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The Cab Calloway Harlem Renaissance
Center -- is a
• Performing Arts Center
• Museum
• Public Charter High School
Our Goals
1.
To operate as a thriving tourist Gateway to Harlem for NYC’s nearly 40
million annual visitors.
2.
To exemplify a world-class, community-oriented educational center for living
arts with its 300-student high school and group and individual lessons for the
community in jazz music and dance, digital media, drama, and fine arts.
3.
To increase worldwide recognition of the Harlem Renaissance and the effect it
has had on American civilization.
What it does
Shall
function as the
spot where sightseers, students, and scholars can experience, learn from, and
contribute to one
of the
most
significant continuing cultural
phenomenon of the 20th century—The
Harlem Renaissance.
The Cab Calloway
Harlem Renaissance Center will focus on the singular and powerful impact of the
Harlem Renaissance upon the past, present, and future development of American
culture.
It
will operate as a unique and potent combination Performing Arts Center, Museum,
and public, charter High School, concentrating especially on jazz, jazz-related
dance, multi-media technology, fashion, language, literature, drama, and fine
arts.
This
distinctive configuration of services will enable the Calloway Center to be the
premier tourist Gateway to Harlem and an exemplary world-class,
community-oriented educational center for living arts.
Cab
Calloway
& Harlem
The
Renaissance
Cab
Calloway was a prime founder and mover connected with the music, dance, dress,
language, folklore, humor, values, and attitude of the Harlem Renaissance. Through his mastery of the mass
media of his day, Calloway showed us a non-judgmental, consistent, and genuine
love of human life and living.
Cab
Calloway, like the Harlem Renaissance, transcended racial, ethnic, educational,
cultural, and class distinctions. He
was able to reach out and appeal expansively to America and around the world,
surpassing limitations and roadblocks, while remaining optimistic about our
destiny and not ignoring the truth.
Program
Highlights
1.
Performing Arts Center
500-seat
auditorium, home of the Cab Calloway Orchestra, performance venue for Jazz
music, Swing, Tap, Hip-Hop and Jazz dance, films, plays, lectures, fashion
shows.
2.
Museum
Highly
interactive multi-media museum of Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance.
3.
Education and Learning
On-site,
charter high school, undergraduate and graduate programs of jazz culture study,
annual Harlem Renaissance Conference, master classes and residencies, open
public classes in music, dance, video, audio, drama, and fine arts.
4.
Community Outreach
Travelling
performances to schools and community organizations, host community-sponsored
events, active membership in community organizations.
5.
Multi-Media Production Center
Digital
video and audio for use by students, visitors, and artists-in-residence.
6.
Website
Webcasts
of performances, access to musical and oral archives, virtual online museum,
chat, bulletin board, and sales.
7.
Museum Shop
Jazz-related
merchandise, fine arts and crafts produced by Harlem residents, souvenirs, and
memorabilia, on-site and online.
8.
Café/Restaurant
On-site
quality soul food and other American cuisine, lunch, dinner, and snacks
9.
Partnerships in Process
Smithsonian
Institution, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, Apple Computer, New York Charter
School Resource Center, Eubie Blake Cultural Center (Baltimore), Charlie Parker
Foundation (Kansas City), New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival.
Please
join our mailing list by sending your name, email address, postal address, and
phone number.
We
have started publishing an email newsletter to keep the community informed of
our progress. We will gladly send it to you too.
•Volunteers
•Donations
•Your
Ideas
Contact Information
Mailing
Address:
Cab Calloway Harlem
Renaissance Center
61 East 125th Street Suite 122
New York, NY 10035
Email: cabharlem@yahoo.com
Phone:
212-894-3748 X 8942
Fax: 815-461-7870
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