Culture

As 2025 ended and Haitians prepared to mark the 222nd anniversary of independence on January 1, 2026 with the traditional

The feast day of Notre-Dame de l’Assomption on August 15, 2025 was observed with a solemn mass at the Cap-Haïtien

Vodou communities across Haiti organized special healing ceremonies in 2023 that addressed the collective trauma of a nation experiencing what

Haiti’s artistic community continued to produce work that bore witness to the country’s crisis in 2023, with painters, writers, photographers,

The day after independence day in Haiti brought a return to the grim realities of 2023, as the warmth of

Haitians marked the 219th anniversary of independence on January 1, 2023 with the traditional consumption of soup joumou — the

Haiti’s national Carnival celebration was cancelled in 2022 for the second consecutive year, with the security situation making the large

Haiti celebrated the new year with news that UNESCO had formally inscribed soup joumou on its Representative List of the

Christmas Eve 2021 arrived in Haiti at the end of what had been, by any measure, one of the worst

Haitian Creole received expanded international recognition in 2021 as global interest in linguistic diversity and the rights of language communities