Six Months after the earthquake in Haiti

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This week it’s six months since the earthquake of 12th January 2010, when 300,000 people died and one and a half million people were made homeless.

Here’s one radio and one video piece recommended by readers of this blog, Ali and Aaron,  that ask  relevant questions like…

– Why with thousands of foreign NGOs in the country was Haiti a continuously failing state even before the earthquake?

– Six months after the earthquake, why has only 10% of the money promised by international donor governments reached Haiti?

Democracy Now! video piece                                                             http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/12/democracy_now_in_port_au_prince

This American Life, radio article                                                http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/408/island-time

Interviews with audience members at HKKP film night at Tapis Vert camp in Cite Soleil, Port au Prince.  April 2010.

Fundraising event! ARNOLFINI CHILDREN’S FILM WORKSHOP AND SCREENINGS : HKKP FUNDRAISER : 4th JULY

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On 4 July, at Arnolfini Bristol, there is a day of film screenings for children and a Zoetrope Workshop. Zoetrope is a magical animation workshop for children to make their very own cartoon to watch on the big screen. Plus there will be screenings of the beautiful Hedgehog in the Fog, Kirikou and the Sorceress & The Red Balloon; all favorites in Haiti with the mobile cinema. All profits will be donated to HKKP.  Extra special HKKP T-shirts will be on sale on the day, designed by Lady Lucy.

The children’s film screenings and Zoetrope Workshop will take place on the closing weekend of the Say Parsley exhibition, a sparse sound and language installation by writer and artist Caroline Bergvall and composer Ciarán Maher. The background to ‘Say Parsley’ is the biblical ‘shibboleth’, a violent event where language itself is gatekeeper, and a pretext to massacre. The pronunciation of a given word exposes the identity of the speaker. To speak becomes a give-away. Are you one of us, not one of us? How you speak will be used against you. The massacre of tens of thousands of Creole Haitians on the border of the Dominican Republic (1937) for failing to pronounce “perejil” correctly is the most recent example of a large scale shibboleth.

Fundraising in Bristol…Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd May,Spike Island Open Studios, £1 + donations

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Nanoplex presents a fundraising event for HKKP – The Children’s Film and Zoetrope Workshop. An afternoon of screenings, workshops and raffles.HKKP (Haiti Kids Kino Project) is a cultural exchange organised by The Cube Cinema’s childrens’ wing, Nanoplex. We are a mobile cinema projecting films to children in Haiti affected by the earthquakes while also providing workshops for Haitian and Bristol children to make their own films, which are swapped.  This is a fundraising event to help keep our extraordinary project alive. Come along and meet the people behind the HKKP, see the Haitian children’s films, and make some fun stuff that will travel all the way to Haiti. A magical Zoetrope workshop for children to make their very own cartoon to watch on the big screen!!
* A chance to make a digital postcard to show children in Haiti. A screening of the beautiful animations Hedgehog in the Fog and Michel Ocelot’s Kirikou and the Sorceress both favorites in Haiti with our mobile cinema

* Raffle
* LadyLucy T Shirts

Haitian children affected by the earthquakes are experiencing untold damage and despair. Further anxiety grows through inaction, loneliness and boredom. HKKP contributes to quality of life through creating, sharing, forging friendships, connections and delighting in film. www.cubecinema.com/haiti

cite soleil pictures

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Cite Soleil photos…

 

 ...putting up the screen
  
  ... Kino audience dancing to the sound system before the films
  
                                                                                           ...Shaun the sheep comes to Cite Soleil.  
(Our main features for the two nights were Disney's animated Robin Hood (Robin du Bois), and Kirikou et La Sorciere.)

Camp next to cinema Leogane

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HKKP was in Leogane from Thurs to Mon doing screenings,  Children’s video workshops and  video post cards. It rained every night we were there.


Adjoining the field where we held the screenings, there was one of a number of camps in the area that were hit by flooding. We walked around the camps daily telling the kids about the cinema.

Haiti update, Hands on base Leogane

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We arrived at the Hands On Disaster Relief base in Leogane late on Thursday, bit of a rush to get our tents up, John Adams our interpreter was lucky enough to get a bunk for the night. Then onto three video post cards made by the children in the camp at Delmar 95 (plenty of arrhhh’s from the audience followed by applause’s). ‘Hedgehog in the Fog’ was next and much appreciated. Then it was time for the feature which was chosen by election with ‘Inglorious’ gaining the most votes. But unfortunately the rain came in very heavy and fast ended our screening for the eve. The equipment was saved though as there was plenty of people to help.