Lakansyèl

Presented by Instigation Festival in Partnership with Cultural Ties Festival 

January 30 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Lower Depths Experimental Theatre
Loyola University, New Orleans

Lakansyèl (Haitian Kreyòl for “rainbow”) is a speculative performance collage inspired by Lumane Casimir, Haiti’s first female guitarist and a radiant, groundbreaking artist of the 1940s–50s. Through music, movement, voice, and image, Lakansyèl reimagines the cultural revolution that might have emerged had Lumane’s life not been cut short, where her brilliance and Black Caribbean imagination not only survived but flourished."Rooted in collective dreaming and radical imagination, the work reclaims freedom as an unfolding experiment, not a fixed prize. Through echoes of memory and flashes of futurism, it envisions a world where Black womanist resistance reverberates beyond time, and the future remains a space of possibility.