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List of participating artists in the Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; list includes Tessa Mars, Reynier Leyva Novo, Firelei Baez, Gaëlle Choisne , Beatriz Santiago Munoz , Marsha Pearce , Jaime Gili , Gary Dauphin, and others.
The 6th Ghetto Biennale 2019 will take place from the 29th November until the 20th December 2019.
…EYE OF CATEGORY 5 DORIAN MOVING LITTLE WHILE OVER GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND…
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 270 DEGREES AT 1 MPH…2 KM/H
A prolonged period of catastrophic winds and storm surge will continue to affect Grand Bahama Island through today and tonight. Everyone there should remain in shelter and not venture into the eye.
Heavy rains, capable of producing life-threatening flash floods, are expected over northern portions of the Bahamas and coastal sections of the Southeast and lower Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States into Friday.
via nhc.noaa.gov (8am advisory).
Relief effort aimed at The Bahamas, some drop off sites in West Coconut Grove.
via Miami Herald and nhc.noaa.gov.
Via Verso, On Walter Rodney‘s concept and practice of ‘Grounding’ as Critical Pedagogy by Kevin Okoth.
“A collection of public lectures held by Rodney in Jamaica and at the Congress of Black Writers in Montréal, Groundings provides a pedagogical framework for intellectuals fighting to undo the epistemological distortions of imperialism.”
“To truly ‘ground’, Rodney believed that the revolutionary intellectual must go anywhere to reason with their people. […] ‘I was prepared to go anywhere that any group of black people were prepared to sit down and listen’, he writes. ‘It might be in a sports club, it might be in a school-room, it might be in a church, it might be in a gully […] – ‘dark dismal places with a black population who have had to seek refuge there. You will have to go there if you want to talk to them.’ […] For Rodney, the revolutionary Black intellectual cannot hide in the university and challenge the status-quo within the boundaries of academic respectability. These intellectuals, he argued, do not pose a threat to the neo-colonial elites; only when these same intellectuals break out of academic isolation and engage in the mutual exchange of knowledge with those struggling on the ground, do they begin to challenge oppressive and exploitative systems of power.”
“The events at Morant Bay in 1865 followed on the heels a period of public meetings known as the Underhill Meetings, and peaceful expression of grievances through petitions. Complaints included a series of economic issues related to wages, land tenure, access to markets, and labor rights; political issues related to unfair taxation, no justice in the courts, and elite-biased government policies; and civil issues that included voting rights, and access to healthcare, education, and land. In that sense it was not a riot so much as a social movement, which was rejected by the Governor and finally turned to violence against the representatives of the local government.”
via Graphic Arts, Princeton University Library. Research for future works.
Born in Trinidad, on 20th of July 1948, passed away on 2nd of June, 2019.
Professeur de Littérature française à l’Université de New York, Michael Dash était connu pour ses nombreux travaux autour de l’œuvre et de la pensée d’Édouard Glissant.
mediapart.fr
Also, know for his scholarship on Caribbean literature and literary history.
“Haïti est la terre mère idéologique de la Caraïbe, le lieu où la lutte pour la liberté a produit une conscience collective, une nouvelle façon de penser la question raciale et de concevoir l’identité nationale”, a relevé l’universitaire Michael Dash. lemonde.fr (2009)
Mayor Cantrell Signs Sister City Agreement Between New Orleans and Cap-Haitien
nola.gov, May 21, 2019.
NEW ORLEANS – Mayor LaToya Cantrell today signed an agreement to become a “sister city” with Cap-Haitien, located on the north coast of Haiti.
“The origins of this relationship and shared history are born from the independence of Haiti and the doubling of the New Orleans population comprised of an exodus of free people of color, French colonists and slaves from Saint Domingue/Haiti upon defeat of the French rule, resulting in the Louisiana Purchase,” Mayor Cantrell said, in reading the agreement. “New Orleans is Haiti’s first Diaspora. New Orleans and Cap-Haitien (formerly Cap Francais) are twin sisters separated by birth. Today, many residents of New Orleans and the whole of Louisiana trace their ancestry to Cap-Haitien and other parts of Haiti. In recent years, many visits have been made and friendships built.”
“By this agreement,” Mayor Cantrell said in conclusion, “we celebrate a common heritage and seek to reinforce strong ties and secure a relationship that will persist into our futures.”
Mayor Cantrell signed the agreement along with Cap-Haitien Mayor Yverose Pierre, who spoke glowingly of the two cities’ relationship.
Other speakers included Alexis Neives, Commercial and Industrial Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Haiti; and Vladimir Laborde of Haiti Inc.
Some of the features of the agreement include:
Academic cooperation between the respective cities’ universities and other educational institutions
Cooperation and exchange between local development agencies, chambers of commerce, and tourism departments
Opportunities for exchanges of art and cultural products between the cities’ respective museums and galleries, and other cultural institutions
Opportunities for municipal exchanges, including economic development in the areas of tourism, agriculture, infrastructure, city management and waste and water management – as well as emergency preparedness, disaster management and climate change.
Other honored guests included District B City Councilmember Jay H. Banks; Dr. Camellia Moses Okpodu, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Xavier University; Lisa Alexis, Director of the City’s Office of Cultural Economy. Invited guests included Régine Chassagne, co-founder of the band Arcade Fire and co-founder of the Haitian-themed group Krewe of Kanaval.