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Patrick Sylvain, a Haitian-born poet who now teaches in Cambridge, read six selected poems from his work. Among the poems were "Doobop," a tribute to the jazz career of Miles Davis; "Pawol Rasemblemant," a poem in Creole about the Haitian revolution; and "Crucifix," a description of a journalist's torture by the military regime. Manuel St. Victor '95 also recited a short, humorous poem about a failed courtship...
Dance performances by two groups, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin Haitian Club Dancers and the Harvard-Radcliffe Haitian Alliance Dance Troupe, were also featured. The Club Dancers, who have offered renditions of traditional Haitian folk dance forms since 1993, performed a work entitled "L'amour, c'est liberte," or "Love is freedom...
...Haitian Alliance also awarded its first annual scholarship to two high school students. The scholarship, organized by the Alliance's financial co-chairs, Emmanuelle M. Fleurinor '97 and M. Astrid Moise '95, is dedicated "pour l'avancement du progres," or for the advancement of Haitian-American progress...
Members of the Alliance, which was formed last year and has approximately 40 members, said efforts must be undertaken to reduce societal ignorance about Haitian Americans and Haitians...
...important for the Harvard-Radcliffe community as well as the Boston and Cambridge community to know there is a Haitian culture that is alive," said Alex-Handrah R. Aime...