Friday, January 13, 2012

☞ SEE: Around Harlem This Weekend

Saturday, January 14th,  9:00 AM-4:00 PM, The Harlem School of the Arts Spring Open House 2012, 645 St. Nicholas Avenue and 142nd Street. The Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) Spring Open House and Registration Day to introduce new students of all ages and their families to the wide array of quality arts programs offered in music, dance, theatre and visual arts: Photography, Teen Shakespeare, Early Childhood Program for ages 2 - 3, Musical Theatre classes, Ballet, Children's Choir, Adult Dance & Fitness classes and much more: LINK

Saturday, January 14th, from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Alexander Hamilton's 257th Birthday Commemoration at the Hamilton Grange, 414 West 141st Street.  The Parks Department will a special event this weekend with a living historian portraying Alexander Hamilton to answer all questions about his life: LINK

Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock screen at the Schomburg Center, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue. After the screening, join filmmaker Sharon La Cruise for a “talk back” with the audience. Free! Call (212) 491-2040 or RSVP online: LINK

Sunday, January 15th, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Works in Progress | "I Have a Dream" Collage Portraits at The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street. Paying homage to artist Romare Bearden and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Laundromat Project presents through its Works in Progress program a portrait workshop that asks participants to employ Bearden's iconic collage technique to create a portrait of the person that they aspire to be. Using some of Dr. King's quotes as a source of inspiration, completed portraits will integrate color, xerox copies, magazines, and textiles to creatively illustrate a figurative image that includes the qualities each participant wishes to embody in 2012. This workshop is free and open to the public: LINK

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