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HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
HARLEM CALENDAR OF COMMUNITY EVENTS Now Until March 25 Women of Color: Connecting 2021 Summit & Celebration Through the WOCCON 2021 Summit & Celebration, you have a unique opportunity to help open doors for Women of Color entrepreneurs as you engage with them in a way that is deep and authentic. In the process, you build bridges to communities of diverse entrepreneurs and business professionals. Woccon.org FREE.
Harlem Community Newspapers | March 18. 2021
March 18-31 The People Vs. Agent Orange After decades of struggle and tragic personal losses, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement to end the plague and hold the manufacturers accountable. In France, Tran To Nga is suing the American chemical industry for poisoning her in Vietnam. In America, Carol Van Strum exposes the continuing use of toxic herbicides, many still containing dioxin. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs while a massive industrial cover-up continues. Maysles.org $12
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March 18-22 8:00-10:00pm Devin Brahja Waldman , James Brandon Lewis and More Devin Brahja Waldman, James Brandon Lewis, Gerald Cleaver, and Ala Dehghan in Performance & Discussion. Eventbrite.com Suggested minimum donation is $5. March 18 5:00pm Memories for the Fu ture: Garrett Bradley, Tina Campt, and Trevor Mathison in Conversation Join artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley, composer Trevor Mathison, a collaborator on Bradley’s America (2019), and scholar Tina Campt, author of Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017), for a conversation exploring the presence of archives and the process of imagining to bring forth histories and memories lost to us, as a practice of archival repair—a theme throughout Bradley’s work. Live on zoom at studiomuseum.org FREE. March 18 7:00-8:30pm The Black Iris Project: Transforming Personal Narratives into Dance Jeremy McQueen will
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bill frisell Shall we overcome (Mar 23)
Kemi Ilesanmi (Mar 23) explore movement, social justice and transforming personal narratives into dance. We will share clips from the second installment of his new ballet, WILD: Act 1, which traces the journey of a young man celebrating his 14th birthday behind bars and the effects of isolation and imprisonment on childhood development. McQueen will be joined by composer Chari Glogovac-Smith; Candice C. Jones, CEO, Public Welfare Foundation; dancers Elijah Lancasterand Fana Tesfagiorgis; and Kim Taylor-Thompson, Board Chair, Equal Justice Initiative. Eventbrite.com FREE. March 19-April 2 2021 Youth Media Festival Streaming FREE from March 19th to April 2nd are twelve films split into three programmatic themes: experiences of COVID-19, Social Justice, and Self-Discovery. These documentaries together explore the untold stories of underrepresented communities and interrogate concepts of a monolithic experience between those who are oppressed. Maysles.org March 19 5:00pm Brooklyn & Beyond: The Photography of Alexander Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
Join photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb for a talk about their work followed by a Q & A. Alex Webb has sought to canvas Brooklyn with an emphasis on exploring its tremendous cultural diversity, from Mexican and Caribbean Brooklyn to Chinese Brooklyn. By contrast, Rebecca Norris Webb has photographed the green heart of Brooklyn, its parks and gardens, as the contemplative core for this body of work. Through the work of Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb we come to see the complex beauty of the borough— its people, its urban landscape, and its verdant green spaces. Online at mcny.org FREE. March 20-21 WOW: Women of the World Festival The Apollo’s 5th annual WOW (Women of the World) Festival is an entirely digital, two-day program of dynamic conversations, workshops, and performances for and by women and girls from around the world. This year’s theme, Black Women Transcending will mark this particular moment in time as we continue to endure a global pandemic and navigate the current political climate in the U.S., while simultaneously balancing self-care,
the people vs. agent orange (Mar 18-31) family, community and work. More than 80 women are scheduled to participate. Apollotheater.org $20. March 23 7:00pm Bill Frisell: Shall We Overcome? Independent Musicians and the Pandemic Guitarist Bill Frisell is among the most distinctive and compelling instrumental voices in modern American music. This exclusive streamed video finds him alone in his home studio, in Brooklyn, playing songs of longing and of resistance (including, yes, “We Shall Overcome”). After the music, he’ll join series host Larry Blumenfeld and musicians Jerome Harris, Anna Webber and Phillip Golub, who are active in the Music Workers Alliance, for a conversation about a brighter and more equitable post-pandemic future. On the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Facebook Live. FREE.
WOW Fest (Mar 20-21) March 23 6:00pm Studio Live: Kemi Ilesanmi x Legacy Russell Join for a Studio LIVE program featuring Kemi Ilesanmi, Executive Director of The Laundromat Project (LP). During this conversation, Ilesanmi will sit in conversation with Legacy Russell, Associate Curator, Exhibitions to reflect on the institutional maturation of The LP as it celebrates its 15th anniversary, the strategic vision of the organiza-
tion, as well as The LP’s theory of change—a concept rooted in the idea that when artists and communities collaborate, meaningful change follows. The pair will discuss the importance and necessity of championing artists of color in order to create communities of care that combat structures of racial, economic, and gendered disenfranchisement. Online at the studiomuseum.org FREE.
