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A cultural association born in Lascahobas in 2014, driven by young university students and professionals.
Our story
Sant Kiltirèl Lawouze (SKL) was founded in 2014 in Lascahobas by a group of young university students and professionals. Its mission: to promote books and culture, and to give the community a space for leisure, exchange and learning.
Over the years, the center has carried literature far beyond its walls. The Goûter Littéraire festival has traveled across the Central Plateau: in 2020, « Fanm yo defile lespri limyè a » brought together audiences in Lascahobas, Mirebalais, Péligre and Cange; in 2022, the edition dedicated to Marie Vieux-Chauvet reached Belladère and Boucan-Carré. Voices such as Evelyne Trouillot, Yanick Lahens and Georges Eddy Lucien came to meet the students. With FOKAL and the Association 4 Chemins, the Lekòl Nou project brought « Se pa sèl kou ki fè mal », a play by Evelyne Trouillot performed by the center's troupe, to schools across the Central Plateau. Training on feminism and civic engagement, talks and debates, workshops: at every gathering, SKL holds the same conviction, that an open book can change a life.
Today, the center runs seven regular activities and organizes the Goûter Littéraire every year, bringing together students and figures from the Haitian literary and artistic world.
Discover our activitiesRead together
Create literary groups that spark a dynamic of exchange and learning.
Reveal talent
Organize cultural activities that support young people as they develop their talents.
Train and support
Offer training for young people and children, and support schools in their educational work.
Manifesto
We are young people from Lascahobas who believe in the power of books.
We are readers, artists, teachers and curious minds.
Here, every child has the right to a story.
Here, we read aloud, we play, we debate, we create.
Here, culture is shared like a meal: ansanm, together.
Lawouze, c'est nous.
The executive committee
Abydarlyne JouthFounder and general coordinator
Junior Jackson RamilDelegate, director of the Bibliyotèk Issa Fatiman
Edouard EspéranceSecretary general, communications officer
Partnership projects
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