Past Programs at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Visually Speaking is a conversation series highlighting the works of 

Our Premiere afternoon event!

Join artist, Laura Gadson, as she shares her work as a fiber artist in Harlem and ideas regarding the era of the urban quiltmaking by other prominent artists. Come with your questions and creative ideas around quilts and see original work from 

First Lady of Flute, Bobbi Humphrey live on the Schomburg stage!
 
Experience the legendary Bobbi Humphrey, "First Lady Of Flute" in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the beloved global roadsong, "HARLEM RIVER DRIVE"; initially 

Join us as we explore multiple expressions of one of the highest mandates of faith: to fight for justice and build community.  Professor Kwesi Amoa discusses the establishment and use of the Akan Cultural Center Onipa Abusia in Queens New York. Choreographer, Sduduzo Ka-Mbili, 

NYC DOE EMPOWERING BOYS INITIATIVE Presents its 2013 CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP SERIES Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - Race, Practice, and the Achievement Gap

Thursday, April 11, 2013:

A book event with theater, film, and community forum presented by afro-latin@ forum, Asian American Writer's Workshop and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Start the new month with First Fridays at the Schomburg, a popular monthly social gathering that welcomes the community with music and drinks. Exhibition galleries will be open late. Free!

Join Julia Browne, of “Walking The Spirit Tours,” for a fascinating journey into black Paris. Through a multimedia presentation and storytelling, Browne will retrace the events and people that have bound black American and French culture for two centuries—from W.E.B. 

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Celebrate Women's History Month at the Schomburg Center's annual Women's Jazz Festival. Join us for an extraordinary evening with world-renowned vocalist, Lizz Wright and National Book Award winning  poet,