Harlem is the place to be this week as it celebrates both Culture and History. If you are thinging about Dancing,, world class dancer Cha Cha Willie will teach you the latest dance craze, Cha Cha Slide. The dance is based on The Electric Slide but it is an uptempo, funky beat, constantly moving using your hands, feet head and hips.Cha Cha Willie is part of an old fashioned block party called Dancing in the Streets being held Saturday noon to 7pm at West 135th Street between Frederick Douglass Blvd. and St. Nicholas Ave. and it is Free.
More Dance can be seen at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Building, 163 West 125th Street on Thursday 5-7:30pm. Dance troupes from the Uptown Dance Academy, Harlem Hospital Dance Leadership, NYCHA Teen Asemble and the Kotchegna Dance Company will be performing.
Street Fairs
Omn Saturday noon-7pm there will be a neighborhood street fair with entertainment, arts and crafts and plenty of food.
The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival for all those jazz lovers will be on Aug. 25th 3-7pm Marcus Garvey Amptitheater and it is Free.
Do you want to do more?, Here it is!
More Free music when R&B meets Jazz on Aug.30th with Lillias White, Oshy, Jeff Redd and Urban Pulse at the Adam Clayton Powell State office Building..
Need a Jazzy Bus Tour, hop on the Harlem Jazz & Music Festival Multia media Bus Tour on Sundays 5:30-11:30pm. It's $100 per person but dinner is included. Go to www.harlemheritage.com for more information about the bus tour.
More Freebies, Check out the movies, Bling on Sunday at sunset at St. Nicholas Park and on Saturday at 7pm see a double feature as the Imagenation Film Festival shows two documentarys.
Funding The Arts salutes Harlem Week for putting together this festival.
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Joanne Deutch
Funding the Arts
