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DECEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER

City Hall vote on East Harlem rezoning: Thursday, November 30th at 1:30 pm. Be there or be gentrified!
Personae: Portraits of Personal Fiction
Film Screening - Kintsugi "The Line of Destiny"
Forum: Eyewitness Lebanon & Harlem's Rezoning Struggle
Ballet Hispánico at the Apollo
2nd Annual Youth March Against Police Brutality #FutureOfTheCity
 2017 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art
Greening the Grid: New York's Energy Future
Smile, It's Your Close Up 2: Warhol's Factory Workers


 #Harlem Town Hall Discussing the Effects of Police Raids + Closing #Rikers Island
East Harlem Holiday Tree Lighting
Marcos Dimas in Conversation with Jonathan Allen
8th Annual Harlem Craft Fair
Inversions Workshop (Iyengar Style!)
Harlem Rent Freeze Housing Event

El Barrio in the '80s
Book Launch: Joseph Rodriguez's El Barrio in the '80s
Tuesday, December 12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
The Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd Street

 
Join the Museum of the City of New York and Union Settlement to celebrate the book launch of Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the '80s. Rodriguez will discuss his experience photographing the neighborhood, share the stories behind the images, and sign books afterwards.
 

Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Celebration
Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Celebration
Wednesday, December 13 | 6:30 PM
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard @ 135th Street

 
2017 marks the centennial year of genius poet Gwendolyn Brooks, born on June 7, 1917. Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for any literary genre. She had published 75 poems by the age of 16 and recalled “very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.” This evening we celebrate the wonder of language as influenced by Brooks’s life and compositions.
Community District 4 School Leadership Team Building Capacity

#GodBoxTalk: Embracing Religious & Spiritual Diversity of African People
#GodBoxTalk: Embracing Religious & Spiritual Diversity of African People
Thursday, December 14th | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
120 East 125th Street

 
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in collaboration with The God Box Foundation presents God Box Talk: Embracing the Religious and Spiritual Diversity of the African People. Join us for a dynamic Interfaith Dialogue between esteemed African and African Diasporan Religious Scholars and Practitioners.
Uptown Flicks Presents: BPM (120 Battements par minute)

3-K For All Information Session Event in East Harlem School Districts 4 for the Fall of 2018-2019 school year
Holiday Open Studio Tour 2017
2017 NYSoM Winter Wonderland in Harlem
Smashing Patriarchy: Healing and Building for Our Liberation
Holiday Party with RevFit!
Holiday Pop-Up Market at La Marqueta
Kwanzaa Celebration: Regeneration Night - Apollo Theater
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