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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)


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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. 



DSC04814.jpgVoza 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.



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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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Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray
September 17, 19-20, 2009
Ravinia Festival
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October 1-3, 2009
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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October 6, 2009
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◊ Maija Garcia Contemporary Workshop

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New York, NY
Aug 17, 2009 - Aug 22, 2009
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American Dance Festival
Durham, NC
July 10-12, 2009

Bill T. Jones Solos film screened at American Dance Festival's Dancing for the Camera: International Festival of Film and Video Dance.
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◊ Summer Scoops Live with The Wall Street Journal

Lincoln Center
New York, NY
August 18, 2009

Stew and Heidi Rodewald, join Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong and Bjorn Amelan, to explore the pleasures and pitfalls of artistic partnerships.
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Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
2009-2010

Bill T. Jones conducts residency activities at Skidmore College as the 2009-2010 McCormack Artist Scholar in Residence.
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Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 21 - November 23, 2009

Still/Here featured during the free Videodanse Festival at the Centre Pompidou.
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