Black Life Matters Exhibition at the Schomburg Center
This Curators’ Choice exhibition launches the Schomburg’s 90th anniversary year with an eclectic array of rarely seen collection materials that affirm the Schomburg’s mission to document... Read More
Archived Events
Here we store all old events as an archive to browse. The events range from 1979 – June 2020.
Harlem Is … Theater – 1821 to Now
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Through memorabilia, photos, film and original artwork, learn about the theaters that bloomed and survived, the people who were driven to keep them vital, and... Read More
The Voices of Sarafina
An interactive screening of South Africa Then: Sarafina, starring Miriam Makeba and Whoopi Goldberg. The plot of the film is based on the ground-breaking 1988 Lincoln Center... Read More
The People of Clarendon County
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Clarendon County, a rural community in South Carolina, was the battleground of black sharecroppers, domestic workers, laborers and clergymen who joined with the NAACP to... Read More
Spike Lee, Kehinde Wiley, and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Join aclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee, artist Kehinde Wiley, and illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh for a special one-night-only conversation about the role storytelling plays in the visual... Read More
Neighborhood Concert: Matuto
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The lively, joyous sound of Matuto entwines Brazilian folk music with the flatpicking guitars and fiery fiddling of American bluegrass. The line-up of Matuto, whose... Read More
Neighborhood Concert: Roomful of Teeth
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Yodeling, rhythmic clicks, and throat singing with complex harmonies are just some of the techniques that Roomful of Teeth pulls from its expansive vocal toolbox.... Read More
Talib Kweli
February 13, 2015, 8:30pm Lincoln Center’s American Songbook The Appel Room (Broadway, between 62nd & 65th Sts.) Manhattan (212)875.5456 Time and again, Brooklyn-born MC Talib... Read More