2022 Preview: Upcoming Events at the Schomburg Center by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureDecember 20, 2021

Get ready for an all-new year of programs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture! Find out what’s happening virtually and in person now through April 2022.

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Below is the schedule as of March 22, 2022:

March

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On Tuesday, March 8 at 7 PM,  join us at the Schomburg Center for a conversation with Women's Jazz Festival founder Melba Joyce and past festival curators.  Photo of Brandee Younger by Erin Patrice O'Brien.  Photo of Toshi Reagon by Flora Hanitijo

Black Power Revisited
Thursday, March 3
6:30 PM | Online
Watch on YouTube

Women's Jazz Festival @ 30
Celebrating Her Voice with Alicia Waller & The Excursion
Monday, March 7 | 7 PM | Schomburg Center

Women's Jazz Festival @ 30: Curators Salon
Curators Salon with Women's Jazz Festival founder Melba Joyce and past festival curators Toshi Reagon, Aja Burrell Wood, Brandee Younger, and moderator Robin Bell-Stevens, Jazzmobile Inc.
Tuesday, March 8 | 7 PM | Schomburg Center
Watch on YouTube

Black Feminists Futures Series: Planting for the Future
Wednesday, March 9
12:30 PM | Online
Watch on YouTube

Cover of Brown’s book, Tacky’s Revolt
Dr . Vincent Brown is the 2021 winner of the Harriet Tubman Prize.  Photo of Dr. Vincent Brown by Stephanie Miller

2021 Harriet Tubman Prize Presentation and Program
Vincent Brown's Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Thursday, March 10
6:30 PM | Online
Watch on YouTube

Women’s Jazz Festival @ 30: An Evening of Flow and Flight with Vocalists Renée Neufville and Laurin Talese
Monday, March 14 | 7 PM |Schomburg Center

WILD: A New Ballet From Jeremy McQueen's Black Iris Project
Thursday, March 17 |  7 PM | Schomburg Center and Online

Women's Jazz Festival @ 30: Endea Owens: Celebrating Women Composers
Monday, March 21 | 7 PM | Schomburg Center

Ibram X. Kendi and Loveis Wise: A New Collaboration
Wednesday, March 23 | 6:30 PM | Online
Register

Black Feminists Futures Series: Black Women Organizing for the Future
Thursday, March 24 | 12 Noon | Online
Register

April

Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire
Thursday, April 7 |  6:30 PM | Online
Register

Between the Lines: Duende: Poems, 1966-Now by Quincy Troupe
Thursday, April 14 | 6:30 PM | Schomburg Center
Register

May

Racism and Resistance in the Post Civil Rights Era (CBFS)
Thursday, May 5 | 6:30 PM | Online
Register

 

Watch Past Programs Online

An illustration of a Black female and Black male in profile facing opposite directions against a dark brown background. In the center is an African mask. The illustration uses the colors dark brown, teal, yellow, and gold.
The Center's Black Feminist Futures series features programs highlighting the relationship between Afrofuturism and Black feminism.  Artwork: John Jennings

Black History Month Series: Conversations In Black Freedom Studies:  Black New York
Thursday, February 3 | Watch on YouTube

Black History Month Series: Been Seen: The Photography of Zora J. Murff
Monday, February 7 |  Watch on YouTube

Black History Month Series: Between the Lines: And the Category Is... by Ricky Tucker
Tuesday, February 15 | Watch on Livestream

Black Feminists Futures Series: Black Women and Theories of the Future
Saturday, February 19 | Watch on YouTube

Black History Month Series: Films at the Schomburg: Bigger than Africa
Thursday, February 24 | Watch the talk back on Livestream

Black Comic Book Festival 2022 graphic. A young girl is riding a dinosaur and holding a tote back with the Black Comic Book Festival logo. Two children are reading comic books. In the background, a young girl is waving from inside a purple tree. There is
The 2022 Black Comic Book Festival marked its 10th year. Artwork: Micheline Hess

10th Annual Black Comic Book Festival
Watch on Livestream 

The Authentic Self: Black Body & Identity Now!
Thursday, January 20 | Watch on YouTube

 

 

 

 

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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Additional support provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation.

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