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Fats Waller Dance Party (June 18)
Harlem Community Newspapers | June 18. 2020
June 18 7:00-8:00pm From the Archives: The Fats Waller Dance Party The Fats Waller Dance Party is a tribute to the legendary Fats Waller and features Jason Moran and Meshell Ndegeocello who performed at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in the summer of 2011. You can watch on Facebook, Instagram, or their website harlemstage.org.
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June 18 5:00-6:30pm Bilingual in the Big Apple: Puerto Rican Education Activism and the Fight for Bilingual Bicultural Education Join Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellow Lauren Lefty as she discusses the long path to securing the right to bilingual and bicultural education in the nation’s most linguistically diverse city. This lecture will be broadcast via Zoom; participants will need an internet-accessible device with audio capability to attend. The Zoom link will be
FLHS (June 19)
Dear Old Southland (June 22)
emailed to participants the day prior to their session. MCNY. June 19 7:00-8:00pm Commemorating the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth:Virtual Celebration Summerstage and Creative Outlet presents: ‘Hanging Tree’. Honoring the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth with a day of multimedia art. This event will feature the panel discussion: The Importance of Juneteenth’s History & How It Affects Our Community’s Lives Today’. Visit downtownbrooklyn. com for more information. June 19 8:00pm The Fannie Lou Hamer Story A powerful and uplifting biopic of Fannie Lou Hamer’s rise from Jim Crow’s Mississippi to the Halls of Congress leading the Voting Rights Movement in 1964.The live online event in Celebration of Juneteenth, will debut on Facebook Live and Instagram Live from the historic Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in
Sarah Elizabeth Charles (June 22)
Sanford, Florida, the home of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, one of the many symbols of social injustice. For more information visit thefannielouhamerstory.com June 22 6:00-7:00pm A Dive Deeper Conversation with: Sarah Elizabeth Charles Vocalist/composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles and pianist/ composer Jarrett Cherner will perform three songs from their debut duo album, Tone, which centers around the magical, fleeting, and delicate nature of life as well as the need to take care of ourselves, each other, and the world around us. In addition
Vijay Iyer (June 23)
to the performance they will talk about the music and their artistic practice as musicians, educators, and socially engaged humans. You can watch on Facebook, Instagram, or their website harlemstage.org. June 22 3:00pm Dear Old Southland: Zora Neale Hurston and the Boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance Please join National Jazz Museum in Harlem Senior Scholar Loren Schoenberg and our distinguished cohost Professor Robert G. O’Meally as they explore the Harlem Renaissance, a magical flowering of creativity centered in and around Harlem during
the 1920s. This threepart series will explore the music that Duke Ellington wrote during those years, alongside the authors Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, and the few others who were ahead of their time in appreciating jazz’s significance. Facebook Live event. June 23 2:00pm Melody and the Mind with Helen Sung and Dr. Emily Mackevicius Melody and the Mind brings together jazz music and science as we celebrate the way that music affects our brains and bodies. Join the National Jazz Museum in Harlem to listen and move with the mu-
sic and maybe learn something new. Facebook live event. June 23 7:00pm Jazz and Social Justice: Meeting the Moment with Vijay Iyer For this virtual edition of the “Jazz and Social Justice” series, Iyer will perform from his Harlem home. Following the music, in discussion with host Larry Blumenfeld, he and fellow musicians and scholars will talk about the ways in which artists have responded to moments like these, historically and now, and how culture addresses, supports and even drives real change. Facebook live event at National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
