Events

Theatre for the Free People’s Freedom Summer Project is dedicated to reclaiming education as a community based initiative by exploring how the arts can be used as a vehicle for social change. It will consist of an entire summer of FREE workshops, programs, events and productions celebrating arts and activism all over the world.

June = New Harlem Renaissance.

The entire month of June is dedicated to forging a New Harlem Renaissance. We are partnering with artists, activists, community based organizations and businesses to revitalize the community of Harlem by offering FREE performances, events, arts education + creative interventions in secret spots and public places throughout the neighborhood and greater NYC area.

Schedule

DATE(S): JUNE 1ST – JUNE 7TH

“One Day on Earth” Film Screening

On 10.10.10 filmmakers all around the world showcased the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one day. The collaboration was the first ever simultaneous filming event to occur in every country of the world. It created a unique geo-tagged video archive as well as the “One Day on Earth” feature film.

LOCATION: Quad Cinema | 34 West 13th Street | New York, NY

Click here to purchase tickets.

Global Citizen Program

GLOBAL CITIZEN PROGRAM: Youth Arts & Social Justice Education Workshops (Ages 9 – 14)

DATE(S): SATURDAY | JUNE 2ND, 9TH, 16TH & 23RD | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

LOCATION: Macomb’s Bridge Public Library | 2650 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd btw 152nd & 153rd St | Harlem, NY

The Global Citizen Program is geared towards activating the minds of our future generation of leaders. It will include an arts education summer program featuring workshops in creative writing, performance, visual arts, playwriting and poetry/spoken word. The Global Citizen program has a focus on human rights, encouraging personal responsibility and creating a global perspective.

Click here to register a child for the Freedom Summer: Global Citizen Program!

SISTAH FRIENDS PROJECT

ARTIST AS ACTIVIST PROGRAM: Self Portraiture Workshops

DATE(S): SATURDAY | JUNE 2ND, 9TH & 16TH | 4:00 PM

LOCATION: SHA SHA BROWNSTONE

Sistah Friends is an international arts initiative that recognizes and celebrates that the African diaspora spans the world. Using contemporary art practices, we form bonds and communities with our sistahs at home and abroad. Through self-portraiture and oral narrative projects, Sistah Friends creates a multimedia platform for honest and autonomous productions and reproductions of black women. The aim is to collaboratively reimagine, repoliticize, and recontextualize the black female form in order to salvage a complex history and to strengthen connectivity. This series of multi-disciplinary workshops for artists : activists serves the mission to instill confidence, promote self-empowerment, and develop tools for community and self-configuration through the creative process. Using the arts, we are offering a safe forum to unpack themes of gender, sex, movement, home, body and identity.

To sign up to participate in this workshop please e-mail: theatreforthefreepeople@gmail.com

ARTIST : ACTIVIST AP

ARTS + SOCIAL JUSTICE AP PERFORMANCE : Youth Arts & Social Justice Education (Ages 14 – 17)

DATE: WEDNESDAY | JUNE 6TH | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

LOCATION: Medgar Evers College (CUNY) | 1650 Bedford Ave. | Brooklyn, NY

This performance features theatre, poetry + spoken word by 11th & 12th grade students from Benjamin Banneker High School in Brooklyn, New York. This performance is the culmination of the “Re-envisioning Our Lives Through Literature Program” sponsored by The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College.

Teaching Artist : Joi M. Sears