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EVENTS HARLEM CALENDAR OF COMMUNITY EVENTS

April 1 6:30-8:00pm

Black and Red: Socialism and Black Liberation

Throughout the twentieth century, the Black freedom movement intersected in various ways with the communist and socialist movements. The first Black woman to run for president of the United States was Charlene Mitchell, who ran on the Communist Party ticket in 1968. From Hubert Harrison, W..E.B. Du Bois, and Claudia Jones, to Esther Cooper Jackson and Angela Davis, many of the leading lights of the Black movement have also been communists or socialists. Join this conversation to discuss this often overlooked red thread through Black radical history. Online for FREE at eventbrite.com

April 1 10:00am

Basketball Sounds and Style with Bobbito Garcia

Join DJ/producer, filmmaker, and designer Bobbito García in this virtual intergenerational STEAM education program and dive deep into sports, music, and fashion. Learn how the sounds of New York City basketball moved from the court to the recording studio with objects from the City/ Game: Basketball in New York exhibition, and experience the style of the game as you design your own high-fashion sneaker in a live art-making activity. For ages 7 and up. FREE at mcny.org a look back on laughter (Apr 2) socialism and black liberation (Apr 1)

April 2 7:00-8:00pm Afro-Picks Featuring Hella Black Mexican

Join for the viewing of scenes from Hella Black Mexican and host Major Nesby will sit down with filmmaker Ehcrama Marche to discuss the film. Watch live on CCCADI’s Youtube and Facebook. FREE.

April 2 9:00pm

A Look Back on Laughter

The Apollo Comedy Club celebrates the Theater’s rich comedic roots. Join the Apollo Comedy Club producers Bob Sumner (producer of Def Comedy Jam, creator of Laff Mobb on Aspire) and Apollo Late Night producer Dwight Jordan as they look back on five years of the Apollo Comedy Club. This informal conversation will include back-stage stories, video clips and highlights of the comedians who have performed at Harlem’s hottest night spot. Online at apollotheater.org FREE.

April 3 9:00pm Apollo Music Cafe: Infinity Song

Roc Nation’s Infinity Song is a sibling band and music collective formed in 2014 in New York City whose members are not only singers but also songwriters, arrangers, instrumentalists, and music producers. Performances will be recorded at the Apollo Theater and streamed on the Apollo’s Digital Stage. Hosted by Jodine Dorce. FREE at apollotheater.org

April 5 6:00-7:30pm

Ponte Ready!

La BoriVogue

A bailar! Join for a special live streamed event directo desde Río Piedras, Puerto Rico with La BoriVogue (Laboratoria Boricua de Vogue), a space of practice that uses vogue as an instrument of liberation and social justice. FREE online at elmuseo.org

April 6 6:30-8:00pm

Speculative Fiction with Courttia Newland & Marlon James

Join the Schomburg Center to explore the Basketball Sounds withBobbitoGarcia (Apr 1) contours of speculative fiction and get between the lines of Courttia Newland’s newest novel, A River Called Time. Described as a monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, it takes place in an alternative London, devastated by war and climate change. Newland will be joined by New York Times bestselling author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James and moderator, Rochelle Spencer, author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction. Online for FREE at eventbrite.com

April 6 7:00pm

Dreams & Defiance: Latin Dance vs. The World

Our first journey visits an eclectic group of people, asking what their dance/music means to them. Just as important, showing us! While there are dozens of dances commonly labeled as Latin dance, this journey will focus on dances unified by improvisation, syncopation, partnering, incorporating jazz dance movements, or have sparked social change. On the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Facebook Live. FREE. hella black mexicans (Apr 2)

April 7 6:00-7:00pm

OP&M Dialogue Series: Jon Henry- Stranger Fruit

Through the portraits of women in intimate gestures of cradling, holding, and embracing their sons, Henry aims to capture the visceral fear and vulnerable emotional landscape of Black mothers. Henry will be joined in conversation with photography-focused interdisciplinary artist and writer Qiana Mestrich who recently wrote about Stranger Fruit for Photograph Magazine. Special guest Monifa Bandele, who has worked with MomsRising to advocate for economic security and justice for mothers, women, and families, will offer remarks. The conversation will be hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali, curator of On Protest and Mourning. Online at cccadi.org FREE.