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LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE has felt like the blooming of a seed//prayer that I swallowed//whispered years ago. I’m still taking in this flower//portal ~

the stretch of my gratitudes is DEEP, so I’ll mention just a few here: @haiticulturalx thank you for the opportunity and the container through which to return the practice I’ve been cultivating to my community ~ to expand//deepen my craft and my community.

@natmarc.tif it feels like the universe was playing chess when it crossed our paths and somehow everybody won! I’m so grateful for the reflection of these questions through your medium. thank you for your practice and collaboration 📸

my Lakou Nou Cohort @hat5hep5ut @tanialaure @artofmere_ . we did it y’all 🥹 it’s truly been an honour to move through this work alongside y’all’s brilliance, artistry, and care for your Lakou’s. I’m inspired by the ways you carry Ayiti with you.

and always always, shout out to my ancestors ~ I’m grateful for the ways you press my prayers between your palms, then blow the back into my life, dandelion seeds steadfast as shooting stars.

🐚✨ by @secondgenders

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when I say I couldn’t have done this without y’all, I’m being quite literal. this [work] {altar}[installation] {portal} is a reflection of your voices and the way they have moved me and moved through me.

akèsh, marla, nat, ~ thank you for your trust, vulnerability, and collaboration. To hold your stories in conversation has been a privilege and a joy!! ☺️🐚✨🫶🏾

📷: @natmarc.tif by @secondgenders

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Shoutout to our community member & founder of @secondgenders @afroqueeribbean for their amazing installation centered around Queer Haitians created for their artist residency 🇭🇹🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 The installation will be available to view until May 10th @haiticulturalx! Definitely stop by and take in the experience of LAKOU SEKRÈ | SAKRE 🐚
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🎞️: @marsxmotion taken in FiveMyles by @secondgenders

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it’s happening! the final exhibition for my Lakou Nou Artist Residency with @haiticulturalx is around the corner! My co-residents and I will be exhibiting our work at Five Myles Gallery in Crown Heights from April 27 - May 4th.

On April 29th, I’ll be in the gallery from 3:30p - 6:30p if you’d like to come see the exhibit and chat with me about my work and process. Link in my bio!

On *May 1st* from 6pm-9pm the @haiticulturalx community will be gathered in celebration of the culmination of the Lakou Nou residency! Join by rsvping at the link in @haiticulturalx bio

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NOTE: the date on the last slide is wrong!! It’s May FIRST!! by @secondgenders

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Ever wonder about what’s happening with the queer Haitian memory project interview call I did for my Lakou Nou residency? Well here’s a chance to tap in and find out!

In this workshop we’ll be listening to interview selections from queer Haitians and using the audio excerpts as prompts for creative reflection. So excited to be collaborating with the incredibly talented @zaritazevallos for this offering!

Thursday April 3, 6-9pm, Crown Heights
Registration Required ~ link where the links live!

This workshop is made possible by the @haiticulturalx Lakou Nou Artist Residence program, through which Zami is creating activations around the queer Haitian experience in Crown Heights! by @secondgenders

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2025 arrives with abundance and opportunity. How can you get involved? Take a look at what our 2024 Lakou NOU artist cohorts are up to & join in!

TANIA BALAN-GAUBERT | Canarsie

Are you an artist or maker from Canarsie?! Catch up with Tania Balan-Gaubert (@tanialaure) to learn more about her open call for artists and makers to participate in the pilot of Canarsie artist-in-residence Tania Balan-Gabert’s STR.DST.MRKT. Merging elements of a gallery, hands-on studio, and curated concept shop, this project activates public spaces as hubs for art, cultural exchange, and community engagement.

ZAMí GERMAIN | Crown Heights

This Fall, Zamí Germain hosted Oral History Interviews for their Lakou Nou La: A Queer Haitian Memory Project. This week at @LakouCafe, they hosted Lakou Nou La! the first gathering harnessing the energy of 'we out here'! to create opportunities for queer Haitian connection in Crown Heights. Stay tuned via @secondgenders on Instagram to learn about future activations.

WATSON MERE | Flatbush

Calling all Haitian visual or performance artists living in Flatbush! Build your professional toolkit through Yon Nouvo Rèv! Learn skills in grant writing, crafting a resume, resources for finding opportunities, writing an artist statement, and more. Watson Mere (@artofmere_) will be conducting a workshop covering these topics. If you are interested, please get in touch with Watson at watson.mere@yahoo.com

STEPHANIE PIERRE | East Flatbush

Over the last few months, Stephanie Pierre(@hat5hep5ut)’s Roots and Routes, in East Flatbush traces the robust history of community organizing through interviews with cultural stewards and activists to inform a community resource map marking iconic moments in our collective history. She has partnered with The Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College to locate archival photos and ephemera related to these watershed moments in history. Contact her at themelaninproject418@gmail.com to learn more about her project or to participate in a local community event.

#SociallyEngagedArt #LakouNOU2024 #Brooklyn #HaitianArt #NouLa #HCXLakouNOU by @secondgenders

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Join us for Lakou Nou La – a night of queer Haitian connection at Lakou Cafe in Crown Heights! 🌈✨

This is a space for queer folks to gather, connect, and celebrate our unique experiences and identities. Come vibe, chat, eat, and build community! Event. Ordinates by the incomparable @secondgenders 📸!!

Special thanks to @haiticulturalx for making this possible through the Lakou Nou Residency Program. RSVP encouraged—link in bio! 🇭🇹

Let’s create moments of connection and joy, together. 💛

#LakouNou #QueerHaitianVibes #HCXLakouNOU #LittleHaitiBK #HaitiXNYC #HaitianCulture #HCX #LinkInBio #QueerHaitian #CommunityBuilding #CrownHeights taken in Lakou Cafe by @secondgenders

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Lakou Nou La! Is the first gathering harnessing the energy of We Out Here! to create opportunities for queer Haitian connection in Crown Heights.

This is an informal gathering meant to foster connection and conversation around the queer Haitian experience. So come hang, come vibe, come chat, and come eat!

RSVP encouraged! Link in bio ~

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This gathering is made possible in part by @haiticulturalx ‘s Lakou Nou Residency Program! by @secondgenders

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FINAL CALL for interview participants!! Lakou Nou La is a Queer Haitian Memory Project, made possible through @haiticulturalx Artist Residency Program: Lakou Nou!

This interview call is an invitation to spend time with each others stories. I know from my own experience that we’re wondering a lot of the same things, so why not wonder together?

I’ll be closing the form Dec 15th to move into some deeper listening ~ I’m excited to listen to you, so please fill it out if you’re curious about sitting together!

🔗bit.ly/lakounoula by @secondgenders

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Lakou Nou La is a Queer Haitian Memory Project, made possible through @haiticulturalx Artist Residency Program: Lakou Nou! This interview call is an invitation to spend time with each others stories.

I’ll be closing the form Dec 15th to move into some deeper listening ~ I’m excited to listen to you, so please fill it out if you’re curious about sitting together!

🔗 bit.ly/lakounoula by @secondgenders

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Announcement! 🐚 l’m so excited to share this interview call for Lakou Nou La! This project is an extension and deepening of my @secondgenders practice, focusing in on the queer and trans, Haitian diasporic experience. I know from my own experience that we’re wondering a lot of the same things, so why not wonder together?

what meaning are you making of your cultural heritage and your trans embodiment? what cultures do you access your queerness from? how do you belong to the memory of your lakou?

If any of that sounds like a bit of you, ann pale! let me chat to ya real quick 😇 if it sounds like someone you know ~ absolutely hit that paper airplane and send it in their direction!

If you’re interested in sitting with me for a conversation, please fill out the form in the bio or at bit.ly/lakounoula . If you’re curious but have questions, the comments, my DMs and my email are open! 💌

thank you to @haiticulturalx for helping me facilitate this iteration of the work through the Lakou Nou Artist Residency! Nou La! 🇭🇹❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈

🔗 bit.ly/lakounoula by @secondgenders

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sooo this has been announced for a while, but I wanted to take a sec to document it for myself here : I’m a Lakou Nou Artist in Residence with @haiticulturalx ! And, of course, doing the good work of 2NDGENders 🙂‍↕️🧡

I’m particularly excited about this residency bc it’s an opportunity to focus in on my own culture and shared experience with other queer and trans, second gen Haitians, and an opportunity to ground this next season in place in a way I haven’t moved with this work before.

soooo catch us in Crown Heights through the spring! I’m eager eager eager to create spaces for us to gather at this intersection, for the portals that witnessing eachother will create ~ Nou La!

and since we’re documenting, I also wanted to share some archival (read: my camera roll) grabs of what doing this work quietly in the background, through connecting with myself, others, and through the container of grad school, has looked like:

2 ~ snapshot from an unreleased interview w/ Tochi 🌻 Fall ‘23
3 ~ snippet of me gushing post a virtual queer Haitian gathering hosted by @mythsooka Nov ‘23
4 ~ sitting in the park recording audio for an episode introducing myself a little more formally // unfortunately my laptop was stolen shortly after and I lost that audio July ‘24
5 ~ coworking with Egypt 🐈‍⬛ Nov ‘24
6 ~ time lapse of me curating an interactive archival box for a personal documentary project, spring ‘24 by @secondgenders

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