ART LAB AUGUSTA SAVAGE Participants will learn about clay sculptor Augusta Savage with a brief study on the art of this groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance sculptor and have hands on time to create their own sculptures in the medium of airdry clay. This program is for elementary aged students and older and will last approximately an hour. HESSEN CASSEL Tuesday, February 4 • 6:30 pm PONTIAC Friday, February 7 • 4:00 pm DUPONT Saturday, February 15 • 10:30 am MAIN LIBRARY Sunday, February 16 • 1:30 pm GEORGETOWN Tuesday, February 18 • 4:00 pm ABOITE Saturday, February 22 • 2:00 pm Please register online or by calling your branch. TECUMSEH CREATIVE CANVAS WAYNEDALE AARON DOUGLAS In this workshop presented by Charlotte Smith, you will learn about famed Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas by creating a painting in the style he popularized. Please register online or by calling your branch. Saturday, February 29 • 10:30 am Monday, February 3 • 6:30 pm SHAWNEE Tuesday, February 4 • 6:30 pm PONTIAC Tuesday, February 11 • 6:30 pm GEORGETOWN Wednesday, February 12 • 6:30 pm HESSEN CASSEL Tuesday, February 18 • 6:30 pm NEW HAVEN Wednesday, February 19 • 6:30 pm ABOITE Tuesday, February 25 • 6:30 pm GOLDEN SHOVEL POETRY LEARN THE CHARLESTON CUTTIN’ THE RUG Learn about dance in the Harlem Renaissance as Zion Tinsley teaches you the steps of the ever-popular Charleston. In the 1920s, a “rug cutter” was a dancer with amazing style and technique. For tweens and teens. Please register online or by calling your branch. Learn to write a Golden Shovel poem. The Golden Shovel was the inspiration for Nikki Grimes’ book One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance. To create a Golden Shovel poem, you take a line or lines from a poem and use each word in the line or lines as an end word in your poem while maintaining the word order. Your new poem can carry the theme and ideas of the original poem or can express something completely different. Tuesday, February 4 • 4:00 pm Visit the following branches anytime during the month of February to try your hand at this poetic form: Main Library Children’s Services, Hessen Cassel, Pontiac, and Tecumseh. GEORGETOWN NEW HAVEN ABOITE Thursday, February 6 • 4:00 pm HESSEN CASSEL Tuesday, February 11 • 4:00 pm TECUMSEH Thursday, February 13 • 4:30 pm PONTIAC Tuesday, February 18 • 5:00 pm NEW HAVEN Thursday, February 20 • 3:30 pm Monday, February 3 • 2:00 pm For homeschoolers TECUMSEH Monday, February 3 • 7:00 pm NEW HAVEN Wednesday, February 5 • 2:00 pm After school drop-in Please register online or by calling your branch. HA R LEM RENAISSA NCE COLLABORATIVE MURAL Join us as we create collaborative art work to celebrate Black History Month. Each person will color or paint a section which we will then put together to create a beautiful mural. Visit the following branches anytime during the month to take part (while sections remain): Grabill, Hessen Cassel, Main Library Teens Services, Pontiac, and Tecumseh. There will also be sessions led by art instructor Charlotte Smith. Please register for these online or by calling your branch. MAIN LIBRARY Friday, February 7 • 1:30 pm WAYNEDALE Monday, February 10 • 6:30 pm JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER FILM SERIES THE BEST “ “ OF BASIE AND BLACK BROWN HARLEM RENAISSANCE OR HIP-HOP AND R&B? & BEIGE We give you a line to play in your mind, From a poet or an emcee, Is the verse from the Harlem Renaissance time, Or is it Hip Hop and R&B? Lauryn Hill or Langston Hughes? We give you a line from a song or a poem, and you tell us if the line is from someone from the Harlem Renaissance era or someone from Hip-Hop and R&B. Visit the following branches during the month to test your knowledge: Dupont, Main Library Teens Services, Pontiac, and Tecumseh. HESSEN CASSEL Monday, February 17 • 2:00 pm WOODBURN Tuesday, February 18 • 3:30 pm Please register for these online or by calling your branch. A filmed concert from Jazz at Lincoln Center will be presented featuring the music of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Purdue Fort Wayne music educator Dr. James Farrell Vernon will discuss the film prior to the viewing. The class will begin promptly at 7:00 pm. For ages middle school through adult. Please sign up online or by calling 421-1210. MAIN LIBRARY Tuesday, February 4 7:00 pm Meeting Room B MEMORIES, MASTERS, & MUSIC OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Storyteller Condra Ridley will present poetry, music, and stories about the Harlem Renaissance, including information about Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Attendees will get an idea of what people’s lives, especially children’s lives, were like during the Harlem Renaissance. PONTIAC TECUMSEH HESSEN CASSEL MAIN LIBRARY NEW HAVEN Please register online or by calling your branch. Tuesday, February 4 • 5:00 pm Wednesday, February 5 • 10:30 am & 3:30 pm Monday, February 17 • 1:00 pm Monday, February 17 • 7:00 pm Sunday, February 23 • 1:30 pm WRITING BLUES POETRY WITH CURTIS CRISLER Don’t let the blues get you down. Write it out through blues poetry, a form inspired by the music of the same name, in this workshop led by poet and professor Curtis Crisler. Blues poetry rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance through the works of Langston Hughes (author of The Weary Blues) and others. For teens and adults. Please register online or by calling 421-1255. MAIN LIBRARY Wednesday, February 26 • 7:00 pm • Meeting Room C HARLEM RENAISSANCE READING LISTS Celebrate the roaring 1920’s and travel back in time to the Harlem Renaissance. The historic New York City neighborhood became the birthplace of new art forms, experimental music, prolific literature, and transformative social movements. Learn about the people of the Harlem Renaissance and the big ideas that continue to influence art, music, and culture to this day. BOOKS FOR TEENS Augusta Savage: Sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance by Charlotte Etinde-Cromptom Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Harold Bloom Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance by P. Stephen Hardy The Harlem Renaissance by DeAnn Herringshaw Harlem Renaissance Artists and Writers by Wendy Hart Beckman Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill I, Too, Sing America: The Story of Langston Hughes by Martha E. Rhynes Major Black American Writers Through the Harlem Renaissance edited by Harold Bloom Zora Neale Hurston: Author by Lara Antal BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers A Song for Harlem by Patricia McKissack BOOKS FOR ADULTS Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance: a novel by Eleanora Tate Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renee Watson I, too, am America by Langston Hughes Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell Harlem Redux by Persia Walker Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 by Wil Haygood Jazz Moon by Joe Okonwo One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan Rebirth of a People by Sean Price Passing by Nella Larsen Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold The Entrance Place of Wonders: poems of the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance by Lucia Raatma The Striver’s Row Spy by Jason Overstreet Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor THE DREAM KEEPER Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers, Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. LANGSTON HUGHES