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The Harlem Chamber Players Celebrate 15th Anniversary with Concert June 9th at Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Columbia University, Harlem Chamber Players, Miller Theatre, Music, Opera

The Harlem Chamber Players_image 1 Photo Credit: Bob Curtis.

The Harlem Chamber Players (Founding Executive and Artistic Director Liz Player) will mark its 15^th Anniversary and Black Music Month with a musical extravaganza Harlem Songfest II, celebrating Black opera singers and the music of Black composers, including women, on Friday, June 9, at 7 p.m. at Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway at West 116th Street in Manhattan). Multifaceted artist Damien Sneed will serve as music director and conductor for the event, which will also feature arias from the European canon. The special concert is hosted by WQXR radio personality and Harlem Chamber Players (HCP) Artistic Advisor Terrance McKnight and presented in association with the Manhattan School of Music. Tickets for Harlem Songfest II — ranging from $20-$40, with $50 VIP tickets — are on sale Here. They can also be purchased by calling 212-854-7799 (Wed-Fri from 2 p.m.-6 p.m.).

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Dead Lecturer/distant relative at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Columbia University, Morningside Heights, Wallach Art Gallery

Al Loving, Space, time, Light #1, 1977, Acrylic and paper collage on canvas; 81 x 81 in. © Estate of Al Loving; courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY

Dead Lecturer / distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980 focuses on works by Asian American and African American artists whose approaches to abstraction provided alternatives to prevailing vocabularies for representation and resistance during the social movements of the 1960s and 70s, and for whom the parameters of visibility continue to remain a problem for thought today.

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Columbia U School of the Arts present the January 2021 Program for the popular Lenfest Kids

Columbia University, Lenfest

Still from Zootopia courtesy Lenfest Kids

With a new President now firmly in place, Lenfest Kids explores our ability to bring hope for repair of a particular kind ~ Social Repair. The three films they have chosen all speak in different ways to the possibility of social change and the need to make the world a better place for all

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After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art at Wallach Art Gallery

Columbia University, Harlem, Wallach Art Gallery

Filipe Branquinho, Jorge Macate, Padeiro (Jorge Macate, Baker), 2011. Courtesy the artist.

After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art presents a selection of works engaging with the history of African socialisms. It features artists looking at countries including Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The exhibition is the first in North America to explore aesthetic responses to African socialisms and their aftermath.

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