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Institution: Haiti Cultural Exchange
Event Title: Partnering Artists and Archives - "Rasin San Bout: Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive" at Haiti Cultural Exchange
Location: 35 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Event Format: In-Person Exhibition
Event Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Event Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join us at Haiti Cultural Exchange (HCX) to view our current interactive exhibition, in collaboration with the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), which stewards the archive of ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. Archivist and co-curator Micaela Walker will be on hand to discuss the exhibition, “Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End: Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive”.
About the Exhibition
The Association for Cultural Equity selected 40 essential recordings from nearly 50 hours of recordings that Alan Lomax made in Haiti in 1936-1937. HCX invited visual artists of Haitian descent through an open-call to build a conversation between the past and present by responding to these recordings through their own creative practices. The result is a vibrant, multi-sensory mix of textile art, film, photography, and visual art to be viewed while listening to the recordings they were directly inspired by, uniting them to explore Haiti’s cultural traditions and the stories, memories, and communities connected to them.
“Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End” offers a uniquely immersive way to witness the personal and creative impact that this archive inspired in the artists responding to the rare, unique recordings from their ancestral home. Our hope is for visitors to make their own connections between the recorded sounds and the presented work to inspire reflections on how cultural traditions are preserved and reimagined.
Please visit our website to learn more about the exhibition and Haiti Cultural Exchange.
Registration Note: Registration not required.
Public Contact: Micaela Walker, archive@haiticulturalx.org
