Upcoming Events: Schomburg

On October 29, 2007 by D. Bell
Don’t miss our public programs this month including book parties, a staged reading, a lecture and a teachers workshop. Come and visit our new exhibition: Picturing
Black Power in Ghana and the U.S., 1957-2007, starting on November 8, 2007.

For the complete listing of programs, visit www.schomburgcenter.org.

The Caribbean International Network Lecture Series

The 4th annual CIN Caribbean Lecture
Saturday, November 3, 2007
7:00 PM

Don’t miss Hon. Percival James Patterson, former Prime Minsiter of Jamaica and his address: The Importance of the Caribbean Diaspora to Economic Development.

Free admission. First come, first serve.

Meet Me at the Theresa

Sunday, November 4, 2007
4:00 PM

Please join the Schomburg Center and the James Weldon Johnson Foundation for a dramatic reading of the screenplay Meet Me at the Theresa, the story of Harlem’s most famous hotel, directed by Charles Dumas, actor and Director of theater at Temple University.

Free admission. First come, first serve.

Celebration of the 90th Birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks and 40th Anniversary of Third World Press

Friday, November 16, 2007
7:00 PM

Join the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and the Schomburg Center for a special evening and reception in celebration of Pulitzer Prize winner and poet Gwendolyn Brooks and of one of the nation’s oldest and independent Black publishers, Third World Press.

The Slave Trade and its Abolition Teachers Workshop

Thursday, November 29, 2007
4:00 – 6:00 PM

Teachers and educators don’t miss this special workshop so you can get your students ready for the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the American Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade starting January 1, 2008. Space is limited and registration is required. Please call (212) 491-2229 to reserve your seat.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd
New York, NY 10037

www.schomburgcenter.org

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