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SOUL AT HOME - HARLEM WEEK CLOSING CONCERT | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
23
8:00 PM20:00

SOUL AT HOME - HARLEM WEEK CLOSING CONCERT | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

Get ready for all your classic jams from some of your favorite 70s soul acts, live in concert!

Soul at Home features the history and the music of The Dramatics, The Stylistics, and The Blue Notes. See them perform all their classic soul jams. This closing concert for HARLEM WEEK and the Harlem Music Festival is also a fundraiser for the “Support Harlem Now” campaign, providing services for Harlem’s senior citizens, food banks, the homeless, arts & cultural not-for-profits, local small businesses, and families.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party |  A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
23
1:00 PM13:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Today is an afternoon affair featuring DJ Stormin’ Norman’s Sundae Sermon, which seeks to soulfully support and strengthen diverse communities through music, dancing, family recreational activities, and social awareness.

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HARLEM DAY | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
23
1:00 PM13:00

HARLEM DAY | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

HARLEM DAY is how HARLEM WEEK began in 1974. It is now the culminating event of the HARLEM WEEK Festival and our biggest day! For decades, HARLEM DAY has seen international recording artists, actors, sports figures, and leaders take the stage.

This year, HARLEM DAY features an artist to an artist talk with Doug E. Fresh and a surprise artist! Another HARLEM DAY highlight is The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s presentation of “Chamber Music of the Harlem Renaissance” by-era composers Duke Ellington and Harold T. Burleigh. Clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Gloria Chien perform Ellington's “Clarinet Lament” (arranged by David Schiff). Violinist Chad Hoopes and pianist and Co-Artistic Director Wu Han perform Burleigh's “Southland Sketches.”

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COVID-19 Summit: The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color
Aug
23
6:00 AM06:00

COVID-19 Summit: The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color

This summit brings together some of the foremost medical experts in the country to discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color. The experts will discuss COVID-19 based on what the numbers tell us, how racism and access to care has factored into the pandemic, and alternative medicine modalities and mental health issues related to this pandemic. Participants include RN & MPH Michelle Drayton and doctors Kellie Bryant, Jeffrey Lieberman, Flora Luyando, John Palmer, Kim Moi Wong Lama, and Maurice Wright.

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Jazzmobile Presents: Great Jazz On The Great Hill
Aug
22
9:30 PM21:30

Jazzmobile Presents: Great Jazz On The Great Hill

The Central Park Conservancy and Jazzmobile are turning summertime favorite Great Jazz on the Great Hill into a must-see house party. Turn up the volume, move the furniture, put on your dancing shoes, and enjoy our lineup of stellar musicians from home. Join world renowned singer and emcee Alyson Williams for this virtual event which includes a special introduction from Central Park Conservancy President, Elizabeth W. Smith and Jazzmobile Director and Executive Producer Robin Bell-Stevens and features this year’s artists starring in live performances recorded in Central Park.


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Jazzmobile Presents: T.K. Blue @ Home | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
22
8:00 PM20:00

Jazzmobile Presents: T.K. Blue @ Home | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

Talib Kibwe, or “T.K. Blue”, is the official full-time professor and director of jazz studies at Long Island University-LIU-Post. He was part of an historic photo session in Paris, France called "A Great Day in Paris", which featured close to sixty musicians from the U.S. who resided there. He has toured in eastern, western, and northern Africa. This concert features T.K. Blue in full performance from home.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party |  A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
22
5:00 PM17:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance!

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Eat Local with Whole Foods Market
Aug
22
4:00 PM16:00

Eat Local with Whole Foods Market

Spend your lunch hour with us and meet four local suppliers from Harlem and Manhattan West Whole Foods stores. Nikoa Evans-Hendricks, Executive Director from Harlem Park to Park, hosts this virtual panel discussion asking these entrepreneurs thought provoking questions about how they have overcome challenges and obstacles. Afterwards these panelists will host cooking demos, showing the delicious usage of their products.

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Apollo Teen Takeover: Dear Future… | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
22
1:00 PM13:00

Apollo Teen Takeover: Dear Future… | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

Apollo Teen Takeover is annually produced by the Apollo Young Producers, a collective of alumni from the Apollo Theater Academy who create and develop events to connect young artists to the Apollo Theater and provide a creative space for collaboration. Young voices have a great impact on the world and they often lead the charge in changing it for the better. Dear Future... is a celebration of youth voice and vision via art, song, and dance as we work to realize a greater future, together.

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HARLEM WEEK/Imagenation Film Festival
Aug
22
6:00 AM06:00

HARLEM WEEK/Imagenation Film Festival

ImageNation & HARLEM WEEK have presented outdoor screenings for 12 years. This year, join us online! Today’s film, in honor of the HARLEM WEEK 2020 Theme: “Movement of The People,” is Whose Streets? ‧ Documentary ‧Not Rated ‧An account of the Ferguson uprising as told by the people who lived it. The filmmakers look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement. Co-Directed by: Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party |  A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
21
5:00 PM17:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Courtesy of 107.5 WBLS-FM, today’s featured DJ is one of the founding fathers of Hip Hop music and culture, Harlem’s very own Kool DJ Red Alert ("YeeeAAAAaaaaaah!")

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Lincoln Center presents the premiere of audio an excerpt from "The Black Clown" | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
21
4:00 PM16:00

Lincoln Center presents the premiere of audio an excerpt from "The Black Clown" | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

In celebration of Harlem Week, renowned opera singer Davóne Tines leads a special audio excerpt from The Black Clown, a music-theater piece adapted from Langston Hughes’s poem and created by Davóne Tines, Michael Schachter, and Zack Winokur.

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