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Dominicans Love Haitians Movement Is Celebrating The Beauty Of Our Commonalities While Forging A Fut

Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is utilizing art to transform our racial narratives. As of this year Dominican Legislature passed TC-168-13 the law that renders as many as 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent stateless by denying certificates and identification cards. Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is a call to embrace our heritage and to be whole. It is looking at and redefining the racial scheme created by imperialism that allowed for the suppression of other peoples. Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is forging a future to create freedom from tyranny.

09/25/2026

Thursday, October 8 | 6:30pm | The City College of New York
TRUE NORTH
Directed by Michèle Stephenson
TRUE NORTH journeys into 1960s Montreal, tracing a pivotal period of Black resistance through the 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Sir George Williams Affair. Through archival footage and first-person testimony, filmmaker Michèle Stephenson connects Black struggles in Canada with movements across the Caribbean and the United States, revealing a history of resistance, solidarity, and collective action that crossed borders.
FILMMAKER-TO-FILMMAKER CONVERSATION
Following the screening, Michèle Stephenson joins filmmaker Alain Martin, director of The Forgotten Occupation, for a filmmaker-to-filmmaker conversation about the making of TRUE NORTH. Together, they will discuss the research, relationships, archival work, creative choices, financing, and persistence required to carry an ambitious documentary from its earliest ideas to the screen.
Reserve Tickets: www.dominicanslovehaitians.com

08/23/2026

Under The Canopy: A Black August Sanctuary of Urban Maroonage creates a protected, sacred outdoor space for Black and Afro-diasporic community members to reconnect with ancestral healing traditions and collective autonomy. Inspired by the legacy of Maroon communities who forged freedom and sanctuary in the margins, the program transforms public park spaces into temporary sites of spiritual refuge. By gathering on the land to practice traditional plant medicine and brew a collective baño, participants interrupt the physical and emotional exhaustion of the city to ground themselves in shared heritage, sovereign rest, and mutual protection.
Through the tactile act of hand-crafting medicine together, community members honor the radical political and spiritual discipline of Black August, challenge division and isolation, and leave with a tangible tool for ongoing healing in their daily lives.
RSVP: dominicanslovehaitians.org/under-the-canopy

08/19/2026

Here are some copy you can use: UNDER THE CANOPY: A Black August Sanctuary of Urban Maroonage
This Black August, we come together to practice our medicine and remember our claim to freedom. Our ancestors built sanctuary in the margins, using whatever the land provided to survive and resist. We are doing the same.
Join Dominicans Love Haitians Movement for a free three-hour outdoor ritual of ancestry, spirit, and community care for Black and Afro-diasporic people—where you leave with a collective spiritual bath.
Space is strictly capped at 20 participants per session to keep the container intimate, raw, and highly protective.
Dates & Locations (2:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
(Each session is an independent, standalone workshop. You only need to register for one date.)
PAERDEGAT PARK (Albany Ave. & E. 40th St. between Farragut Rd. and Foster Ave.)
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Sunday, August 23, 2026
PROSPECT PARK (The Lake at the Boathouse)
Sunday, August 30, 2026
The Ritual Requirements:
Bring Your Own Vessel: Bring a clean, recycled jar or bottle from home to take your medicine with you.

RSVP IS MANDATORY. Reserve your spot at the link in our bio.
Presented by Dominicans Love Haitians Movement with generous support from the NYC Green Fund, NYC Parks Department, and Partnerships for Parks.
CommunityCare Brooklyn ProspectPark PaerdegatPark

08/15/2026

We sat by the water today and remembered that uncertainty is not the same as being lost.

We have spent so much time looking at what has not happened yet, what still needs to be built, what has hurt, what might fail. And then today offered something else: people leaning in, saying yes, wanting to gather, responding to what we had the courage to share.

A reminder that this life is being created in real time.

We do not have to compare this path to anyone else’s. We do not have to wait until fear disappears. We can listen to intuition, trust imagination, invite people in, and keep moving toward what feels alive.

Maybe growth is not always becoming someone new.

Maybe sometimes it is remembering who you were before fear taught you to hesitate.

05/30/2026

Get ready for a two-day experience of Fragile Awakening Part Two, an exciting in-person event you won’t want to miss!

This exhibition draws from the Harlem-based visual artist & educator Ayanna Legros ‘2024 exhibition and performance that chronicled her awakening to being an artist.

Fragile Awakening Part Two delves deeper into the exact moments, both painful and joyful, that transformed Ayanna into an artist while addressing specific social issues, including women’s rights, health, police violence, the legal system, migration, diasporic memory, and gun violence in Haiti & the U.S.

May 30th and May 31st

2PM - 6PM

MORNINGSIDE THEATER, 100 LA SALLE STREET NEW YORK, NY 10027

Trains: 1 train to 125th street, ABCD to 125th

Buses: M104, M4, M60

FREE AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

Ayanna Legros is a mixed-media artist, writer, and radio archivist. All of her works invite onlookers to have a deeper, more embodied engagement with global and personal history. In her statuesque works, she uses oil enamel paint, found objects, and archival prints to adorn her subjects and counter one-dimensional portrayals of Haitian people. The use of glass bottles as a canvas, a material that is both resilient and fragile, is not only symbolic of her desire for reduced waste consumption, but also a reference to a challenging life chapter that transformed into a beautiful reckoning about her calling to become an artist. https://ayannalegros.com

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(917) 960-8026

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http://www.dominicanslovehaitians.com/

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