Category: Haitian Culture/Language

Haiti Five Years Later: Women on the Ground

September 15, 2014December 16, 2014 Melissa Schilling Fundraiser, Haitian Culture/Language, Partners, Visual Storytelling

For just $10 you can hear the powerful words of four incredible women.
Join us as we inspire, educate and present: Haiti!

Tue, Dec 2 2014 – 6:30pm
Malya Villard-Appolon, Founder of KOFAVIV
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Ph.D., Former Prime Minister of Haiti
Nicole Phillips, Esq., Attorney for the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Megan Coffee, M.D., Ph.D., Founder of Ti Kay Haiti

“Gason konn bouke, men pa fanm.”—in Kreyòl
“Women’s work never ends.”

On January 12, 2010, Haiti was hit by a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake, killing approximately 150,000 people and crippling the nation. The earthquake and its 52 aftershocks exacerbated longstanding challenges of housing, sanitation, health care and gender violence. Five years later, Haiti is still picking up the pieces, often with women leading the charge. Hear the incredible stories of women on the ground, from Dr. Megan Coffee who went to Haiti to treat earthquake victims and never left, establishing and running a tuberculosis clinic in Port-au-Prince, to Malya Villard, a victim of rape in Haiti who boldly founded and now runs KOFAVIV to uplift victims of sexual violence, despite threats against her life for doing so.
Tickets Here

Learn More about This Event on December 2nd, 2014:
CC Site: http://bit.ly/Haiti-info

Facebook: http://bit.ly/Haiti-fb

EventBrite: http://bit.ly/Haiti-EB

4th Annual Donor Dinner || August 8, 2014

July 27, 2014August 19, 2014 Melissa Schilling Fundraiser, Haitian Culture/Language, Visual Storytelling

Join Rara Tou Limen Dance Company & Project HOPE Art as we open RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival 2014
Friday, Aug 08 2014 6:30 pm
Tickets Here!
A Taste of Haiti: An Art Benefit & Dinner
“Art is the Universal Language”

Sample the vibrant culture, flavors and beats of Haiti to benefit Rara Tou Limen’s Cultural Exchange Trip to Haiti this summer, and Project HOPE’s art programming in Port au Prince and the Bay Area

Dance Performance by Portsha Jefferson & Rara Tou Limen Dance Company
Dinner by: Pierre-Richard Leurbourg *RASANBLE! Special Guest
Art Show by Melissa Schilling and Fanel Duce
Wine Bar by Local, California Wineries
Friday, August 8, 2014 at 6:30 PM
390 27th Street, midtown Oakland, CA 94612-3104

N’ap Boule! Welcome to the ticket page for A Taste of Haiti.
We appreciate your support and are gearing up for an explosion of Caribbean food and Collaborative Haitian-American art. Join us for our Friday Night gallery show featuring photos of Rara Tou Limen rendered by Atis Rezistans artist Fanel Duce. Lets celebrate with drums, drink specials and dinner.

Oakland, California
Rara Tou Limen Dance Company has an objective to help nurture and grow Haitian dance and musical traditions in the Bay Area. Accompanied by dancers, vocalists and celebrated musicians, the company brings to the stage a wide spectrum of diverse Haitian dance forms, from vibrant rituals of Vodou, the turbulent legacy of political struggle, to the celebratory and festive dances of Carnival, Rara Tou Limen is at the cutting edge of the evolution of Haitian dance and music in the Bay Area. The use of traditional rhythms, chants and movement integrates the grace, strength, fluidity and precision of Haitian folkloric dance.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Project Hope Art gives a voice to those survivors of the Haitian tent Camps. Project HOPE Art uses art as a vehicle to inspire, to educate and to create intentional whimsy. We work with children in hospitals, orphanages, schools and communities in disaster stricken areas, utilizing art to help establish self esteem, self expression, self respect and stress relief for our students. We create art for art’s sake, while educating through our art, science, nutrition and literacy programs. We twirl in tutus and face paint because it’s good for the soul. Since our inception in January 2010 we have made multiple trips to Haiti and have recently launched a Visiting Artist Program, creating a sustainable way for artists in any medium to share their creativity with our kids and project partners as we strive towards our mission to inspire, heal and improve the quality of life for children in need.

Support.

We will be co-hosting 1 amazing night in August. @ The Humanist Hall in Oakland, CA
Tickets in Advance $35
Tickets at the Door $45
Childrens Tickets $25

Art Show and Wine Bar 6:30pm
Dinner 7:30pm
Raffle Prizes Announced 8:30
Dance Performance 8:45
Silent Auction Winners Announced 9:30
Doors Close 10pm

Rara Tou Limen
presents:
RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival 2014
August 8-10

Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
Oakland, CA

Folkloric Dance Workshops * Kreyol Language Classes * Vodou Song Class * Drum Circle * Haitian Cuisine * Lectures * Performance * Vendors *
Art Benefit * Gallery

3 days of immersion in spirited conversations, open inquiries, dynamic technique analysis, and community exchange with traditional artists from Haiti.

RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival is made possible with the generous support of Alliance for California Traditional Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Everyday Magic, and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.

www.raratoulimen.com
www.projecthopeart.org

bunny power!

April 25, 2014 Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class, Fundraiser, Haitian Culture/Language

In February 2014 we took a team trip to the mountains to learn about rabbit husbandry. Then we built our custom rabbit hutch and just yesterday filled it with bunnies for our weekly Gardening Class.

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The entire Project HOPE Art team would like to thank Brian Peltz of ISEC, Inc. for single-handedly jump starting our new Bunny Rabbit Husbandry Program.

How Rabbits Can Save the World (It Ain’t Pretty) With no religious taboos against consuming bunny meat, the animal may be a key ingredient in the fight against hunger. It also can be raised grain-free. It is a fact universally acknowledged that rabbits reproduce at a rapid rate. But did you know that rabbit meat is kosher, halal and acceptable for Hindus who decline beef for religious reasons? All of that is good news for the world-wide war on hunger—if bad news for bunnies. Rabbits Over 1,700 Haitian rabbit producers now maintain some 1,250 rabbit facilities, Dr. Steven Lukefahr says, which are home to 32,650 breeding rabbits. rabbits community The program has grown by 142% in the last two years and has helped increase family income by an average of $19.95 a month per family with some producers seeing as much as $200 a month in income from meat sales, a significant boost in a country where the average annual family income is $1,700.
Read more: How Rabbits Can Save the World (It Ain’t Pretty) | Time Magazine (link: http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/how-rabbits-can-save-the-world-it-aint-pretty/#ixzz2lJ6EjQv5)

Meet our Students: http://projecthopeart.org/project-hope-art-center-at-haiti-communitere/gardening-program-and-the-art-botany-lab/2014-gardening-class/

Donate Here to keep Compassionate Animal Programs running in Haiti:
http://projecthopeart.org/2013/11/13/sponsor-a-student-in-2014/

2013 – Melissa SCHILLING

January 17, 2014January 17, 2014 Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class, Art Projects, English Class 2013, Girls Only English Class 2013/14, Haitian Culture/Language, Photography Class 2013, Urban Agriculture, Visual Storytelling

My name is Melissa Schilling and I am the Creative Director for Project HOPE Art.

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There are so many wonderful moments from the last year that bring me such great joy to relive.
We taught Rothko-esque painting, weaving (both hair pompoms and dreamcatchers) and a big upcycled can car project. We participated in many different Photography Shows in Port au Prince and in California with Student Photographs from our Photography Class and my own documentary photos.

We also created rainbow eggs infused with Moringa Powder to coincide with a reading of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham for our Art + Literacy program.

And yet, so many exciting projects are waiting to be executed in 2014. We have a Gardening Class with accompanying Rabbit Husbandry Program and the makings of a Ukelele Class. Who knows what other ideas will suddenly appear like magic!

Cheers to you 2013 you were an awesome year!

Highlights in Pictures:

2013 – Fanel DUCE

January 17, 2014January 17, 2014 fatatis Haitian Culture/Language, Uncategorized, Visual Storytelling

Mwen rele Fanel DUCE ! Mwen fe pati gwoup atis rezitans .Sa gen deja 10 mwa depi kek koleg ki andan ati Rezistans te refere mwen ak Project Hope Art . Mimi san prantan te asepte ke mwen ofri sevis mwen ak Prorject Hope Art, ke mwen konsidere kom yon oganizasyon k’ap fe yon travay inpotan nan sosyete Ayisyenn nan.

Pou Ane 2013 la, mwen te reyalize kek travay ak Project Hope Art. Tankou : Can race, an kolaborasyon avek menm koleg sa yo. Nou te fe fomasyon pou timoun yo, sou reyalizasyon Machine a mamit . Mwen gen proje klas angle pou ti fi k’ap mache e ki pwal rantre nan gradyasyon pou komansman 2014 la.

Pou ane 2014 la mwe gen pou mwen fe gradyasyon pou klas fotografi ak klas angle pou timoun yo. Mwen konte patisipe nan proje klas janden Luc winter a, pou yon kou desen. Epi mwen kom proje refe yon lot klas angle kap gen ni ti fi ,ni gason jis pou plis timoun benefisye.mwen gen kek lot proje anko ,mwen jis ap pran yon tan pou reflechi e we nan ki pwen pou reyalize yo ak Projet HOPE Art.