MADISON — The Harlem Renaissance Museum wants to share a secret with Madison: Many of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance movement, were members of the LGBTQ community, as well.
The Madison-based Harlem Renaissance Museum is holding “Voices of the Harlem Renaissance,” on Saturday, March 1, 4 p.m.
Held at the Lakeview Public Library, 2845 N Sherman Ave, on Madison’s north side, the Harlem Renaissance Museum will honor and celebrate Black History with a talented battery of artists and actors rendering poetic monologues in the voices of some of the most prominent names of the Harlem Renaissance, who were also members of the LGBTQ community.
The program will include live music and a mini-lecture on the Harlem Renaissance. "Voices," is a follow up program to the Museum's wildly successful Harlem Renaissance Festival held in November, 2013.
The Harlem Renaissance refers to a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s, in which African American writers, visual artists, composers and musicians, flourished. The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered the period in which jazz, America’s first musical art form, was created.
The Harlem Renaissance Museum is an outgrowth of Urban Spoken Word, Inc., a Madison-based organization of poets that organize regular poetry readings, poetry slams and writing workshops. The Harlem Renaissance Museum’s mission is to reinvigorate an interest in jazz and the arts among youth by providing youth and the larger community with educational resources regarding the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance Museum plans to open Fall/Winter 2014.
The event is free and open to the public.
