Paul Robeson House Newsletter

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2019 VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4

Winter Programs CALENDAR DIRECTOR’S CORNER

Paul Robeson Exhibit: Up Close Thank you for your generous and Personal. Tours Thurs-Sat. Eslanda Goode Robeson Research donations. Please continue to support 10-4. Call for an appointment & Study Group, Saturday Jan. 19 our plumfunding page to help pay off 215-747-4675. and Feb. 16. 4 pm-6 pm. We are our mortgage and make needed repairs. working on programming in her You can donate at https://www.plumfund.com/charity- Mission Statement Poetry name for Women’s History Month in March. We welcome your input! fundraising/paulrobesonhouse Group meets last Sunday of each It is with great pleasure that West month, 5 pm – 7 pm. Paul Robeson Benefit Concert Philadelphia Cultural Alliance/Paul Robeson House and Museum PRH Chess Club Openings featuring Justin Hopkins at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, announces the selection of Nile Available. Day/Time TBA. 500 W. Willow Grove Ave., Sunday, Livingston as our new Artist-in- Residence. Ms. Livingston is a Black Women Writing Now© Feb. 17, 6 pm-7 pm. Proceeds to benefit a local high school student native of Philadelphia and member “Telling Our Stories” of one of West Philadelphia’s Intergenerational Writing Group interested in the arts. $10 for tickets: st rd https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paul- (Walnut Hill) outstanding families. 1 /3 Mondays 4pm – 6pm. robeson-benefit-concert-featuring-justin- She is the granddaughter of the (Restarting in Spring) hopkins-tickets- nationally known architect Walter 54447443770?aff=erelexpmlt Livingston. *** View our video “Where Art COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS Lives.” It was created with the support of Scribe Video Center, and tells the story of Paul Robeson Cultural Institution Resource & Information Fair, Saturday, Feb. 2, 1 pm- and the founding of the house. 4pm at the Lucien E. Blackwell Library, 125 S. 52nd Street. For further info, https://vimeo.com/307362357 call 215-685-7433.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! One Book One Philadelphia Book Discussion, “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Financial interest and skills, Jesmyn Ward, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2 pm- 4 pm at the Lucien E. Blackwell membership coordinator, proposal Library, 125 S. 52nd Street. For further info, contact Aura Townsend at writing, administrative experience, [email protected] fundraising and sponsor development.

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September – October 2018 Looking Ahead! CALENDAR (cont’d) ANNOUNCEMENTS

Paul Robeson House is working Join The West Philadelphia Nile Livingston with the Future Project at Paul 2019 Artist-In-Residence Cultural Alliance/Paul Robeson High School on special Robeson House programs. For updates check our For website, paulrobesonhouse.org, TWISTED MELODIES: The Donny Hathaway Story AT THE APOLLO IN HARLEM, N.Y.) Saturday, June 1, 2019 3:00 pm Matinee For Information Call Barbara at 215-479-9517 Nile Livingston (second from the right) and team at work on first of four projects. *** Dream Team students in the Future Project at 2nd Annual Black History Month Please welcome Nile Livingston to Paul Robeson High School. Essay Contest Awards & the WPCA/Paul Robeson House

Celebration at Lucien E. Blackwell and Museum family. She has been *** Library, Saturday, Feb. 9, 1 pm - 3 working on two projects at our Dr. Molly McGlone of the pm. offices. Livingston produces University of Pennsylvania’s Contest open to students in grades interactive public artworks on such Urban Studies program and her 5-8. Due date for submissions subjects as youth homelessness, students will be working with us extended to Feb. 2. blight, voting and health. “My on our website and other digital mission is to produce life projects. affirming expressions that come *** from being present and awake to SAVE THE DATE the world,” she says. “Here's My Story" book discussion with Bryan Washington, author of "Lot." March 28, 4pm-6pm at Paul WPCA/PRH Membership Robeson House & Museum. “Here's Renewals Now Open. My Story" was the title of Paul Robeson's monthly column for his New Website Harlem newspaper Freedom. Seating Paulrobesonhouse.org Thanks to is limited. Sherry Howard and Nate Carter.

WPCA Publicist is Sherry West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance/ Howard and Program Director is Paul Robeson House & Museum Christopher Rogers.

Address : 4951 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19139 New T-shirt, buttons, cups on Phone: 215-747-4675 sale. Designed by Pat Gunter. Call 215-747-4675. Email: [email protected] Hours: Thurs-Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Newsletter Editor Denise Campbell Tours: Guided tours by appointment. Call for fees. Contact [email protected]