Announcing the 14th Annual New York Family Arts Festival

A 10 Day Festival with Art for Everyone!

Friday, June 22nd at 7:30 PM

Cats Paying Dues—Cats in Concert

An evening of exciting tap and thrilling music

http://catsinconcert.eventbrite.com/

Saturday, June 23rd at 7:30 PM

A Rhapsody in HUE

A street jazz showcase by choreographer Rhapsody James

http://hue.eventbrite.com/

Sunday, June 24th at 3 PM

Tim and the Space Cadets

Exciting music for children that parents will love

http://timandthespacecadets.eventbrite.com/ 

Monday, June 25th at 7:30 PM

An Evening of Japanese Culture

Japanese dance with IchiFuji-kai Dance, taiko drums with Taiko Masala and Cobu Project,

 and samurai sword fighting with Samurai Sword Soul.

http://japaneseculture.eventbrite.com/

Tuesday, June 26th at 7:30 PM

Shades of Truth presents Trilogy of Truth

Relevant, provocative, and innovative new plays written by and

about people of color and the Black experience

 http://trilogyoftruth.eventbrite.com/

Wednesday, June 27th at 7:30 PM

Mooney/Cooley Dance in Why Dance

MCD explores the “Why?” and “How?” of dance

http://mcdwhydance.eventbrite.com/

Thursday, June 28th at 7:30 PM

Tyrone Birkett/Emancipation presents Postmodern Spirituals: New Freedom Songs

Re-imagining and reviving the Negro spiritual by incorporating jazz, gospel, and soul music

 http://postmodernspirituals.eventbrite.com/

Friday, June 29th at 7:30 PM

TRT and HAA present Artz, Rootz, Rhythm

Performances by Harlem Arts Alliance Members including Uptown Dance Academy, Millennium Dance Company, and Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts’ GESTURES Dance Ensemble

http://artz.eventbrite.com/

Saturday, June 30th from 12 to 6 PM

Polish Cultural Village at Riverside Park

An outdoor festival of Polish food, music, art, and dance

No reservation required 

Sunday, July 1st at 3 PM

The Pop Ups in Radio Jungle

An educational romp through time and space populated with mermaids,

on-location-extreme-cooking shows, treasure maps, a sky full of glowing constellations, dancing bats, and more

http://popups.eventbrite.com/

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE 
Make your reservation today!

Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem

The Riverside Theatre presents:

Terry Baker Mulligan

Reading from & Signing Copies of Her New Memoir

“Sugar Hill, Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem”

Thursday, June 7, 2012
7:30 p.m.

Using Harlem’s famous cultural institutions and memorable characters as her backdrop,
Terry Baker Mulligan writes joyously about weathering adolescence, while history unfolds
around her in the legendary neighborhood called Sugar Hill.

This feel-good story resonates with humor, warmth and wisdom as Mulligan chronicles her life among flamboyant evangelists, curly-haired Doo-Wop boys, snuff-dippers, Fidel Castro’s entourage, interracial marriages, chitlin’ parties and testy interactions between West Indian immigrants and Southern blacks.

Meet Mr. Big B, the neighborhood numbers banker; join Terry at Apollo matinees, where she is dazzled by Ella, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dinah Washington, Miriam Makeba, Eartha Kitt, and R&B newcomers like Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Neighborhood luminaries stroll the sidewalks: Mr. and Mrs. Thurgood Marshall with baby carriage; Sugar Ray Robinson exiting his pink Cadillac; and Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politicking on the street corners. Young Terry befriends baseball’s Willie Mays in the local shoeshine parlor, paints posters for the 1957 March on Washington, and tries, but fails, to ingratiate herself into junior black society.

Sugar Hill is a living document of mid 20th-century Harlem.
The story it tells will appeal to an America that knows the tremendous shaping influence
Harlem has exerted on its national identity, both at home and around the globe.

Copies of “Sugar Hill” will be on sale at the theatre,
 and purchased copies will be signed by the author

FREE ADMISSION

RSVP HERE