The Harlem Arts Festival’s second annual fundraising gala will be held at MIST Harlem.
Performers that night will include Kris Bowers, who won the 2011 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition and was most recently featured on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne album, Jennifer Archibald, from the Arch Dance Company who was a 2012 Harlem Arts Festival featured artist and 2013 Fellow of the New Directions Choreography Lab under the direction of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Artistic Director, Robert Battle and Brandee Younger, a versatile young jazz harpist and 2013 Harlem Arts Festival Selectee who has collaborated with artists ranging from Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Common, Ryan Leslie, Cassie, Talib Kweli and Drake.
About the Harlem Arts Festival
The Harlem Arts Festival is a free annual multidisciplinary event that showcases local performers and visual artists that inspire and nourish the artistic community in Harlem. The festival aims to promote arts education and literacy by implementing arts-related discussion forums, educational workshops, performance opportunities and activities for youth and family. This project is part of Harlem’s addition to the larger, citywide commitment to provide free art in the public parks during the spring and summer months. This year’s festival will take place on June 29th and June 30th at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park at 124th street between Lenox and Fifth Avenues. To learn more about the festival visit www.harlemartsfestival.
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