Thursday nights in Haiti's capital are synonymous with Yanvalou. At around 9pm, the artsy cafe and bar begins to swell with the city's in-crowd, be they UN workers, embassy types or local business owners. Some sip rum cocktails in the courtyard while others socialize by the bar. Eventually a Vodou folklore band shows up and everybody dances like crazy.
Yanvalou
Port-au-Prince & Around
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While most of Haiti’s artists are represented in the rarefied air of Pétionville’s galleries, a collective of sculptors and installation artists produces…
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