“Creole Histories: An Evening with Edwidge Danticat, Nathalie Joachim, and Canisia Lubrin” will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 6:30 to 8:00pm (DST) at the Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street) in New York. [Admission is free, but registration is required. See link below.]
Description (MoMA): Join us for a special evening celebrating Creole with three acclaimed artists with Caribbean ties—novelist Edwidge Danticat, composer Nathalie Joachim, and poet Canisia Lubrin—as they discuss Creole, its history, its legacy, and its role in each of their practices. The program will also feature a reading by Lubrin from her recently released story collection Code Noir and a performance by Joachim from her newest record Ki moun ou ye. A book and record signing and reception will follow the program.
Edwidge Danticat is a celebrated Haitian American writer. Her books include Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, and Everything Inside, a National Book Critics Circle Awards winner. She has written seven books for children and young adults. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and a two-time winner of the Story Prize, among numerous other awards.
Nathalie Joachim is a Grammy-nominated performer and composer. The Haitian-American artist is Assistant Professor of Composition at Princeton University and is regularly commissioned to write for orchestra, instrumental and vocal ensembles, dance, and interdisciplinary theater. Her first solo record, Fanm d’Ayiti (2019) received a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. Her second record Ki moun ou ye, is slated to be released in February 2024.
Canisia Lubrin is an acclaimed poet, editor, and writer born in St. Lucia and based in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of two poetry collections, Voodoo Hypothesis (2017) and The Dyzgraphxst (2020), the latter of which won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. Her fiction debut, the story collection Code Noir, has just been released by Knopf, with images by artist Torkwase Dyson.
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
For more information, see https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9338
[Shown above—From left: Edwidge Danticat. Photo: Shevuan Williams; Nathalie Joachim. Photo: Erin Patrice O’Brien; Canisia Lubrin. Photo: Samuel Egelking.]
“Creole Histories: An Evening with Edwidge Danticat, Nathalie Joachim, and Canisia Lubrin” will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 6:30 to 8:00pm (DST) at the Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street) in New York. [Admission is free, but registration is required. See link below.] Description (MoMA): Join us for a special