Virtual Evening with Authors, Edwidge Danticat and Chantalle F. Verna
Sister Cities Essex Haiti in partnership with RJ Julia Booksellers is honored to present an evening of intimate conversation about the transformative power of storytelling with authors, Edwidge Danticat and Chantalle F. Verna. The authors will discuss their life journeys and their commitment to ensuring more equitable access to the reading, crafting and telling of […]
Music Update: Summer 2018
Sister Cities Essex Haiti Music Camp in Deschapelles 2018. For a second year we have wonderful teachers from Port au Prince Ecole de Musique and Philharmonic. This year the teachers are members of a Woodwind Quintet, organizied by Castillo St. Armand, Deschapelles resident who started his studies with us 5 years ago. The Quintet is […]
Cross-Cultural Presentation
On April 22, 2018, two presentations were made about visits relating to robotics at the library and education in Deschapelles. Robotics: Valley Regional High School students, Rocket Otte, Patrick Myslik and Sam Paulson, traveled to Deschapelles in August 2017 with their parents. They led a week-long workshop with the newly formed Club Robotic de Deschapelles at […]
Robotics in the Library: March 2018
Exciting news! In March 2018, Club Robotic de Deschapelles won second prize in the country-wide Robotics First Lego Competition! The competition took place in Cap Haitien, a long six-hour drive north from Deschapelles. This is the first time the Deschapelles Robotics Club participated. Last year, as they were beginning their club, they went as observers. The […]
Library Update: January 2018
The Deschapelles library is thriving. On a recent Saturday morning, we arrived to see one of the librarians, Pleurette, reading to a group of children asking them questions and showing them the pictures as she went along. The group then watched a children’s film in French. Around the same time, a group of students ranging […]