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HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS EVENTS HARLEM CALENDAR OF COMMUNITY EVENTS
The Gospel of James Baldwin
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June 25-26
The Bacchae
Rent the Bacchae, presented by the Classical Theatre of Harlem.Freedom, Ecstasy, Anarchy vs Law, Order, and Control…who wins? Rather, who survives. Starring Jason C. Brown as Dionysus and R.J. Foster as Pentheus. $10 on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku and Comcast.
June 25-July 16 5:30pm
NBT@Home: A Letter to the Future
The NBT@HOME: A Letter To The Future series launched on June 18, with the release of Dr. Teer’s letter on NBT’s Instagram, @natblacktheatre, and run through July 18. The National Black Theater will host a series of four conversations each Thursday starting June 25 at 5:30 p.m. ET on Facebook Live, moderated by co-curator ChelseaDee.
June 25
#1 Bus Chronicles The #1 Bus Chronicles uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers. Watch the film at the maysles.org
June 25 7:00-8:00pm
Can I Get a Witness: The Gospel of James Baldwin
The spectacular, WaterWorks commissioned, Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin is a musical and theatrical tribute to the iconic writer and activist. It was created by Meshell Ndegeocello and originally performed at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in the fall of 2016. Watch on the Harlem Stage’s Facebook, Instagram, or the Harlemstage.org
June 25 8:00-9:00pm
Jueves Social feat. Standing On The Corner
Jueves Social is back with special guest Standing On The Corner, the Brooklyn-based experimental jazz and hip-hop group.To watch the Zoom Live, go to elmuseo.org for more information.
June 25-26
No Data Plan
Stream the film, No Data Plan by Miko Revereza. A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his moth
The Bacchae
NBT@Home
er’s affair as he crosses America by train. “Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her Obama phone. For that we use the other number with no data plan.” The linear train ride moving from Los Angeles to New York diverges into unruly directions of consciousness. Watch it on the Maysles Virtual Center at maysles.org
June 26-July 9
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
“Ella: Just One of Those Things” follows her extraordinary journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy. The film uses never-before-seen images and unheard interviews to bring Ella
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Fitzgerald to life and to tell the story of her music. - a black woman who makes her career in the face of horrifying racism. Watch on the virtual cinema for $12 at maysles.org Register for a live Q&A on June 27th.
June 26 1:30-2:00pm
Curators from the Couch: Who We Are
Join Monxo Lopez for a conversation with experts connected with our exhibition Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers. The conversation will be streamed live on MCNY’s Facebook.
June 29 3:00pm
Black and Tan Fantasy: Duke Ellington’s Early Visions of Jazz
Please join NJMH Senior Scholar Loren Schoenberg and their distinguished co-host
Elena Ayodele
Professor Robert G. O’Meally as they explore the Harlem Renaissance, a magical flowering of creativity centered in and around Harlem during the 1920s. Watch the Facebook Live event on the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s page.
June 29 6:00pm
C h o r e o g r a p h e r , musician, and tap dancer, Joseph Webb and composer Barédu Ahmed along with their mentor Joanne Robinson Hill discuss the process of creating new work including how to build a team, secure resources, and move a piece from ideation to premiere. Watch on the Harlem Stage’s Facebook, Instagram, or the Harlemstage.org
June 30 6:00pm
Award winning flutist, vocalist, and composer, Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes, cited as “the most exciting jazz flautist to have emerged in years,” will perform new work, discuss her career and share her journey as a young artist composing during this current time, and brainstorm ways that young artists can discover and pursue opportunities in today’s ever changing musical landscape. Watch on the Harlem Stage’s Facebook, Instagram, or the Harlemstage.org
HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS COMMUNITY Black Lives Matter: Civil Rights of Our Children
Photos by Seitu Oronde
Last Week Children participated in a Black Lives Matter protest at Gracie
Mansion. As protests against police brutality continue for a ninth straight day, many student activists across the city are calling on
officials to shift funding from the NYPD to programs that support youth. The calls come as New York City Council members grapple with how to balance a budget that’s facing a $10 billion shortfall in tax revenue due to the coronavirus and the economic devastation that’s followed.
In addition, students say it’s time for schools to cut ties with the NYPD by removing the police who serve as campus “safety agents.” Instead, they want to see the city invest in schoolbased mental health and restorative justice programming. There have been calls for “counselors not cops” for years, and de Blasio announced a new agreement with the NYPD last year to reduce arrests in schools while emphasizing conflict resolution.
Hundreds of teachers and principals have signed a letter demanding investments in education, ethnic studies, counselors and anti-racist curricula.
