Rasin Lakay features Veroneque Ignace
ASE / ENOUGH? In November 2019, we offered KONSOLE. One year later, November 2020, we offered NA VIV / We’ll Live. In both dance films,...
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THE 2021 GRANT:
We are proud to announce that we are offering another round of grants through our HCX RASIN LAKAY OPEN CALL for 10 artists of Haitian descent in NYC and Haiti to create and present new work to be shared via the HCX online platforms. Artists of all disciplines are invited to apply for a one-time grant of $500 to create and share original work. In 2021, we will select artist projects in alignment with our current theme “FANM”. Topics such as womanhood, gender/sexuality, environment, and generational leadership will guide curation and artist selection. Priority will be given to female, femme-identifying and queer artists.
We encourage imaginative use of social media to express yourselves and bring people together. Examples include but are not limited to: short films, photography, virtual workshops series (how to make X, dance with me, drum with me, paint with me, etc.), seminars, talks, live music performances, creative writing, spoken word, poetry, or performance art.
Haiti Cultural Exchange will accept short applications on a rolling basis until this funding is expended. If you would like to reach us, email is best: info@haiticulturalx.org – we look forward to hearing from you.
In solidarity,
The HCX team
THE GRANT:
An annual theme will guide curation and artist selection, and will tie in all projects.
THE GRANT:
10 artists of Haitian descent in NYC and Haiti to create and present new work to be shared on the HCX online platforms
THE GRANT:
A $500 grant to create and share original work
2021
ARTISTS
Mikaelle Cartright is a Haitian American performing artist and fledgling philanthropist based in NYC. Her music ranges from soft rock to the Blues, Jazz, and Soul. In addition to singing, she plays guitar, writes music, embroiders, and crafts elaborate headpieces. Although music is her passion, her desire to help others is intensifying day by day as she finds herself expanding towards philanthropy.
She is currently in the research phase of creating a program she believes will greatly assist non-profit organizations with the implementation of early-childhood education programs, peer-to-peer mentorship, and eco-volunteerism programs.
Find out more about Mikaelle’s work by following her channels: Instagram | Facebook
Pascale Faublas lives and works in Haiti. After a three-decade prolific artistic career, PASKAL asserts herself as a visual artist in the landscape of contemporary Haitian art. Pascale has developed her own language, using mixed techniques acquired as an autodidact by creating collages of printed paper or fabric, ink, and acrylic, batik, scraping, sewing, monotype, mixed media. Her approach is based on the search for materials from its environment and on the principles of the art of recovery.
In a process that is both playful and poetic, and inhabited by Vodou culture, her works explore memory, myth, and spirituality. Individual and collective history meet to highlight a political word and develop poetics of forms.
Paskal’s art has been shown both in Haiti (Galerie Jerome, Galerie Monnin, French Institute of Port au Prince, French Alliance in Jacmel, Centre d’Art, Musée du Pantheon National/MUPANAH, Kolektif 509) and abroad (Paris, Nantes, Suresnes, Guadeloupe, Barcelona).
Find out more about Pascale’s work by following her channels: Instagram
Veroneque Ignace is a curating performance artist, cultural activist, and community-based public health researcher who uses ethnographic tools, performance work, research, and public health understanding of program planning and evaluation to facilitate growth, racial equity policies, an orientation toward socio-political community development at non-profits, grassroots groups, large arts institutions. Ignace is dedicated to achieving her long term goal to seamlessly combine her passion for Haiti, people, and dance in such a way that allows for large-scale healing.
The Flatbush, Brooklyn native often uses dance and writing to merge her passion for public health and global health. With her movement she hopes to complicate methods to social change and health equity, connecting spiritual balance and self-understanding to modes of recovery and restoration. She says, “my movement codifies a history and language which I have inherited. In Haiti dance and music become the guardians of tradition. Everywhere though, dance and music, together are expressions and I need them to communicate.”
In 2016, Ignace founded Kriyol Dance! Collective, a collective of artist-leaders, to incite the unapologetic voices of Black arts, and Haitian culture in particular, through collaborative and unified work and intervention. In 2018, she began actively building an archive for Lakou Societe St. Michel Archange. She is an alum of SUNY Downstate School of Public Health.
Find out more about Veroneque’s work by following her channels: Website
Love Soulèy is a Haitian American director, photographer, and storyteller born in Miami, FL. Her work explores the themes of Haitian ancestral knowledge and culture, feminine energy, birthing, communal healing, returning to the earth, Remomery, and sound. Her desire with her art is to cultivate holistic spaces that help people reconnect deeply to themselves, each other, and their lineage. She currently works in film distribution and is a partner in Film Girls Social Club, a platform dedicated to supporting womyn working in the film and photo industries.
Find out more about Love’s work by following her channels: Website
Jessica St. Vil-Ulysse is a first-generation Haitian American dancer, educator, and choreographer who grew up in Queens, NY. A graduate of Lehman College, Ms. St. Vil received her B.A. in Mass Communications and Dance. She continued her training on scholarship with the Alvin Ailey School’s professional division. She has worked with choreographers (Christopher Huggins, Martial Roumain, Marcea Daiter, and more); performed with several dance theater companies (Feet of Rhythm, Joan Peter’s Dance Company, and Vissi Dance Theater, and National Ballet Folkloric of Haiti). Jessica has collaborated with Unimix films to choreograph a short film (“One More Try”) and their award-winning feature film (Forever Yours).
She was honored by the National Museum of Women and the Haitian Embassy in recognition of her choreographic work. Jessica is the artistic director of KaNu Dance Theater, a co-founder of Danse Xpressions ”Center for the Arts”. She is featured in Dance Portal, an ongoing exhibit providing instruction in traditional Haitian dance at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan with her work “Let’s Dance”. She recently choreographed an original dance drama, “Zatrap,” written by playwright Jean Claude Eugene. Currently, Jessica is on the faculty of the Alvin Ailey School’s Professional Division teaching Dunham-based techniques and is also a Teaching Artist with various Arts in Education programs throughout New York City. Miss St. Vil is currently enrolled as a 3rd-year certification candidate with the Institute for Dunham Technique and Certification.
Find out more about Jessica’s work by following her channels: Instagram
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