Jasmine Plantin (Flatbush), a textile and fashion artist, presented her Lakou NOU 2017 culminating event, #PWOTEKSYON, just this past Friday, on November 10th. The program focused on the idea of expressing culture as a mode of protection. Plantin says “through this process I grappled with questions surrounding this idea. How individuals can seek protection, how they can provide protection to others, what protection means to a community, a group of people.”
In a two-part evening, curated around the experiences of Haitian Diaspora in Flatbush, Plantin engaged audiences in a panel discussion between Caribbean creatives highlighting how their heritage influences their work, and in an exhibition of narrative wearable art that she developed in partnership with Haitian artisans.
Panelists Travis Gumbs (Co-Founder of creative agency Street Ettiquette and publication Maroon World), Nicole Plantin (VP of A&R for LA based independent label, Rostrum Records) and Saint Louis (Brand Strategist and Co-Founder of GFCnewyork) each talked about how they express themselves, their culture and what PWOTEKSYON means to them.
View photos by Liz Gauthier from the event by clicking here.
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About the author:
Veroneque Ignace is a Brooklyn-based Haitian American community arts advocate and public health practitioner. She is the creator of Kriyol Dance! Collective and centers her work on community and individual wellness. Veroneque is an alum of Suny Downstate Medical Center: School of Public Health.
For more of her work: www.veronequeignace.com | instagram.com/_kriyoldance_
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