are an exceptional possession of space-time. Accompanied by two Haitian musicians : Amos Coulanges, classical guitarist and Claude Saturn, percussionist, he will offer a concert acoustic and minimalist at the intersection of voodoo rhythms, Afrobeat and music « racine ».
Free admission on reservations : 01 44 43 24 93 marine.ferry@international.gc.ca

Saturday, September 29 :
2:00 pm
Screening of « Une étrange cathédrale dans la graisse des ténèbres » of Charles Najman (2011, documentary, 80 minutes)
Filmed in the ruins of the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, this film is an evocation of the terrible earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital January 12, 2010, through the voice of the great poet Haitian Frankétienne and of its prescient piece « Le Piège »
Free entry subject to availability

4:00 pm
Closure in music with the group Adjabel and the Haitian storyteller Jude Joseph
Directed by Atissou Loko, master of the drums, the band explores the root music, that of the agricultural land in Haiti that brings together traditional Haitian rhythms, while digging of the Jazz, French chanson, rap and world music. They will play excerpts from their fifth album « First (racine 5) ».
Entrée libre dans la limite des places

Canadian Cultural Centre (Centre culturel canadien) :
5, rue de Constantine - 75007 Paris
Phone : 01 44 43 21 90 - Fax : 01 44 43 21 99
Access : Metro and RER : Invalides, Bus : 28, 49, 63, 69, 83, 93
For the Week of foreign cultures, the Canadian Cultural Centre will be open Saturday, September 29 from 12 noon to 6pm

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