NEW YORK — The Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute will welcome the public to the Harlem Book Fair this weekend, welcoming visitors into a space that is currently spotlighting the Haitian experience.
Forty-eight years ago, CCCADI executive director Melody Capote’s aunt had a vision to connect communities of color.
“We’re not a museum on purpose,” Capote said. “It’s really about being a space that centers artists of African descent … so that general audiences have access to an institution that reflected our history accurately.”
Focusing this year on Haiti’s historic fight for freedom, programming for the Harlem Book Fair will feature discussions with authors like Francesca Momplaisir and Edwidge Danticat, all set against the backdrop of a two-story exhibition, called “Home is Home” in Haitian Creole.
“It was just incredible to have all these artists work together,” said CCCADI programs director Sabine Blaizin.