Arts
Contemporary Caribbean artists will bring awareness of Haiti's financial and educational struggles to Hanover this week as part of the inaugural Porter Foundation Symposium, which kicks off today.
The conference, titled "Haiti and Dartmouth at the Crossroads," will bring together working Haitian artists with businessmen, healthcare specialists and government officials, including former Haiti prime minister Michele Pierre-Louis, to generate new initiatives to assist Haiti's efforts to recover from the devastation of the 2010 earthquake.
The three-day symposium will feature interdisciplinary projects in education, healthcare and economic development, according to Amita Kulkarni '10, a conference coordinator and presidential fellow in global health at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science.
The event intends to underscore the role that institutions of higher education can play in Haiti's reconstruction.
"It's been over three years since the earthquake but there is still a lot of work to be done," Jack Wilson, studio art professor and a conference coordinator, said.