GATHERING(S) - Incite at Columbia University

As first and second  generation migrants, one of the primary points of resistance to our queerness within our families comes from the idea that queerness is western phenomenon and not a part of our ancestral cultures. 

LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE was an altar to this experience, made possible not only by the community that informed it, but also by the friends that congregated around my dining table when I realized the amount of cowrie shells I had to string into rosaries…

GATHERING(S) is an experience in two parts, celebrating oral history as a social and cultural practice, amplifying the stories of QTGNC migrants, and honoring the practices that made LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE possible.

Join me for an intimate evening of creating and listening ~ revisiting the gatherings that made LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE possible. Together, we’ll listen to the stories of queer Haitians in Brooklyn while learning how to string rosaries out of cowrie shells.

Come to move slowly through the ritual of gathering.