Launch of the campaign of aerial seeding

Saturday at Diplomatic lounge of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, President Michel Martelly, accompanied by Jean Francois Thomas, the Minister of Environment, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) officially announced the launch of the Campaign of aerial seeding in the south, in the presence of Ms. Sandra Honoré, the Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, of the Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Representatives of UNESCO, Norway, Canada, and Inter-American Development Bank.

According to studies of Cuban experts in reforestation and Haitian experts, aerial seeding is the only method that will curb the environmental degradation in the mountains inaccessible.

Through this initiative, 133 million seed o Cedar, Mahogany and Benzolives will be scattered on the Chaine des Matheux and watershed of Péligre. According to estimates, 20% of these seeds, nearly 27 million trees will grow. Note that this type of aerial seeding has already been carried out with satisfactory results, including in Cuba and Jamaica. According to the Minister of the Environment this campaign of aerial seeding will continue until the end of the presidential term in 2016.

That same day, has taken place the laying of the first terminal of the Natural Park Macaya, which is added to other boundaries of parks conducted under the Martelly administration as National Park of the Visite or the Historical Park of Sans Souci.

Achim Steiner, for whom this is the first visit to Haiti, renewed the commitment of the United Nations system in support of Haiti's efforts in the fight for the protection of the environment.

Source:

http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11327-haiti-environment-launch-of-the-campaign-of-aerial-seeding.html

Reforestation in Canaan

As part of the activities surrounding the celebration of the Feast of Agriculture and Labor, the departmental department of community police of the West, with the support of the Minustah and Viva Rio, organized a day of reforestation in Canaan, a commune of Croix-des-Bouquets, located at the side of a mountain naked, exposing residents to the risk of landslides.

Arrived aboard two buses of the company Dignité 600 schoolchildren in uniform for the event, coming from 5 school establishments of the Capital have planted 2,500 seedlings, a project supported by the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Metropolitan Service of Solid Waste Collection (SMCRS).

Divided into small groups, students have begun to land seedlings, saying aware of the deplorable state of the environment and saying that everyone should be concerned.

"Through this reforestation project, the National Police of Haiti (PNH) through its Departmental Structure of Community Police, shows the way to be followed for the protection of the environment in Haiti," declared Michel-Ange Gédéon, Departmental Director of the West of the PNH.

"We endorse this responsibility to reforest Canaan. We are committed to meet this challenge to contribute to the reforestation of the country," added Inspector Jean Etienne Salvador, who explained that to ensure the success of the reforestation project in time, premiums will be distributed to those who have been able to take care and grow the seedlings. A strategy that might be effective as long as the population is better educated and motivated and is more concerned about the environment, that these students who eployed ll their energy to help save this little piece of country.

Source

http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11094-haiti-environment-reforestation-in-canaan.html

The music of rara object of study in UEH

With the support of Knowledge and Freedom Foundation (FOKAL), the Association Caracoli proposes a series of activities on the music of rara in partnership with the History Masters program, Memory and Heritage of the Institute of African Studies and Research Haiti (IERAH-ISERSS) of the State University of Haiti (UEH) aimed at put music rara at the heart of Haitian cultural events.

The "Men rara· project brings together various stakeholders of Haitian cultural world to deepen formal knowledge of the music of rara, participating in its diffusion and produce a current musical work.

Friday, December 5, a one-day seminar will bring together diverse human resources around the question of rara music, in its formal aspect. Twenty people, academics, experts, artists, tradition bearers, will meet to identify key features of the music of rara under the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic aspects, historical contributions that are constitutive to them, the organological specificities, regional variations as well as the research paths to follow.
This is the first time that UEH pay particular attention to the music of rara, considered not only as an object of entertainment, but also as an object of study.

The day will be hosted by Ronald Joseph Dautruche, professor at the UEH, Doctor of Ethnology and heritage, which has produced several publications on the rara.

Source

http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12655-haiti-culture-first-in-haiti-the-music-of-rara-object-of-study-in-ueh.html

Ayiti Images a South Florida Film Series

Please Go check out this great film series by our friends at Ayiti Images 

COMING IN FEBRUARY 2ND-7TH

Coming in February, Ayiti Images will be screening it's 3rd film - Storming Papa Doc by Mario L. Delatour 


Synopsis 

"Victorieux ou morts mais jamais prisonniers" - "Victory or Death but never prisoner's" sets the stage and the motto of the new documentary directed by Mario L Delatour. Storming Papa Doc, the English title of this historical reenactment set on on July 28th, 1958, tells the story of ex-army officers from Haiti who are exiled out of the country to Florida, USA only to return with a vengeance to overthrow Haitian President, Dr. Francois Duvalier. Created in animation and inter-cut with interviews of friends and family members of the brigade, the film explores the interesting lives of each member. Portraying a time capsule of Haiti in the 1940's and Florida as a temporary incubator, this artistic film seeks to chronicle what could have been one of the most successful military operations in Haitian history, the removal of the most notorious dictator's of the 20th century.  

Watch Trailer here -  

Then don't miss:

La Belle Vie: The Good Life 

Stay tune for announcements coming soon.
 


For more information click here:La Belle Vie Film

About Ayiti Images 

Ayiti Images is a new Florida traveling film series showcasing documentaries and narrative films about the Haitian experience. The films are diverse in its point of views ranging from issues on US deportation laws, history, Haitian identity to the Haitian Diaspora experience. The series includes panel discussions, networking and music. Collaborating with local Universities, community organization's and cultural institutions, the film screenings will take place throughout the Florida area to expose residents to a diverse conversation about Haiti.

Exhibition - The Haitian painting and its trends

The Museum of Haitian National Pantheon (MUPANAH) unveils its permanent collection through the exhibition "The Haitian painting and its trends". With more than fifty paintings, arranged chronologically, the museum offers visitors the pleasure of assessing trends of Haitian painting over the years.

The exhibition opens with portraits of characters in the history like the colon, Monsieur de Bereau (1733), the wife of Isaac (son of Toussaint Louverture), Louise Chancy Louverture (circa 1799-1884) and the President Fabre Nicolas Geffrard (1837). Then in his travels, the visitors will discover the works of the pioneers of Art Center (opened in 1944, the Centre has marked the international breakthrough of the Haitian art), whose Hector Hyppolite, Rigaud Benoit, Castera Bazile, André Pierre and Tamara Baussan.

The exhibition demonstrates, among other things, the breakup of the Art Centre with the schools of Cap, of Jacmel and of Port-au-Prince through works of Philomé and Donald Obin, of Préfète Duffaut, of Philippe Dodard, Simil and Bernard Séjourné. Works of Tiga, Antilhomme and Louisiane Saint Fleurant of the Saint Soleil movement are also exposed.

The visit of the exhibition "The Haitian painting and its trends" which will continue until December 12, 2014, ends on a contemporary color with the enhancement of paintings of Manuel Mathieu, Edouard Duval Carié, Killy and Odile Latortue.

Source:

http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12523-haiti-culture-exhibition-the-haitian-painting-and-its-trends.html

Survival of the Macaya Park is both political and civic

The National Natural Park Macaya (PNNM) created by Decree of the government of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1984, covering an area of 1,000 ha, increased to more than 8,000 ha in March 2013 by President Martelly, now houses the last primary forest of Haiti and is the last sanctuary of biodiversity in the western part of the island, with the largest concentration in the world of endemic species per unit of area.

This natural wealth is nothing without the exceptional rainfall (3-6 m of water / year)that characterizes the two highest peaks of the Massif de la Hotte (Pic Macaya rises to 2,347 m), which allows 7 rivers of South and Grand Anse, to ake their sources in the mountains, feeding the two largest irrigation systems in the South (Avezac and Dubreuil). Macaya protection is therefore essential, not only for its natural resources, but also for the survival of all populations in downstream. The decrease in water resources, driven by deforestation in the Park, threatens every day a little more food security of the people of South and Grand Anse.

The PNNM is also threatened by the disappearance of his forest in favor of subsistence agriculture, livestock and wood industry (planks, fat and charcoal wood). In this race to the depletion of natural resources, slash and burn agriculture with regular fire it causes, is the primary factor of destruction of ecosystems Macaya. In recent years, millions of tons of arable land are away to the sea destroying downstream wildlife and marine flora exposing the populations, to landslides more and more frequent and of greater magnitude, of Fonds-Verrettes and Mapou if no action is taken.

The struggle for the survival of Macaya Park is political and civic, all Haitians from here and abroad must taking part to preserve the last forest of Haiti.

To make this park a reality and stop the degradation of natural resources within the park and in its immediate vicinity, the Ministry of the Environment launched in December 2012 the Macaya Project. This project currently under development is funded by the Global Environment Fund and the Fund for the Reconstruction of Haiti under donation of the Norwegian cooperation, and managed by the Inter-American Development Bank, for a total of $ 12 million over a period of 5 years. The project includes the creation of a technical unit and the development of a management plan for the park, which includes activities of protection, reforestation, tourism promotion, creation of a supervisory body (ongoing recruitment), agro-forestry, improvement of the road of Formont and better conditions of life for the community.

Learn more about the Macaya Park :
Located in the Massif de la Hotte and extending over the hills Formond and Macaya, the Macaya Park is, by its geographical position, one of the largest natural parks in the country dominated by the Pic Macaya (2,347 m). These hills are cut with deep ravines that give birth to seven rivers of the southern departments and Grand Anse. The National Park is home for 65 species of birds, some of which are endemic and protects 141 species of orchids, 38 endemic, and 367 flowering plants whose 55 are unique to the island of Haiti, an invaluable resource.

Source:

http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11333-haiti-environment-survival-of-the-macaya-park-is-both-political-and-civic.html

Haïti, deux siècles de création artistique - La bande-annonce

19 November 2014 to 15 February 2015

Everyday from 10:00 a.m to 8:00 p.m (Wednesday until 10:00 p.m)

Weekly closing Tuesdays

Focusing on Haitian art from the 19th century to the present day, the exhibition takes an approach that is at once historical, social and cultural. Against a background of urban chaos and vigorous popular culture, this exploration of the visual arts aims to go beyond the archetypes of naïve and primitive painting and transcend the restrictive magico-religious and exotic vision associated with Haitian art.With nearly 150 works, Hyppolite's Kiss or the Art of Haiti presents art free of any rigid framework, readily mingling poetry, magic, religion and political commitment thorough a great variety of forms, blurring the boundary between art and the street, between a world of forms and everyday life.

Curators: Régine Cuzin, freelance curator, founder of the association OCEA, Paris and Mireille Pérodin Jérôme, director of the Ateliers Jérôme, Port-au-Prince

This exhibition is organized by the Reunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais

- See more at: http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/haiti#sthash.6SOAfpMq.dpuf