Category: ARTS & CULTURE
Cielo Latino 2009
Cielo Latino is the largest annual national fundraiser for the Latino community in its fight against HIV/AIDS. In its 14th year, Cielo Latino is a prominent and highly visible platform for leaders in business, government, entertainment and the media to support the fight against AIDS. Proceeds benefit the Latino Commission on AIDS.
Voices Speak the Truth with Susan Taylor, George C. Wolf, Tracee Ellis Ross and More
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Fresh — Screening and Panel Discussion
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, the Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, [...]
WorldofMoney.org Benefit
You’re Invited An Evening of Giving, Magic, Merriment & Dancing to benefit The 2009 Summer Youth Financial Education Training Institute.
Film Screening in Harlem — Behind Forgotten Eyes
Doc Watchers Inc., a member-supported documentary film screening series in Harlem continues its film series with Behind Forgotten Eyes. Synopsis: Behind Forgotten Eyes focuses on Korea during the Japanese Occupation when the Japanese military coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 Korean women into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery on an unimaginable [...]
A Look Back — Organic: Acoustic Diaries with Planet Ubiquity, PJ Morton, Yahzarah, and Jaguar Wright at SOBs
Organic: Acoustic Diaries MC Chinah Blac ***** Organic: Acoustic Diaries had a wallop of an artist listing at SOB’s last week. Â Planet Ubiquity — a live alternative hip-hop group who will rock you, PJ Morton — the storm before the calm, Yahzarah — the chocolate morsel with a voice like what and the headliner Jaguar [...]
SOB’s Brazilian Saturdays Presents Samba Soul — Darci Allstar, Berehanu Tezera Lafonte, Abby Lakew and Jossy
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Mama I Want to Sing — The Movie
The off-Broadway gospel stage musical Mama I Want To Sing! comes to the big screen this fall. The majority of the film has been made but filming will continue throughout Harlem during the month of May. The all star cast includes Ciara, Lynn Whitfield, Billy Zane, Hill Harper, Kim Porter, Ben Vereen, Patti LaBelle, Kevin [...]
Harlem Teen Rapper P-Star at the Tribeca Film Festval and Other Family Films
P-Star Rising is a film about the Harlem teen rapper P-Star. She also has a role in the Electric Company (2009 version). In the early ‘80s, Jesse Diaz was a rising star in the hip-hop world. Now he’s a broke single father living in a Harlem shelter with two children to support. But Jesse finally [...]
A La Mode Runway and Trunk Show at The Great Hall in Harlem
MMHighlights in collaboration with City College’s Blackout Squad Dance Team and Reynoir LLC, will be celebrating a new year of fashion with MMH: À La Mode. The three have come together to display the exceptional talents of designers, models and performers. MMHighlights fuses information dissemination with creative marketing tactics. Reynoir embodies old style fused with [...]
Tribeca Film Festival
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival is currently under way and will run until May 3. The Festival includes 85 features and 46 short films representing 36 different countries. In addition to the film line-up, there will also be an array of panel discussions, valuable networking opportunities for filmmakers and the film industry, gala premieres of [...]
Meet Spike Lee and Lee Daniels at the Tribeca Film Festival
Spike Lee, The Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor, writer, director, and producer will speak about Passing Strange, which brings the hit Broadway rock musical to the screen, and Kobe Doin’ Work, his documentary about Kobe Bryant. Both films screen at Tribeca Film Festival. Lee Daniels, A talented director (Shadowboxer) and producer (The Woodsman), Daniels [...]
