Brooklyn Museum hosts five-hour celebration of Caribbean culture

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – It was a five-hour celebration of Caribbean culture, and it was filled to capacity at the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturday in August.

It was a record-breaking crowd of 5,000 people at the Brooklyn Museum, with everyone there to celebrate Caribbean culture, starting with a dance workshop on Haitian Konpa led by Robenson, “the spicy man.”

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“If you can walk, you can dance,” Robenson Mathurin, Haitian Konpa dance teacher, told PIX11 News. “You just have to hear the beat, and that’s the first thing you have to do,” he added…

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