Yamiche Alcindor of the New York Times will moderate the panel at Busboys and Poets’ location at 14th and V streets.Īn acoustic set by Haitian songstress Emeline Michel on Saturday night at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville will provide a musical interlude, and Sunday will conclude Haiti Week with a pop-up shop, “Rebuilding Haiti through Entrepreneurship: The Gift That Will Keep on Giving” a marketplace featuring homeware, gourmet products and fashion accessories at the Embassy of Haiti, 2311 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Ambassador to South Africa and former DNC executive director. Attorney General and Haitian-American Karl Racine, Massachusetts state Rep. On Friday evening, there will be a panel discussion on current events featuring D.C. Guests will also be able to view the Embassy’s latest Pearls of Excellence exhibit, which showcases the contributions of the Haitian diaspora in the United States. Thursday’s open house - “(Re) Discovering Haiti through its Arts and its People” - invites the community to partake in Haitian culture with Haitian-American author and poet Jeff Dess and Pages Matam, director of poetry events at Busboys and Poets, as well as a tour of the embassy and the private art collections of Galerie Monin and Fritz Racine, former owner of Gallery Bolivar, a longstanding establishment selling Haitian fine arts. Later she will be joined on a panel, “We Are Forever United: A Conversation Honoring Haitian Contributions to African American History and Culture,” at Busboys and Poets Monroe Street location, along with Marcia Chatelain, associate professor of history and African-American studies at Georgetown University Patrick Delatour, architect of historical monuments and former Haitian Minister of Tourism and Patrick Tardieu, curator of Haiti’s oldest library, Bibliotèchque Haitienne Des Pères du St. Midweek highlights include a private guided tour on Wednesday, May 17, “Honoring Haitian Contributions to African American History and Culture” by Joanne Hyppolite, curator at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. The celebration continued Monday and Tuesday with a fireside talk at Busboys and Poets’ 5th and K location between Ambassador Altidor and Busboys’ founder Andy Shallal, and an installation of the “Food
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