Out of Focus
Leonore Mau and Haiti. An exhibition by U5
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Reading Kettly Mars on Haiti from the 1970s onwards
When:
Fri, January 16, 2026, 7.30pm– 8.30pm
Free admission
Duration:
approx. 1 hour
What else:
No registration is required.
The event will be held in English.
When:
Fri, January 16, 2026, 7.30pm– 8.30pm
Free admission
Duration:
approx. 1 hour
What else:
No registration is required.
The event will be held in English.
Kettly Mars will read excerpts from several of her books set in Haiti in the 1970s and the present day. The reading will take place via Zoom and will be broadcast in the event room.
About Kettly Mars
Kettly Mars is an award-winning author, poet and short story writer from Haiti. She writes in French and Kreyòl. Her novels explore issues of gender relations and class in relation to the violence of power, spiritual heritage and decolonisation, which are central to her country's present and future. Mars' work has been translated into English, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Spanish, Croatian, Danish and Arabic. She works as a freelance creative writing teacher and has more than twenty years of experience teaching at secondary school and university level in her home country. Since moving to Florida in 2021, Kettly has been teaching creative writing to students aged 65 to 80 at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Florida Atlantic University.
Programme on 16 January 2026
5.30–6.30 p.m. Relational Viewing with Nathalie David, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Dora Imhof and U5
7.30 p.m. Reading with Kettly Mars
8.30 p.m. Film screening Nathalie David, "Diese Photographin heißt Leonore Mau" (2005)
In the context of the exhibition
Out of Focus
