June 2012

Arieb Azhar rehearsal in Pakistan
Jun 15, 2012
Adrienne Petrillo
I'm so excited to watch Center StageSM artist Arieb Azhar perform this Tuesday, June 19 in Washington, DC, as he kicks off his month-long U.S. tour. Below, the singer-songwriter tells us where he ... Read more >>

January 2012

Jan 31, 2012
Adrienne Petrillo
What a year it has been!  Three foundations signed on to help meet the goals of Center Stage, we traveled to Haiti, Indonesia, and Pakistan to meet with the artists, and the tour planning is ... Read more >>

December 2011

Dec 15, 2011
U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Ambassador and Mrs. Kenneth Merten hosted the Center Stage program for Haiti at their residence. In 2012 Center Stage, funded by the Bureau of Educational and ... Read more >>

July 2011

Ayikodans
Jul 13, 2011
Kathryn Garcia
I grew up in Miami, a city with one of the largest Haitian populations in the US, but I’d never actually been to the country until recently. Over the years, I’d been exposed to a fair amount of ... Read more >>
Center Stage logo
Jul 12, 2011
Rebecca Blunk

Center StageSM Artists Announced Contemporary ensembles from Haiti, Indonesia and Pakistan will tour the U.S. in 2012
(Boston, MA – July 12, 2011) Sufi-rock bands from ...

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Jonathan Secor of MCLA
Jul 6, 2011
Jonathan Secor
Jean-René Delsoin's Dance company was magical.  The energy, the talent, the drive.
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June 2011

Haitian street gallery
Jun 30, 2011
Jonathan Secor
Port-au-Prince was such a contradiction of experiences.  This amazingly culturally rich city and country, in such an impoverished condition.  The richness of the music, the dance, the ... Read more >>
Haitian singer Emeline Michel
Jun 20, 2011
Rebecca Blunk
Our Haiti advance trip concluded just over a month ago, and I’m finally writing about it.   Here’s what kicked me into focus:  attending an amazing concert Thursday night in ... Read more >>
Compagnie de Danse Jean-René Delsoin
Jun 7, 2011
Courtney Reilly
The flight to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from the sleek, new American Airlines terminal at Miami International is just under two hours - not even enough time to get halfway through Graham Greene's The ... Read more >>

May 2011

Asad Jafri and Sundus Rasheed of City FM89
May 23, 2011
Asad Jafri
The Center Stage program was exciting as soon as I heard about it.  As the Director of Arts and Culture at IMAN (Inner-city Muslim Action Network), I have a profound interest in the ... Read more >>