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June 2008
Harlem, Cultural Capital: Naming The Future
"Naming things is only the intention to make things"
--poet Frank O'Hara, "Memorial Day 1950"
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008, 7:30 PM
Bill T. Jones' third in a series of invigorating community dialogs focused on culture, activism, education, and convened an exciting array of guests to engage with each other and audience members in a visionary discussion on "naming" the future of Harlem.
Guest speakers included Omar Freilla (Founder, Green Workers Cooperative), Bakari Kitwana (Author, The Hip-Hop Generation), Voza Rivers (Executive Producer, New Heritage Theatre Group) Clesont Mitchell, director of family and community outreach for Village Academies, and Beatrice Sibblies (Real Estate Developer).
Voza
Rivers (left) speaks on the definition of "Culture" while (l-r)
Beatrice Sibblies, Omar Freilla, Clesont Mitchell, Bakari Kitwana, and
Bill T. Jones look on.
Bill T. Jones' third in a series of invigorating community dialogs focused on culture, activism, education, and convened an exciting array of guests to engage with each other and audience members in a visionary discussion on "naming" the future of Harlem.
Guest speakers included Omar Freilla (Founder, Green Workers Cooperative), Bakari Kitwana (Author, The Hip-Hop Generation), Voza Rivers (Executive Producer, New Heritage Theatre Group) Clesont Mitchell, director of family and community outreach for Village Academies, and Beatrice Sibblies (Real Estate Developer).
With a mix of talk and performance, Harlem's IMPACT Repertory Theatre's Oscar-nominated youth performance group opened the evening by lifting their voices in song.
Voza
Rivers (left) speaks on the definition of "Culture" while (l-r)
Beatrice Sibblies, Omar Freilla, Clesont Mitchell, Bakari Kitwana, and
Bill T. Jones look on.
IMPACT Repertory Theatre closed the event with a performance of their Oscar-nominated song Raise it Up, from the movie August Rush.
Stay tuned for video of Harlem, Cultural Capital: Naming the Future, which will be posted soon, and join us for next Breaking Ground with Bill T. Jones, a Community Dialogue Series will be held on October 28, 2008 at Harlem Stage, and will feature guests from Jones' new off-Broadway musical about the life of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, entitled Fela!
-- David Archuletta, Sunday, June 1, 2008)
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