The ever-popular HARLEM WEEK Fashion Show this year examines “Our New Normal.” Fashions displayed will salute Black designers, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and more.
For this event, there will be two webinars centered on senior citizens! The first webinar will be a panel discussing health and senior citizens, and the second will be about demystifying technology. There will also be an interactive exercise for senior citizens who are staying home!
Join HARLEM WEEK and Imagenation for this lunchtime panel discussion on cinema and social change, moderated by Imagenation Co-Founder and Executive Director Moikgantsi Kgama.
This virtual summit will provide an unfiltered examination of systemic racism in our country. Summit speakers represent the clergy, police, civil rights activists, youth, educators, scholars, and more. The namesake of this summit, the Hon. Charles B. Rangel will make special remarks. The Social Impact of Education panel participants: Dr. Vincent Boudreau, Dr. Joan Dawson, Rev. Jacques DeGraff, and Jason Ponterotto. Reforming Criminal "Justice" panel participants: Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, Imani Wallace, Richard Taffet, Esq., and Judge Milton Tingling. Legacy of Racial Division panel participants: Dietrice Bolden, Michael J. Garner, Lou Katsos and Kevin C. Matthews
Join the historic Apollo Theater’s Executive Producer, Kamilah Forbes as she speaks with two members of the inaugural Apollo New Works cohort - artist, scholar, and culture strategist, Ebony Noelle Golden and visual storyteller and founder of Black Gotham Experience Kamau Ware. Together, they’ll discuss their artistic inspirations, upcoming Harlem Renaissance-inspired Apollo New Works projects, and how they’ve maintained their creativity throughout these turbulent times.
The Percy Sutton Harlem Entrepreneurs Boot Camp will be a crash course in the fastest routes to business success, particularly in the midst of the national pandemic. The Boot Camp will focus on three critical areas: access to capital, success in the digital environment, and maximizing supplier diversity programs.
This will be a virtual discussion to share career opportunities on Broadway, particularly for people of color, in an effort to provide more diversity on the Great White Way. This discussion will be led by leadership in this field covering topics including company managers, house management, advertising, digital marketing, scene design, and public relations. Participants include Charles Flateman, VP of Shubert Organization; Stephanie Mills, Actress and recording star; Irene Gandy, Broadway Press Agent; Julio Peterson, VP of Real Estate, Shubert Organization; David Calhoun, Former ATPAM President; Kim Shaw, Company Manager; Aaylitha Stevens, COO Spotco; Neil Mazzella, President/Founder, Hudson Scenic Studio; Jim Glaub, President, Super Awesome Friends; Damian Bazadona, President, Situation Interactive Marketing; Jim Joseph, House Manager, and Donna Walker Kuhne, Founder, Walker Communications Group.
This virtual business conference from --and for-- businesspersons in the “Harlems” around the world will cover topics including Cybersecurity, how to obtain needed financing, and online marketing for small businesses.
This virtual conference is our youth-centered event for HARLEM WEEK! This event will consist of a conversation with Young artivists and students about the issues of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter and how technology informs what they see and how they communicate plus our Technology Hack-A-Thon. The Hack-A-Thon is geared toward middle and high school students and the focus is: “Tech Meets the Movement of the People.” Teams of students will be presented with a challenge to solve digitally by creating an app, website or another digital solution. The teams then present their projects and the best ones will win prizes for their practicality and creativity!
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.