Posted: February 25th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Events-Recommended, Haiti | No Comments »
Thursday February 25th Feb The Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser 19:30PM - 02:30AM
£10 tickets , start at 19:30, over 18s
http://www.proudcamden.com/events.aspx?ear=2010&month=02&eventid=4075#4075
The aim of this event is to raise awareness of a culture in trouble and generate desperately needed funds for the people of Haiti.
The sole beneficiaries will be ActionAid & Medecins Sans Frontieres with 100% of all ticket sales going to the charities.
Live:Charlotte O’Conner, The Hoosiers, Strangeways, Adam Ficek
DJs:Smash DJs - Sally SexFace, DJ Cooks, Stereo MCs, Maxi Jazz, Tara Rocks and Richard Biedul, Hextatic, Mista Jam,Fred Deakin
Venue: The Horse Hospital, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, Camden Town
NW1 8AH.Email:info@proud.co.uk. Telephone:0207 482 3867
Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events-Recommended, Haiti | No Comments »
The Duke African and African American Studies Working Group invites you to the
following upcoming events.
1) On Saturday, February 20, the working group will co-sponsor two Haiti-related films at Hayti Heritage Film Festival. Off-campus location: Durham’s Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Fayetteville Street. Admission: $8. For more information or tickets, call 919-683-1709.
11 a.m. “The Agronomist.” This profile of Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique includes coverage of Haiti’s vivid and tumultuous past; interviews with Dominique and his equally courageous wife Michele Montas; and footage shot before Dominique’s assassination in 2000.
5:30 p.m. “The Other Side of the Water” (2009, director Jeremy Robins) will
make its North Carolina premiere at the Hayti Heritage Film Festival. The film
follows a group of young Haitian Americans who bring sacred rara music
(associated with vodou rites and processions) to life in Brooklyn. There, it
becomes part of political protests against police brutality, military coups, and
U.S. racism. The film demonstrates how culture can foster community building,
even if Haitians in the United States cannot agree about whether this important art form should be preserved, practiced, or adapted.