Feb 26-London/Camden Town-Haiti Benefit Party

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

Feb 20-North Carolina-Durham’s Hayti Heritage Center-Haiti Film Screening

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.

Feb 20-London-Special André Eugène Visit from Grand Rue in Haiti–The Island

Hello everybody

We would like to invite you to the following event:

Ghetto Biennale

Tonight, 7:30 – 11pm

The show, which opened last December at the same time than the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti, has been extended until the 28th February. The Island is delighted to show the last group of sculptures by Grand Rue sculptors Eugène, Celeur and Guyodo living and working in Port Au Prince.

The artist André Eugène will join us this evening, so the event will be an exciting opportunity to talk about his work.

Please find the details below and feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. Thank you.

We hope to see you then.

The Island

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GHETTO  BIENNALE

Radical Relations (part III)

28/11/09  –  28/02/10

“What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art? Does it bleed?”

The Island is delighted to be the off-site partner of the first Ghetto Biennale of Haiti, using its venue to show recent works by Haitian artists André Eugène, Celeur Jean Hérard, Guyodo Klere and Claude Sentilus.

‘This is the newest art community to have emerged in the last ten years in a downtown slum neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The ‘Grand Rue Sculptors’ have produced art that reflects a heightened, Gibsonesque, Lo-Sci-Fi, dystopian view of their society, culture and religion, and have dragged Haitian art into the 21st century. Jean Herard Celeur, Andre Eugene and Guyodo are at the core of the movement, which contains seven or eight other younger artists, all producing powerful sculptural works.  Their work has opened entirely new vistas into the creative possibilities of the Vodou-inspired arts of Haiti. Their muscular sculptural collages of engine manifolds, computer entrails, TV sets, medical debris, skulls and discarded lumber transforms the detritus of a failing economy into deranged, post-apocalyptic totems’. (Leah Gordon)

Among the many existing curatorial models of art biennials all over the world, The Island project of presenting simultaneously the ‘Ghetto Biennale’ in London is directly related to the issues that give rise to the Biennale of Haiti itself, such as for Haitian artists to overcome the dual isolation of an island and of a ghetto.

Forging a successful arts career is difficult for a downtown Haitian. Refused US entry visas, the Grand Rue sculptors were excluded from a private view of their work in a major museum in Miami. A lack of government support makes them economically excluded from all major biennales. The artists have responded by hosting the ‘Ghetto Biennale’, the first arts festival located in a shantytown in the developing world. The event will explore what happens when artists from radically different backgrounds come together. When first world art objectives encounter third world artistic reality, and when Western artists try to make art in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Haitian artist, Andre Eugene says, ‘the Ghetto Biennale represents positive change in my area and gives us the chance to show another face of life in the ghettos of Port-au-Prince. I think we have much to offer and much to learn.

‘The artists use all the detritus of a post-industrial global economy which uses Haiti as a dumping ground. They return the compliment, creating astounding bricolages and assemblages  which express both the despair and the seemingly endless creativity of Haiti and Vodou. I have visited their ateliers on Haiti’s Grand Rue on several occasions over the last four years. I have had a chance to see their sculptures as they were being wrought from their desperate materials in a scrap yard on this wreck of a street, in this wreck of a city, in this wreck of a country. Saying all that, I would also have to add that, like Haiti, their sculptures seem to express the boundless creative energy of a people who are simultaneously the economically poorest, and artistically richest culture in the New World.’ (Donald Cosentino).

The show at The Island aims to increase cultural diversity in the arts, and to offer the opportunity the UK public to see contemporary Haitian art, created within the social, political and spiritual context of Vodou, Haiti’s national religion -and a culture that was born and survives due to its history of accommodation and inclusion-.

The Ghetto Biennale is also the last of three exhibitions focusing on collaborative - relational practices, designed as a single project, which has been running at The Island over the period between September 2009 and January 2010. The three exhibitions, collectively named Radical Relations may be associated to one another for their similar process of describing a tension between actions and movements of affinity and distance.

For more information visit http://www.ghettobiennale.com/
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The Island
basement, 96 Teesdale Street
London  E2 6PU
www.islandtheisland.org

Feb 13-London/Brixton-Our Debt To Haiti– Haitian History Lessons (Part 1)-Talk by John Cussans

Feb 13-London/Brixton-Our Debt To Haiti– Haitian History Lessons (Part 1)-Talk by John Cussans

Feb 11-North Carolina-Haiti Roundtable at Duke University

On Thursday, February 11, 12:00 - 2:30 pm, Franklin Center Room 240 on the Duke campus, the department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Duke are co-sponsoring a roundtable on Haiti with keynote speaker Distinguished Professor of Sociology, (political and historical sociologist) Alex Dupuy of Wesleyan University. Professor Dupuy’s talk is entitled, “And the State came crumbling down: Haiti  Before and After the Earthquake.” Please notify your classes. This would  be a good opportunity to converse with specialists on Haiti. CLACS’s Mellon Visiting Professor, and former Haitian Ambassador to the UN, Jean Casimir, will also be participating in this conversation. Please see the attached poster.

Feb 2-Writing on the Wall-Review in Murmur Art

http://www.murmurart.com/dialogue/pause-eject-2-at-shoreditch-town-hall

Pause & Eject 2 at Shoreditch Town Hall

Ana Vukadin

Visiting Pause & Eject 2, the last interim show featuring the work of Goldsmiths’ MFA students, is an experience in and of itself. For those who were expecting to waltz into Shoreditch Town Hall and see yet another graduate student art show, a shocker is in store. The show is not, in fact, in the Town Hall proper, but somewhere a little less distinguished: the basement.

The interior is quite possibly the unsung hero of this show. By selecting this basement as the site of their exhibition, Goldsmiths’ students have taken the concept of the White Cube, crumpled it up, torn it into shreds and then vigorously flushed it down the toilet. The space is absolutely stunning and absolutely derelict: paint (none of it white) is peeling away, floors are uneven, stairs are rickety and wires are hanging ominously from the ceilings.

This labyrinthine, Baroque skeleton features works by thirty-six students. A truly international crowd, there is no common theme bringing their pieces together, but the show works as a whole thanks especially to the location: the high-ceilinged rooms of a myriad of sizes separate the works just enough so that they are not invasive of each other. It is refreshingly eclectic and laid back.

Tucked away in a tiny room is Miss B’s Hair Salon: Cut and Conversation, where the artist, Ruth Beale, is clipping the hair of a boy whom she is trying to engage into a conversation about the idea of wilderness.

At the foot of a spiral staircase, a rustling sound announces the performance of Hye Young Ku, who clad in a gorgeous plastic black gown with an immense trail descends the stairs with an entry worthy of a debutante. She walks with a bright diva smile on her face and shakes everyone by the hand, welcoming them to her show. It is unnerving, amusing and leaves everyone feeling oddly overwhelmed.

Chu Chung Teng’s video How Kind of You to Let Me Come (2010) is a subtly sarcastic critique of immigration, where various foreigners are urged to repeat in a voice not unlike that of Professor Higgins’, ‘The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains’. Their enunciation, however, is unrecorded, but their misery is ever more present with each nudge of the exasperating English voice.

Another gem is Burcu Yagcioglu’s Untitled (2010), a compelling silent video featuring the artist carefully arranging her long, dark hair into a perfect veil, ingeniously challenging its symbolism. And finally, Pedro Lasch and Moise Jerry Rosembert’s Writing on the Wall (2010) initiative is a spectacular homage to Haiti, whereby the Haitian graffiti artist Jerry will transfer international messages onto the remaining walls of Port-au-Prince and vice versa.

This show is not to be missed.

Ongoing: UK-The Haiti Kids Cinema Project

Please find latest info on The Haiti Kids Cinema Project:

Extending the reach of its film program, the Cube is travelling to Dominican
Republic to set up temporary social cinemas for refugee children affected by the
Haiti earthquakes.

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Organised through the Cube’s children’s wing, Nanoplex, The HAITI KIDS KINO
PROJECT will screen films, while providing workshops and equipment for or
Haitian children to make their own films.

These will be screened and then exchanged with films made by children here in
Bristol, through Nanoplex.

PLEASE DONATE, OFFER HELP and SPREAD THE WORD.

Sharing the experience of making and watching films, while offering temporary
childcare facilities, this is a micro-humanitarian goodwill project to provide a
small opening for escape, community, emotion and social occasion.

Children are experiencing untold damage and despair. Further anxiety grows
through inaction, loneliness and boredom. The HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT is working
in dialogue with established NGOs, to contribute to quality of life through
creating, sharing, forging friendships and connections.

Two Cube volunteers will be going out to the Dominican Republic to work with
Haitian Refugees at the end of February 2010, and we are raising funds for
screens, cameras, films, vaccines, flights, etc.

This is a big mission for a microplex, and we would love to have your support.
Do spread the word and dip into your magic pockets of love.

‘Cinema Kib ape organiz ene banne cinema socyal temporer a kot pu vinne en l
aide banne zanfan ki finne soufer dans tremblement la t erre dans Haiti.’

FFI http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/haiti_kids_kino.php

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DONATE

-  To donate the old fashioned way, please send cheques made out to
“Cube Cinema Ltd”, The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT c/o The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess
Row, Bristol, BS2 8NQ

-  Or donate this way : The HAITI SCREENINGS

http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti

You can buy tickets online, by phone or in person from Bristol Ticket Office

http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti for a screening
in Haiti or The Dominican Republic. And, if you can’t make it yourself (!),
don’t worry because your seat will go to a Young Haitian Person, and the £5
price of a ticket, goes to raising funds for The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT. Its
another, quick and easy way to donate.

BRISTOL TICKET SHOP  0870 4444 400 / 0117 929 9008, 26 Union Street Broadmead,
Bristol, BS1 2DP, or go direct to
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti

Please buy as many tickets as you can. Its a great way to donate.

If you want to make a greater donation, please get in touch directly at
haitikidskino@cubecinema.com

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FUNDRAISING EVENTS

Event 1

Nanoplex Presents… Haiti Kids Kino Fundraiser
21 February, Cube Cinema, Bristol

2pm – 6pm KIDS KINO CLUB SPECIAL (film + games + fun)
8pm – 11pm KATH BLOOM + SLOW (music)
£8 for joint ticket Kath Bloom and Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
£4 per child and adult for only Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#4901

Children’s afternoon cinema and workshops, including short and long films,
demonstrations on how to project in public spaces and making film postcards for
Haitian children, followed by extraordinary evening gig by blues/folk legend
Kath Bloom (http://www.qujunktions.com/asp/main.asp?style=gigs

KIDS KINO CLUB includes
- Screening Azur and Asmar- The Princes‘ Quest (90 mins, Cert U, 2.15PM)
- Outdoor projector and children’s film workshops
- Encounters Shorts for Children
- The Red Balloon (34 mins, Cert U, 5.15pm)
All day: cake sale, raffle (win an afternoon at the Cube with your favourite
film screened, just for you)

Event 2

HOW COME… Presents… A Multi Venue Night of Music, Film and Djs
with JOHN PARISH + GET THE BLESSING + THE MOLES + ZUN ZUN EGUI + SHOGUN KUNITOKI
+ MEN DIAMLER + AYE AYE + SPIN SPIN THE DOGS + ¨World Beatz co-hosting the bar
with World Beatz DJs + Chew Magna + Young Master + Fat Paul + The Janitor + a
secret special guest.
6 March / The Cube (6 - 1am ) & The Croft (8 - 3am) / £8 advance
For more info: http://www.qujuktions.com

NOTE: As this is a multi-venue show, a ticket does not guarantee that you will
get into the venue of choice.

For both events you can buy tickets at:
- BRISTOL TICKET SHOP  http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
- THE HERE SHOP, Stokes Croft (in person)

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Help towards this, however small or large, makes a crucial difference to getting
this project under way. Please forward this email on.

The Cube Cinema is a non-funded, volunteer-run organisation - and help towards
this, however small or large, makes a crucial difference to getting this project
under way.

Press and Publicity enquiries  abigail@damsonpr.com
To get involved and FFI haitikidskino@cubecinema.com

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, DONATE, OFFER HELP and ASSISTANCE.

Ongoing: About Haiti-London-Konbit Group & List

Feb 13-London-Dance for Haiti

Feb 6-North Carolina-Erol Josue Haiti Benefit Concert