The Rasanblaj Symposium: Decolonizing Y/our Experience Through Art, Performance & Collective Memory – DAY 3
Decolonizing Y/our Experience Through Art, Performance & Collective Memory
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(Free & open to the public)
West Harlem Arts—a partnership between The Children’s Art Carnival and Centro Cívico Cultural Dominicano—is proud to present The Rasanblaj Symposium and Exhibition, a transformative gathering of artists, scholars, and community organizers working to reimagine narratives of identity, belonging, and liberation.
Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Caribbean Rasanblaj, the landmark double issue of e-misférica guest edited by Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse, this weeklong celebration embraces “Rasanblaj”—a Haitian Kreyòl term for assembly and re-gathering—We invite you all to gather together to reclaim our stories, and to build something beautiful together.
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
CCCD 21st ANNUAL ARTS, CRAFTS & HEALTH FAIR
🕙 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | 📍 West 145th St (Broadway to Riverside)
10:00 AM
- DJ Set, Community Tabling Begins (Columbia Medical Center, Manhattan Cancer Services, the Change makers and much much more)
10:30 AM
- Artist Meet & Greets w/ Rasanblaj Participants
11:00 AM
- Main Stage: Artist Community Presentations (Lightning shares)
- Dillon Gardner – Oya’s Altar for Decolonization
- Germono Toussaint – The Last Gatekeeper
- Meissane Kouassi – Marking Home
- Domingo Cruz – Brewing Dreams, Sifting Realities
- Milica Paranosic – Secret City
- Julia Justo – I AM PRE-COLONIAL POWER
- Patrice Solomon – Menstruation & Intersectionality
11:30 AM Soap-Making Workshop w/ Madelyn Rivera
12:00 PM Remarks from Elected Officials
12:30 PM Music Performance
1:00 PM Dance Performance #1 (Main Stage)
1:30 PM Dance Performance #2 (Pop-up Style Throughout Fairgrounds)
2:00 PM Event Ends
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