nan ki lang? - a writing workshop with Kreyolizasyon

​About the workshop:

​In this writing workshop, we'll explore the worlds we create with the languages we do and do not know. How do these languages — the mother tongue we lost, and the tongue we're forced to carry — shape our knowledge of life, death + grief? We're inviting guests to interrogate (with curiosity) how language either expands or constricts our understanding and realities around grief and death.

​Whereas Haitian Kreyòl has the potential to be more fluid than English, which can be (and is becoming more) technical, how might this difference show up in how we navigate life? How might we use both tongues to create realities more inclusive of our full being? What words/languages do we need to preserve, get rid of, gate-keep, or continue to develop? Guests are invited to come and play/write words, codes, symbols, poems, etc. that speak to their realities.

​About the workshop series:

​nan ki lang? is part of Bo’s community focused art project, anvan ou bliye//before it's too late... This project seeks to (re)discover our relationships to, and with, death, transitions and grief, ultimately asking and answering, what does death and grief look like outside of, and in no regards to, the oppressive systems we wish to liberate ourselves from?

​Nourishing food and beverages to replenish us as we go through this journey are provided by Spark.

​This project is presented as part of Bo's 2025 Lakou NOU artist residency project with Haiti Cultural Exchange. The Lakou NOU Artist-in-Residence program provides artists of Haitian descent the opportunity to create and present new work and connect to historic Brooklyn neighborhoods, home to generations of Haitians and Haitian-Americans.

​About your hosts:

​Bo (she/her) of Cxlture Vxlture

​Bo moves freely between writing, critique, strategy, research, and embodied practices. Cxlture Vxlture is her explorative and speculative practice that focuses on communications importance in reality creation.

​Jinyò Duplessis (he/him) of Kreyolizasyon

​Jinyò fèt Pòtoprens, Ayiti epi l grandi nan rejyon Platosantral la bò vil Mibalè nan yon katye ki rele Devarye. Li te kreye Kreyolizasyon kòm yon espas pou l jwe a lang Kreyòl la. //Jinyò Duplessis is a Haitian poet and writer whose work explores the dynamism of Haitian culture that colonialism often tries to control, diminish, and subjugate. He created Kreyolizasyon to promote, explore, and play with the Haitian Kreyòl language.