Uptown Arts: People’s Theatre Project & Word Up Books Present This Is Us
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The People’s Theatre Project’s What Happens Here Kicks Off This Friday
Friday, Nov. 16th at 7:30pm The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (3940 Broadway) An interactive and bilingual theatrical event about housing rights and discrimination in our communities conceived, written and performed by the Uptown Action community actors. For more: http://peoplestheatreproject.org/ Check out: Uptown 2011 Movers & Shakers: Mino Lora [...]
indiegogo Spotlight: Statement Arts’ Summer Youth Program
This summer Statement Arts is teaming up with the legendary Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center to provide a free summer music and theater program for 50 underserved New York City kids! The Need: Many public school students in New York Cities’ underserved communities have little or no access to the [...]
The Uptown Collective Presents The Weekend
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Check out our list of some greats things to do this weekend Uptown and beyond. Ok, first and foremost, I will be hosting the second iteration of the Led Black Book Club featuring Mr. Robb Todd tomorrow at Apt 78 (4447 Broadway) from 1 to 3pm. His debut collection of short [...]
Q&A With Zahaira Curiel & Liza Politi of Statement Arts
This July and August, Statement Arts partners up with the legendary Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Cultural Center to bring a free Summer Camp, entitled Empower Youth Through Performance, to under-served kids. For two weeks, four teaching artists will lead rigorous classes in auditioning and performance techniques for 40 – 50 students, grades 3-6 [...]
Tales of ‘Tia Lola’ bridge cultural gap for young Hispanic New Yorkers | NY Daily News
BY Heidi Evans To hear writer Julia Alvarez tell it, she was a “terrible” student, until her sixth grade teacher had an inspired idea. She told the Dominican-American girl: “If you don’t find people like you in your books, write your own books!” Alvarez took the challenge to heart. And decades later, the beloved character [...]
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