Saturday, December 7th Bruce Mack with Nubian Messengers Shrine, 2271 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd., Manhattan, 8pm. [No Cover] Special guests Will Calhoun and Kelvyn Bell will join the Nubian Messengers for their last show of the year. The evening will include a performance of the group’s debut single, “Sister Space Shifter.” Sunday, December 8th […]Read More
Wednesday, December 4th Protect Our Safety Net Hospitals Community Forum Interfaith Medical Center, 1545 Atlantic Avenue, 6:30-8:30pm, FREE. Learn what we can do together to protect access to health care. Fight for fair funding to hospitals that have taken care of most of the uninsured and people on Medicaid. Get New York State elected officials […]Read More
Friday, November 22nd Celebrating Brazil’s History Month and Black Cinema The People’s Forum 320 West 37th St. 6:30-9pm FREE. The first Black Brazilian women collective in the U.S. invites all to celebrate Brazil’s Black History Month with the African diaspora in New York. The event features short films by Afro Brazilian filmmakers with stories […]Read More
Friday, November 15th Black Public Media Open Call Deadline Attention filmmakers! This year’s Open Call is for feature-length documentaries, shorts (nonfiction or scripted) or limited podcast series for public media distribution. Selected projects will receive production funds to advance their work. There are no limits on the subject area. However, BPM encourages work that will […]Read More
Friday, November 8th “Love Your Block” Grant: Prepare to Submit by the 11/12 Deadline The Love Your Block grant allows neighborhood groups to transform their communities through local action while leveraging city services. Resident-led volunteer groups each receive a grant of $1,000 and city services provided by the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department […]Read More
Spirit Ensemble at CityTech! Academic Complex Auditorium, 285 Jay St., 10am-12:30pm, FREE (bring ID). This concert is presented as part of CityTech’s “Healing Spaces: Before and Beyond 1619,” marking 400 years since the arrival of captured Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. Join the organizers for a concert and conversation in celebration of Black Solidarity Day featuring […]Read More
A Ballad for Harlem Conversation: Sculptor Augusta Savage Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan, 6:30-8:30pm, FREE. Dr. Jeffreen M. Hayes and independent curator and writer Niama Sandy will discuss the artistic vision and impact of Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage. Dr. Hayes is the author of Augusta Savage: Renaissance […]Read More
BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave., 7:30-10pm, $16. The Luminal Theater and Caribbean Film Academy presents this directorial debut by Olympian and WNBA All-Star Tina Charles. It tells the story of Rawlston “Charlie” Charles, who migrated to New York City from Tobago in 1967. His store, Charlie’s Calypso City, became a fixture on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant […]Read More
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