INDEPENDENT LENS

WHEN THE DRUM IS BEATING

THURSDAY, APRIL 12 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

When the Drum is Beatinginterweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional’s six decades of creativity with the history of Haiti. How did the country go from being the first free black republic with a huge wealth of natural resources to a shattered nation unable to support its citizens? How did the hope created by the rise of Jean Bertrand Aristide and the despair that followed the coup that drove him from power contribute to the inevitability of the January 2010 earthquake’s horrific death toll?

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