"From the margin or from the center:
French Caribbean women writing between memory and hope".

Lecture by Haitian author Marie Celie Agnant

Thursday April 10, 2003
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
MIT Room 4-163

Open to the Public

Brought to you by the MIT PROGRAM ON WOMEN'S STUDIES

Contact Emily Howe for more information at emmh@mit.edu or (617) 253-8844.

The Third Annual MIT Haitian Cultural Night and Fundraiser

"Exposing Haitian Culture through Language:
Written, Spoken, Visual, and Body"

Friday November 1, 2002
7:00 PM - 1:00 AM
MIT Stratton Student Center
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Admission: $5.00 Donation
Open to the Public

KISA!! The theme of this year's Cultural Night is "Exposing Haitian Culture through Language: Written, Spoken, Visual, and Body." We are working with Michel DeGraff, MIT Professor of Linguistics, to get a world renowned linguist to speak on the beauty of Haitian-French Creole. Students of SP.712 who have been learning the language and culture of Haiti, will be sharing what they have learned through short speeches, anecdotes, and poems. We are bringing back the Fantezi Kreyol Dance Company, both of whom were very favorably received as performers by our attendees in past years. We are also very excited about the possibility to have a live Haitian band for the first time, New York City's Dekwochay. As is tradition, we will provide an authentic Haitian dinner and a small, private art exhibition. The event will be open to the MIT and Greater Boston community, and the price of admission will be just $5. Based on previous years' attendances we expect an attendence of about 200 guests.

Contact Charly Jeune to RSVP or for more information at gjeune@mit.edu or 617-225-7472.

Curricular Initiative for Development Design (CIDD)

CIDD is part of the Designs for Developing Countries Project at MIT. It is a yearlong program involving partnerships between the MIT Edgerton Center, the MIT Public Service Center, MIT student groups and alumni, and NGOs to utilize the engineering problem solving skills of MIT students to tackle community needs in underdeveloped countries. The program integrates community service, engineering design, cultural enrichment, and real world problem solving together through a series of seminars and fieldtrips.

The program is organized by Amy Smith and the MIT Edgerton Center, the MIT Public Service Center, and MITHA. Program sponsors include the Alumni Funds for Excellence in Education and the D'Arbeloff Service Learning Fund.

A more detailed description can be found at http://mit.edu/cidd/www/description.html.

SP.712 - The Haiti Class

"This seminar is the first in a year-long series of courses. It is part of the Curricular Initiative for Development Design and sponsored by the Haitian Students Alliance. The seminar will prepare students to work with community partners in Haiti to identify development projects and perform the necessary fieldwork to refine the problem definition. Topics include appropriate technology for development, basic Creole language skills, history and culture of Haiti, and fieldwork methodology. Assignments include real-world design examples, focusing on community and village-scale problems. Students will have the opportunity to participate in an IAP fieldtrip to Haiti and continue their work in a Spring Term design seminar."

Visit the course website at http://mit.edu/cidd/haiti.

MITHA Fall College Preparation Information Session

An opportunity for Boston area Haitian and West Indian high school students and their parents to get their questions about scholarships, admissions, standardized tests, applications, and college life answered by MIT and Harvard students, faculty members, and admissions personnel.