A Guide to African-American Culture

JUNE 17-23, 1991 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER VOL. I NO. 5

LISTINGS INSIDE: ART • CABARETS • CONCERTS • DANCE DINING • FREE-FOR-ALL • THEATER

The AUDELCO Black Arts Festival ’91 festivities kicked-off at the new Langston Hughes Auditorium in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on June 13, 1991 with Laurence Holder’s awards winning play Zora Neale Hurston, starring Elizabeth van Dyke as Zora. The Festival, based in Harlem, is being celebrated at various sites throughout New York City. Vivian Robinson, founder and director of AUDELCO. notes, "The mission of AUDELCO Black Arts Festival ‘91 is to introduce new audiences to the fun, excitement, and vitality the visual and performing arts bring to our city, and, to promote cooperation between participating artists and organizations." A sampling of Festival events: Rome Neal's award winning Julius Caesar, Set in Africa; Hazel Smith’s Miss Hazel's House of Heavenly Rest; The H.A.D.LE.Y. Players’ Birthrites; The National Black Theatre's (NBT) award winning play The Legacy, a return engagement of Mitote; The Good Times are Killing Me; The Black Fashion Museum hosts a free Open House Reception; and members of The Harlem Institute of Fashion’s Quilting Circle will take part in the Folklore and Crafts Celebration in Marcus Garvey Park. (See Routes' listings for dates and locations, for many, of the events.) The Festival will close June 23rd with Theatremania, an auctioning off of African-American theatre memorabilia by celebrity auctioneers. Festival headquarters are in AUDELCO's new space at 2273 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd, (212) 534-8776. —Don Thomas

DANCE Janine Williams, in Prentice-Ryan and Janine association with Dance Williams Dance Theatre of Harlem Theater Workshop presents Flower Festival in Genzano, Kuumba Dance Theater Workshop Adagietto No. 5, Voluntaries, June 20-22, 8pm Bessie Schonberg Theater Fet Noire 219 W. 19th St. 924-0077 An African-American June 21, 8pm, June 22, 2 & women's choreographer CABARETS 8pm, June 23, 3pm showcase: Valerie Aderemi Aaron Davis Hall West 135th Adefokun, Maia Claire Arturo Sandoval Band & St./ Convent Ave. 650-7100 Bobby Hutcherson Quartet Garrison, Maiya Greaves, June 18-23, 9 & 11pm Dor Green, Beverley The Blue Note 131 W. 3rd St. 475-8592 Arthur Taylor's Wailers Gwen Guthrie Caribe June 18-23 June 20-22 Jamaican cuisine Condons 117 E. 15th St. St. Chitlin’ Circuit R & B Pleasant and informal, cash 254-0960 Musical Review only. Sunday Gospel Brunch with Saturdays, 3pm 117 Perry St./ Greenwich St. the Lewis Singers David Jennings, Mable 255-9191 June 23, 1pm Lee, Dennis Legree, Copeland’s Delta 88 332 8th Ave. /26th Boncella Lewis, Tunde Southern cuisine St. 924-3499 Samuel, Jan Mickens A Harlem institution. Sweetwaters 170 Scott Hamilton 547 W. 145th St. 234-2457 June 18-23 Amsterdam Ave./ 68th St. 873-4100 Fat Tuesday's 190 3rd Ave. Jerk Paradise 17th St. 533-7902 John Abercrombie & Jamaican cuisine, Jerk Randy Brecker Quartet preparation of meats. A Benefit Performance for June 18-23 252 W. 29th St. • 268-7020 Michael Savage Doc Cheatham Jezebel Grady Tate with special Every Sunday, 3 - 7pm Southern/American cuisine guest Phyllis Hyman June 20 Sweet Basil 8 7th Ave./ Scarfs, swings and Bleecker 242-1785 sophistication. Hiram Bullock June 21 & 22, 8:30pm Herman Foster Trio with 630 9th Ave./ 45th St. Bernard Purdie 582-1045 Indigo Blues 221 W. 46th St. June 19-23 & June 26-30 221-0033 La Famille Restaurant Village Gate Bleecker & Southern cuisine What is Jazz? Festival Thompson St. 475-5120 June 22, dinner 6:30-7:30pm The Jazz Passengers Buster Williams Quintet music, 7:45pm June 21 & 22 June 18-23 2017 5th Ave./125th St. Third Person & Oliver Lake Mel Lewis with the 534-9909 Quartet Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Livi's Restaurant June 23 Monday nights Caribbean & Southern cuisine Ronald Shannon Jackson & Village Vanguard 178 7th Informal The Decoding Society Ave. S. 255-4037 Every Monday 29 E. 126th St./ Madison and Fifth Avenues 831-4931 Knitting Factory 47 East •New Jersey• Houston St. 219-3055 Mr. Leo Irene Reid Southern cuisine Roots Talibes June 30 Authentic southern cuisine June 21 Trumpets 6 Depot Sq., 17 W. 27th St. Bet. B’way & African, Soca & Reggae Montclair 201-746-6100 Fifth Ave, 532-6673 Music RESTAURANTS Omjavi Kilimanjaro 531 W. 19th St./ Jamaican cuisine 10 & 11th Aves. 627-2333 Abyssinia Primarily lunch hour take Buckwheat Zydeco Ethiopian cooking, very out. June 21 informal. 122 Chambers St. Between Lone Star Roadhouse W. 35 Grand St./ Thompson St. Church & West Broadway, 52nd St. 245-2950 226-5959 732-1949 Bobby “Blue” Bland with B. Smith's Sylvia's special guest Kenny Garrett, Southern & American cuisine Southern cuisine Jimmy McGriff with guest Trendy The Harper Brothers, Elvin Relaxed and informal. Bishop with guest Arthur 771 Eighth Ave.247-2222 328 Lenox Ave. Blythe (126 & 127th Sts) 966-0660 June 22, 8pm Cacique Jamaican Restaurant The Ritz 254 W. 54th St. Jamaican cuisine 541-8900 Primarily lunch hour. 106 Greenwich St. (Rector & Carlyle Sts.) • 791-0510

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!2—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 17-23 1991 The Blue Nile Admission $40 Scott & Joseph Selsey Traditional Ethiopian cooking The Cinqué Gallery 560 Through June 21 103 W. 77th St./ Columbus Broadway/ Prince St. Room Generations Gallery 966 Ave.580-3232 504 373-2707 or 560-2098 Fulton St. (718) 638-6910 The Shark Bar Images Of Our Ancestors Gallery Obiagali African- Southern cuisine Moshood American Art Trendy Through June 29 By appointment only. 467 Amsterdam Ave. Gallery collection includes: 296 New York Ave. (718) 874-8500 Hollingsworth, Greene, 467-3882 Bearden, Lawrence, Third World Café Olugbefola, Ramen Cheryl Hanna & Willie Third world cuisine Carter Design Masters Intergroup Through July 7 Spices are from west Africa. Gallerie 301 Cathedral A very special little café. Parkway 666-8440 Tuesday-Friday 1pm-8pm Sunday 1-5pm 700 W. 125th St./Westside Romare Bearden Prints,, Highway 749-8199 Stringfellow, William Spiral Gallery 637 Wilson's Restaurant & Carter, Fred Jones and Vanderbilt Ave. (718) Bakery Lester Gunter 783-2891 Southern cuisine By appointment only. •Queens• A Harlem institution Essie Green Galleries 419A Discoveries VI The City’s 1980 Amsterdam Ave. / Convent Ave. 368-9635 Unknown Older Artists 145th St. 923-9821 Tropical Splendor Suite Through June 29, Tuesday Zeet Peabody Sugar Reef Ademola Olugbefola through Saturday, 10am to West Indian cuisine June 18, 7pm 5pm 93 2nd Ave. 47-sugar An open studio reception. An exhibition of work by Grinnell Gallery 800 artists 55 and older. •Brooklyn• Riverside Dr., Suite 550 161-04 Jamaica Ave. (718) McDonald's Dining Room (157th & 158th Sts.) 927-7941 658-7920 Country home cooking - June Kelly Gallery Tues-Sun 591 Broadway 266-1660 CONCERTS 327 Stuyvesant Ave. (718) George Winston 574-3728 African-American Artists By appointment only. June 18, 7:30pm •Queens• Manhattan East Gallery 202 Miles Davis & BB King E. 76th St. 988-5802 June 21, 7 & 11pm Manhattan Proper Cafe Southern cuisine In Search of Freedom Wynton Marsalis & Jazz African-American Abstract Futures 217-01 Linden Blvd/ June 22, 8pm Springfield Blvd (718) 341- Paintings 1945 to 1975 CAFE Kenkeleba Gallery 214 E. Avery Fisher Hall/Lincoln 2nd St. 674-3939 Ctr., Broadway/65th St. 874-2424 ART GALLERIES Robertson’s African Arts By appointment only. Tito Puente & Celia Cruz Art Information June 22 Center(AIC) Small gallery of African artifacts. Bobby Short AIC services include June 23 cataloging information on 36 W. 22nd St. 4th Fl. 675-4045 Carnegie Hall Broadway/ over 65,000 artists and 750 57th St. 247-7800 galleries and exhibition •Brooklyn• Vincent Herring Quintet spaces in New York, Bedford Stuyvesant Center June 18, 7pm maintaining a slide file, and for Art and Culture The Harry de Jur Henry providing low cost Street Playhouse 466 Grand consultancy on how to break Wood Talk, Sculpture by James McCoy Street 598-0400 into the New York City A Celebration of Langston Gallery network. To Tell You the Truth paintings by Pat Bradley Hughes Dan Concholar 280 June 20, 8pm 1368 Fulton St. (718) Broadway/Chambers St. 636-6948 Poetry reading of Langston Room 413 227–0282 Hughes and Jazz Artmen Sextet performances. Romare Howard. Bearden Foundation Award J.P. Dillard Michael Cochrane,Tina Presentation Luther Freeman Feaster, Willia Anne Nadine DeLawrence, Jacques Goode Gissendanner, David Alan recipient Louis Mims Robert Norman June 20, 6:30-8:30pm

!3—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 17-23 1991 Gross. Marcus McLaurine Our Young Black Men Are Henry Street Settlement Nancey Monroe, David Dying And Nobody Seems Harry dejur Playhouse 466 Thomas Peacock, Roy To Care Grand St. 598-0400 Thomas and Chip White An original music play by Master Theatre 310 James Chapman about the Mitote (Women Talk) Riverside Dr/103rd St. destruction of young men June 21-23. 28-30, 8pm. Sat 543-2079 by drug abuse, crime, police Mat., 3pm By Maisha Baton, featuring The 96th Anniversary of St. brutality, alcoholism, poverty and AIDS. Linda H. Humes, Jane James Presbyterian Church Galvin-Lewis, Yvonne June 23, 2pm Castillo Cultural Center 500 Greenwich St. 941-5800 Warden, Lorenzo; directed A Musical Jubilee by Anita Gonzales The choir will be composed Passin' Set in Santa Fe at the turn of of recording artists. Thur., 7pm, Fri.-Sat., 8pm, the century. Mitote is a term Metropolitan opera stars, Sat.-Sun., 4pm used by Mexican men to Broadway performers and Written & directed by Bonnie refer to "women talk". choreographers, conducted Wright, featuring Dan Lorge, Through the "women talk" by Linda Twine. Judy Alvarez, Debra of three female characters, 141st St./SL Nicholas Ave. Wilson, Bernadette Jones, one gets a glimpse of 283-4541 Rashida Turner & David African-American history in Lomas the West. Pianists at Weill Recital Reservations only Hall Amercian Theatre of Actors 314 W. 54th St. (Bet 8th & Impact Theater 612 8th Ave/ Ralph Sutton 9th Aves) 993-0070/ 39th St. 840-1234 June 21 926-9416 Thoughts of A Confused Geoff Keezer Ms. Hazel’s House of Black Man June 22 Heavenly Rest June 22, 3 & 8pm & June 29, 3 Town Hall 123 W. 43rd St. Sun, 3pm. through Sept. 1 & 8pm A Comedy by Hazel Smith. A one-man play about the Quest, with Ron McClure, Featuring, Jimmy Hayeson, experience of an African bass. Billy Hart, drums Louise Mike, Jerry Love, immigrant in America. June 17, 8pm Lee Kirk, Kim Yancy, The Mazur Theatre 555 East The Manner College of Boysie White & James 90th St. (York & East End Music 150 W. 85th St. Smith. Ave) 307-7171 580-1738 Harlem School of The Arts The Legacy Neville Brothers 645 St. Nicholas Ave. June 14-16 & June 21-23 Fri. June 26 362-3681 7:30, Sat. 2pm & 7:30pm, Tickets: $15, Advance - $17 Theatremania Sun., 3pm day of show June 23, 3pm Gordon Nelson’s History of Rumsey Field in Central A celebrity auction and Gospel Music, directed by Park (72nd St./5th Ave) reception. Items related to Elmo Terry Morgan. 360-2777 African-American theatre, The National Black Theater interesting memorabilia and 2033 Fifth Ave.• 427-5615 •Long Island• rare collectibles auctioned off by television, theatre and Aretha Franklin media personalities. June 23, 7pm, June 24, 8pm Performance by actress Westbury Music Fair Gloria Lowery Terell Westbury (516) 334-0800 •New Jersey• Hank Crawford June 21, 7 & 9pm The Peppermint Ballroom 175 Central Ave. Orange (201 624-8880) THEATER Once on This Island A musical set in the Caribbean, about a poor girl’s passion for the son of a wealthy landowner. Booth Theatre W.45th St./ Broadway 239-6200.

!4—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 17-23 1991 Julius Caesar Set in Africa A production inspired by the Africa Explores: 20th Through June 29, Thur.-Sat. famine, waste and political Century African Art 7:30pm turmoil in many Exhibit explores the Adapted and directed by Rome contemporary African states. continuing vitality of Neal The cast includes some of traditional art which coexists Britain's finest actors of Nuyorican Poets' Cafe 236 E. today with a modem art that African descent from the is uniquely African. 3rd St. (Bet. Aves. B & C Royal Shakespeare 465-3167 Company and the Royal The Center for African Art Amakhosi: Citizen Mind National Theatre. Through December '91 June 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23, 8pm St. Bartholomew’s Church 54 E. 68th (Bet Mad. & Lex. A play about life in Park Ave/50th St. 307-7171 Aves.) 861-1200, and Zimbabwe. Anatomy of the Sexes The New Museum for Performance Space 122 1st Two One Act Plays Contemporary Art Ave/9th St. 477-5288 Brown Gals Rising Through Aug. 18 The Way of the World Written and directed by •Gallery Talk Cecelia Antoinette African Art And The Art of “A classic comedy of Seeing deception and domination, The Box June 22, 2pm power imbalance, getting Written by David Bear screwed for money and Smith, directed by Wayne Stanley Tarver, PhD getting screwed out of Jelks candidate in the history of art at Yale University, will money.” Andre Braugher, June 20-23 Thurs.-Sat., 8pm, one of the leading actors. discuss criteria for Sun., 3pm, $10 admission interpreting contemporary Casanova Theatre 22, 54 West 22nd St. African art from an African “An astonishing picture of (Bet. 5th & 6th Aves) (718) context, and how these life and times of the world's 398-6426 methods might affect most famous philanderer, as Cheryl Alexander perceptions of art in our drawn by himself, his Through July 14 - Tuesday own culture. illegitimate daughter and a through Saturday, 8:30pm The New Museum for transvestite named Bobo.” Sunday 3:30pm and 7:30pm Contemporary Art 583 Erica Alexander and Jazz, blues and pop review Broadway/ Houston St. LaTanya Richardson among 219-1222 the leading actors. Theater Arielle 432 W. 42nd St.. 967-7079 Harlem Fashion Museum The Public Theater 425 Open House, free - June 20, Lafayette St. 598-7150 Six Degrees of Separation 12:30pm to 8pm, By Courtney B. Vance Church It, Please! appointment only, adults $1.50 Set in Manhattan, about a children $.50 A musical comedy about to mugger who seeks refuge at Puerto Rican women who Designers to the Stars, an elegant dinner party. Costumes from the discover the wonderful Vivian Beaumont Theater/ world of credit cards. By permanent collection, Lincoln Center • Broadway/ including Ann Low: In Carlos Gorbea, starring 65th St. 239-6200 Fred Barrows, Mel Gorham, Memorium; TV, Films, Alberto Guzman, Joan •Brooklyn• Theatre. 155 W. 120th St. Bet. Lenox Jaffe, Iraida Polenco, Satan Never Sleeps Jeanette Toro. and Adam Clayton Powell Through June 30 Boulevard 660-1320 The Puerto Rican Traveling Comedy-drama with music. Theater 304 W. 47th St. (Bet. Kwame Brathwaite It's all about Satan and how Through June 8th & 9th Aves. 354-1293 he intervenes in our lives. Two photo exhibits: The Good Times are Killing Produced and directed by Marjorie Moon. The Apollo Then and Now & Me Brother Bob - Memories of Previews through Aug. 7, The Billie Holiday Theater Bob Marley Tues.-Sat., 8pm, Mat. Sat., 1368 Fulton St. (718)-636-0918 Harlem School of the Arts 2pm, Mat., Sun., 3pm 645 St. Nicholas Ave. A play with music, follows MUSEUMS & 926-4100 the comic coming of age of CULTURAL CENTERS Pathway To Freedom: An two girls, one white and one African American black, as they explore the The Caribbean Cultural Walking Tour mysteries of adolescence, Center June 23, 2pm music divided families and The center serves as a racism. Cultural Anthropologist meeting place for people of Sherrill Wilson, leads the Minetta Lane Theatre 425 all ages and backgrounds tour and traces the history Lafayette St. 307-4100 who share a common and development of the The Tragedy of Macbeth by interest in the cultural Stephen Rayne heritage of people of African June 17, 18, 20, 21, 8pm, June descent. 19, 22, 2pm & 8pm, June 23, 408 W. 58th St./ 9th Ave. 3pm 307-7420

!5—ROUTES, A Guide to African-American Culture, June 17-23 1991 free African community of This exhibition is comprised Arthur Blythe Quartet, the 19th Century. of drawings, paintings, David Murray Trio Lower Eastside Historic collages, installations, featuring Fred Hopkins and Conservancy 97 Orchard photography and sculpture Andre Cyrille, Steve Lacy St.. 431-0233 by nine Cuban artists. and, Sextet, Donald Harrison Quintet and Microscopic Joan Logue: Video Portrait The Third Emerging Expression Biennial: The Septet Gallery June 23, 2pm- 7pm Through July 28 Third Dimension and Beyond Book Party Focuses on important Through June 23 I Remember Langston women in history. An exhibition of sculpture, Hughes International Center of installations, and video by by Jobe Huntley Photography 1130 Fifth Ave. artists who utilize computer June 23, 4-6pm 860-1777 technology as a tool to Home to Harlem 1 W. 125th Robert Colescott explore space and time. St. 831-7367 Emergency Room (1990) The Bronx Museum of Art Al Green presently on display. 1040 Grand Concourse June 22, 3pm 681-6181 Museum of Modern Art 11 Fefita La Grand & La Gran W. 53rd St. 708-9400 •Staten Island• Mazan, Merengue The African Presence in Black photographers: June 23, 3pm the Americas 1840 - 1940 Rumsey Field in Central Through December Through September 2 Park (72nd St./Fifth Ave) African-Americans In Gordon Parks, James Van 360-2777 Space Science der Zee, Austin Hansen, Reading Series: Through December and the Goodridge Brothers—nomads who Sisyphus and the Blue-Eyed Guided Tours by appointment Cyclops only. roved in the late 1800s hundreds through New June 17, 7:30pm The Schomburg Center for By Garland Lee Thompson Research in Black Culture York, Pennsylvania and 515 Lenox Ave./135th St. Michigan shooting The day room of a 491-2000 portraits. California hospital, a black Staten island Institute of patient deals with his Memory and Metaphor Arts and Sciences 75 paranoia, delusions, anger, Romare Bearden Stuyvesant Pl. (718) and the powerful effects of Through August 11 727-1135 the official medication, Studio Museum of Harlem Thorazine. 144 W. 125th St. 864-4500 FREE-FOR-ALL The Frank Silvera’s Writers’ Music Workshop 17 W. 125th St. 662-8463 1991 Biennial Exhibition Loup Garou-Zydeco Lorna Simpson, June 19, 12:30pm to 1:30pm YOUTH photographer Austin J Tobin Plaza/ African Footprints Series Carrie Mae Weems, World Trade Center photographer The Safari East Music •Dance Glen Ligon, painter Ensemble Through July 7 Kimati Dinzulu & His June 20, 3pm Kotoko Society Whitney Museum of The program includes live June 21, 12:30 to 1:30pm music, vocals, slides, American Art 945 Madison Austin J. Tobin Plaza/ narration, and hands on Ave. /75th St. 570-3600 World Trade Center activities. The and, instrumentalists and •Bronx• vocalists present musical James Buxton, Painted Lecture: Divine Script: The highlights that follow the Wood and Sculpture Philosophic Richness of history of African-American Through October 31 Cameroon New World music from Africa to the Impact Caribbean, to rural and Buxton's work involves urban America. such personally significant Robert Farris Thompson, issues as religion and lecturer and, Space is limited and motherhood. Concert: Jelon Viera and reservations will be The Bronx Museum of Art Dance Brazil provided on a first come Satellite Gallery at Hebrew June 18, Lecture, 6pm, first served basis. Hospital for Chronic Sick Concert, 7pm The Schomburg Center for 801 Co-Op City Boulevard Cooper Hewitt Museum 2 Research in Black Culture 379-5020 E. 91st St. 860-6868 515 Lenox Ave./135th St. The Nearest Edge of the 491-2234 World: Art and Cuba Now Through August 4

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