2nd Annual Harlem Pride (2011) Scheduled Events At Casa Frela Gallery, Marcus Garvas Park & Harlem Lanes June 23rd - 26th, 2011 (NYC)

Official Website: HarlemPride.org

The Harlem Pride 2011 Event Schedule

Thursday, June 23, 2011

PANEL DISCUSSION
Breaking The Silence: Depression in Black Gay Men
Hosted by Antoine Craigwell

PANELISTS
Shane Tull, LICSW-R, GMAD
Victor Pond, Griot Circle
Rev. Stacey Latimer, Pastor, Love Alive International
DJ Baker - Radio Host, Da Doo Dirty Show

- discussing, educating, informing, and raising awareness
of depression in Black gay men to change and save lives.

Casa Frela Gallery
(47 W. 119th Street - between Lenox & 5th Avenues)

6PM - 9PM
FREE To The Public

For More Information Visit: http://www.dbgm.info


Friday, June 24, 2011

VIP LAUNCH PARTY

Come out and meet the Harlem Pride, Inc. Board of Directors,
elected officials, community leaders, and supporters.



Sponsored by El Dorado Rum
Catered by Kai & I, Inc.

Featuring DJ Mario, with guest DJ Andre Collins
and award winning recording artist Syl Simone!


Casa Frela Gallery
(47 W. 119th Street - between Lenox & 5th Avenues)
(a wonderful gallery AND a private residence!)

7PM - 11PM
Tickets: $50 each (includes open bar & buffet)


Carmen Neely (Harlem Pride's Executive Director)


Saturday, June 25, 2011

HARLEM PRIDE DAY 2011 CELEBRATION

Come show your PRIDE and celebrate with us.
We've got vendors, artists, elected official, and other guest speakers.
Don't forget to check out the SAGE Health Fair as well.

Marcus Garvey Park
(124th Street & 5th Avenues)

12 NOON - 6PM
FREE to the Public (Vendors $50 for a table and 2 chairs)


SAGE HEALTH FAIR

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Harlem Public Library
(9 W. 124th Street, between 5th Ave. & Mt. Morris Park West)

12 NOON - 4PM
Featuring health screenings, health information,
health and wellness workshops, and medical service providers.



Sunday, June 26, 2011

HARLEM PRIDE FAMILY DAY - Come Bowl With Pride!

Harlem Lanes
(2116 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd @ 126th Street, 3rd Floor)

6PM - 10PM
Come and enjoy bowling with your friends and family.
Rental, food & beverage discounts offered.

UPDATE (Wednesday, June 29th, 2011):

Here are some pics I took from the 2nd Annual Harlem Pride this past Saturday at Marcus Garvey Park...

I Saw This Ad On The # Train And Pulled Out The Cam
To Get A Picture.
It Was Good To See Black Representation

I'm Headed To The 2nd Annual Harlem Pride!
YEP! YEP! YEP!

The Official Harlem Pride Desk

Video Interview At The Black Men's Xchange (BMX-NY) Table
Official Website: BMXNY.org

Writer/Producer/Director Patrik-Ian Polk (Pink Shirt)
Doing Some Filming With a RED CAMERA!!!!! WHAT!!!!

Friends Donald and Paul

Friends Brian and Herb

Bruthaz From ADODI,
A Same Gender Loving Afrocentric and Spiritual Organization
That Hosts Annual Summer Retreats

Kenny and Randy

Dadland

Dadland's Outreach Table

MY Friend Brian

Ra Shawn and His Son

Patrick Givin' A Hug

Bryan Jazz and Michael E.

BMX Bruthaz Doing Outreach and Voter Registration

Beautiful Ladies

Graphics Designer, Author and Cartoonist Michael-Christopher

Michael-Christopher Promoting His Latest Project,
The Eye Candy Coffee Table Photo Book
MAN: BLACK
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Purchase The Book From Michael's Official Website:
Michael-Christopher.com

Attractive and Beautiful Brutha and Model Jorge Lander.
He Was The Hands Down Best Model In Last Year's (2010)
DC Black Pride Fashion Show
Check Out His Portfolio HERE

Activist Keith Boykin and George B.

I Got My Eyes On You

Terry, Another Photographer Getting Good Shots

Cute Doggies




Harlem Pride's Executive Director Carmen Neely
And BMX-NY Chapter Co-Founder John-Martin Green





Charly (pictured right) and His Friend!
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Charly Wanted to Trade My Beads For His!
Ummmmmm... NAH MAN!




Legendary SGL Entertainment Promoter
James Saunders (center) and Donald




Likwuid Stylz!
As She Professes... "Always Mix Your LiKWUiDs"




OBB ---> Out and Beautiful Brother




Entertainment Promoter and Estate Realtor Laurence Pinckney
(Green Shirt)




Xavier and Antoine Having a Debate




A Brutha Gettin' His Two Cents In
And Professing There's Nothing Wrong With Homosexuality.
Good For Him!! We Gotta Speak Up For Ourselves!!!




I LOVE THESE SISTAHS!!! THEY LOOK BEAUTIFUL




Brutha Zavier




The Brutha On The Extreme Left (Unicef Shirt) Is a Mad Cutie!!!
He Wouldn't Let Me Take A Solo Picture Of Him
So I Settled For A Group Shot With His Friends Instead! LOL!
I'm Good With That!





ADODI Bruthaz Jason and Jonathan



Brutha Edward








Sistah Workin' The Panny Cam

Diasporan Views: New York, Haiti, Cuba Photography Exhibition by Ocean Morisset Sat, June 18th, 2011 (5PM - 8PM) Sister's Uptown Bookstore

Photography Exhibition by Ocean Morisset

Saturday, June 18th, 2011
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5:00PM - 8:00PM

The Venue:

Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center
1942 Amsterdam Avenue @ 156th Street
Harlem, New York City
(212) 862-3680

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About Ocean Morisset...

I'm a Haitian-American, self-taught photographer specializing in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. While these generes of photography are my passions, I don't hesitate in the least when the urge engulfs me to shoot abstractions, or still life objects. What's important to me is that I keep creating. My pictures are my building blocks of my own life, and a blue-print of my soul. I'm enjoying the process of self-discovery through photography. Thanks for joining me on my journey!

Bulletyme: Encounter of the Third Kind

My boy Bulletyme has a new video that I wanted to share.

I LOVE his work!

The 40th (AROBAINI) Annual International African Arts Festival / July 1st - 4th, 2011 10AM - 9PM Daily (Rain or Shine) Bklyn, NYC (Since 1971)

Official Website: iaafestival.org

WOW! This is so historic! Can you believe this awesome Africentric event had first started in 1971???

"AROBAINI" in the African Swahili language means "40" and it is so INCREDIBLE that International African Arts Festival has endured the test of time. I am so EXCITED for this upcoming EVENT!! I will see if I can pick up 2 more African necklaces for myself. I have them envisioned and what I want...

- ROD

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The 40th Annual International African Arts Festival will take place on Friday, July 1st thru Monday, July 4th, 2011 at Commodore Barry Park (Navy Street, between Park and Flushing Avenues, on the border between Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene) rain or shine.

This four-day annual arts and crafts festival includes an African Marketplace, dance and music performances, and fashion shows. The festival is dedicated to the preservation of art forms, traditions, and cultures of Africa and its diaspora.

For more information, visit: www.iaafestival.org or connect on Facebook.





IAAF MISSION

The International African Arts Festival (IAAF) is dedicated to the preservation of art forms, traditions, and cultures of Africa and its diaspora.

The IAAF perpetuates all the artistic traditions that stem from African cultural practices throughout the world. As a celebration of our fortieth anniversary the festivals theme this year is AROBAINI (Swahili for "forty"), the mission of the IAAF is to bring together traditional and contemporary arts of African Diaspora by creating a venue that provides programs for artistic expression, entrepreneurial economic opportunities, and shares cultural experiences with a diverse audience of patrons.

40 (AROBAINI) YEAR HISTORY

The International African Arts Festival began in 1971 as the African Street Carnival, a PTA’s block party fundraiser for an independent school in Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with local entertainers, about 20 arts and crafts vendors, along with food prepared by the parents. Almost 2,000 people came to the event and it was a success.

The International African Arts Festival (IAAF) has been part of the Brooklyn’s cultural landscape for 40 years. Each year a committed team of Board members, consultants, part-time seasonal staff and volunteers, work together to transform a city park into an outdoor African cultural oasis that celebrates traditional and contemporary expression of various African cultural art forms.

Today, the IAAF is a community-based, non-profit organization that produces an annual event attracting an estimated 75,000 attendees from all over Brooklyn, New York City, the United States and from around the world.

In 2001 the IAAF relocated to Commodore Barry Park which is the third transition to a larger venue to accommodate its growing audience. The original line-up of local folk arts entertainment which has included dance companies such as Dinizulu African Dancers and Drummers, Marie Brooks Pan-Caribbean Dancers, emerging singers like Martha Redbone and many others continues to be an important part of the Festival’s programming.

Over the years, the stages of the Festival have featured renowned artists such as Blue Magic, The Mighty Sparrow, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, KRS-1, Lauryn Hill, India Arie; artists who grew to achieve national and international acclaim.

The small vendor market has grown into an African Marketplace with over a hundred micro-enterprise vendor/small business membership database of entrepreneurs. The market place offers an array of one of a kind, handcrafted, original designs of merchandise ranging from jewelry, urban fashion, t-shirts, body oils to imported African fabric, artifacts and furniture, original paintings, hand-carved marble sculptures and much more. In addition, the outdoor Food Court offers the community an array of talented cooks and chefs preparing a wide variety of scrumptious foods. The savory favors range from traditional soul food to spicy Caribbean dishes, to African, Latin, vegetarian food, seafood and even gourmet style
raw foods

The IAAF offers family focus entertainment and resources to the community.

UPDATE (Tuesday, July 5th, 2011):

I only took a few pics with my Nokia N900 Mobile Internet Device...

One of the more POWERFUL pictures was this art painting of the brutha with the AmeriKKKan flag noose around his neck. What was so interesting was that so many people were snapping pictures of that painting. It was almost paparazzi like as people stopped in their tracks at this particular vendor's tent. If I had the room and the duckets I would have bought it. The art piece absolutely RESONATED with so many African folks yesterday, myself included.

For me it just reaffirms the notion that I have not been, nor ever will be, a full human being in these United States of AmeriKKKa...

The ADODI New York Chapter Celebrates ADODI's 25th Silver Anniversary With 3 Events On The 4th of July Weekend

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FRIDAY, JULY 1st, 2011
9PM - 1PM
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West
(between 1st & 2nd Streets)
Brooklyn, New York 11215

TRAVEL: 2, 3 or 4 train to
Eastern Parkway Brooklyn Museum
OR
F or G train to 7th Avenue
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SATURDAY, JULY 2nd, 2011
12 Noon - 10PM
Coach Bus Leaves 12:30PM From
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Harlem State Office Building

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SUNDAY, JULY 3rd, 2011
7PM - 10PM

We will set sail on The Queen of Hearts from Pier 40
which is 2 blocks south of Christopher Street and West Side Highway.

Please be advised that there is no food or drink allowed on board, and all carry-on bags are subject to search by the boat owners. Boarding will begin promptly at 6PM.

NOTE: PHOTO ID IS REQUIRED

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS TO THE
6th Annual Boat Ride:
Take the #1 Train to Christopher Street.
Walk 5 blocks west to West Side Highway
(by the round water foundation landmark).
Then walk approximately 1 1/2 blocks south to Pier 40

Pricing:

The White Party is $50

The BBQ is $30

The Boat Ride is $25

If you buy a combination ticket to all three events that cost is
$75.00

Tickets may be bought from:

Chris 347-401-1000

Don 917-805-2249

Eugene 347-264-2716

Herb 917-696-3610

Howard 917-865-3305

Paul 917-533-5607

If you have any questions, any of the above people will be more than happy to answer them.

ADODI's HERITAGE
(Founded in Philadelphia, PA in 1986 by ADO Clifford Rawlins)
WE'RE IN OUR
25th
SILVER ANNIVERSARY YEAR!

www.ADODIintl.org

ADODI, the plural of ADO,
is a Yoruba word that describes a man who "loves" another man.
More than just a description of partners in Africa, the ADODI
of the tribe are thought to embody both male and female ways
of being and were revered as shamans, sages and leaders.

Who is ADODI?
ADODI is a community of men of color who affirm their
African lineage and love of men. Our purpose is to foster and
encourage the self-discovery, validation, empowerment and
liberation of all members of our diverse community.

Where do we meet?
Every 2nd Saturday of every month @
147 West 24th Street
(between 6th & 7th Avenues)
New York CityBrooklyn, NY
3:30PM - 7:00PM
A potluck dish is welcomed but not required - An open heart is!

TRAVEL MAP: GOOGLE MAPS
#1, C, E, F, N or R train to 23rd Street


REMEMBER, EACH ONE REACH ONE!
SHARE THE EXPERIENCE:
INVITE AND BRING ANOTHER BRUTHA TO OUR GATHERINGS!

THPAC's 35th Season Presents Thirty5-in-5 SOULS OF OUR FEET: PEOPLE OF COLOR DANCE FESTIVAL June 19th -23rd, 2011 @ 7:30PM (NYC)

Official Website:
Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center

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THELMA HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

In Celebration with Kumble Theater

35th
ANNIVERSARY
SEASON 2011


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SOULS OF OUR FEET:
PEOPLE OF COLOR DANCE FESTIVAL

SAVE THESE DATES!!!

June 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd & 23rd, 2011
All Performances @ 7:30PM

All performances at
Kumble Theater at LIU
Downtown Brooklyn Campus
@ Flatbush Ave/between DeKalb Ave. & Willoughby St.
Ticket prices:
$15 General Admission / $12 Students & Seniors

June 19th Performance & Pre-Production Reception-$20
Reception Time: 6:00PM

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!!!!

Kumble Theater Box Office:
718/488-1624 or www.kumbletheater.org

For info:
Call 718/875-9710 or www.thelmahill.com


EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
ALEX SMITH, JR

ARTISTIC ADVISOR
WALTER RUTLEDGE

LIGHTING DESIGN
NICK HUNG

KUMBLE PRODUCTION COORDINATORS
RODNEY K. HURLEY
HOLLY KO


Major Funders:
New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs;
Mertz Gilmore;
Brooklyn Arts Council;
Office of Sen. V. Montgomery;
Council-member Letitia James

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About Alex Smith

Alex Smith was appointed Executive Director by the THPAC board in 1995 and later Executive Chairman. Under his tutelage and passionate commitment over 150 artists have been presented in performance including Ron Brown, Valerie Winborne, George Faison, Louis Johnson, Marlies Yearby, and Fred Benjamin, seven new programming formats have been added, and THPAC’s annual Life Time Achievement Awards, whose recipients include Louis Johnson, George Faison, Ella Thompson Moore, Dianne McIntrye, Fred Benjamin, and Kathy Grant and Dudley Williams, were established. During the coming summer 2010 season Smith will present, A Ramp to Paradise, a commissioned choreographed work by Kyle Abraham designed to pay homage to New York City’s ultimate dance experience, the legendary underground dance club Paradise Garage.

About Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center

THPAC, www.thelmahill.com, an independent non-profit organization, was formed in 1976 to forge and temper creative talent. Over 34 years the organization has attracted both emerging and established artists of color who developed a perpetual evolutionary cycle in which more than 300 alumni have gone on to successful careers as dancers and choreographers in the U.S. and abroad. The mission of THPAC is to build bridges of understanding through the presentation and celebration of choreographic works by artists of color. From fostering grassroots involvement at home to expanding awareness of the arts abroad, THPAC facilitates artistic collaborations, such as performances, workshops, seminars and community projects. Through these efforts, new channels of creative dialogue inspire free-flowing dynamic cultural expressions.