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NEWS:
1.18.09
So
much has been said about the scale of the destruction on Haiti
and the magnitude of the disaster, it doesn’t need repeating.
On a personal level, co-producer Magali Damas finally contacted
her family last Friday and found they were all alive and up
in the hills outside the capital. In terms of the band, most
were able to contact immediate family and found they were
okay. However Leslie, the graj player, learned that he lost
ten members of his family - three of them still buried under
rubble - and three more are badly injured. A number of other
band members have still not been able to make contact. Almost
everyone has lost extended family and lost homes.
Upcoming
Events:
Saturday
2.6: Brooklyn Museum of Art: Target First Saturday
Free
screening at 7pm
DJARARA
Performing in the Glass Pavilion 9:30pm
Location: 200 Eastern Parkway (by Washington),
Brooklyn, NY
Tickets available at Visitor Center 6pm on day of event
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php
Friday
2.12: Screening and Performance at Downtown Community Television
Date:
Friday 2/12
Film Screening: 7:30
DJARARA Performance: 8:30
Sliding scale donations: $10-$20
Location: DCTV 87 Lafayette Street (Betw
Walker and White) NYC
Proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders and musicians families.
http://www.dctvny.org/
Sunday
2.14: Pan African Film and Arts Festival - LA
Date:
Sunday 2/14
Screenings times: 12pm and 3pm
Location: Culver Plaza Theatres
9919 Washington Boulevard Los Angeles, CA
(310) 836-5516
http://www.paff.org/
Past
News:
Sunday
1.24.10 Horns for Haiti Benefit
DJARARA
closed out this amazing line-up including Rev. Billy,
Mikerline Troupe, Hungry Marching Band, and more. Link
to Facebook Event
Thursday
1.28.10 Lomax Party - Part 2 becomes Earthquake Benefit at
Barbes in Brooklyn
In
collaboration with the
Alan Lomax Archive we held
a special party/performance/screening to celebrate the
release of the
Haiti Box Set. This time we've made it into a benefit
event.
Sunday
1.31: DJARARA and Makandal at The Livingroom, NYC
Also
in collaboration with the Lomax, this event will raised money
for Hospital Albert Schweitzer and the musicians.
12.13.09
Release Party with Alan Lomax Archive
In
collaboration with the
Alan Lomax Archive and La
Troupe Makandal we held a special party/performance/screening
to celebrate the release of the
Haiti Box Set - a massive compilation of film and audio
Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti from 1936-7.
The event was held at
the Livingroom in NYC.
Read
Sasha Frere-Jones recent round table discussion in the NEW
YORKER MAGAZINE about rara music, featuring Edwidge Danticat
11/24/09
"Cultures on Parade" at the New School
"Cultures
on Parade" was a special screening and discussion on
at the New School featuring "The Other Side of the Water"
and "Play Mas" by Michelle Stephenson. Info here:
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=36435
9/7/09
Return to BAM
On Labor Day, September 7th, we returned to the Brooklyn Academy
of Music. It was a wonderful day of screenings, which we attended
while running back and forth to the Eastern Parkway Carnival.
Thanks to the Creatively Speaking series and everyone who
came out!
September
Screenings:
*September
17th and 28th Trinidad
& Tobago Film Fest
*September 30th-October 4th International
Festival of the Haitian Film of Montreal
*Date TBD: Caribbean
Creativity in the Netherlands
7/12/09
Screening
at the Caribbean Tales Film Festival
Toronto
Canada. More information HERE
6/6/09
Screening at The Hollywood Black Film Festival
Info HERE
and link to radio interviews on Sak
Pase California
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5/09
"The Haitian Rara Experience" in Miami
From
May 21st-24th Miami hosted "The Haitian Rara
Experience": a 4-day festival of film screenings,
workshops, parties, and music events. The main event was the
Theatrical Premiere of "The Other Side of the Water"
at the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach, followed by
a live performance of Brooklyn's DJARARA.
Thanks
to our
presenting partners: Miami
Light Project, the Backyard
Movement, Change
Charity, Inc., Moksha
Family, and HaitiXchange.com.
(Click
for larger image)
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1/09
Obama Trip Special Series
The musicians from DJARARA went in force to DC for the Obama
Inauguration.
Check out their full historic journey HERE
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12/08
Re-Launching Educational Workshops:
This year
we're re-launching our educational programs in high schools
and universities. Over the past few years the filmmakers and
the musicians of DJARARA have teamed up to create workshops,
presentations, and cultural events across the country. We
toured NYC high schools through Carnegie Hall's educational
program (photos here),
presented to musicology and sociology classes from Amherst
to Bard College to Connecticut College, and worked with Haitian
Student Associations at schools including Columbia University
and SUNY Binghamton. If you're interested in finding out more
or hosting an educational event, contact us at othersideofthewater@gmail.com
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9/08
Festival
Premiere at Urbanworld
Film Festival - September 12th, 2008.
"The
Other Side of the Water" was proud to be a part of the
12th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival in NYC - presented by
BET and HBO. Stay tuned for information on our upcoming festivals
and theatrical premiere in NYC slated for February 2009.
Thanks also toHaitiXchange.com,
Brooklyn
Papers, heritagekompa.com,
Caribbean Life newspaper, this Prospect
Park Blog as well as Radio
Soleil and Radio
Pa Nou for the great shout-outs.
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8/08
Sneak
Preview at Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM Rose Cinema. Afterparty
featuring DJARARA and Master Drummer Fritzner Augustine -
August 28th, 2008. Click HERE
for link to BAM page...
Photos from our Sneak Preview at Brooklyn Academy of Music
visit our Flickr Photostream Here
Thanks also to HaitiXchange.com,
Brooklyn
Papers, this Prospect
Park Blog as well as Radio
Soleil and Radio
Pa Nou for the great shout-outs
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1/08:
We've finally picture-locked the documentary! The Other Side
of the Water is now in the finishing stages and we're excited
to be working with graphic arist Ben Fine (visual effects
editor for Oscar Nominated "Enron: the Smartest Guys
in the Room") and sound
mixer Anne Pope (sound editor for Oscar winner "Born
into Brothels"). Stay tuned for our launch this
spring and summer...
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7/07
The Backyard Show comes to Brooklyn
Host
Nati Dred of The Backyard Show with DJA-Rara [photo: Johny
Jacques]
In July
a crew from The Backyard Show flew up from Miami to New York
and taped two shows on Haitian roots culture in Brooklyn.
The first show focused on DJA-Rara and our documentary, the
second on other Haitian roots musicians. The Backyard Show
is an great new arts and culture talk show that’s making
a lot of noise in Miami [Look up their recent article in Miami
Herald or link to their site
here].
It was a hectic but fun taping – with a live audience
and all! Five Myles art gallery provided the space, HaitiXchange
came by, as well as come great artists and Brooklyn culture
heads. Check out pics here,
and the show should be up on the Backyard website in a few
weeks…
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4/07
Clips from doc being shown at Brooklyn Historical Society:
photo:Delphine A. Fawundu-Buford
Clips
from the documentary were featured in an exhibit called "A
Drum Beats in Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
The exhibit focuses on drum-based and African-influenced cultures
in Brooklyn, and runs from February 14th to May 13th, 2007.
Info at
the BHS website
.
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4/07
Short-film in Festivals:
In 2005 we made an 11-minute
work-in-progress that we called "Brooklyn Racine."
Soon word got out, and the short was requested by a number
of film festivals. Here's the list to date:
September
07: Women in Film LA - evening of Haitian Filmmaking
http://www.soleilfilms.com
October 07: Montreal International Haitian
Film Festival:http://www.festivalfilmhaitien.com/programme_en.html
November 06: the Guelph International Film
Festival,
http://www.girc.org/giff/
Deceber
06: Festival Film Jakmel (our premier in Haiti!)
in Jakmel, Haiti - just south of the capital:http://www.festivalfilmjakmel.com/
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3/07
Recent Screenings and Presentations at Universities:
The filmmakers have teamed up with the musicians of DJA-Rara
to give a series of presentations at colleges and universities
in the Northeast.
April
07: Connecticut College
February 07: Columbia University
October 06: SUNY Binghamton
September 06: Amherst College
April 07: Connecticut College
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2/07:
BAND
NEWS:
DJA-Rara's
latest studio track "Zwazo Vole" was singled out
by Afropop Worldwide as one of the top Carnival songs for
2007 (click
here for the link
), and has been on dozens of top-10 lists by critics and fans.
For other info on performances and events by Djarara and Friends,
click HERE
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4/06
Through the Carnegie Hall Global Encounters Program
The Other Side of the Water and DJA-Rara visit high school
classrooms in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Manhattan. We screened
clips from the documentary, talked about the history of rara,
and taught students to play drums and kone horns. SEE
PHOTOS HERE.
April
28th, 2006: Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series
presents a screening of 10 minutes from Other Side of the
Water and a performance by DJA-Rara at CUNY's Caribbean Studies
Center. SEE
PHOTOS HERE.
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1/06:
Kurt Engfehr joins team as Consulting Editor. Kurt
Engfehr was editor and co-producer of “Bowling for Columbine”
and “Fahrenheit 911.” He was awarded the American
Cinema Editor’s award for best documentary editing in
2002 for his work on Bowling for Columbine, and we’re
excited to have him on board.
PAST
WORK-IN-PROGRESS SREENINGS
April
28th, 2006: Carnegie
Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series- screening with performance
by DJA-Rara at CUNY Caribbean Studies Center
February
21st 2006: Rough-cut screening at
Brooklyn Public Library's "Documenting Brooklyn" series.
September
1st and 2nd, 2005: Work-in-Progress screening at
Brooklyn Academy of Music's Caribbean Diaspora Film Festival
December
2nd 2006: WIP at "Homegrown" community film event
sponsored by the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association
February
28th, 2005: Presentation at the Community School for Social
Justice, Bronx, NY
At BAM:
Filmmakers with staff of the 18 Mai Committee, HaitiXChage.com,
and Michele Montas - widow of slain journalist Jean Dominique
from "The Agronomist"
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