Max Tzinman Show at Atlantic Gallery Opening Reception Nov 1st- POSTPONED to Nov 8

UPDATE:

This show is postponed until November 8th because of damage from Hurricane Sandy. Thankfully the Atlantic Gallery is only with out power and the art inside is not damaged. Other galleries in the neighborhood were not so lucky.

Join  Max Tzinman  for the opening of his show “Adrift”  on Thursday at Atlantic Gallery  in New York City. Max has donated the title piece of his show “Adrift” to a silent auction, with the benefits going to Jakmel Ekspresyon.

Join him and many others on November 1st from 4-8pm at 548 W 28th Street, Suite 540, New York, NY (weather permitting). Please check the website for   Atlantic Gallery for updated information.

If you can’t be there in person, check out the show here in a 360 degree panorama. Check out the full press release for more info: Adrift Press Release

Max Tzinman Show at Atlantic Gallery 10/30-11/24 NYC

We are happy to announce that Max Tzinman  will be showing his paintings at Atlantic Gallery  in New York City. Max has donated the title piece of his show “Adrift” to a silent auction, with the benefits going to Jakmel Ekspresyon.

Join him and many others on November 1st from 4-8pm at 548 W 28th Street, Suite 540, New York, NY.

Max explains his work in this way:

 I am not a photographer or a conventional painter but an image storyteller. I am not trying to freeze the moment with a beautiful image, but to transform it to reveal the complex and deep emotions that lie buried beneath the surface.

Come and bid on “Adrift (Sunday Afternoon)” and send some money our way!

Check out the full press release for more info: Adrift Press Release

We have a winner!

Congratulations Michelle Raz! She is our randomly selected winner of a pair of tickets to Ra Ra Yo! the Jakmel Ekspresyon fundraiser this Wednesday.

Congratulate her in person at Martyr’s. We’ll have some great music for a good cause. Don’t forget, you can get advance tickets for $10 from http://www.martyrslive.com/

Good Friday Rara

It’s not everyday that you hear the sound of rara music in Haiti. According to Jakmel Ekspresyon Administrator Aaron Funk, you can’t escape it these days in Jacmel.

Rara is a type of festive, hypnotic music played during Easter Week. The performers march from town to town in colorful costumes and play trumpets, drums and maracas. If you want to learn more about Rara in English, check out Elizabeth McAlister’s site.

Ra Ra Yo!

Did you know that we’re hosting another exciting benefit for Jakmel Ekspresyon? Yes indeed! April 18th we’ll be getting together with our friends Environmental Encroachment, MC Sparkplug and Low End Theory at Martyrs in Chicago. Want to buy tickets? Go to Martyrs Live . Also check out this fantastic flyer created by Chicago design superstar Tim Hartman :

You can also download a copy of this flyer in PDF format  here.

Extreme Recycling: Jacmel Style

When Corey Rateau, A Haitian American volunteer at the ”Vie de France” school in Jacmel, Haiti faced a mountain of aluminum cans he decided to get extreme! A barge had dropped off canned water for his students and Corey hoped to turn those cans into something useful. With the help of Bayard Jean Bernard he found Bòs Gérard. Gérard has been working with aluminum for many years. You’ll be surprised at what a skilled artisan can do with a bunch of cans.

Benefit Success!

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Thank you everyone for coming out and enjoying all the talented artists last Saturday. It was an amazing night. We raised over $500 which is a months operational costs. If you missed the event and still want to support JE please visit our Donate page.

The last month was a big month for us. The center ran workshops six days a week. The workshops included dance, theater, painting, fire spinning and a film club. The majority of the workshops were run by local established Haitian artists! In the US we met with our new pro-bono lawyer. With one more step to solidify this new relationship we will be on our way to establishing ourselves as a legal non-profit.

So many people have contacted the Administration to find out more about JE and how the can help. Our network just keeps growing. This is an exciting time and filled with opportunities to grow. If anyone is interested in helping by donating time and talents, please contact the Co-Director, Sue Frame, at jakmelekspresyon@gmail.com.

Jakmel Ekspresyon in Art Info!

We’ve been lucky enough to be mention in Art Info, an international art magazine and website. One of the co-organizers of our Kaleidoscope event (see below) has written an extensive piece about art and our approach to art in Haiti. Please check it out:

Over the last eight months or so, I’ve been working with a group here in Chicago on a mission to stabilize and fund an art center in Jakmel, Haiti headed up by the Frame Family Foundation and its delegate, local art activist Susan Frame. I was brought into the project by Steve Raden, an old Chicago friend of mine and activist humanitarian in the field who has traveled extensively in third world countries, often exclusively on his own dime, to help provide aid where he could, and there are real, clear egalitarian reasons for working to support such a project. As the stories I’ve heard serve to illustrate, the Jakmel center functions as a safe haven from persecution by others in Haitian society who find hate a productive response to lesbian and gay male lifestyles, or who find those physically handicapped in the wake of the earthquake easy pickings. They also work to imbue its participants with art-making knowledge and skills that give them an export upper-hand in their own localized markets and, at a minimum, a means of realizing a productive living.

Kaleidoscope- Benefit for Jakmel Ekspresyon in Chicago, February 18th!

If you are in Chicago, please join us on February 18th at Phyllis’ Musical Inn (1800 W Division in Wicker Park)  for Kaleidoscope.

This benefit for us features Megitza Quartet, Honey & Buffalo, Diane Christiansen & Steve Dawson, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Katherine Chronis, Mike O’Flaherty, and Ashley Thornton.

It starts at 8pm, and is just $15 at the door. What a deal!

See you there!

Only 14 Hours to Contribute to the JE Indiegogo Campaign

Today is day 6 of our countdown to the end of our Indiegogo fundraising campaign. So far we’ve raised $2702. Can you help us reach $3000 in the next  14 hours?

Thanks to all of you that have contributed so far. We hope you enjoy your gifts once they arrive.

Each day, we will highlight one gift that you can get by pledging your support.

Today we’re highlighting what you’ll get for supporting us with $10.  Give the gift of time to the Jakmel Art Center. At this rate, you’re buying its stakeholders roughly 6 hours. Thank you, and in appreciation, JE will send you hand a hand-written thank you letter & JE lapel pin.  All donations are processed through the  Frame Family Foundation which sponsors Jakmel Ekspresyon. All donations are tax deductible.

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