Book Club: Death Of The Soccer God
Join me at Atelier Artist for an in-person book club discussion of Death of the Soccer God by Haitian American author Dimitry Elias Leger.
Explore themes of Haitian identity, family, love, and the Haitian diaspora through an engaging community conversation.
The event features special guest Dr. Stephanie Jean-Baptiste of SJB Expressions.
What’s included:
Grazing table and flowing wine
Intimate space for readers to connect and share perspectives.
Professional Insight from Dr. Jean-Baptiste
Parting gift (bookmark, mug etc)
Tickets are $20.
CHABON x PILON
We are excited to present CHABON, an immersive evening centered around @bachbid5 latest body of work and a curated culinary experience by Nathalie Jean-Baptiste of @pilonlakay inspired by Haiti’s relationship with charcoal.
Through art, food, and conversation, we’ll explore charcoal not only as a tool for artistic expression, but also as something deeply woven into Haitian daily life, memory, and culture.
What Paper Remembers: Marks, Memory and Labor
WHAT PAPER REMEMBERS
Through drawing, printmaking, collage, and mixed media, the exhibition considers paper as a material that carries memory, labor, and cultural continuity. Paper absorbs gesture records pressure and hesitation, time, revision and return, while holding traces of the hand and the persistence of ideas. Centering practices shaped by embodied knowledge and movement across place, the exhibition affirms paper not as a provisional surface, but as one that remembers and endures.
This exhibition draws on traditions of storytelling and record-keeping shaped through movement and change, where each work reflects acts of preservation. Paper bears the imprint of the hand that shaped it while holding memory with remarkable precision. The artists position paper as a deliberate and enduring space in which lived experience is carried forward, and where marks serve as witnesses to time. Across varied practices, the works reveal how meaning emerges through layering, removal, and
touch, shifting paper from a neutral ground into an active agent in the inscription and formation of memory.. Moving between intimacy and assertion, the exhibition brings forward practices long positioned at the margins while emphasizing their conceptual and material force. Here, paper holds thought, labor, and lived experience, sustaining what might otherwise fade. It absorbs touch even as it carries personal and cultural histories, insisting on its role as both record and witness.
Opening April 25, What Paper Remembers: Marks, Memory and Labor, is an exhibition of works on paper by women artists across generations, presented by Curatorial Fellow Yvena Despagne and Executive Director Régine M. Roumain.
Ti Atis Second Saturdays: Printmaking and Storytelling with Nathalie Jean-Baptiste
Haitian artist and storyteller Nathalie Jean-Baptiste leads this engaging children’s workshop combining storytelling, live music, and hands-on artmaking. The program begins with a reading of Trogon’s Song of Hope accompanied by live drumming. In the story, we meet Trogon, the national bird of Haiti and his new friends.
Then, take part in a simple block printing workshop inspired by the birds, foliage, and natural themes. Using various materials—styrofoam plates, pencils, and paint—children create their own prints while learning the basics of printmaking. This workshop encourages imagination, creativity, and sensory engagement through story, rhythm, and art.
Attendance free with museum admission.
Limited number of free tickets provided to the HCX community.RSVP below while availability lasts!
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About Ti Atis
Ti Atis returns to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum for a new season of interactive youth and family programming! Ti Atis (Little Artists) engages youth of Haitian descent and their peers with Haitian history and heritage via the arts, giving young people the tools to build an inclusive and culturally informed future as they learn about diverse art forms from professional Haitian artists.
Vizyon Atistik Fanal Lantern Workshop with Nathalie Jean-Baptiste
Join Haitian artist and storyteller host Nathalie Jean-Baptiste at Haiti Cultural Exchange for a hands-on workshop that celebrates the spirit of Haiti’s Christmas season.Come build your very own fanals, handcrafted paper lanterns that traditionally light up Haitian streets during the holidays. In this guided step-by-step workshop, you will discover the history and cultural significance of these lanterns. What to expect: art exploration, storytelling and tradition coming together in this luminous celebration of community.Registration required. $40 registration includes all supplies, light refreshments and beverage.
ZENTANGLE WORKSHOP: LEARNING TO MEDITATE THROUGH DRAWING STRUCTURED PATTERNS
Last year Atizay launched the Encuentro Afrocostarricense de Artes Visuales, a call to acknowledge the underrepresentation of the afro community in the visual artistic scene. It encourages the exploration of the richness, diversity, as well as the afro experience in Costa Rica in order to understand the need to open spaces for the afro community both inside and outside the artistic world.
This year we want to highlight our community’s resiliency as we explore ways to cope with the global crisis we are facing. It is no secret that when facing a global crisis, the most vulnerable social groups are the first to suffer the negative impact of these occurrences. And the black community is no exception. In addition to the economic and health consequences as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our people continue to have to fight for their lives in a system that was not designed to take care of them.
While our community has had no choice but to build resiliency in order to survive, we want to make sure that people know the reality of the black experience around the world and how global crisis and movements shape it. Most importantly, we make it our mission to create spaces and opportunities for our people to find the support they need within the community while being able to enjoy what they are most passionate about.
The second edition of the EAAV, BLACK Resiliency: Coping with a Global Emergency as a BLACK Artist, will explore different aspects of blackness and provide our community with tools they might need to continue voicing their experience and sharing their work with our global audience.
Date: October 30 - November 1, 2020
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Breathe In, Breathe Out is an art show that exhibits the meditative process through visual form.
Haiti en Livres / Haiti through Books (New Jersey Edition)
Come join Nathalie Jean-Baptiste, the author of “Trogon’s song of Hope” as she will be among the many authors to present their manuscript at Caldwell University for “Haiti through Books” panel.
Prints will be available for purchase and signing.
Paint and Sip with Nathalie Jean-Baptiste
Join the ZOOM virtual paint and sip
BEGINNER-FRIENDLY
All you will need are:
- Paper or canvas
- 3 brushes (small, medium, large)
- Paper towel
- A plate to mix the paint
- An easel (optional)
- A cup of water
If you don't have paint at home, no worries, just bring some paper and a pen/pencil! Let’s just get creative and free our mind.
And of course, don't forget to bring your drinks and snacks!
Zentangle drawing meditation
To join the class, follow @nathaliejbarts on instagram. The class will be taught on live.
Through the Zentangle Method of drawing, you can:
Relax
Focus
Expand your imagination
Trust your creativity
Increase your awareness
Discover the fun and healing in creative expression
Feel gratitude
Knowing that the right supplies could be hard to find right now, all you need is a pencil, pen and a piece of paper.
Some supply ideas:
Pen: Micron or gel pen.
Paper: Print paper, bond paper, cardstock, bristol.
Any pencil
$5 suggested donation
CashApp $Nathaliejbarts
Venmo @Nathaliejbarts
Brunch 4 Haiti
We are proud to sponsor The Society Of Women Coders (SOWCoders). A 501 (c)3 non-profit organization led by women working in technology. Their mission is to encourage young girls from developing nations to opt for careers in STEM ( Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) by conducting free coding & information camps for them in their country.
TRISKELE
Triskele is an exhibit of exploration of self through paintings and conversations. The triskele triangle represents the three powers of maiden, mother and crone: It is a sign of female power and especially power through transition and growth.
"Trogon's Song of Hope" - Book Release Party
Join Nathalie for “Trogon’s Song of Hope” book release party.
Bring the family for a fun and colorful afternoon of storytelling and songs .
On the program:
Book outloud reading by the author herself
Book sale at 25% off
Book Signing
“Did you know” information session about birds of Haiti
Goodie Bags giveaway for all participants
Pazapa Art Benefit
A celebration of Haitian art and culture to benefit the Pazapa center for children with disabilities
Abstract Confessions: A Feeling Evoked
Abstract Confessions is an art exhibition where memories are recalled to the conscious mind and freely expressed using shapes, forms, colors, and textures to achieve it's effect.
I was Created to Create
IWCTC explores the work of Caribbean visual artists who are creating their own narrative on what it means to be Caribbean in the art world
Memoirs of the Diaspora
Memoirs of the Diaspora is a cultural & art expo to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the Haiti, 2010 earthquake. Through artistic, dance and poetic performances, the events aim is to unite community and share Haiti’s rich cultural heritage in remembrance of the tragic day that cost over 200,000 lives.