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.
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.”
During HARLEM WEEK, take time every day to dance, move and groove with us and special guest instructors from our partners at New Jersey Performing Arts Center who'll conduct an Afro Beat dance class this session.
Parents and educators, have your kids join us each morning of HARLEM WEEK in the Children’s Corner, our daily space just for kids (up to age 12.) Today in the Children’s Corner: Lincoln Center presents Daily Rituals Workshop with Lisa Green and Ivory Nuñez-Medrano plus Lincoln Center Concert For Kids presents "Nobuntu"
Harlem has some of the worlds most iconic restaurants and we invite you to experience them virtually throughout HARLEM WEEK 2020. See how some of the mouth watering dishes and delicious beverages are made, join us and enjoy “A Taste of Harlem.”
Enjoy Films that speak to our HARLEM WEEK Theme of “Movement of The People”, celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Negro Baseball League and the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance.
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.
Shop or get information from participants ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations. See what our Virtual Vendor Village has in "store" for you!
The traditional Harlem 5k Run will this year be a virtual event taking place throughout HARLEM WEEK 2020!
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.
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.
The Hamiltones have performed on the HARLEM WEEK stage in the past and come back this year to talk about their experience performing at HARLEM WEEK, What Harlem means to them and share a special virtual performance.
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!
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.
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.
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.
During HARLEM WEEK, take time every day to dance, move and groove with us and special guest instructors from our partners at New Jersey Performing Arts Center who'll conduct an Indian Classical dance class this session.
Parents and educators, have your kids join us each morning of HARLEM WEEK in the Children’s Corner, our daily space just for kids (up to age 12.) Today in the Children’s Corner: Impact Repertory Theatre and Vy Higginsen’s Sing Harlem Choir.
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
Harlem has some of the worlds most iconic restaurants and we invite you to experience them virtually throughout HARLEM WEEK 2020. See how some of the mouth watering dishes and delicious beverages are made, join us and enjoy “A Taste of Harlem.”
Shop or get information from participants ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations. See what our Virtual Vendor Village has in "store" for you!
The traditional Harlem 5k Run will this year be a virtual event taking place throughout HARLEM WEEK 2020!
Ever since he burst on the jazz scene, Brooklyn-born, Harlem-based vocalist/guitarist/bandleader/composer Allan Harris has reigned as the most accomplished and exceptional singer of his generation.
Enjoy this special at home concert, presented by Jazzmobile.
The best storytellers featured throughout the week will be selected to participate in The MOTH HARLEM WEEK Virtual Story Slam!
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!")
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.
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!
During HARLEM WEEK, take time every day to dance, move and groove with us and special guest instructors from our partners at New Jersey Performing Arts Center who'll conduct a Voguing dance class this session.
Parents and educators, have your kids join us each morning of HARLEM WEEK in the Children’s Corner, our daily space just for kids (up to age 12.) Today in the Children’s Corner: Impact Repertory Theatre and storytime with Books on the Move (courtesy of New Jersey Performing Arts Center)
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.