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HARLEM WEEK's August 15-16 weekend features Alicia Keys, Rev. Al Sharpton, Tom Joyner, Nona Hendryx, Ray Chew, Kenny Lattimore, Alvin Ailey Dance, Vy Higginsen Gospel for Teens, HBCU Fair, Classic Auto Show, Children's Festival, Harlem Music Festival

Audiences Vote for Strawberry One-Act Festival Finalists at Tato Laviera Theatre and On Demand Online. Special Matinee Drama with Music on August 16 of “One Drop: A Period Piece" about African Americans and Passing for White in the South.

Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One-Act Festival August 6 Showcase Presents Plays on Nerdy Heroes, Post Apocalypse, Dating Disasters and More. Public Can Buy and Vote for Favorite Plays On Demand. Strawberry One-Act Festival in Harlem August 5 – 23

This is the China National Exhibition of Fine Arts’ historic first visit to USA. It has 65 contemporary masterpieces interpreting China’s evolving history over 65 Years. Currently on a world tour, it also showcases art from GenX and Millennials.

Renaissance House Seeks Volunteers for 15th Annual Reading of Frederick Douglass’ Speech “What Does Fourth of July Mean to the Negro” on July 4 at Inkwell Beach. FREE. Potluck Lunch Served. On July 3-Poets Afaa Michael Weaver and Rich Michelson

Renaissance House Writers and Artists Retreat in Martha’s Vineyard Presents “It Don't Matter If You're Black or White" with Award-Winning Poets Afaa Michael Weaver and Rich Michelson on “Ethnic, Macho, Poetry” at Katharine Cornell Theater

One Love: LGBTQ & Friends Party has Pop-Up Interviews by Sister2Sister’s Jamie Foster Brown with Monifah Carter and Terez Mychelle of R&B Divas, B.O.R.N to Style Cast, American Idols’ Frenchie Davis, James Earl Hardy, Nona Hendryx and Others

Bold New Voices: Past, Present and Future Presents Screening of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Pan African Film "Julius Caesar." Features Talk Back on History of Black Actors Performing Shakespeare Dating Back to Ira Aldridge as Othello in 1833.

Strawberry One-Act Festival Features Over 30 Plays from Mainstream to Multicultural Competing for Top Awards at Harlem's Tato Laviera Theatre. Launch Party and Pioneer of the Arts Awards at Poet’s Den Theatre on July 26.

Bold New Voices: Past, Present and Future, produced by MIST Harlem and Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre, is multicultural series of music, theater, film and literary events. Series kicks off with all female reading of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.