Black Renaissance Art Show ’08

Red Harlem Readers Presents

HoneyDripper featuring an All Star Cast

The IBFF is hosting screenings on\f John Sayles provocative new film “HoneyDripper” starring Danny Glover @ Cinema Village, located on 12th Street between University & 5th Avenue this (1/18-1/20/08) Friday @ 7:15pm  Saturday@ 7:15pm and Sunday @1:50 and 7:15pm. The film is set in rural Alabama during the 1950′s and hosts a stellar cast that… [Read more…]

Acting Workshop

Petronia Paley            I the Actor Acting Workshop Scene Study/Monologue Class: Beginning February 11th 12 weeks Petronia Paley is a veteran actor of television and stage. For over twenty years she worked on soap operas, creating long running characters on Guiding Light and Another World. She has taught at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center,… [Read more…]

What’s Happening at Morris Jumel?

The Morris-Jumel Mansion presents: Redcoats on the Rocks or How Geology Influenced the Battles and Troop Movements in New York City During The Revolutionary War – A slide-illustrated lecture with Sidney Horenstein.  Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum 65 Jumel Terrace New York, NY  10032 

What ever happened to Robert Townsend

Pan African Film & Arts Festival to Host World Premiere of Robert Townsend’s “Of Boys and Men” The Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF) will host the world premiere of director Robert Townsend’s “Of Boys and Men” starring Robert Townsend, Angela Bassett, Victoria Rowell, Dante Boens with Faizon Love, Vince Green, and Bobb’e J.… [Read more…]

Ruby Dee gets Oscar nod for American Gangster

Ruby Dee Gets First Academy Award Nomination Veteran thesp Ruby Dee finally gets her kudos with an Oscar® nomination for best supporting actress as the unsuspecting mother (“Mama Lucas”) of Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) in “American Gangster.” The 83-year-old actress is the only black actor nominated this year. This accolade has been… [Read more…]

Free Classes

Saturday Jazz Academy February 9, 2008 – April 5, 2008 Saturdays, 1:30pm – 2:30pm Tuition: FREE! Free jazz courses provided by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem in collaboration with The Harlem School of the Arts. The courses will be instructed by Loren Schoenberg, Executive Director of the NJMH, and will feature numerous guest artists.… [Read more…]