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Harlem Week Events for Saturday and Sunday
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th, 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM “Summer in the City” Part I • 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM NY City “Children’s Festival” On W.135th St. btwn. Malcolm X & A.C. Powell Jr. Blvds. Featuring Excerpts from Disney musicals, games, arts & crafts, live music and dance, healthy eating and living exhibits, open houses [...]
Film: Freedom Riders
Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s latest documentary FREEDOM RIDERS, is the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for simply traveling together on buses [...]
FILM: Neshoba — The Price of Freedom
It was June 1964, the beginning of the Freedom Summer — the height of the Civil Rights movement — when a mob of Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi murdered three civil rights workers: two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi. It took 41 years for the state to convict one man, Edgar [...]
Harlem Pride Invites You to Fire Island Black Out
The mission of Harlem Pride is to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Same Gender Loving pride in Harlem and to provide opportunities for networking and communication among its LGBT and SGL organizations and community members. This weekend, they invite the Harlem community to join them at The Fire Island Black Out (FIBO) and is [...]
Triumph Group and Three Kings Party at Element Night Club
Join Triumph and threeKINGS for “Next Chapter” as they celebrate new beginnings, career transitions and progression of life. Join them as they take over downtown at Element Night Club. 2 Floors of Partying 2 DJ’s Ladies Free w RSVP B4 11:30pm Guys Reduced Table Service Available (First Come First Serve Basis) Special Bday Celebration for [...]
Angela Johnson “On the Sofa with Joseph Riley Land” at Billie’s Black in Harlem
(click here to view details) You’re invited to attend the launch of “On the sofa with Joseph Riley Land.” The event, co-sponsored by Billie’s Black (where it will take place) and Pollen Nation, will be an Oprah-style sit down interview with renowned entertainer Angela Johnson. This will be part listening party, part interview, so come [...]
Rooftop Film: Waste Land at Museo del Barrio in Harlem
Lucy Walker’s Sundance award winning documentary Waste Land follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who has pieces in museums worldwide (including El Museo del Barrio), on this daring project. Arriving at a landfill, Muniz discovers that the workers are welcoming, engaging, bright people. One man has opened a library using the discarded books he’s found, while [...]
New York Urban League Young Professionals Back to School Fundraiser
Join the New York Urban League Young Professionals and Share and Share Alike in support of their 5th Annual Back to School supplies drive. For more info and to RSVP, click here. Can’t attend but still want to donate? Visit them at www.nyul.org/backpack
Black Girl Project — Film Screening and Discussion
Brooklyn-based educator and filmmaker, Aiesha Turman, will screen her first feature, The Black Girl Project at the Spike Lee Screening Room on the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. “In a culture where Black women and girls are either praised for their saintly accomplishments, stripping them of any other character except that of a martyr [...]
The Speakeasy at 1220 Fifth Avenue in Harlem
The Museum of the City of New York presents The Speakeasy at 1220 Fifth Avenue on Wednesday nights, 6 – 9 p.m. until the end of August. Enjoy cocktails on the Fifth Avenue terrace and a special installation on the fictional 1920s character “Flapper Jane.” Visitors will be treated to tours of current exhibitions. Admission [...]
The Public Theater Presents The Capeman
Originally on Broadway in 1998, Paul Simon’s musical THE CAPEMAN tells the true story of a Nuyorican street gang member, Salvador Agrón, whose story exploded on to the front pages of the tabloids in 1959, ultimately revealing the cultural and racial tensions beneath the surface of New York in that era. THE CAPEMAN’s score is [...]
New Urban Events Around Harlem and Around NYC — August 1, 2010
[Aug 5] The1209affair.com Presents George C. Fraser
ArtCrawl Harlem
While the glory days of Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence and countless others have come and gone, Harlem is once again experiencing an arts renaissance. With a respectful nod to artists of the original Harlem Renaissance and “props” to contemporary Harlem artists, Jacqueline of Taste Harlem Food & Cultural Tours and Averlyn of Canvas [...]
New Urban Events Around Harlem and Around NYC — July 31, 2010
[Aug 5] Harlem Week Economic Development Day
New Urban Events Around Harlem and Around NYC — July 29, 2010
[Jul 31] Harlem Week — Relieve The Stress Morning Exercise
New Urban Events Around Harlem and Around NYC — July 26, 2010
[Jul 29] The Metropolitan Opera: Summer Recital Series in Harlem
