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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Isabella is a student at the University of California in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Mr. Nai Pan Tang, is a banker with Chong Hing Bank in Hong Kong. Her mother, Mrs. Sheena Lam, is a banker with Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong.
The International Debutante Ball, founded in 1954, is considered one of the most prestigious debutante presentations. Young women of distinction from all over the country and around the globe are brought together at the ball and the surrounding parties with daughters of Diplomats, titled Europeans, Ambassadors, Governors and Presidents of the United States. Over the years, the ball has benefited numerous charities through the International Debutante Ball Foundation, including one of its major beneficiaries, the Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York, which provides a home away from home for the men and women of our Armed Services.

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On Thursday, November 7, 2013  at 6 PM in the L.A. Holocaust Museum at the Pan Pacific Park the Mensch Foundation International will bring an Exhibit from Hungary. This exhibit is on its first stopover in LA. It will continue to tour North America and to show several Jewish families who lived in the small town of Papa, Hungary before the arrival of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of the 600,000 Jews in Hungary from April of 1944 to the end of the war in 1945.

The Mensch Foundation is proud to be touring this wonderful moving exhibit throughout North America. It is the creation of Andras Gyekiczki and Laszlo Rajk Jr.

Please attend to the opening of this important exhibit “Our Forgotten Neighbors” and bring your neighbors and friends!!

An opening statement shall be made by Hungarian Counsel General of Los Angeles, Dr. Laszlo Kalman.

Cantor Estherleon Schwartz, Child Holocaust Survivor, shall gift us with a uplifting music and song..

We shall also make a special memorial tribute to “Kristallnacht.”

Additionally, please view the informative links below:

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Water is essential to every aspect of life. We cannot live without it. There is no technology available that can manufacture it. It cannot be replaced or duplicated. It must be valued and safeguarded.

World Water Rescue Foundation exists to restore, in an environmentally sound manner and in harmony with the needs of the world, the integrity of the element of water, which is in significant danger.

As an international imperative, we seek to successfully sustain the earths water.

Our mandate demands that we pursue every possible way to preserve and protect the water supply of this planet.

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Children & Adults Wanted: For Super Duper FREE Pumpkin Party With Pete Seeger & Friends. Come Halloween Day To The Wonderful Pier On 26th St. NYC. At Night A Free Spooky Fun Fest

New York, NY: On Halloween October 31st there will be two parties, one for children (costumes optional, first 100 get Hugg-A-Planet) from 12 noon-5PM headlined by Pete Seeger & Friends, at night 9PM, in costume, a spooky dance party fun fest.

Pete Seeger & Friends – The folk music icon, founded the environmental organization the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. The Clearwater is an enjoyable and educational sailboat, reaching out to and used by school children state-wide. The event will benefit the NY Friends of the Clearwater. http://www.nycfriendsofclearwater.org/halloweenpumpkinparty.htm

www.goodnewsbroadcast.com is a media corporation whose mission is to find, receive and create life affirming, thought provoking good news, entertainment and events. GNB has over 5,000 Good News Original Shows. This event will also benefit their not for profit 501 C 3 dedicated to helping young and old to understand the media, as well as internship and humanitarian programs.

Appearing will be Victorio Roland Mousaa Ray Korona Joel Landy Cy Adler, Caitlin O’Heaney Chris Lang Emma Graves Harvey Newman Jenny Hurwitz Dan Einbender Pat Lamanna Steve Suffet Anne Price, Anna Rose, C . Eule Dancers perform “The Faucets are Dripping”, Mary Poppiins & her “Spoons”, Gloria Waslyn & her “Parrots For Peace”, Jacob Bernz Sarah Armour and Paul Sladkus of Good News will host.

The day and evening event will become an annual event, so dont miss it. Super Barbecued Food and Refreshments will be available

The entire program will broadcast on www.goodnewsbroadcast.com at all later date.

Donations in honor of this Good News Broadcast event have been made to: Children Affected by AIDS Foundation by Toys R Us for $25,000.

Thanks to Auster Events (Event Marketing) and World Water Rescue Foundation.

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