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Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) Promotes African Diaspora Culture

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in “El Barrio” East Harlem, preserves and promotes the culture of Mother Afrika and the African Diaspora.

Through November 2024, the CCCADI celebrates Haiti as the root of African Diaspora culture in the Caribbean and North America under the diasporic theme “Lakay se Lakay” (Home is Home).

Thank you for sponsoring African Diaspora culture!


CCCADI Afribembé Festival (Mirmoor/Dreamstime)

Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem

GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Byenveni Lakay se Lakey (Madjeen Isaac/CCCADI)

Byenveni “Lakay se Lakay” is a Haitian Diasporic Art Exhibition On the Idea that Home is Home at the CCCADI

CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI), “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹

"In the Valley of Coming Forth" (Dr. Herukhuti/CCCADI)

“In the Valley of Coming Forth” is an Afrofuturist Funk Ritual Play with Cosplay and a DJ After Party at Weeksville Heritage Center

WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇭🇹

Rhythm Bass and Place (Joe Conzo Jr/CCCADI)

Rhythm, Bass And Place: Through the Lens Photography Exhibition Shows Music & Dance as the Heartbeat of Latin New York at the CCCADI

CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

CCCADI Sou Sou Saturdays: Hip-Hop's Femme Pioneers

Sou Sou Saturdays Celebrates Hip-Hop’s Femme Pioneers with Your Family at CCCADI

CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇯🇲 🇵🇦 🇵🇷

CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit (Aleksanda Mijatovic/Dreamstime)

CCCADI Hurricane Fiona Puerto Rico Benefit Supports Caribbean Artists & Cultural Workers at City Winery

CITY WINERY, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇵🇷

More CCCADI

CCCADI News

AUGUST

Pan-African Street Fair

The CCCADI Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s Afribembé Festival presents Something Positive Dance Troupe, Kongo-Haitian Roots Music, KR3TS, DJ Sabine Blaizin, and MC Felipe Luciano; as part of Harlem Week “A Great Day in Harlem” celebration at Grant’s Tomb in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 11, 2024, from 4:30-6:30pm. FREE. cccadi.org


CCCADI Tickets

CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (courtesy)
CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (courtesy)

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI Firehouse)
120 East 125th St
(between Lexington & Park)
“El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan

Subways
(4)(5)(6) to 125th St
Walk 1/2 a block west towards the Park Avenue elevated train.

Social Media
X @cccadi
Instagram @cccadi
YouTube @CCCADImedia
Google Arts and Culture artsandculture.google.com

cccadi.org

Past Artists

These are some of the artists who have performed recently:

  • Dr. Herukhuti “In the Valley of Coming Forth” African American theatre 🇺🇸
  • Yasser Tejeda Afro-Dominican alternative. 🇩🇴

About the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute

CCCADI is a women-led organization, which is important because women are the guardians of human culture.

It is very well connected with New York City’s government and leading cultural institutions, and is training the next generation of cultural leaders.

As Caribbeans, the CCCADI is one of the places in New York that feels the most like home.

As one of New York City’s leading Afro-Caribbean organizations for over 40 years, the CCCADI deserves your support. In 2008, New York City government chose the CCCADI to develop the old East Harlem firehouse (1889) into a community cultural center.

In addition to their own cultural programs, CCCADI leaders helps program events at other New York institutions including the Lincoln Center summer festivals. When we have a Caribbean problem we can’t solve on our own, this is who we turn to. It’s a small organization, but their impact is huge.

As a Puerto Rican, this is the New York City institution that feels the most like home. It’s the only place we know that teaches Caribbean Lucumí (Yoruba) traditions in an institutional setting. Lucumí is the sum of many African Diaspora cultural traditions, and Indigenous Afro-Caribbean knowledge of plants.

If you want to connect with our ancestors, this is the place, a very special place. And it’s not only for Puerto Ricans. CCCADI represents the entire African Diaspora. ¡Aché!

Diferente ramas, la misma raíz.
Different branches, the same root.”

Traditional proverb

The CCCADI shares videos of many events on their website and YouTube channel: @CCCADImedia


Past Events

Venezuelan Salsa

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute presents Venezuelan salsa legends La Dimensión Latina “Now or Never Tour” at Summer for the City in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, July 28, 2024 with DJ Broadway at 6:30pm and a live set at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇻🇪

Haitian Flag Day Art Talk

BYENVENI Curatorial Talk celebrates Haitian Flag Day with Haitian American curator Yvena Despagne and some of the artists discussing the works in the “BYENVENI Lakay se Lakay” Haitian Diasporic art exhibition; at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, CCCADI Firehouse in “El Barrio” East Harlem; on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 1:30pm. 🇭🇹

Haitian Flag Day is important because it celebrates the union of Haitian Creoles and Africans in the fight for freedom. We are better together.

Haitian Wellness Retreat

Healing the Lakou (the communal Haitian home) is a Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) afternoon community wellness retreat with Haitian drum, yoga, dance, and storytelling traditions; at Gaia NoMaya in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn; on Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 12-6pm. FREE with registration. cccadi.org 🇭🇹

Lakou is the traditional communal family home in Haiti and the Caribbean where extended families live nearby, and help each other financially and with raising children.


Published August 6, 2024 ~ Updated August 29, 2024.

Filed Under: 2022, African, African American News, East Harlem, Haitian News, Manhattan Culture Venues, NYC Cultural Centers, Puerto Rican News

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