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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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