Event Archive

Caribbean Connections: The Black Roots of Salsa

From countless hours of footage, director Christian Liebich, takes viewers on a vivid journey of the Afro- Cuban roots and history of salsa, covering potentially controversial issues of Cuba’s culture. Cuba/Documentary/2016/99 min

2nd Annual Louis Armstrong Continuum Concert

The Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies and The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation present the 2nd Annual Louis Armstrong Continuum Concert with performances by the Louis Armstrong All Stars featuring Herlin Riley, Sullivan Fortner, Ronell Johnson, Kevin Louis, Roderick Paulin, and Ben Wolf.

Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation 9th Annual SATCHMO Award & Swing Dance Party

The Satchmo Award was created by The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. and represents a tribute to the life and legacy of Louis Armstrong, whose art and generosity of spirit inspired people all over the world.

Talks at the Schomburg: Home to Harlem Talks - Gwendolyn Bennett

An artist, writer and journalist during the Harlem Renaissance and a political activist in the late 1930s and 1940s, Bennett was a leading voice in shaping the Harlem Renaissance and in advancing Black women’s rights.

Close Conversation: Langston Hughes, Harlem, and the Sacred with Wallace Best

Close Conversations, sponsored by the Cathedral’s Congregation of Saint Saviour, invite you to join a series of discussions on contemporary society, culture and spirituality.

Duke Ellington's Portraits and Self-Portraits

Join us for a live music and illustrated presentation highlighting Duke Ellington's musical self-portraits and his portraits of people he admired--many of whom were black women. With Robert O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University And Lisle Atkinson, bass; Leroy Williams, drums, and Richard Wyands, piano.

National Association of Negro Musicians Presents - Swingin with Dinah, Bessie & Fats!

Starring Joy Brown, Barbara D. Mills, & James Edward Alexander. Featuring Harlem Hot Steps, Legendary Saxophonist Bill Easley and Trumpet Dynamo Ed Horne.

Urban Stomp: A Journey From Swing to Mambo

Enter a world where the rhythmic sounds of congas and horns permeate the streets of New York City. More than a class, this is an experience where we learn through music, dance, fashion and film.

Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today

This exhibition explores the changing modes of representation of the black figure as central to the development of modern art. The models' interactions with and influences on painters, sculptors and photographers are highlighted through archival photographs, correspondence and films. The artists featured in the exhibition depicted black subjects in a manner counter to typical representations of the period. The works included highlight the little-known, multiracial aspect of each artist’s milieu.

Urban Stomp: A Renaissance Re-Imagined -Youth Dance/Music Workshop From Swing to Mambo

Join us in Harlem as we explore the deep roots of jazz music and vernacular jazz dances-styles that gave lindy hop, mambo and even salsa a distinct New York cool.

Descendants: Afro-Rican Heritage Featuring Wison " Chembo" Comiel

An evening of diverse musical expressions from the Island Culture.

Schomburg Open House: Passport to Black History

Visit our renovated divisions, learn how to conduct your own research using the Schomburg’s collections, get tips on creating a personal archive, visit the current exhibitions, and attend programs in the Langston Hughes Auditorium

Open Archive: Charles White's Harlem

Schomburg Center librarians and archivists will display and discuss selected items from our collection of materials highlighting the people, places, and organizations artist Charles White encountered during his years in New York between the 1940s and early 1950s.

Talks at the Schomburg: Charles White Amongst Friends

White’s far-reaching vision of a socially committed practice attracted promising young artists, including many artists of color, and he became one of the 20th century’s most important and dedicated teachers.

2018 Langston Hughes Festival & Award Ceremony

The City College Langston Hughes Festival will award Hilton Als, writer and theater critic, the 2018 Langston Hughes Medal on November 15, 2018. The day-long festival will include a symposium, film screening, and award ceremony including musical guest and conversation with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Hilton Als

Tarek Yamani in Jazz Conceptions in Classical Arabic

Tarek ingeniously bridges the boundaries between two eclectic cultures and musical heritages creating a sound and style unlike any other.

Urban Stomp From Swing to Mambo

An interactive hands-on music, dance history, arts education workshop for young people 14 - 21, sharing the important artistic cultural, and historic connections between these two genres to help strengthen relationships between our communities.

The Urban Stomp: Bienvenidos to New York

We’ll have all-level, mini dance workshops, music lessons, all-ages art-making and performances with Gaby Cook and Wild Rhythm, mambo dancer Franck Muhel, Big Apple Lindy Hoppers, Rhythm Stompers, Dancing Classrooms, and more!

Close Conversation: Race, Inequality, and Education with Carla Shedd and L'Heareux Lewish-McCoy

The changing national and international landscape necessitate deeper, more sustainable, and meaningful engagement conversations and research. Through his writing, speaking, and commentary his work analyzes some of the most pressing issues facing the African Diaspora. With specializations in race and ethnic relations, his research and activism grapple with the areas of education, youth culture, and public policy.

Harlem Renaissance 100 - A Community Celebration Open House Preview Launch

Over 20 cultural institutions and community-based organizations including the Apollo, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Harlem Stage, Jazz Museum of Harlem, Museum of the City of New York and more will introduce their venues and public programs and tourism products for 2018/19. Displays of art, music and interactive sessions followed by neighborhood tours will channel the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance period.

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

Opening to mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the exhibition is organized chronologically from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War I and highlights the central role played by African Americans in advocating for their rights. It also examines the depth and breadth of opposition to black advancement

Sugar Hill Songbook: Select Work by Faith Ringgold

The exhibition showcases work attesting to Ringgold’s relationship with jazz, while also framing her longstanding commitment to social and political activism.

It's Another Uptown Saturday Night Swing Dance

It's Another Uptown Saturday Night Swing Dance Dance and Delight Uptown (Harlem)

W.C. Handy and the Birth of the Blues

An exploration of the music and world of W. C. Handy, often referred to as the ‘Father of the Blues,’ and his vast influence as a prominent African-American composer and publisher in the early 20th century

100 Anniversary Observance of the Armistice and Harlem Hellfighter, Dorrance Brooks Honored by Community Group

Dorrance Brooks Square honors Harlem Hellfighter Private First Class Dorrance Brooks, an African-American soldier, native of A 100th Anniversary Observance of the armistice ending the First World War has been set for Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 11 am at Dorrance Brooks Square Park on Edgecombe Avenue in Harlem. Harlem and the son of a Civil War veteran, who fought and died in France in 1918, a few days before the armistice was signed. The New York Times reported at the time that Dorrance Brooks Square was dedicated, that it was the first public square to be named after an African-American soldier.

Book Discussion Group Black Men Read: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Join Countee Cullen Library as we introduce our new book club - Black Men Read - a series highlighting Black, Male Authors and engaging in conversation with Black Men about books and the communities in which we live

Scott Joplin's Ragtime: Tyehimba Jess and Reginald R. Robinson

Join us for an evening of music and conversation as Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess, and musician and composer Reginald R. Robinson explore the music of Scott Joplin, ragtime traditions, and contemporary influences.

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Black Politics & the Struggle for Justice in Sports

Three writers will examine the role Black male and female athletes have played in the long struggle against racism and injustice and the barriers and criticism they have faced for their politics

Uptown Saturday Night @ The National Black Theatre - Swing, Blues, R&B and Soul - Bring your dancing shoes!

Join the movement to reconnect with our /Harlem's dance legacy! (Not to mention the great health benefits!) Inter-generational, no partners necessary -- just your enthusiasm and love of dance form and movement! Or, just because... Dance lesson before social dance set.

Book Signing: Color Me In(n)! Harlem Renaissance Fashion, Beauty, and Jazz 1920's Coloring Book

Tami Tyree's book, "Color Me In(n)! Harlem Renaissance Fashion, Beauty, and Jazz 1920's Coloring Book" revives hairstyles and beauty techniques of the day through her original sketches; welcoming you to get your own crayons to bring the drawings to life.

Celebrating 100 Years of the Harlem Renaissance Preview - Mwenso & the Shakes & Special Guests

Taking from the stylings ofFats Waller, Muddy Waters, James Brown and many other American musical legends - Michael Mwenso leads an electrifying show the New York Times calls “intense, prowling, and ebullient.”

Sherry Turner DeCarava Speaks on " The Sweet Flypaper of Life "

Sherry Turner DeCarava speaking on The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes This magnificent photographic-literary work was published to great acclaim in 1955. It is a story of people, peril, and promise in Harlem that is unique in the canon of visual literature. Out of print for over 35 years, a new edition has just been published.

Paris on the Brink: Mary McAuliffe with Laura Hughes

Spiritual Sing with Alice Parker

African American Spirituals were the life-blood of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s movement. "We are an army that will sing but not slay," he wrote. All are welcome to experience the power of these wonderful songs under the leadership of Melodious Accord's Alice Parker and Pamela Warrick Smith.

Close Conversation: Interpreting James Baldwin Today

Nicholas Boggs and Gabrielle Bellot join Elizabeth Howard in conversation about the novel If Beale Street Could Talk, recently released as a movie and directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Jenkins, and Little Man, Little Man by James Baldwin with illustrations by Yoran Cazac

George Gee Big Band Tribute to Frank Foster

BIG BAND TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NEA JAZZMASTER and LEGENDARY BASIE COMPOSER/ARRANGER FRANK FOSTER

Opening of The Value of Sanctuary: Building a House Without Walls

Join us for the opening of The Value of Sanctuary: Building a House Without Walls, the next in a series of Cathedral-wide initiatives focused on the intersections between spirituality, contemporary social issues, and human rights and dignity.

Exhibition: Betye Saar - Keepin' It Clean

Contemporary artist Betye Saar has shaped the development of assemblage art in the United States, particularly as a device to illuminate social and political concerns. A key figure in the Black Arts Movement and the feminist art movement of the 1960-70s, Saar’s distinct vision harmonizes the personal and the political. Over the years, Saar has transformed the representation of African Americans in American culture by recycling and reclaiming derogatory images such as Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Toms, sambos, and mammies to confront the continued racism in American society and create representations of strength and perseverance.

Discussion: Fashioning the New Negro with Harvard Professor, Dr. Jonathan M. Square

How did African Americans use fashion to fight for equality? Join us as Harvard professor Dr. Jonathan M. Square, founder of Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, explores African American fashions as a radical form self-determination on a special tour of our exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.

Docent Led Gallery Tour - Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

How did African Americans organize to overcome the hardships of Jim Crow? On this docent-led tour, witness the experiences and events that shaped life for African Americans in the 50 years following the Civil War, and learn about the central role African Americans played in advocating for their rights.

Ragtime to Jazz: Harlem's Black and Jewish Music Culture, 1890 - 1930

Through sheet music, recordings, and other documents, Reddick illustrates the cultural links between Harlem's turn-of-the-century African American composers (James Reese Europe, H.T. Burleigh) and its Jewish composers (George Gershwin, Richard Rogers) and the back-and-forth influence they had on jazz and popular music. Join us to explore how African American and Jewish musicians expressed their outsider feelings in society through their art.

Exhibition: Augusta Savage - Renaissance Woman

Artist Augusta Savage (1892–1962) overcame poverty, racism, and sexual discrimination to become one of America’s most influential 20th-century artists. Her sculptures celebrate African American culture, and her work as an arts educator, activist, and Harlem Renaissance leader catalyzed social change

Harlem Chamber Players 11th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Our 11th Annual Black History Month Celebration will feature two world premieres by the noted African American composer Adolphus Hailstork.

Harlem: The Migration and Integration of America's African Voice

The migration of southern African Americans to Harlem fostered a direct dialogue with immigrant African descendants from the Caribbean and the broader diaspora. At this time, Harlem was also the city’s second largest Jewish community. This walking tour will focus on those points of interaction—theaters, religious institutions and cultural venues—that shaped that dialogue.

Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon

In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, “Man, you ought to leave your karma to science.”

Harlem Classical Music Celebration - A 4-Day Tribute to the Spiritual

“Tribute to the African American Spiritual” on February 7, 8, 9,and 10. There will be a master class, choral workshops and a concert. This year we are also celebrating the 100th year of the Harlem Renaissance featuring the music of composer – arranger Hall Johnson who influenced a generation of arrangers and composers who followed him.

An Afternoon of Spirituals from the Symposium

The Fisk Jubilee Singers are an African American a cappella student ensemble at Fisk University in Nashville. The first group of nine students (later enlarged to 11) was organized in 1871 to tour and raise funds for the college, introducing slave songs to the world.

Mathis Picard: A Story of Light - From Joplin to Johnson

French / Malagasy pianists Mathis Picard celebrates the old school traditions of the Harlem Stride pianists by telling stories accompanied by a carefully crafted set of piano gems

Langston Hughes Birthday Bash

Join us as we celebrate Langston Hughes’s birthday at the Schomburg Center with an exclusive VIP reception, special preview of our latest exhibition, a performance celebration, a special “Langston Hughes” Birthday Edition of First Fridays, and much more

Uptown Nights: Guthrie Ramsey's MusiQology Presents Hide/Melt/Ghost

This multi-media concert explores how enslaved African Americans used music as proof of their humanity, as a soundtrack for paranormal events like spirit possession and as a melting pot in which diverse African cultural groups became an African American people

Uptown Nights: Wepa! Movement, Culture and Music - The Curtis Brothers and Circa '95

Harlem Stage and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) present a two part series of music and conversation celebrating the courageous and resilient Caribbean immigrants who traveled across land and sea and arrived in El Barrio, aka Spanish Harlem, seeking a bright future.

Stretch Music & Jazz Then and Now: Steve Turre Quintet

Jazz Then and Now is a conversation series, presented as part of the Stretch Music Residency that brings together innovative thought leaders in the field in dialogue on the history, the present and the future of jazz.

Spring Gala - #Disrupters: Then and Now in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance

Our Annual Gala will build on the theme established last year, #DISRUPTERS: Then and Now in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, a creative reaction to the countless racial and social crises currently plaguing our nation, and a moment to acknowledge the artists who refuse to take a back seat during these momentous times.

The Neighborhood as Sanctuary: The Role of Black Muslims and Making of Upper Manhattan

It is commonly said that we fear what we don’t understand. Living up to our American ideals requires us to understand our neighbors, our colleagues, and our friends despite our diverse backgrounds. Yet in recent years, Muslims in America have rarely been portrayed as nuanced and complex human beings, and most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim.

Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna: An Evening with Alessandra Belloni

Building on her years of study and performance, Belloni’s book opens a portal into the mysterious Black Madonna and the figure’s cultural significance in Southern Italy, France, Spain, and Brazil.

The Sacred as Sanctuary: Spirituality, Culture, and the Human Experience

A Conversation with Elaine Pagels, Siddhartha Mukherjee and Jonathan Rose Followed by a performance by Jog Blues

Living History: Founding Black Harlem

Learn about Walker’s life as a successful businesswoman selling hair products and creating hair styles (she became a millionaire from it!) and explore the life of Vertner W. Tandy, who served with the Harlem Hellfighters and became New York’s first black registered architect!

Nerdy Thursdays: Black Citizenship Historic Remix Night

Listen to music, hear from experts, tour our exhibitions Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow and Betye Saar: Keepin’ It Clean, and explore how history is a process—that sometimes needs a remix.

In Perpetual Flight: The Migration of the Black Body

This one-day event examines the movement of the Black bodies in America and the impact that movement has had in the quest for liberation. Utilizing the archives of the Schomburg Center and using multidisciplinary performance and community dialogue, NBT will commission new pieces by theater-makers of African descent to examine the works of James Baldwin, Harriet Powers, Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, and Jacob Lawrence to seek to understand the complexities Black people have faced migrating in America.

Film Screening: Men of Bronze & Panel Discussion in Commemoration of the 369th Regiment, Harlem Hellfighters

Film Screening and panel discussion with Colonel Gregory E. Collins, David Levering Lewis, and Eric V. Tait, Jr.

Celebrate Black History Month 2019 - Tribute to Claudia Jones: Trailblazing Marxist, Feminist and Black Liberationist

The passionate crusading of Trinidad-born Claudia Jones led to her arrest for “un-American activities,” imprisonment and deportation. She was a pioneer in identifying the essential leadership role of Black women workers and in linking race, gender and class. Join the discussion on how Jones’ ideas can help guide today’s activists.

Zac Carson and FutureShift

Bandleader, Zac Carson has developed a modern playing style that draws from the jazz tradition, incorporating many influences from rock, classical, and folk.

An Evening with Mary Schmidt Campbell, Author of New Release, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden

Ms Schmidt Campbell discusses her new publication on Romare Bearden.

2019 Women's Jazz Festival Week 2: A Salute to Women in Bebop

The Schomburg Center’s Annual Women's Jazz Festival, in honor of Women’s History Month, features some of the best-known and unsung female performers in jazz today.

Live Wire - Fierce and Feminist in Harlem: Women and the Life of a Community

From the numbers racket, to the Harlem Renaissance, to involvement in the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Young Lords, Fierce and Feminist will consider the extraordinary influence women have had within the Harlem community and beyond and will honor women who were at the intersection of art, politics, and social change, such as pianist Hazel Scott, anthropologist Eslanda Goode Robeson, writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston and activist Yuri Kochiyama

School Day Live: Tapology: Embracing the Legacy

Tapology, pays tribute to the art of tap dancing with a show highlighting technique, style and history.

School Day Live: Rhythm & Blues Revue with the Michael-David Band

From the 1960s to the 21st century, Rhythm & Blues has reflected the political and cultural changes of the times and influenced the sounds of contemporary music such as funk, soul, and hip-hop. Join the Michael David Band as they highlight the contributions of early Rhythm & Blues pioneers such as Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton and innovators like Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and many others who performed at the Apollo Theater.

Keep the Music Playing: Celebrate National Jazz Appreciation Month, Duke Ellington's Birthday, Louis Armstrong and More!

AS WE CELEBRATE NATIONAL JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH, DUKE ELLINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, AND MORE!

2019 Women's Jazz Festival Week 3: Lakecia Benjamin

Join us for a special evening with saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin presenting "A Woman’s Perspective, We March On" as a part of her A Women's Perspective series, paying special tribute to Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson and Nina Simone

2019 Women's Jazz Festival Week 4: Closing Night!

Closing night will be a celebration of the iconic "Great Day in Harlem" photo captured by Art Kane in 1958. The image featured jazz icons from Count Bassie to Sonny Rollins. Of the many women in the field, only three are present in the photo, band lead…

Carnegie Hall Presents- Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration

Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran draw upon their own family lore and the historical record of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the south, to assemble tableaux that explore a continuum of music from rhythm and blues to gospel, classical to Broadway and work songs to rock ‘n’ roll.

Music of the Great Migration Concert: Gospel, Spirituals, Blues & Jazz

This sojourn is widely known as The Great Migration; which greatly improved upon the African-American way of life and America's prosperity as a whole. Migration music includes a riveting blend of Negro Spirituals, gospel, blues, and jazz as Dr. Hopkins leads a talented ensemble of professional vocalists from the area.

Walking Tour - East Harlem - El Barrio: Where Art, Culture & Community Intersect

East Harlem – El Barrio is characterized by its murals, community gardens, casitas, and botanicas – a conglomeration of Puerto Rican, Mexican and Dominican influences of mostly working-class immigrants.

James Van Der Zee: Photographs 1920 -1950

Spanning the 1920s through the 1950s, James Van Der Zee: Studio marks the photographer’s first exhibition in New York in over 15 years, providing a window into his legendary studio and the vast archive he created of Harlem’s cultural history.

Harlem Chamber Players Joint Concert with Opus 118 Harlem School of Music

Film Screening : I Am Not Your Negro

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).

Black Divas: Josephine Baker & Mary Lou Williams - Q&A Follows Screening

This month we're celebrating women behind the camera with our selection of films playing from Friday, March 29, 2019 - Sunday, March 31, 2019. From showing off films by African Women directors Zara M. Yacoub & Khady Sylla to documentaries chronicling the lives of iconic musicians Josephine Baker and Mary Lou Williams, we have something for everyone to enjoy.

Harlem Nights 2019 - Harlem Rotary & Active Plus Gala

Walking Tour - Harlem: The Migration and Integration of America's African Voice

The migration of southern African Americans to Harlem fostered a direct dialogue with immigrant African descendants from the Caribbean and the broader diaspora. At this time, Harlem was also the city’s second largest Jewish community. This proximity fostered black engagement with the area’s immigrant Eastern European/Russian Jews.

Performance: 125th & FREEdom Conceived, Choreographed & Directed by Ebony Noelle Golden

125th & FREEdom is a site-specific dance performance that takes the whole corridor of 125th street as a theatrical stage and explores the question: "If Harriet Tubman was alive today, how would she free black people?” 125th & FREEdom is comprised of 10 choreo-poetic rituals from the East River to the Hudson River

James Allen, Photographer of the Harlem Renaissance with Dr. Camara Holloway

During the Harlem Renaissance, James Allen photographed Harlem’s luminaries and enjoyed a successful career as an award-winning artist. When the story of the Renaissance was later written, though, his name was virtually forgotten.

Author Yuval Taylor - Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Both writers were leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Taylor's new book is a gripping account of their relationship, and the vibrant intellectual-literary scene in Harlem: the journals established, the apartments where writers and artists met, the patrons who supported (and at times tried to control) their work, the incredible explosion of creativity.

Frankie Manning Tribute Dance - A Harlem Lindy Hop Day Celebration

A Harlem Lindy Hop Day Celebration Celebrating the Life and Legacy of the Ambassador of Swing Frankie Manning

Exhibition - Crusader: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Crusader: Martin Luther King Jr. presents an intimate travelogue of King’s pilgrimage to India, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in Oslo, Norway, and his work as a non-violent crusader for civil rights captured by select photographers of the day.

Duke's Keys: The James P. Continuum

Without James P. Johnson, we don't get Duke Ellington. Without Duke, we don't get Julius Rodriguez and Micah Thomas. Join us for a night of solo piano exploring this continuum.

Opera and Spirituals are Hot at the FireHouse! Uncovering African-American Composers

Harlem Opera Theater in partnership with the Faison Firehouse Theater, George Faision, Artistic Director will present an exciting presentation of opera and spiritual arrangements by African-American Composers: Scott Joplin, Harry Lawrence Freeman, William Grant Still and Nkeiru Okoye.

Harlem Renaissance 100: An Afternoon with Mary Lou Williams - The Lady Who Swings the Band

Join us for an exciting evening celebrating Mary Lou Williams' prolific legacy

Sarah Crewe: A New Musical

Set in Sugar Hill Harlem 1929, Sarah Crewe is a new musical by John Carden and Andrew Sotomayor based on the characters from the original book The Little Princess written by Frances H. Burnett.

Flathead Ellington Project

All the way from the mountains of northwest Montana, Groovetrail's Flathead Ellington Project is and all-star ensemble of high school students who have been chosen to study the music of the great Duke Ellington.

Harlem 100: Wilkins' Europe - Immanuel Wilkins, Saxophonist Reimagines Music of James Reese Europe

Please join us as the brilliant young saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins re-imagines the music of a true American icon, James Reese Europe. The night will include listening to original Europe 78 rpm recordings on our 100 year old phonograph.

The Harlem Chamber Players Season Finale Gala Concert

We will close our 11th Anniversary Season with a Gala orchestral concert, featuring Met Opera soprano Janinah Burnett, violinist Ashley Horne, and violist Amadi Azikiwe in an evening of music, which will include the Sibelius Violin Concerto, Adolphus Hailstork's Two Romances for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Sinfonietta No. 1, and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Maestro Ariel Rudiakov will conduct.

Exhibition: A Ballad for Harlem

A Ballad for Harlem contains recent key acquisitions and specific collection highlights related to the Schomburg Center's broader Home to Harlem initiative, we examine several strands of the wide world that is Harlem. Foundational figures like Langston Hughes serve as a guide across the century that the Schomburg Center has borne witness to Harlem’s changing same.

Tap Family Reunion 2019: Celebrating Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

Check out the second annual Tap Family Reunion, a four-day celebration of National Tap Dance Day, including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's Birthday. Events include performances, gatherings, workshops and so much more!

James Reese Europe Returns to Harlem: The 369th Experience Tribute Band Memorial Day Weekend Concert

A Special Concert. Please join us in remembrance of the Harlem Hell Fighters and the bravery of these men who were awarded the prestigious Croix de Guerre by the French army, and their triumphant return at the end of World War I and the march along Fifth Avenue into Harlem, Feb. 1919.

Ain't Misbehavin' The Fats Waller Musical Show

29th Annual Mount Morris Park House Tour

This period, extending from the 1920's thru the 1940's, was expressed through every cultural medium - visual art, dance, music, theatre, literature, poetry, history and politics. We will focus on the times during the HARLEM Renaissance when legendary artists like Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday and others lived, performed or partied in brownstones in the Harlem community. We will showcase these homes, past and present, and the people that currently live in them

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of James Baldwin

WeBop Summer Term: Exploring Jazz Styles

Don't miss your chance to add more cultural activities to your child's summer! Over the course of this dynamic 4-week curriculum, you and your child will shuffle along with Kansas City Swing, explore Latin jazz rhythms, dance in a New Orleans second line parade, and much more!

The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series

Metropolitan Opera rising stars Leah Hawkins, Mario Bahg and Joseph Lim perform a program of favorite opera arias and duets.

LET ' S FACE THE MUSIC: A 'dance inspired ' art exhibition

Through the lens of dance and the imagination of visual artists, this exhibition will highlight dance through space, shared culture and movement. Featuring dance-inspired paintings, prints, and photographs ranging from realistic to abstract art, “Let’s Face the Music” will highlight the legacy of Clark Center and may also address the impact dance has had on creators’ lives, work -- or the world.

West Harlem Arts & Jazz Fest

“This event is part of the Harlem One Stop/Harlem Cultural Collaborative Harlem Renaissance Centennial Community Celebration" and NYC DOT Weekend Walks Community Partnership.

Harlem 100: Mwenso and the Shakes I Brianna Thomas I Vuyo Sotashe Special Guest Fred Wesley I Jazzmobile Presents: Winard Harper & Jeli Posse

Harlem 100 is a multi-media show, created in collaboration with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, celebrating the landmark 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance

Celebrating The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) - 100 Years!

Presented by The Thomas Music Study Club. Annual recital featuring members of TMSC.

Summerfest55: A "Jammin' on the Hudson" Event

Come Swing with us for an afternoon of great music, dance and family fun with liver performances that will have you dancing in the park.

The Journey of the African American Classical Singer

This performance will feature Harlem Opera Theater Vocal Competition first place winner, Carami Hilaire, soprano and Antonio Watts, baritone with Artistic Director, Gregory Hopkins on piano. A conversation about The Journey of the African American Classical Singer will follow the Concert.

Melvis Santa Ashedi Presents Jazz Meets Rumba

Melvis Santa curates and hosts this evening that begins with a workshop to celebrate the historic cultural exchange between Jazz and Afro-Latin communities, and the growing legacy of this vibrant and ongoing collaboration.

A Harlem-Renaissance Read-in: An Inter-generational Back to School Reading Jamboree

Year of Upheaval: 1919 and Its Legacies

The year 1919 witnessed some of the most violent and far-reaching developments in modern U.S. history. A massive wave of labor strikes mobilized a quarter of all American workers that spring, but signalled an end to union gains for at least the next decade. At the same time, a string of bloody race riots involving black veterans, migrants, and homeowners in the North and South contributed to the growth of a second KKK and 1920s nativism.

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival: An Evening at Langston's - Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance

Enjoy a night in Harlem at The Langston Hughes House with a celebration of the Harlem Renaissance. This session will feature a workshop by Ryan Maloney from the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and a performance by vocalist Candice Hoyes accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Joel Ross. FREE with RSVP to events@itooarts.com

HSA The Spirit of Harlem - In Celebration of Harlem Renaissance 100

The Spirit of Harlem concert will take the audience on a musical journey through Harlem’s most iconic jazz venues, recreating the community’s vibes and rich musical past through pit stops on Ellington’s A Train to Minton’s Playhouse, the Lafayette Theater, the Savoy Ballroom and beyond. Iconic artists such as James P. Johnson, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are reimagined by this extraordinary ensemble performance, narrated by spoken word artist and poet Orlando Watson.

12th Annual Black History Month Celebration

Our 12th Annual Black History Month Celebration will feature virtuoso pianist Joseph Joubert and his wife, soprano Renay Joubert as well as members of The Harlem Chamber Players. Terrance McKnight of WQXR in host and perform. This concert will celebration #HarlemRen100 with music by Florence Price and George Walker, and poetry by Langston Hughes.

The Harlem Chamber Players Presents The Ordering of Moses

We will close our 12th Anniversary Season with the masterpiece oratorio, The Ordering of Moses, by Nathaniel Dett in our tribute to the Harlem Renaissance Centennial.

Weekend Walks - West Harlem Arts & Jazz Fest: Hamilton Heights - Sugar Hill on Amsterdam Avenue

Harlem Stop invites you to the last of our 2019 outdoor event on Sunday, September 9th between 12 Noon and 6:30 pm. It is summer's end but we continue to celebrate community and the richness of Harlem's legacy and the Harlem Renaissance Centennial.

Harlem Fashion Week: Season 7

Harlem Fashion Week, is the premiere NYFW event in Harlem.On September 15, 2019 the Museum of the City of New York will be transformed into the Harlem Fashion Week Experience.

Global Impact of Hip Hop Culture and Music

Grammy nominated artist and global hip hop ambassador, MuMu Fresh, and Jason 'Timbuktu' Diakité, one of Sweden's top Hip Hop performers and a Harlem Stage WaterWorks artist, discuss the impact of hip hop culture and music on the world

The Renaissance EP: A Theatrical Mixtape

As part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Stage presents two magical evenings of music, theater, dance and the creative sound effects of a live radio play. Don’t miss The Renaissance EP: A Theatrical Mixtape, Thursday, November 21 and Friday November 22 @ 7:30p

Check Your Invite! A Renaissance Rent Party Remix

As part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Stage presents an old school rent party experience with “special guests,” storytelling, games, music, dancing, and more.

The Armstrong Continuum: A Symposium & Concert

Armstrong’s wide influence, both in music as such and in a life that provided a model of positive community action. Musicians, scholars, activists will discuss the impact Armstrong had on the world.

The Armstrong Continuum: A Symposium & Concert

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong™ All Stars is presented as part of the Louis Armstrong Continuum, in collaboration with the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. and the Manhattan School of Music.

Exhibition: A Ballad for Harlem

A Ballad for Harlem examines several strands of Black placemaking in the 20th century, offering views of residents and institutions committed to community, innovation, education, fervent political engagement, cultural affirmation, global perspectives, and creativity

Conversation: Organized Labor - Author, Eric K. Washington, "Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal"

Eric K. Washington is a New York City-based independent historian and author. In his latest book, he uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878–1948), the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps―a multitude of Harlem-based black men whom he organized into the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station

Conversation: Sculptor Augusta Savage
with Jeffreen Hayes and Niama Sandy

Dr. Jeffreen Hayes and independent curator and writer, Niama Sandy, will discuss artistic vision and impact of Harlem Renaissance sculptor, Augusta Savage.

Performance: Westchester Broadway Theater Presents Ain't Misbehavin'

The exciting musical tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and 1930s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and ethnic pride, and takes its title from the 1929 Waller song “Ain’t Misbehavin'”.

The African American Spiritual - Singing Her Songs: Exploring the Works of African American Women Composers
Vinroy D. Brown, Conductor and Clinican

January 31-February 2, 2020 The African American Spiritual - Singing Her Songs: Exploring the Works of African American Women Composers Vinroy D. Brown, Conductor and Clinican

Harlem Classical Music Festival: The African American Spiritual - Exploring the Works of African-American Women Composers
Vinroy D. Brown, Conductor and Clinican

Carnegie Hall Citywide: Stefon Harris and Blackout Take a Jazz Journey

Take a jazz journey with outstanding vibraphone and marimba player Stefon Harris and his band Blackout.

Between the Lines: I Love Myself When I am Laughing - A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Join us for a conversation about Hurston’s legacy, with Jamia Wilson (Feminist Press), Tracy Sherrod (Amistad), and Vanessa De Luca (ZORA magazine), moderated by Jennifer Baker, Managing Editor at Random House Children's Books Inc.

Apollo Open House 2020: Celebration of Cool Screening: Miles Davis, "Birth of the Cool"

Film screening, artist and director panel and live performances. Free and open to the public.

March On: A Community Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance at 100

A century ago, the 369th Infantry Regiment, made up of nearly 3,000 African American soldiers, returned to Harlem after the end of World War I kicking off the period that would become known as the Harlem Renaissance. In honor of that milestone and the opening of Children’s Creations of Color: A Celebration of Black History Month, the public is invited to Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a free community celebration of Harlem then, now, and tomorrow!

Dance Theatre of Harlem Sunday Matinee Series: An Afternoon of Artistry

Sunday Matinées: A legacy program that for over 40 years opens doors to the local community and features high quality performances by special guest artists, and Dance Theatre of Harlem students and company members. Meet-the-Artist Reception immediately follows the performance

Three on 3 Music: A Tribute to the Concert Spiritual

Three on 3 Music will present “The Spiritual as a Solo Art Song” featuring Jasmine Muhammad (Soprano), Patrice P. Eaton (Mezzo-Soprano), George Johnson III (Tenor) and Wayne Arthur Paul (Baritone).

Film Screening: Made in Harlem - I Remember Harlem

Miles’ epic film lovingly renders the diverse, 350-year history of Harlem as both a living, breathing neighborhood and as the cultural hub of African-American life. This event is free and open to the public.

The Gathering XIV Pt.2: A Spotlight on Africa's Contributions to the Harlem Renaissance

New York African Chorus Ensemble will present The Gathering XIV Pt. 2 in celebration of Black History Month and highlighting Africa's contributions to the Harlem Renaissance.

A Tribute to Composers of the Harlem Renaissance Era: Will Grant-Still, Harry Lawrence Freeman, Duke Ellington and Scott Joplin

A salute to Black History with a "Harlem Renaissance" tribute to composers of the era.

The Romare Bearden Foundation Cinque Artists Series

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

To mark the centennial of the start of the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of creativity that transformed African-American arts and culture in the 1920s and '30s, Jeffrey C. Stewart discusses The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954). Known as the "father" of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke was a renowned academic and queer philosopher whose cultural impact continues to resonate today.

Teachers College Celebrates Harlem Renaissance 100

In celebration of the Harlem Renaissance 100 Celebration, the Teacher’s College will host a book talk, a lecture, a teacher workshop, listening salons, and a gallery talk. T

The Frederick Douglass Continuum 2020

The event brings historians and community artists, activists, civil servants, and clergy together in an afternoon of music, oratory, dance, and special tributes with reception following.

Harlem Jazz Icons: A Series Celebrating American Cultural Innovators

The inaugural Jazz Icons of Harlem - A Series Celebrating American Cultural Innovators will honor some of Jazz music’s most legendary names including Mary Lou Williams, Philippa Duke Schuyler, George Gershwin and Billy Strayhorn with a special commemorative celebration of their vast contributions to American culture held on each of their respective birthdays

Harlem Renaissance Live Radio Play: Stew

This music-centric radio show (untitled at present) will explore contemporary echoes of the Harlem Renaissance via myth & mystery, real & imagined history, masks and masculinity, along with the challenges of personal & political change and the art that may or may not spark it.

History After Dark: Nightclub at the Museum - Boaters Ball

For generations, mid-May was the time men switched from their heavier winter hats to their straw boater hats. So cast off your cold-weather gear and dive into spring as you trip the light fantastic with Dandy Wellington and his jazz band.

11th Annual NYC Multicultural Festival

New York African Chorus Ensemble Inc will present the biggest neighborhood party with the 11th annual NYC Multicultural Festival celebrating cultural diversity as well the 100-year anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance.

BLACK WOMEN Trailblazing African American Performers & Images, 1920 - 2001

Programmed by Donald Bogle, with Ina Archer BLACK WOMEN, an epic series spotlighting over 80 years of trailblazing African American actresses and images in movies, will run at Film Forum from Friday, January 17 to Thursday, February 13.

Celebrate Black History Month 2020 in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance and in Remembrance of Toni Morrison

New York Urban League: 100 Stories of Black New York

For over 100 years the New York Urban League (NYUL) has led the way in the education, employment, and empowerment of under-served African Americans across the five boroughs of New York City. During this time, they have inspired, influenced, and ignited over one million Black people to achieve their highest aspirations.

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Radical Black Queer and Feminist Lives

CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES Queer black voices are often left out of black political and historical narratives. But, new works by and about radical black feminist and queer scholars are illuminating other dimensions of black political and social life of Black queer women such as Lorraine Hansberry and the Combahee River Collective. Don't miss this conversation with Barbara Smith, Imani Perry and Saidiya Hartman.

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

In the past decade, the United States has seen the rise of both the Black Lives Matter movement and a reinvigorated wave of white supremacism. Join us as Eddie S. Glaude Jr. looks to the life and work of author and activist James Baldwin for answers to our current era’s tangled web of race, trauma, and memory. Baldwin, who wrote in the wake of the civil rights movement and the murders of leading activists Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., provides timeless lessons about the state of racism in the United States, and the difficulty of achieving true progress.

Uptown 2020

In celebration of the Harlem Renaissance centennial, the second iteration of the Wallach Art Gallery’s Uptown triennial, Uptown 2020, will present works by contemporary artists who have been inspired by this important expression of modernism. Contemporary works will be exhibited alongside several historical works.

Noonday Concert - The Interchurch Center Gospel Choir

The Gospel Choir offers a range of styles spanning both traditional and contemporary Gospel music.

Burlesque: The Sweet Spot

The Sweet Spot, created by Ainsley Burrows, is the first ever high energy, heart-pounding, fist pumping, laugh-out-loud Pop Erotica™ burlesque* show in the world.

Piano Concert with Emme Kemp

Join NYC Parks Arts, Culture & Fun for a Black History Month piano concert at Jackie Robinson Recreation Center! We will be featuring artist Emme Kemp for the first hour of the event, followed by open play for attendees to showcase their talents! Chicago-born Emme Kemp is rightly hailed by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as “an unsung heroine in American Music.” She studied American Music at Northwestern University, Berkley College, and New York University and is well-known as a protégé to the jazz great Eubie Blake and as a Broadway composer (“Bubblin’ Brown Sugar”).

Pioneering African American Ballerinas: Aesha Ash, Debra Austin, Virginia Johnson, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, and Silas Farley, moderator

Join four pioneering African American ballerinas as they discuss their groundbreaking careers and their paths to national and international stardom

"And Still We Rise": A Black History Month Art Excursion

Create your own moving artwork as we discuss previous pieces from the Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, and the post-war years.

Performance -Commissioned Waterworks: Jason "Timbuktu" Diakite's A Drop of Midnight

What does blood memory, legacy, and ancestry mean to an African-American family that left Harlem for Sweden?

The Harlem 100 Deep DIVE Series of Discussions-Past, Present, and Future

DIVE Series (Diaspora Intergenerational Voices and Experiences) celebrates the Harlem Renaissance's rich100th anniversary legacy through a five-part series of intellectual discussions. The DIVE Series goals are to forge intergeneral discussions around Harlem's rich history; enhance Harlem's socioeconomic growth; enhance the Harlem's Diaspora experience under themed platforms.

In Profile: A Look at Silhouettes

The exhibition showcases works by professional practitioners, like master of the genre Augustin Edouart, Charles Willson Peale, and Moses Williams—a Peale family slave who earned his freedom and worked producing silhouettes at the Peale Museum.

The Romare Bearden Reader: An evening with the Author Robert G. OMeally

The Romare Bearden Reader (Duke, 2019) gathers the most significant interviews and occasional writings by this major African-American painter beside essays by leading poets, novelists, and art historians.

Blacks in Ballet: The Shadow World
Theresa Ruth Howard

Join Theresa Ruth Howard for an enlightening lecture documenting the history of Blacks in ballet.

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

To mark the centennial of the start of the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of creativity that transformed African-American arts and culture in the 1920s and '30s, Jeffrey C. Stewart discusses The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954). Known as the "father" of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke was a renowned academic and queer philosopher whose cultural impact continues to resonate today. Stewart will consider Locke’s tremendous influence on the artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance and his new aesthetic philosophy of urbanism in the black city. Following his presentation, Stewart will be joined in conversation by Harlem style intellectual Lana Turner, co-founder and chair of The Literary Society.

Gallery Talk - Black Women In Comics

On this occasion, join this BOOMbastik group of Black women comic geniuses for a dynamic conversation about their trajectories in a primarily white male dominated industry. Conversation with The Color of Power artists Nilah Magruder, Afua Richardson and Alitha Martinez will be moderated by voiceover artist, and journalist Angélique Roché.

Arturo O 'Farrill: Transposing Genres - Fluidity in the Arts

Arturo O’Farrill, composer, pianist, and Professor Global Jazz Studies at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music will discuss several aspects of his music

ACLU at 100: The Women Who Shaped and Continue to Shape Civil Liberties

Since its founding 100 years ago in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) has famously stood at the forefront of defending freedom of speech, immigrants’ rights, and justice and equality in many intersecting areas.

Poets + Percussion: The Power of the Spoken Word and Music

Celebrate National Poetry Month! Settle in with six acclaimed poets and artists—including D-Cross and #HipHopEd's Timothy Jones—as they perform their works alongside Grammy Award-winning percussionist Chief Ayanda Clarke and explore the symbiosis between words and music. Afterwards, grab a cocktail from our open bar.

Putting' on the Ritz: Fashion and the Harlem Renaissance: A conversation with Camara Holloway and Elizabeth Way

Harlem during the Jazz Age was renown for the style of its denizens. The twenties was a time of radical transformation for clothing, and Harlem was at the cutting edge of new trends, influencing mainstream fashion and culture in unprecedented ways. This conversation will examine what people wore during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond, from flapper dresses to Zoot suits. The style of fashionable Harlemites has had a lasting influence on fashion and is still felt today.

The Harlem School of the Arts and the Harlem Chamber Players Present A Song from the Other Cross

Join members of The Harlem Chamber Players in a Watch Party, Talk and Q&A featuring this February 2019 world premiere performance of "Nobody Know," a concert aria by the renowned composer Adolphus Hailstork (text by Herbert Woodward Martin).

Langston and Beethoven: Black and Proud

The Harlem Chamber Players, in partnership with the Harlem Cultural Collaborative, present Langston and Beethoven | Black and Proud by Terrance McKnight with Kyle Walker on piano. This event is part of the Harlem Renaissance 100 Celebration.

A Conversation with Yuval Taylor, Author of Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Join Dr. Vanessa Valdes, Director of Black Studies, The City College of New York, and Herb Boyd, Journalist, Educator, Author and Activist in an engaging discussion with Yuval Taylor, author and senior editor Chicago Review Press as they discuss the relationship between Hughes and Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance.

Blacks in Opera: The Journey

Blacks in Opera: The Journey - A conversation on the challenges, successes, and endurance required for Classical Music-Opera. Harlem Opera Theater presents the journeys of Dr. Gregory Hopkins, Artistic Director; with interviews and operatic selections by Carami Hilaire, Soprano and Darian Anderson Worrell, Baritone, Vocal Competition, first place winners singing selections from the operas, Macbeth and Aida, by composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Harlem Renaissance Virtual Salon: Shakespeare The Importance of Being Ernest Presented by Harlem Shakespeare Festival

In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, the Harlem Shakespeare Festival in partnership with the Harlem Cultural Collaborative present THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST set in 1920’s Harlem. With high style, dynamic dialogue and the music that changed a nation, two young gentlemen, living in Harlem and Westchester, have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives.

Celebrating Charlie Parker with Music, Film, Dance & More - 92Y Online Events Aug 28 & 29

92Y marks the centennial of Charlie Parker on his birthday, August 29, 2020, with a multidisciplinary celebration featuring 24 hours of special events on Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29. Conceived to highlight multiple facets of Parker's genius and its profound influence on jazz and beyond,

WKCR-FMTo Air 192-hour Marathon Broadcast, Including A 120-hour Celebration Of The Charlie Parker Centennial: The Charlie Parker Centennial Festival

Commencing at midnight August 27th and concluding at midnight September 4th, WKCR-FM (89.9 FM, wkcr.org) will dedicate all programming to celebrations of the legacies and influences of two of jazz’s central figures: Charlie Parker (b. 8/29/20, d. 3/12/55) and Lester Young (b. 8/27/09, d. 3/15/59).

Harlem Renaissance 100 Virtual Salon - Saving Harlem Buildings to Save African American History: 170 West 130th St

In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, Save Harlem Now! in partnership with Harlem One Stop and the Harlem Cultural Collaborative present Harlem Renaissance 100 Virtual Salon – Saving Harlem Buildings To Save African American History: The Building Where The 1963 March On Washington Was Planned. Panelists (who were there) Dr. Joyce Ladner, Courtland Cox, Lynn Kilgore Hendy and Rachelle Horowitz, will be led by Harlem political activist and former Denver Post columnist Chet Whye, Jr. in a lively discussion about the epic planning that took place behind the walls of this building in July and August of 1963 on Sunday, September 13, 4 PM to 5:30 PM.

Portraits and Dialogues: A Virtual Concert and TalkBack with the Musicians and Founder

Join us online for an afternoon of short works by Black composers, Harry T. Burleigh, Jessie Montgomery, William Grant Still and Margaret Bonds.

The Wallach Gallery Reopens with the Uptown Triennial 2020

The Wallach is pleased to open Uptown Triennial 2020, the second iteration in the series, presenting the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with the Harlem Renaissance—a defining moment in American modernism and African-American cultural history— during its centennial year.

Harlem Renaissance ..Revolving .. Revisiting... Re-generation

Taking inspiration from works in the exhibition Uptown Triennial 2020, an intergenerational group of New York City and Harlem poets share poetry from different eras of Harlem’s cultural history as well as new verse.

Moving Across Time: Then and Now - Jeffreen Hayes, Ph.D., reflections on Augusta Savage

Artists offer glimpses of their movement across time that help us understand places and experiences that shape our communities. Jeffreen Hayes will weave together the connections as she offers reflections on Augusta Savage's lasting imprint.

Harlem Renaissance Man: Johnny Hudgins

What is it that makes Johnny Hudgins and Jack Johnson Harlem Renaissance men? Join Robert O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Founder and Director of Columbia University’s Jazz Center for the first of this two-part series exploring the lives of Harlem Renaissance trailblazers.

Harlem Renaissance Trailblazers: Jack Johnson, Renaissance Man (Part 2)

What kind of Harlem Renaissance man was this! Embarrassment to certain proper Black Americans, then and now, soaring hero to many others, Jack Johnson embodied an unruly black cosmopolitanism that helped define a Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s whose momentum extends into 2020 and beyond.

Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston at 30: A Film Screening and Roundtable Celebrating Queer Harlem, in support of Harlem Renaissance 100

This event recognizes the significance of the 30th anniversary of Looking for Langston in black studies, queer studies, and cultural studies, and will explore Julien’s gorgeous meditation on black art, poetry, music, community, and intimacy.

A Renaissance Education: Mildred Johnson Edwards and the Harlem School She Built

In a segregated New York City of the 1930s, as a young Black woman Mildred Johnson Edwards found herself unable to secure the teaching job she wanted. Undeterred, she went on to imagine and build a progressive, affirming, Black independent school, called The Modern School, which operated for more than 60 years in Harlem's Sugar Hill.

Black lives inspire, Black lives create, Black lives collaborate, Black lives matter

Join us as the Clark Center community share its history & legacy through the lens of Expressions: Black Lives Matter-An Arts Collaboration

Revisiting The Harlem Renaissance with Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

Dr. Jeffrey Stewart leads a course revisiting the Harlem Renaissance, accompanied by a coterie of guests, experts, and artists. Attendees will learn of the philosophy of life and art that launched it, see its effects in our contemporary culture, and understand why it had to end.

Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance
Four-Part Series with Jeffrey C. Stewart. Register Now!

Dive into the Harlem Renaissance in this four-part series of live virtual talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jeffrey C. Stewart. Each session begins with an illustrated presentation by Dr. Stewart exploring a different facet of the Renaissance, followed by a conversation with a special guest (plus time at the end for Q & A). 

The Louis Armstrong International Continuum: A Symposium & Concert

Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies and The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) present The Louis Armstrong International Continuum, a Free virtual symposium and concert set for April 8 (6:00 – 10:30 pm ET) and April 9 (9:00 am – 3:00 pm ET). Highlighting the Continuum theme, Art in a Time of Emergency, the two-day event brings together an impressive assemblage of musicians, scholars, authors, art and administrators to examine Armstrong’s ever-evolving influence on the arts and sciences, culture, social justice and society, through his music, activism, and life. Wynton Marsalis, Robert G. O’Meally, Jason Moran, Cornel West, Gina Belafonte, Ron Carter, Dan Morgenstern, Rene Marie and Bobby Sanabria are among the participants.

Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance with Dr Jeffrey Stewart: Art is Philosophy

In this session, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jeffrey C. Stewart sets the scene for an exploration of the Harlem Renaissance, examining the philosophy of life and art which launched this complex cultural movement of the 1920s and '30s. With Harlem style intellectual Lana Turner.

Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance with Dr. Jeffrey Stewart: Poetry and the New Negro Literacy

Join Dr. Stewart to explore the bold poetry of the young Black creatives of the mid-1920s in the work of Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Anne Spencer, among others. A reading and conversation with poet Mahogany L. Browne follows. 

Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance with Dr. Jeffrey Stewart: Visual Arts and Black Design

In 1940, Alain Locke dedicated The Negro in Art to his mother "in gratitude for a sense of beauty that included our racial own." The New Negro movement in the visual arts, which he had been advancing for over a decade, reveals Locke's particular views of the role African and African American art played in a burgeoning catharsis of consciousness and respect for Black life.

Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance: The African American on the American Stage

Among the many gifts of the Harlem Renaissance, the movement’s contribution to theater and to American democracy is perhaps the least understood and most important today. Jeffrey C. Stewart introduces us to some of the key players and voices in New York's vibrant Black theater scene during the 1920s and '30s in a presentation and conversation with playwright Michael Dinwiddie.

Adolphus Hailstork @ 80: A Celebration

In celebration of Prof. Adolphus Hailstork’s 80th birthday, which is April 17th, we invite you to this concert of some of our favorite chamber works by the legendary composer.

A Collector Tells Her Bearden Story - A Conversation with Akosua Barthwell Evans

A virtual conversation with Collector, Entrepreneur, and Bearden friend, Akosua Barthwell Evans. She will speak about her personal interactions with Romare Bearden including her participation in an iconic mural installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and having her portrait painted by the artist.

Fusion: Remixing Jazz, Rethinking Genre in the 21st Century

The relationship between a discourse of jazz as a paradigmatic expression of Black American culture as well as a space of musical creativity accessible to musicians across the globe regardless of their background has fueled debates regarding musical legitimacy and authenticity in and out of jazz, revealing the tensions “crossing borders” incurs for musicians, critics, and audiences.

Bestselling Author Roxane Gay is CCNY's 2025 Langston Hughes Medalist

Mickey D and Friends - Dancing Women in Jazz

Harlem Stage Presents Wren T. Brown & Leslie Odom Jr.

Dancing Women in Jazz: Mickey D and Friends with the Jazz Power Swing Band with Eli Yamin

Women Pioneers of Jazz: Lovie Austin - Mary Lou Williams' Inspiration

The Harlem Renaissance Centennial Music Series: Spring Community Kick-Off Concert Featuring Phil Young and Patience Higgins

Women Pioneers of Jazz: Velma Middleton - The Armstrong Years and Beyond

150 Year Tribute to Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator and Activist

Jazz Power Initiative Presents: The Joys & Pathways of Tap Dance

The Legacy Ball of Harlem: A Centennial Celebration of Culture, Fashion and History

Ellington in Focus with Jason Moran

Sounds at St Nick: The Gary Jones Quartet & Jazz Jam Session