Black Arts Movement: Examined

Diverse Artists. Transformative Art

FROM THE ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC

DIRECTOR/ CURATOR-IN-RESIDENCE

Over the course of the 2022/2023 Season, Harlem Stage examines the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s to the 1970s, and its relationship to race, gender, sexuality, music, photography, film, poetry, theater, and dance, as well as its intersectionality with the larger Black Power Movement. Harlem Stage also intends to raise key questions that remain relevant to artistic production: what is the relationship between art and politics and what is the role of the politically conscious artist?

Harlem Stage will convene seven programs, culminating in a spring conference and concert, paying tribute to the groundbreaking writers, poets, visual artists, musicians, and intellectuals who attempted to situate their work within the political, economic, social, historical, and artistic context of Black Americans. Employing roundtables, public dialogues, and screenings, Harlem Stage also intends to explore controversial areas of tension between the intellectual, ethical, and commercial imperatives of the Black Arts Movement, its scholarship, and the professional demands many of its leaders (given the constraints, and disparate doctrinal paths of debate, within its institutional academy) imposed upon artists, and whether or not the Black Arts Movement’s libertarian, racism-countering goals were ever truly achieved.

Employing “conversations” between highly esteemed sovereigns of the Black Arts Movement and a contemporary generation of artists, Black Arts Movement: Examined centers itself within a dialogue that is both historically and culturally relevant in the ever-changing present world.

Carl Hancock Rux Associate Artistic Director/Curator-in-Residence

Photo (left) by Kwame Brathwaite. Photo of Carl Hancock Rux by Felicia Megginson.

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CEO

When Carl Hancock Rux and I first started discussing his joining the staff of Harlem Stage as our Associate Artistic Director and Curator-in-Residence, our conversations centered on how a practicing artist with an active career would be able to adjust to the various responsibilities associated with the running of an arts organization. More significantly we talked about curatorial processes involving the design and implementation of our programs within the context of a team. Even before we sealed the deal for his engagement, made possible through the generosity of the Mellon Foundation, Carl, who had presented his art at Harlem Stage for over 30 years, was brimming with ideas. Certainly something that I should have expected, but when one of his many ideas was to propose a yearlong series of programs examining the Black Arts Movement, I was deeply moved and inspired.

Essentially, I cut my teeth in performance and administration as a participant in the Black Arts Movement almost accidentally as the young partner of the artist, Emilio Cruz, who reluctantly left a career in the NY art world to join the Black Arts Group (BAG) in St. Louis. It was life-changing in many unexpected ways. We were suddenly in the center of an amazing group of artists and activists who mixed their dedication to creative work with the idea of building and transforming community, confronting the social and political strictures that reinforced racist oppression. In part as a response to the Civil Rights movement of the ’60s, we marched, we protested, and we created art meant to respond to and challenge the status quo. Carl and I spent many hours discussing the parallels between those times 50 years ago to the police killings of Black men, women, and children and the continued oppression that inspires the Black Lives Matter movement of today. The ultimate parallel is the creative response of contemporary artists, looking back and creating forward.

Cycles abound sometimes more quickly than we can record or absorb. The point of the series that Carl has conceived, and programmed collaboratively with myself, Managing Director Eric Oberstein, and Programming Manager Yunie Mojica, is not only to absorb, but it is also to examine, to expand our understanding, to learn from the past through the lens of transformative art. As an organization that sits proudly at the intersection of art and social justice, this examination of an arts movement born out of resistance exemplifies the mission of Harlem Stage. I hope that you will join us and participate with us in this examination.

Director & CEO

Artistic

4 Photos (bottom left and top) by Kwame Brathwaite. Photo of Pat Cruz courtesy of The HistoryMakers.

ABOUT US

Harlem Stage is the performing arts center that bridges Harlem’s cultural legacy to contemporary artists of color and dares to provide the artistic freedom that gives birth to new ideas.

For nearly 40 years Harlem Stage has stood proudly at the intersection of art and social justice with a singular mission to perpetuate and celebrate the unique and diverse artistic legacy of Harlem and the indelible impression it has made on American culture. We provide opportunity, commissioning, and support for artists of color, make performances easily accessible to all audiences, and introduce children to the rich diversity, excitement, and inspiration of the performing arts.

We fulfill our mission through commissioning, incubating, and presenting innovative and vital work that responds to the historical and contemporary conditions that shape our lives and the communities we serve.

With a long-standing tradition of supporting artists and organizations around the corner and across the globe, Harlem Stage boasts such legendary artists as Harry Belafonte, Max Roach, Sekou Sundiata, Abbey Lincoln,

Sonia Sanchez, Eddie Palmieri, Maya Angelou, and Tito Puente, as well as contemporary artists like Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh, Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Tamar-kali, Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jason Moran, José James, Craig Harris, Nona Hendryx, Bill T. Jones, and more. Our education programs serve over 2,300 New York City school children each year.

The New York Times has hailed Harlem Stage as “an invaluable incubator of talent” and we have been recognized as an organization still unafraid to take risks. Our investment in this visionary talent is often rewarded in the early stages of many artists’ careers and we proudly celebrate their increasing success. Five members of our artist family have joined the ranks of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship awardees: Kyle Abraham (2013), Vijay Iyer (2013), Jason Moran (2010), Bill T. Jones (1994), and Cecil Taylor (1991).

Harlem Stage is a winner of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ William Dawson Award for Programming Excellence and Sustained Achievement in Programming.

CALENDAR

FRI – SAT, OCTOBER 14 – 15

7:30PM | $25 / 15

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Pat Cruz & Carl Hancock Rux

In Conversation featuring a performance of a work-in-progress by The FHP Collective

FRI, NOVEMBER 11

7:30PM | $25 / $15

PART II: FILM

Dutchman Film & Conversation

Presented in collaboration with Maysles Documentary Center

FRI – SAT, JANUARY 27 – 28

7:30PM | $35 / $25

PART III: POETRY

Music & Poetry: Thulani Davis + Wadada Leo Smith

FRI – SAT, FEBRUARY 24 – 25

7:30PM | $35 / $25

PART IV: MUSIC

Max Roach’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite Reimagined feat. Michela Marino Lerman

FRI – SAT, MARCH 24

7:30PM | $25 / $15

PART V: THEATER

Excerpts, Readings, and Conversation

Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy

THU – SAT, APRIL 13 – 15

7:30PM | $35 / $25

PART VI: DANCE

E-MOVES

Our signature dance series presenting works inspired by the Black Arts Movement.

THU – SAT, MAY 18 – 20 | 7:30PM

PART VII: BLACK ARTS

MOVEMENT: THEN AND NOW CONFERENCE

The Black Arts Movement Conference is a three-day event featuring panels, discussions, essays, and performances that reflect, examine, and point to the full experience and culture of the Black Arts Movement, culminating in a concert curated by Vernon Reid.

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The Black Arts Movement: Examined series and conference have been made possible by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Photo by Kwame Brathwaite

Photos of Pat Cruz and Carl Hancock Rux by Marc Millman

FRI – SAT, OCT 14 – 15 | 7:30PM | $25 / $15

HARLEM STAGE GATEHOUSE LIVE

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART I: INTRODUCTION

PAT CRUZ & CARL HANCOCK RUX IN CONVERSATION FEATURING THE FHP COLLECTIVE

The Black Arts Movement was a cultural movement in the 1960s to 1970s that was rooted in music, literature, drama, and visual arts, led by Black artists, activists, and intellectuals. This was the cultural intersection that moved and shaped the ideologies of Black identity, political beliefs, and African American culture.

In this introduction of the Harlem Stage series Black Arts Movement: Examined, Harlem Stage Artistic Director & CEO, Pat Cruz, and Associate Artistic Director/Curatorin-Residence, Carl Hancock Rux, discuss, examine, and dive into the importance of the movement and the inspiration and meaning behind this curated series. Exploring its profound and innovative successes, this dialogue also turns a critical eye toward the movement’s exclusionary principles, which managed to alienate a Black and White mainstream culture.

In this conversation, led by Cruz, a representative of artists who worked and lived through the era of the Black Arts Movement; and Rux, representing one of many present-day artists and activists who worked

closely with the Black Lives Matter Movement; audience members are invited into a forum of discussion, inviting commentary and questions, attempting to reawaken a critical discourse regarding black aesthetics, while challenging, clarifying, contextualizing, and questioning the evolution and legacy of a controversial arts movement and its impact on Black arts institutions today.

Following a brief intermission, The FHP Collective, dance company of internationally acclaimed dancer/ choreographer Francesca Harper, will perform a work-in-progress showing of a new work that responds to themes of racial justice and accountability.

The new work performed by The FHP Collective is supported by Works & Process’ LaunchPAD initiative, described as “Process as a Destination.”

FRI, NOV 11 | 7:30PM | $25 / $15

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART II: FILM DUTCHMAN FILM & CONVERSATION

Presented in collaboration with Maysles Documentary Center, Harlem Stage presents the film, Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka, which is based on his 1964 OBIE Awardwinning one act play of the same name that originally premiered at The Cherry Lane Theater. Following the screening, Harlem Stage Artistic Director & CEO Pat Cruz will speak with writer, poet, and Black Arts Movement artist David Henderson about the film.

Having a profound effect on theatergoers and critics, Baraka’s play, Dutchman, was adapted as a British film in 1967, produced by Gene Persson; directed by first-time director, Anthony Harvey (Academy Award nominee for his direction of the historical drama, The Lion In Winter); and starring acclaimed actor, Al Freeman, Jr., and two-time Academy Award-nominated actress, Shirley Knight.

Dutchman addresses interracial tension, sociopolitical awareness, and the relevance of African history and culture to blacks in the United States.

Described by The New York Times,

the play is “designed to shock with its language and its murderous rage… an explosion of hatred rather than a play. It puts into the mouth of its principal Negro character a scathing denunciation of all the white man’s good works, pretentions, and condescensions, proclaiming it bespeaks a promising, unsettling talent.” Widely recognized as Baraka’s greatest work in any genre, Dutchman, in both its thematic emphasis and dramatic structure, combines avant-garde rituals of irony, emotional power, and social insight; a commentary on a clash between characters from divergent social and philosophical backgrounds, both commenting on the internal divisions of individuals in American society, and both culminating in acts of violence that are at once realistic and symbolic.

Photo of Thulani Davis by Jermaine Jackson, Jr. Photo of Wadada Leo Smith by Jimmy Katz.

FRI – SAT, JAN 27 – 28 | 7:30PM | $35 / $25

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART III: POETRY

MUSIC & POETRY: THULANI DAVIS + WADADA LEO SMITH

Playwright, journalist, librettist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter

Thulani Davis and trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Wadada Leo Smith, a frequent collaborator and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musician and composer, perform an evening of poetry and music alongside Smith’s Kikuyu Ensemble, engaging with Davis’ works, Nothing But the Music and The Emancipation Circuit

Davis, an interdisciplinary scholar, mentored artists including journalist Greg Tate, and collaborated with artists including Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, and Ntozake Shangé. She also wrote for The Village Voice for more than a decade, becoming a Senior Editor for the publication. Davis is one of several women poets connected to the Black Arts Movement, whose work continues to breathe impressionistic life into the Black Arts Movement’s sonic-social history.

For the last five decades, Smith has been a member of the historical and legendary AACM collective, one of the pioneering ensembles of the Black Arts Movement. He distinctly defines his music as “Creative Music,” and his diverse discography reveals a recorded history centered around important issues that have impacted his world. Smith is a recipient of the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and the Hammer Museum’s 2016 Mohn Career Achievement Award.

PERSONNEL

Thulani Davis, Poetry/Words

Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet

Ashley Walters, Cello

Erica Dohi, Violin

Pheeroan akLaff, Drums

Photo by Kwame Brathwaite

HARLEM STAGE GATEHOUSE LIVE

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART IV: MUSIC

MAX ROACH’S WE INSIST! FREEDOM NOW SUITE REIMAGINED FEAT. MICHELA MARINO LERMAN

As part IV of the Harlem Stage series Black Arts Movement: Examined, Harlem Stage presents tap dancer, Michela Marino Lerman’s Love Movement, who will perform and re-imagine Max Roach’s groundbreaking 1960 album, We Insist! Freedom Now Suite.

In 1959, acclaimed jazz musician, Max Roach, embarked upon a collaboration with singer and poet, Oscar Brown, Jr., on a suite of songs commissioned by the youth movement of the NAACP to commemorate the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. What resulted, We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, marked a decisive shift challenging jazz music conventions, as its sentiments conveyed a growing impatience with the lagging pace of the American civil rights movement, and demanded a turn toward global anticolonialism. Released on Candid Records in 1960, featuring Roach, and singer Abbey Lincoln, and a host of noted musicians, the music quickly became a global phenomenon.

Winner of the 2019 Hoofer Award, Michela Marino Lerman is a globally sought after tap dance artist,

performer, choreographer, bandleader, educator, and all-around creative spirit. The Huffington Post has called her a “hurricane of rhythm” and The New York Times has called her both a “prodigy” and has described her dancing as “flashes of brilliance.” Quincy Jones has said she is an “absolute tap dancing star who knows her roots.” She was proudly mentored by some of the masters of tap dance including Gregory Hines, Buster Brown, Leroy Myers, Peg Leg Bates, Marion Coles, and Mable Lee. Love Movement, Marino Lerman’s ensemble, is a hybrid of the highest levels of musicianship and hoofing. At Harlem Stage, Marino Lerman pays tribute to this groundbreaking album, selected in 2022 by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Photo Credit: Marc Millman

Photos by Kwame Brathwaite

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Photo Credit: Danny Clinch 17 Photo by Marc Millman

FRI – SAT, MAR 24 | 7:30PM | $25 / $15

FRI, FEB 11–SAT FEB 12 | 7:30PM | $35/25

HARLEM STAGE GATEHOUSE LIVE

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART V: THEATER EXCERPTS, READINGS, AND CONVERSATION

FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO BY

Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy was a seminal play written during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It represented a radical departure from the naturalistic theater of the time and provided performance opportunities for a long list of actors who became the iconic talents of the decades that followed. Readings and excerpts of this groundbreaking work will be presented at Harlem Stage, preceded by a conversation with Associate Artistic Director/Curatorin-Residence Carl Hancock Rux, providing further context on the impact of the work and its relationship to the Black Arts Movement.

ADRIENNE KENNEDY

Funnyhouse of a Negro is a modern classic about the student Sarah, a young Black woman living in New York City, and her search for her identity in a very complex, warring, and fractured world. This search is manifested in her many selves: Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba, and Jesus Christ. Performed by colleges worldwide, this landmark play speaks to students trying to find a place in the world. Funnyhouse of a Negro was first presented Off-Broadway at the East End Theater in New York City on January 14, 1964.

- [ ] Funnyhouse of a Negro is a modern classic about the student Sarah, a young Black woman living in New York City, and her search for her identity in a very complex, warring, and fractured world. This search is manifested in her many selves: Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba, and Jesus Christ. Performed by colleges worldwide, this landmark play speaks to students trying to find a Funnyhouse of a Negro was first presented Off-Broadway at the East End Theater in New York City on January 14, 1964.

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Photo by Marc Millman

THU – SAT, APR 13 – 15 | 7:30PM | $35 / $25

FRI, FEB 11–SAT FEB 12 | 7:30PM | $35/25

HARLEM STAGE GATEHOUSE LIVE

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART VI: DANCE E-MOVES

For over 20 years, Harlem Stage’s signature dance series, E-Moves, has brought together phenomenal choreographers, artists, musicians, and dancers of color to showcase their choreographic visions and pull audiences into an exploration of movement and message. The Black Arts Movement: Examined series inspires this year’s program and will feature works in conversation with the Black Arts Movement. Join us for an evening showcasing emerging, evolving, and established choreographers responding to the legacy of the past while creating dances that lean into the future.

Supported, in part, by the Mellon Foundation, the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Photo Credit: Andrew Lepley

FRI, FEB 11–SAT FEB 12 | 7:30PM | $35/25

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART VII: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: THEN AND NOW CONFERENCE

Inspired, imagined, and curated by Harlem Stage Associate Artistic Director/Artist-in-Residence, Carl Hancock Rux, the Black Arts Movement Conference is a threeday event featuring a keynote address by poet, music critic, and arts administrator A.B. Spellman, panels, discussions, essays, and performances, including a closingnight concert co-presented with Park Avenue Armory, curated by guitarist and songwriter Vernon Reid, that reflect, examine, and point to the full experience and culture of the Black Arts Movement.

Employing roundtables, public dialogues, and screenings, the convening will explore controversial

areas of tension between the intellectual, ethical, and commercial imperatives of the Black Arts Movement. In conversations between pioneers of the Black Arts Movement and a contemporary generation of artists and scholars, the Black Arts Movement Conference centers itself within a dialogue that is both historically and culturally relevant in our ever-changing world.

Full lineup & schedule to be announced soon!

Photo Credit: Robert Adam Mayer

THE HARLEM STAGE FAMILY OF SUPPORTERS

The SHS Foundation

Other significant institutional support provided by the Thompson Family Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Leonard & Robert Weintraub Family Fund.

JoAnn Chase Company

THE HARLEM STAGE FAMILY OF SUPPORTERS

Harlem Stage deeply appreciates the many individuals and institutions that provide their generous support, making our programs possible. We are pleased to recognize the following contributors for their donation of $1,000 or more:

ENDOWMENT

Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

Leonard and Sophie Davis Estate

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

PUBLIC SOURCES

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine

Mayor Eric Adams

Department of Cultural Affairs and Commissioner Laurie Cumbo

New York City Council

New York State Council on the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

Consulate General of Sweden

The Embassy of Sweden

Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone

FOUNDATIONS

Altman Foundation

Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.

Association of Performing Arts Professionals

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Capozzalo Heil Giving Fund

Cheswatyr Foundation

Citi Foundation

Columbia Community Service

Joseph and Joan Cullman

Foundation for the Arts

Davis/Dauray Family Fund

Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

The Ford Foundation

The Howard Gilman Foundation

The Harkness Foundation for Dance

Jerome Foundation

Lambent Foundation/Tides Foundation

The Leonard & Robert Weintraub Family Fund

Lucille Lortel Foundation

Mellon Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Metzger-Price Fund

Mid-Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience Fund

Mosaic Network and Fund

New Music USA

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Open Society Foundations

May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation

The Scherman Foundation, Inc.

SHS Foundation

The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

The David and Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund, Inc.

The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc.

CORPORATIONS

ABC Signature

BET Networks

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aid

JoAnn Chase Company

Consolidated Edison Company

Endeavor

Gluck Plus

Janus Properties

Manhattan Beer Distributors

Paula Cooper Gallery

SESAC, Inc.

TD Bank

UTA—United Talent Agency

Vision Marketing, Inc.

WABC-TV

Warner Bros. Discovery

West Harlem Development Corporation

Vision Marketing

WABC-TV

INDIVIDUALS

Rosemarie and Burnside Anderson

Tracy L. Austin

Neal Baer

Catherine Baker-Pitts

Stefany and Simon Bergson

Angela Glover Blackwell* and Fred Blackwell

Esi Bracey

Jamila* and Alvin Bragg

Bill Bragin

Jamie Cannon*

Patty and Bill Cannon

Kathleen and Henry Chalfant

JoAnn K. Chase*

Kinshasha Holman Conwill

Caroline and Paul Cronson

Patricia Cruz*

Hugh Dancy* and Claire Danes*

Wendy Davies

Winfred Dooley

Angelina Fiordellisi and Matt Williams

Neil Gaiman

Trevor Gale

Alex Gansa

Fernando Garcia

Stuart Gelwarg and Karen Lipkind

Myrna and Freddie Gershon

Gail Gregg

Agnes Gund

Michael Haggen

Lisa Hakim

Maya L. Harris and Tony West

Mitchell Harris and Ilham Mezyan

Mari Hashasian

John Josephson and Carolina Zapf

Jenette Kahn* and Al Williams

Michael Kenny

Steven Kirkpatrick

Brad Learmonth and Jon Gilman

Steve Levine

Courtney F. Lee-Mitchell* and Marcus Mitchell

Glenn Ligon

Carey Lovelace

Allison and Howard Lutnick

Marcia and Maurice Lyons

Mickey Lyons

Marilu Marshall

Edward McBrien

Sherman and Chris Meloni

Jonas Norr

Martin Noxon

Ryan Scott Oliver

Daniel Oliverio

Daniel J. Osheyack

Estelle Parsons and Peter Zimroth

Marguerite Pitts

Maxine and John Potts

Sharon and Bob Prince

Rebecca Robertson*

Judith Rubin

LaChanze Sapp-Gooding*

Edward W. Snowdon Jr.

L. Josh Schmell

Robyn L. Stein

David Stone

Elizabeth Streb and Laura Flanders

Jordan Thaler

Mark Thomas*

Jennifer and Derek Trulson

Tamara Tunie*

Reginald Van Lee and Corey L. McCathern

Fran and Barry Weissler

Katy and Greg Williamson

Carol Wood Moore

Michael A. Young*

*Board Members

As of September 1, 2022, the list is in formation. Donations under $1,000 are greatly appreciated, but not acknowledged publicly.

If your name has been omitted or misprinted, please accept our apologies and contact Associate Director of Development, Shante Skyers at sskyers@harlemstage.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Courtney F. Lee-Mitchell, President

Jamie Cannon, Vice President

Michael Young, Secretary

Mark Thomas, Treasurer

Angela Glover Blackwell

Jenna Bond

Jamila Ponton Bragg

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Patricia Cruz, Artistic Director & CEO

MANAGEMENT

Eric Oberstein, Managing Director

DEVELOPMENT

Shamar Hill, Director of Development

Shanté Skyers, Associate Director of Development

PROGRAMMING

Carl Hancock Rux, Associate Artistic Director/Curator-in-Residence

Yunie Mojica, Programming Manager

MARKETING

Deirdre May, Senior Director of Digital Content and Marketing

Andre Padayhag, Marketing Manager and Graphic Designer

BOX OFFICE

Eddy Perez, Box Office Manager

PRODUCTION

Amanda K. Ringger, Director of Production

OPERATIONS

Rodney Bissessar, Director of Operations

Lamont Askins, Operations Associate

Acey Anderson Sr., Maintenance

JoAnn K. Chase

Patricia Cruz

Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes

Jenette Kahn

Rebecca Robertson

LaChanze Sapp-Gooding

Tamara Tunie

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

NCheng LLC, Accountants/Advisors

Michelle Blankenship, Principal Aaron Lam, Supervising Senior Accountant

CONSULTANTS

Aon/Albert G. Ruben Company (NY)

—Claudia Kaufman, Insurance

DAS Services, IT Consultant

Digital Video Services—BriGuel

Lutz & Carr/Chris Bellando, Accountants

Madison Consulting Group,

—Matt Laurence

Manchester Benefits—Greg Martin

Marc Millman Photography

Digital Video Services

—Jess Medenbach

RL Stein Group—Robyn L. Stein

Snugg Studios—Derrick Saint Pierre

Development Consultant

The Whelan Group Incorporated

—Charles Whelan

Blake Zidell & Associates, Public Relations & Marketing