Haitian-American artists J. Perry and Michaël Brun came to WYSO on Saturday, May 3, to be interviewed by WYSO Community Voices Producer Gerly Philidor.
They are performing at a fundraiser for the Haitian Community Help & Support Center tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the John Legend Theater in Springfield. Tickets are still available.
"The work that they're doing is so incredible," Brun said about the Haitian Community Help & Support Center. "And to have a resource that allows... people to find the support and advocacy and the ability to exist without having additional stress when it's already stressful enough being a legal immigrant in the country, I felt like myself as an immigrant as well, to be able to in any way help get the message out, that's my goal, that's why I do what I do as an artist, is to bring the beauty of our country to as many people as possible."
Viles Dorsainvil, the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Community Help & Support Center, James Pepitho Fleurijean, the board chairman for the Center, and Yola Lamarre, the program director of the Haitian Community Network in Columbus, also participated in this interview.
Note: The majority of this interview was conducted in Haitian Creole. An English transcription will be added to this page shortly.
Haitians in the Heartland est une émission produite par le Eichelberger Center for Community Voices de WYSO.
Haitians in the Heartland is produced at the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.
