Recent Dialogues
Exploring Judgment and Redemption
Friday, June 12, 2009 Following the 7:30PM-8:30PM performance of Chapel/Chapter At Harlem Stage Leading with the question, "How can this event suggest the uneasy distance our mediatized era helps...
Lincoln's Legacy in Harlem
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:30 PMAt Harlem Stage Harlem's radical cultural, political, social and aesthetic transformations since the beginning of the last century have been the subject of ongoing...
Fela is Alive!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 At Harlem Stage Gatehouse Fela Is Alive! is the fifth of the innovative community discussions, "Breaking Ground with Bill T. Jones" co-presented with Harlem Stage....
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 PMBill T. Jones' third in a series of invigorating community dialogs focused...
Harlem - The Scene
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM
This lively discussion was given poetic resonance with a reading by essayist and activist Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts accompanied by musician /composer Craig Harris as well as a performance by hip-hop artist Swave Sevah. Jones led the moderated discussion which expanded upon subjects such as, where do artists (musicians, poets, dancers, actors, singers) hang out now? What are the various Harlem social scenes? Is there a racial and ethnic divide? How are things changing with the encroachment of gentrification? Is there still an innovative jazz scene? Are there places and restaurants where locals go to hang? What kind of impact does tourism have on the neighborhoods? In addition to Rhodes-Pitts, Harris, and Sevah, guests included author and cultural historian, Michael Henry Adams, and author, restaurateur and former opera singer, Alexander Smalls.
Link to pod cast
Special thanks to WNYC for providing the recording of Harlem-The Scene
