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Harvest, Sustenance and Survival:
A Photo Exhibit of Women and Food from Around the World
On view to March 11
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Chelsea Market
10th Avenue Entrance
Between 15th & 16th Streets
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Exploring History Through Drama:
Richard Wright's Black Boy, performed by Tarantino Smith
Wednesday, March 12 @ 11:00 am
 American Place Theater presents a verbatim adaptation of the classic American autobiographical work. Black Boy dramatizes Richard Wright's journey from childhood innocence to adulthood in the Jim Crow South. The issues addressed in this novel still resonate in today's cultural dialogue.
Themes explored: Family, Race, Injustice, Civil Rights, Faith and Violence
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New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
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Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art in the Diaspora
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 12 @ 6 pm - 8: 30 pm
On view March 12 - 27
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Tabla Rasa Gallery
224 48th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Fiction into Film: Kubuku Ride (This Is It)
Wednesday, March 12 @ 7:30 pm
A filmmaker and a writer discuss their experiences adapting fiction for the screen and introduce readings of fiction that has been or might be adapted. Guests include Tony Award-winner and Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Terry Kinney, who introduces a screening of his film Kubuku Rides (This Is It). Based on a Larry Brown story, this emotionally charged film is an unblinking view of a household steeped in secrets and desperation.
A part of the Symphony Space series: Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story.
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Symphony Space
2537 Broadway @ 95th Street
New York, NY 10025
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Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust
Wednesday, March 12 @ 7:30 pm
 The PEN American Center presents:
12 poets, including Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Sharon Dolin, Michael Heller, Stephen Herz, Eliot Katz, Yala Korwin, Stanley Moss, Anna Rabinowitz, Menachem Rosensaft, Mark Rudman, Yerra Sugarman and Marilynn Talal will be reading on March 12. This event will be moderated by Charles Fishman.
The poets will be reading for a new anthology of Holocaust-related poetry called Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, 2nd Ed. |
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
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Harlem Stage on Screen: Creatively Speaking
March 14 - March 16
Experience the 12th season of the Harlem Stage annual film series, featuring New York Women in Film and Television. Enjoy a mix of creative and innovative films, videos short narratives, documentaries and feature length films that cover an array of contemporary social topics that convey the spirit and passion of communities of color.
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Harlem Stage at The Gatehouse
150 Convent Avenue
at West 135th Street
New York, NY
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Asian Contemporary Art Week (2008)
March 15 - March 24
Over 100 artists present their works at 60 special events, including receptions, exhibition-viewings, screenings, artists' conversations and walkthroughs at 46 galleries and museums across New York City.
The Asian Contemporary Art Week has been recognized as an important event responding to the continuous and rising public interest and demand for knowledge about artists producing works both inside and outside of Asia.
Featured artists herald from almost every region of Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and for the first
time, the Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.
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Liberty City
Through March 16
 Liberty City: a place where people of the African Diaspora have settled; where urban and island cultures rub up against each other, and the site of Miami's infamous 1980 riots.
Enter April Yvette Thompson--a child of children of the 60's, the daughter of a Bahamian and Cuban father and an African American mother: free thinkers, young radicals and movement people. As the hope of the 60's and 70's gave way to the disillusionment and disintegration of the 80's, April's family struggled to survive and stay together.
Part history, part imagination, Liberty City is her personal story that illuminates the lives of one family through the context of social, cultural, and political events. |
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street
between 2nd Avenue and Bowery
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Ethnographies of the Future
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 18 @ 7pm - 9pm
On view March 18 - May 5
 Ethnographies of the Future takes into account the vast geographies impacted by colonial rule by bringing together artists whose works present a critical relationship to post-colonial identity politics. The artists in the exhibition, with their diverse historical reference points, make clear that the terms of cultural identification are unstable.
Drawing on histories of the Caribbean, South Asia, Israel, China, Korea and Japan, the South Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, the exhibition addresses colonial rule from a contemporary, global perspective.
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BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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New Africa Live
Friday, March 21 @ 7pm
The New Africa Music Series returns with performances from Ghanaian soul singer Abena Koomson
and Loide. Carving out a cultural space of belonging for the New African experience, critically acclaimed Rwandese-Ugandan jazz vocalist Somi curates this music showcase that challenges homogenized notions of African cultural expression and celebrates New African artists as they express themselves in a multitude of languages, rhythms, and genres. and Mozambican jazz vocalist |
The Zipper Theatre
336 West 37th Street
between 8th & 9th Ave
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TIME LINES - Hip Hop Africa: Global Currents, New Media
Friday, March 28 @ 6pm - 8pm
Conceptual artist, writer and musician Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid moderates an all-star panel discussion on African hip hop and music videos.
Professors Jesse Shipley (Bard College) and Michael Ralph (New York University) join Shaheen Ariefdien of the pioneering South African rap group Prophets of da City and filmaker Ben Herson to discuss the emergence and current state of hip hop in African nations.
TIME LINES: New Perspectives on Contemporary and Traditional African Art is co-sponsored by the Museum for African Art and the Institute of African-American Affairs at
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New York University
19 University Place
Room 102
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Celebrate Zora Neale Hurston
Saturday, March 29, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
 Celebrate one of the Harlem Renaissance's leading authors, Zora Neale Hurston, in an interactive production based on her life and works, including Their Eyes Were Watching God.
The production features award-winning actress Elizabeth Van Dyke. Produced in association with African Voices Big Read, an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
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Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
@ 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
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Romare Bearden
Works: Cubist and Caribbean
On view to March 29
 It was as a cubist that Bearden earned early acclaim in the 1940's. Using the cubist style in watercolor and oil, he gave visual embodiment to texts by Homer and García Lorca, as well as the Bible.
Bearden spent much of his last two decades on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. During his final and most productive years, this tropical experience influenced his art. His work became more painterly employing watercolor with collage resulting in what can be called "collage paintings". In his later years, watercolors and collage with increased prominence produced a personal iconic
imagery of the Caribbean, North Carolina and Harlem.
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Essie Green Galleries
419A Convent Avenue
Sugar Hill, Harlem
New York, NY 10031
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Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival
March 2 - 30
Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival presents Arab music and dance traditions from Egypt, Yemen, Israel, Tunisia, Palestine, Iraq, Morocco, Syria, and Lebanon.
Maqam is the Arabic word referring to the patterns of musical notes, based on a quarter note system, which form the building blocks of traditional Arab music.
Sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council.
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Paul Gardère: Multiple Narratives
March 6 - April 12
Paul Gardère 's work reflects the artist's mixed ancestry, his attachment to his Haitian origins as well as a mind open to the subtleties of today's art environment. His artistic means range the gamut of Western art history, including Caribbean and local American culture.
The theme Multiple Narratives refers to the confluence of these diverse sources. |
Skoto Gallery
529 West 20th Street
5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
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The Conscientious Objector
March 4 - April 19
In early 1967, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. informed his advisors that he intended to play a major role in the anti-war movement, advocating immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Vietnam, his inner circle feared he would trigger a backlash and undo the progress made in civil rights.
This troubling story of dissent in America during a time of war draws from the historical record, including the White House's infamous secret telephone recordings |
The Clurman Theatre
Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
between 9th and 10th Aves
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A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
March 9 - May 31
 A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal is the first major U.S. exhibition of the arts and culture of a dynamic and influential Muslim spiritual brotherhood, known as Mouridism, in the West African country of Senegal.
The exhibition explores the range of Mouride arts-large popular murals, intricate glass paintings, calligraphic healing devices, posters for social activism, colorful textiles, and paintings by internationally known contemporary artists. Mouridism is based on the teachings of the Senegalese Muslim Saint Sheikh Amadou Bamba (1853-1927).
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd. @ 135th Street
Harlem
New York, New York 10030
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Chop Shop, a film by Ramin Bahrani
"Like its prosaic title, or like those homely birds, Chop Shop dwells mainly in the realm of the literal. Filmed inside shady auto-repair businesses, on bleak overpasses and in vacant lots in the shadow of Shea Stadium, this film, like Mr. Bahrani's 2006 feature, Man Push Cart, is concerned principally with the kind of hard, marginal labor that more comfortable city dwellers rarely notice. But there is nonetheless a lyricism at its heart, an unsentimental, soulful appreciation of the grace that resides in even the meanest struggle for survival." ~ A.O. Scott, New York Times |
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In the Heights, A New Musical
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Richard Rodgers Theatre
226 West 46th Street
between Broadway & 8th Avenue
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation takes place in Brazil in 1970, when the country was ruled by a military dictatorship and its national soccer team, led by Pelé, was making its way toward the finals of the World Cup. Accordingly, sports and politics both play parts in this film, directed by Cao Hamburger, which filters the tumult and trauma of Brazilian history through the perceptions of a 12-year-old boy named Mauro.
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Pan African Literary Forum: GHANA
July 3 - 18, 2008
The inaugural 2008 PALF Forum will be held in Accra, Ghana the 1st week and the Ashanti city of Kumasi the 2nd week with excursions to the slave castles of Elmina.
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Special thanks to Janet Crawford, Stella Vincenot, Maria Nunes, and Sandrine Colard for their contributions to this week's issue.
To submit events & announcements, or to subscribe to of note contact GraceAAli@hotmail.com.
Grace Aneiza Ali,
Founder and Publisher
of note is a weekly newsletter celebrating the arts, culture, and history of our distinct, yet, intersecting diasporas. It is a forum that entertains and enlightens - a space where art meets activism and social responsibility.
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