The menu for this event will be entirely plant-based.

Gracie Mansion
88th Street and East End Avenue

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Thursday, February 20th at 6:00 p.m.

Harlem, N.Y., January 30, 2020 — Today the Apollo Theater announced it will screen the award-winning documentary Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba on Thursday, February 20th at 6:30 p.m., as part of ImageNation’s Cocktails & Cinema series. This screening marks the second installment in the Theater’s partnership with Harlem-based non-profit and will continue to be an ongoing quarterly event, which will highlight films that showcase the global Black experience. Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba, winner of the Best Feature Documentary at Belize International Film Festival, was directed by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, curator of the Annual Fist Up Film Festival and co-founder of Defend Puerto Rico. The screening will be preceded by a reception and live DJ set by Bembona beginning at 6:00 p.m., followed by a post-film Q&A with director Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi; producer Khalil Jacobs-Fantauzzi; and Mai-Elka Prado Gil, founder of the Afro-Latino Festival of New York.

Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba follows DJ Jigüe to his hometown of Santiago de Cuba as he searches for new inspiration in the form of sound. Through his discovery of Afrobeats, DJ Jigüe ushers in an original sound creating a new genre called Bakosó, celebrating the connection between Africa and Cuba. The film’s score, created by the founders of the genre, and stunning visuals highlight the technology, culture, and landscape that shape this Afro-Caribbean fusion.

For more information, or to view the trailer for Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba, please visit: https://www.apollotheater.org/event/imagenations-cocktails-cinema-bakoso-afrobeats-of-cuba/

Ticket Info.
Tickets begin at $25 and includes appetizers and one beverage (wine or beer). A cash bar will be available. Tickets are available at the Apollo Theater Box Office: (212) 531-5305, 253 West 125th Street, and Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com.

About ImageNation
ImageNation Cinema Foundation is an innovative Harlem-based non-profit created to develop cinemas and audiences for independent films and music, that depict the global Black experience. ImageNation’s goal is to empower Black communities by presenting a variety of public programs that foster media equity, media literacy, solidarity, cross-cultural exchange and highlight the humanity of Pan-African people worldwide.

Led by Moikgantsi Kgama (Founder & Executive Director) and her husband Gregory Gates (Executive Producer), ImageNation has hosted film screenings, live music performances and other cultural events for more than 200,000 people worldwide since its inception. ImageNation is a founding partner in AFFRM, a national film distribution collective, founded by Ava DuVernay. ImageNation has presented internationally in South Africa, Scotland and Canada and domestically at Harvard University, MASS MOCA, Lincoln Center and in Dallas, TX, Los Angeles, CA, Baltimore, MD, Chicago, Ill, Indianapolis, IN, and Washington DC. Programs have featured appearances by luminaries such as Spike Lee, Lee Daniels, Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Ruby Dee, Erykah Badu, Chuck D, Raoul Peck, India. Arie and many others. In line with its commitment to Black cinema, ImageNation’s RAW SPACE, will be developed into the Sōl Cinema Cafe, a boutique cinema highlighting global Black film and culture.

About the Apollo Theater
The legendary Apollo Theater—the soul of American culture—plays a vital role in cultivating emerging artists and launching legends. Since its founding, the Apollo has served as a center of innovation and a creative catalyst for Harlem, the city of New York, and the world.

With music at its core, the Apollo’s programming extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more. This includes the world premiere of the theatrical adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and the New York premiere of the opera We Shall Not Be Moved; special programs such as the blockbuster concert Bruno Mars Live at the Apollo; 100: The Apollo Celebrates Ella; and the annual Africa Now! Festival. The non-profit Apollo Theater is a performing arts presenter, commissioner, and collaborator that also produces festivals, large-scale dance and musical works organized around a set of core initiatives that celebrate and extend the Apollo’s legacy through a contemporary lens, including the Women of the World (WOW) Festival as well as other multidisciplinary collaborations with partner organizations.

Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has served as a testing ground for new artists working across a variety of art forms and has ushered in the emergence of many new musical genres—including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip-hop. Among the countless legendary performers who launched their careers at the Apollo are Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, H.E.R., D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Machine Gun Kelly and Miri Ben Ari; and the Apollo’s forward-looking artistic vision continues to build on this legacy.

In fall 2020, the Apollo Theater will mark its first ever physical expansion with the theaters at the Victoria, part of the vision for a future Apollo Performing Arts Center. The theaters at the Victoria will support the growth of the Apollo’s artistic programming as it continues to provide a home to artists of color, create an expanded 21st century American performing arts canon, and provide additional educational and community programming in Harlem and beyond. For more information about the Apollo, visit www.ApolloTheater.org.

Support
The Apollo’s 2019-2020 season is made possible by leadership support from Coca-Cola, Citi, Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jerome L. Greene Arts Access Fund in the New York Community Trust, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Public support for the Apollo Theater is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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For more information, please contact:
press@apollotheater.org

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NATIONAL MAKE-UP ARTIST: MAKEUP BY NICOLE

GUADALUPE VELAZQUEZ DESIGNS: DESIGNER/PRESIDENT AND CEO
NYFWCARIBBEAN , will take place on Saturday February 13th, during New York Fashion Week (February 10-18, 2016 ). Bringing a piece of the Caribbean to the New York Fashion Week calendar is essential to us because it adds both diversity and authenticity to the global fashion economy. In addition, it integrates Caribbean’s designs and related brands with the global fashion calendar (which is essential for the Caribbean to complete globally). As important, creating this one day activation under the scope of New York’s biggest and most globally recognized fashion expose, allows guests to explore Caribbean’s modern fashion, hair and make-up designs, and related brands.

Overall, New York Fashion Week Caribbean becomes a bridge where people behind Caribbean’s brands can leave their imprint in America and meet consumers, partners, investors, and industry movers and shakers in the diaspora.

The following is what to expect:

EVENT : New York Fashion Week Caribbean

DATE: Saturday, February 13th

TIME: 8:00pm

PLACE: 119 West 23rd Street (Between 6 and 7th Avenues) SUITE # 501

RSVP: Staceysiu39@gmail.com

SCHEDULE:

INTRODUCTION
LAUNCH:New York Fashion Week Caribbean
FEATURED BRANDS & MIXER (DJ, CARIBBEAN INSPIRED COCKTAILS AND HORS D’ OEUVRES)
SPEAKERS : TBA

FEATURED BRANDS:

WELLINGTON HAIR SPA: OWNER: PATRICK WELLINGTON & MESSAGE THERAPIST: SHINEKA

Website: www.wellingtonghairspa.com
Hashtags: #wellingtonhairspa
Social:
FB: wellingtonhairspa
Instagram:wellingtonhairspa
Twitter:@patwell
COMPANY/DESIGNER: COUTURE BY ELESIA (#CBE)

Hashtags: #CBEFEARLESS #CBEFLAWLESS #CBE #CBECAREYBAG #CAREYBAG #CAREY-ALL
Social:
FB: FACEBOOK.COM/COUTUREBYELESIA
Instagram: Couture_By_Elesia
Twitter: @COUTUREBYELESIA
NATIONAL CELEBRITY HAIR DESIGNER: DENNIS BAILEY

Social:
FB: Dennisbailey
Instagram: Dennisbailey
COMPANY: ASQUI Ventures: DEWRY BRADFORD CEO/CHAIRMAN

DESIGNER: Joseph Mbeh

BRAND NAME: FOURFRONT

Company Website: www.asqui.com
Brand Website: http://www.fourfront1602.com
Hashtags: #stylesqui #FourFront #intricate #getinspired #asquiventures #fashiongods #riseofthemachines #dewryduroi #CentralAmericaBranding #IBC #RTW
Instagram: @style.squi
FB: www.facebook.com/Fourfront1602
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourfront1602/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/FOURFRONT1602

NATIONAL MAKE-UP ARTIST: MAKEUP BY NICOL

Social:
Instagram: Darling_Nikki_mua

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Child Spark Initiative is a platform created for children between the ages of eight and thirteen years from African migrant communities to engage with children from host communities in the United States of America. It provides opportunities for these communities to express, foster and celebrate their shared humanity. The hope of this interaction is racial harmony, cultural exchange, peace and progress.

Child Spark Initiative Inc. is essentially a performing arts organization that develops, promotes and celebrates creativity in children. Its first major project is Child Spark Choir which features fifty-four children, symbolically representing the fifty-four countries in Africa. In addition to screenings and select performances in cities with largest African migrant populations, this choir will sing with children from other countries, especially from continental Africa, the Caribbean Islands and Europe. The choir will also engage the services of prominent celebrity vocalists and music icons to perform new songs with positive and uplifting messages based on themes of love, kindness, charity and peace.

Child Spark Choir is not a standing choir. It is designed to create opportunity for different groups of people and individuals to participate every other year. Besides, the entire process will be filmed to produce a TV documentary mini-series for audiences on television and the internet. Original songs will be produced and performed with some revenue generated from sponsorships, merchandizing, donations, ticket sales and online-downloads. This revenue will enable Child Spark Initiative meet a major objective of providing financial, material and moral support for disadvantaged children in Africa and much of the developing world in their struggle against poverty, diseases, disabilities and hunger.

Child Spark Initiative is also collaborating with Teewai-Gold Media to produce the first edition of its “SHARE-A-SMILE PHOTO CONTEST”. Over one thousand entrants are expected to participate in this contest. The winning prize for the contest is a 10-Week Digital Photography Course at the prestigious International Center for Photography in New York. Other prizes include cameras, laptops, books and other branded gifts. The best photographs will be featured in a special coffee table publication and exhibitions to raise awareness and support for the project.

Please visit our website at www.childsparkinitiative.org for more information on these projects and watch out for our fundraising activities, starting later this month. Fractured Atlas is the fiscal sponsor for Child Spark Choir and all contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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