Harlem Stage Announces Event Listings For February 12-27, 2011

Harlem Stage has music, film, spoken-word, and family-friendly events this month.
MUSIC

Saturday, February 12
UPTOWN NIGHTS PRESENTS: CABARET CHOCOLAT with Tamar-kali

7:30 pm at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue (at West. 135th St.)
Tickets: $25, $35 at www.HarlemStage.org or 212.281.9240, ext. 19 or 20
Back by popular demand! Tamar-kali's returns to Harlem Stage with her Psychochamber Ensemble for a totally new showcase filled with illusion, burlesque, aerial spectacle, dance and song. Presented as a treatise on love, this multidisciplinary performance piece personifies desire, passion, infatuation and heartbreak through illusion, burlesque, aerial spectacle, dance and song.

FILM

Wednesday, February 16
Harlem Stage ON SCREEN PRESENTS: RECOLORATION/PROCLAMATION

by John Sims
7:30 pm at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue (at West. 135th St.)
Tickets: $10 at www.HarlemStage.org or 212.281.9240, ext. 19 or 20
Creating a range of responses from boycott to deaths threats, conceptual artist John Sims presents the making of his a risqué documentary film project. Recoloration Proclamation to Gettysburg critiques the confederate flag, visual terrorism southern heritage via the process of remixing, recoloring and rewriting. Join the journey from SoHo, to a KKK rally, Gettysburg and the eventual burial of the confederate flag. The presentation will be introduced by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky.

FILM/FAMILY-FRIENDLY

Tuesday, February 22-27
Harlem Stage ON SCREEN PRESENTS: DIGITAL DIASPORA FAMILY REUNION

by Thomas Allen Harris
7:30 pm at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue (at West. 135th St.)
Reservations for Feb. 22-26: 212.281.9240, ext. 19 or 20
Tickets for Feb. 27: $10 at www.HarlemStage.org or 212.281.9240, ext. 19 or 20
Bring local history to life with award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris through his interactive road show. Make your reservation to bring family photos and other scannable documents for a historical appraisal and storytelling from Feb 22-25. Then join us for a special Live Event at Harlem Stage on Sunday, February 27th to celebrate Harlem's Hidden History...YOURS!

PERFORMANCE/SPOKEN WORD

Thursday, February 16
EDUCATION ON Harlem Stage PRESENTS: UPTOWN OPEN
5:00 pm at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue (at West. 135th St.)
Tickets: $3 teens, $5 adults (Available only at the door.)
Teen poets, spoken-word artists, emcees, scholars and activists with something to say are invited to share their voices in this open-mic monthly series. Outfitted with youth DJs this safe, uncensored space provides a platform for free expression. The young and young-at-heart are invited to sneak a peek at the next generation of performing artists.

 

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