2016 When Sugar Hill Was Sweet Program Booklet
This booklet is an archived copy of the booklet WWSH published for its first year of programming.
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5<br />
Saying Something: Voices of 409 and<br />
555 Edgecombe Avenue<br />
Directed by Barbara Montgomery<br />
With actors from the Harlem<br />
community<br />
If one can describe a building as<br />
“prolific,” then it is probable that<br />
409 and 555 may well be two of the<br />
most prolific residences in the modern<br />
world. Dramatic interpretations of<br />
excerpted works by or about the intrepid<br />
Edgecombe Avenue writers, poets,<br />
playwrights, and thinkers.<br />
Pride and Harlem History<br />
Panelists, Rich Blint, PhD, David<br />
Hajdu, Gordon Thompson, PhD<br />
Moderator, TBD<br />
Billy Strayhorn<br />
was one of the<br />
brave. He was gay<br />
and out, during<br />
an era that was far<br />
more unforgiving<br />
Billy Strayhorn<br />
of homosexuality<br />
than the current<br />
period. This panel<br />
will present the gay community’s major<br />
influence on the arts and letters of the<br />
African Diaspora.<br />
The “Talented Tenth” and the “Ninety<br />
Percent” On Edgecombe Avenue: The<br />
Power of Community, The Realities of<br />
Dissension<br />
Louise<br />
Thompson-Patterson<br />
Panelists, Jelani Cobb,<br />
PhD, David Levering<br />
Lewis, PhD, Mark<br />
Naison, PhD<br />
Moderator, Herb<br />
Boyd<br />
Describes the broad,<br />
diverse political<br />
tendencies, from<br />
stalwart Communists, such as Marvel<br />
Cooke, to “integrationists” to nationalists,<br />
to anti-Communists. The influence and<br />
importance of Du Bois (William Edward<br />
Burghardt and Shirley Graham), Patterson<br />
(William and Louise Thompson), as well<br />
as Robeson (Paul and Eslanda), will be<br />
part of a comprehensive discussion.<br />
Closing Performance and Reception<br />
For the Love of <strong>Sweet</strong> Pea, Rudel Drears,<br />
pianist<br />
Thursday, September, 22, <strong>2016</strong><br />
6:30-8:30<br />
Schomburg Center for Research In<br />
Black Culture<br />
515 Malcolm X Boulevard<br />
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A WOMAN’S WORK IS<br />
NEVER DONE<br />
Panelists,<br />
Rosemari Mealy,<br />
Ph.D. and others<br />
TBA<br />
Moderator, Tina<br />
Campt, Ph.D.<br />
This engaging<br />
discussion will<br />
Mamie Clarke<br />
encapsulate the<br />
dynamic women<br />
of 409 and 555 Edgecombe. These<br />
influential personages include Shirley<br />
Graham Du Bois, Dr. Mamie Phipps<br />
Clarke, Louise Thompson-Patterson,<br />
and Eslanda Goode Robeson.<br />
October<br />
For a Better Life? The Caribbean<br />
Presence in Harlem<br />
Site and Date TBA<br />
Panelists, Marta Moreno Vega, PhD<br />
and others TBA<br />
Moderator, TBA
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