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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Isabelle Bélance
Ronald Champagne, MD
Ludovic Comeau, PhD
Reynold Ducasse, MD, Treasurer
Marilys Ewa, DDS, Secretary
Serge J.C. Pierre-Louis, President
ADVISORY BOARD:
Rolande Balan, DCM
Dougé Barthélémy, MD
Marsha Figaro
Béatrice Lauture
Aliette Marcelin
Jean Martin
Chantal Nelson
Mario Piverger, MD
Tania Pressoir
Janine Raymond
André Rigaud, MD
Marie-Claude Rigaud, MD
Jean-René Rinvil
Anastasia Senat, JD
Antonio Sénat, MD
Reynold Sterlin, CE
DUSABLE PARK
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE:
Dougé Barthelemy, MD, Co-Chair
Jean-Wilson Muscadin, MD, Co-Chair
George Achille
Eve-Marie Alexandre, MD
Jean Alexandre, MD
Colette Ascar
Jean André Gerard Bingué, CE
Marie-Josée Auguste Bingué
Marilys Ewa, DDS
Jean Martin
Marie Muscadin, RN
Serge J.C. Pierre-Louis, MD
Herbert Ziegeldorf
Stephen Jacob
Hudson Magloire
Stanley Leblanc
Andree Leroy
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About DHA
The
DuSable Heritage Association was founded in August 2002 to honor
the memory and promote the legacy of Jean Baptiste Pointe
DuSable. The Association in cooperation with other Haitian
organizations, is planning a series of events this year
and throughout 2006 in celebration of his life and achievements.
These events are intended to raise funds in order to maintain a
Haitian presence in DuSable Park. On Saturday, November 5, 2005,
DHA and the DuSable Park Fundraising Committee will be hosting a
dinner dance
"An Evening with DuSable:
Remembering The Founder of Chicago"
to kick-off this celebration.
In 2004 DuSable Heritage Association
organized and participated in many events under
the theme:
“Triumph of the Human Spirit” in commemoration of the
bicentennial of Haiti’s Independence (the ancestral home of
Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable). Among these events was the
collaboration of DHA with the greater Latino community in the
Chicago area to participate in the 20th Annual Chicago Latino
Film Festival. The Haitian Segment of the film festival included
acclaimed films directed by Jonathan Demme (The Agronomist), and
Haitian filmmaker, Raoul Peck (Man by the Shore). Attendance at each of these
venues was high. The films served to increase the awareness
within the Haitian community and beyond of the complex forces
that shape Haiti today.
In addition to the film festival,
DHA was instrumental in organizing a Haitian Classical Music
Concert in collaboration with DePaul University School for New
Learning and the School of Music. This celebration with musical
performances by the DePaul University Choir and Orchestra, was
in honor of the bicentennial of Haiti’s independence. The event
displayed the rich heritage of Haitian classical and folkloric
music. Among the composers showcased in the bicentennial
celebration was Werner Jaegerhuber, a Haitian born composer
trained in Germany, renown for his Messe Folklorique Haitienne
(Haitian Folk Mass). The
celebration was an overwhelming success.
DHA also sponsored Haitian Art In
Schools, a project organized by teachers in Forest Park and
Oak Park, Illinois. Haitian Art In Schools gathered over 200
artistic pieces made by school children in the eighth grade
based on Haitian Mythology and Folklore. The exhibit was
displayed at the Oak Park Public Library and Harold Washington
Public Library in the summer of 2004. The exhibit intended to
last only one month, lasted the entire summer due to popular
demand.
In the spring of 2005, the DHA had the opportunity to work with
elementary students in the fourth and fifth grades at the Lycée
Français to discuss the role of early French explorers and
Jean-Baptiste DuSable in the discovery and development of the
American Midwest.
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