This summer, The Mama Foundation for The Arts and Whole Foods Market collaborate to bring a bit of spice to the palates of New Yorkers at the highly anticipated Harlem store located at 100 West 125th Street on July 21, 2017 at 9 a.m EST.
Photographs by Seitu Oronde On Saturday, December 7, 2019, Sietu attended the opening of Vy Higginson’s It’s Your Season gala at the Mama Foundation For The Arts at El Museo El Bario in East Harlem New York, NY.
The 49th annual HARLEM WEEK returns August 9-20 for a 10-day live and virtual experience celebrating the people, arts, culture, entertainment, and history that Harlem is known for throughout the world.
The 48th annual HARLEM WEEK returns August 12-21 for a 10-day live and virtual experience celebrating the people, arts, culture, entertainment, and history that Harlem is known for throughout the world.
The new season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange premieres this spring with filmmaker Luchina Fisher’s Mama Gloria.
The Mama Foundation for the Arts announces open auditions for all roles in the upcoming performances of Mama, I Want to Sing, the classic gospel musical created by Vy Higginsen and Ken Wydro.
Tommy Hilfiger never shies away from spectacle when it comes to his runway shows, and his return to New York Fashion Week 2019 after several years was no exception.
Harlem’s Mama Foundation for the Arts will celebrate its 15th Anniversary at its second annual Gala, which will take place at St. Martin’s Cathedral (230 Lenox Avenue at 122nd Street) on Monday, June 16th from 6 – 9 PM.
As most New York teenagers gravitate toward rap or pop music, Vy Higginsen has made it her goal to keep the art of gospel music alive with the next generation. In doing so, she’s created a haven of learning and celebration that is making her singers better students and better citizens. The only challenge is…
Vy Higginsen and The Mama Foundation for The Arts announces their first Harlem Gospel Concert Series starring Vy Higginsen‘s Gospel Choir from Harlem at The Dempsey Theater, 127 West 127th Street starting April 15th at 2:00pm and continuing the first three Saturdays of May (6th, 13th & 20th) at 4:30pm.
By Lil Nickelson You have to go to the Dempsey Theater located at 127 West 127th Street to see Alive! The Musical 55+ and Kickin’. One of two new shows produced by the Mama Foundation for the Arts it is inspirational to people of all ages and backgrounds.
In this literary mixtape, DJ-Scholar Lynnée Denise, will join in conversation artists, musicians, and performers Saul Williams and Tamar-kali, as they mine her new “biography in essays” Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters.
Community Works NYC proudly announces a second, larger-than-life “Harlem is . . . Healing” Outdoor Exhibition in Harlem.
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the kickoff of the 30th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) at FLC from May 10 to 16.
In “The Conductor,” satirist playwright Ishmael Reed attacks the race-baiting and divisiveness that were widely seen in the recent, widely-reported San Francisco School Board Recall.