Festival-goers in Port-au-Prince are turning out in force for the launch of the 18th edition of PapJazz, the Haitian capital's international jazz festival. "We can't just put up with what's happening to us. We also need to have moments of conviviality like this, moments of creation, moments of resistance," says Milena Sandler, the festival's general manager.
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00:00We can't just suffer, we can't just suffer what happens to us, we also have moments
00:14of conviviality like this one, moments of creation, moments of resistance.
00:30The art allows an opening, an opening to the world, an opening from another perspective,
00:47that is, there is confinement, and the art gives us the possibility to escape this confinement.
01:00I am Maestro Axon Fonfant.
01:07We are here to fight for the rights of our people.
01:27Cultures such as patrimoine cannot be objects of politics.
01:33We need to have a discussion on the politics of culture.
01:37We need to have a discussion on the politics of heritage.
01:40We need to have a discussion on the politics of culture.
01:45Culture expresses itself, regardless of the situation.
02:03We need to have a discussion on the politics of heritage.
02:07We need to have a discussion on the politics of culture.
02:10We need to have a discussion on the politics of heritage.