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This film will be presented by
Betsabee Haas, France/Haiti

Betsabee Haas of French origin, is an opera singer.
She studied with Madame Cahn in Paris before leaving for Great Britain to study with Janet Price. In June 2000, she received her singing diploma from the Royal Academy of London.
She has sung the parts of Belinda in Dido et Eneas (Purcell) at St James's Piccadilly, Cléofide in Poro, Ré dell'Indie (Handel), Iphigenia in Oreste (Haendel) at Covent Garden for the London Bach Festival, Elisa in Il Re Pastore (Mozart) for the Brighton Festival, Amore in La virtu de'strali d'amore (Cavalli) at the Festival of Beaune and Euridice in a European tour of l'Orfeo (Monteverdi) directed by Gabriel Garrido (Opera de Lyon, Theater de San Sebastian).  In partnership with pianist Rob Gurvits, she made her Atlantic debut in Hamilton and Toronto (Canada), and they performed at the Festival de Saint Riquier, Royaumont and Saint James' Piccadilly. 

Bonjour la Rézoné 

Elsie Haas and Nixon Amilcar. Haiti/France, 2004, 65 mins, French and Creole with English subtitles. 

(in French, “Bonjour la maisonnée”) is the greeting that echoes from house to house on New Year's Day, the day when Haiti proclaimed independence from France in 1804. New Year's Day is also the time for drinking pumpkin soup (soup joumou), a delicacy that had been reserved for the enslavers before the Haitian Revolution. Why do Haitians drink soup joumou on January 1? Why is the image of Haiti systematically demonized? These two apparently unrelated questions are indeed connected as this voyage into the heart of the Haitian New Year celebrations in Paris shows.  

 

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