FREE HOME TO HARLEM VIEWING AT MAYSLES CINEMA

Harlem Bespoke: Home to Harlem presents Harlem through an archival lens as both an actual home for Black citizens and families… and as a location in the popular imagination of African Americans, by exploring the various intersections of documentary, amateur films, home movies, musical shorts, nontheatrical materials, family archives and the preservation of cultural artifacts in Harlem.  

Thursday, June 9th , 7:30PM-9:00PM, Home to Harlem: Americas's Black Metropolis, in-theater screening at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue by West 127th Street.  Archival short documentary films from the 1940s showing a glimpse of Harlem's past seen on the cinema screen for the first time.  Some of the other themes featured in the film include wealth inequality in Harlem, with shots of the Sugar Hill neighborhood; people shopping in Harlem’s markets; Harlem’s ethnic diversity; Harlem’s main thoroughfares:  More details on the free film event can be found at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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