{"id":182082,"date":"2015-04-02T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=182082"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:10:51","slug":"harlem-arts-festival-annual-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=182082","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Arts Festival Annual Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-10.04.32-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182083\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-10.04.32-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-02 at 10.04.32 AM\" width=\"1064\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-10.04.32-AM.png 1064w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-10.04.32-AM-300x170.png 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-10.04.32-AM-1024x581.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1064px) 100vw, 1064px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The annual gala on Thursday, April 2nd at MIST Harlem. \u00a0The executive committee of the\u00a0<span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harlemartsfestival.com\/\">Harlem Arts Festival<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>ill present the\u00a0<b>Lynnette Velasco Community Impact Award<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0<b>Dr. Brenda Greene<\/b>, the executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Greene will be this year&#8217;s sole recipient for the award which was first introduced at last year&#8217;s gala and awarded to Linda Walton of the Harlem Arts Alliance and the late musician and social activist Fred Ho.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThroughout her career, Dr. Greene has demonstrated a clear passion for protecting, developing and cultivating the spaces, programs and resources that make it possible for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"African-American literature\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Black writers<\/a> and their artistic work to thrive,\u201d said\u00a0<b>Neal Ludevig<\/b>, executive director of the Harlem Arts Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual gala on Thursday, April 2nd at MIST Harlem. \u00a0The executive committee of the\u00a0Harlem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":182083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101912],"tags":[124717343,124717344,124717340,124717342,124717345,124717339,85583306,124717338,124717341,4614,15427,124717346,124717347,124717348,5850,124717349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182086,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182082\/revisions\/182086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}