In this series of DJ sets, Haitian electronic musicians blend traditional Haitian music forms with contemporary rhythms as the sun sets in celebration of the Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires exhibition.

Val Jeanty also known as Val-Inc is a Haitian Afrofuturist, drummer, turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music. Jeanty is a pioneer of the electronic music sub-genre called Afro- Electronica or Vodou-Electro, incorporating Haitian Folkloric rhythms with digital instrumentations by synergistically combining acoustics with electronics thus the archaic with the postmodern. Jeanty’s Afro-Electronica performances have been showcased at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and internationally at the Venice Biennale in Italy and the House of the World’s Cultures Museum in Berlin. Jeanty is the recipient of various grants and fellowships including the 2017 Van Lier Grant, the NYSCA/Roulette 2019 Residency Grant, the 2022 NYU/CBA Toulmin and the 2024 United States Artists Fellowship.

Free. Bring a picnic and a blanket. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. Rain moves the performance to the Clark Center lower level.