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Sweet Basil Sessions: A Conversation with Mel Litoff

Join Music Librarian Michael Crowley in a conversation with Mel Litoff, a CCNY alum and former owner of the Manhattan jazz club, Sweet Basil. The event will include highlights from the Sweet Basil Jazz LP collection, a performance by a student jazz ensemble, and audience Q&A throughout. Lunch will be served to all event attendees.

Date: Tuesday, September 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location: Shepard Hall, Room 306

Register here! https://forms.gle/FE6h9uiceTzUFZDB9

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Humanities & the Arts Workshops

Renata Kobetts Miller named Dean

of the Division of Humanities & the Arts

Author and Professor Renata Kobetts Miller has been appointed dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at

The City College of New York.

Full story here.

Congratulations to the Class of 2024!

HIGHLIGHTS

Humanities Ceremony - Thursday, May 23, 2024

https://video214.com/play/OPcaUK1kczQJm0O0Gte8qQ/s/dark

Arts Ceremony - Friday, May 24, 2024

https://video214.com/play/cB1oTE8ve9itH2pX4DSLiQ/s/dark

2024 CUNY Jazz Festival

2024 CUNY JAZZ FESTIVAL on May 8th, 2024, has been relocated to The Harlem School of the Arts at Dorothy Maynor Hall. Here are the latest details:
🎶 CCNY Jazz Day May 8th, 2024
📍 Harlem School of the Arts, Dorothy Maynor Hall - 645 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY
✨ FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

Schedule:
1:00 PM - CCNY Faculty Jazz Ensemble
 Featuring: Steve Wilson – alto sax, Ray Gallon - piano, Martin Wind – bass, Carl Allen – drums
1:50 PM - Graduate Ensemble, The 12 PM Group Directed by Steve Wilson
2:30 PM - Undergraduate Small Ensembles Directed by Ray Gallon
4:00 PM - Dayna Stephens Master class and Jam Session
6:00 PM - Graduate Ensemble, The 10 AM Group Directed by Steve Wilson
6:45 PM - Intermission
8:00 PM - Dayna Stephens Quartet
Featuring: Dayna Stephens – tenor sax, Emmanuel Michael – Guitar, Kanoa Mendenhall – Bass, Jongkuk Kim – Drums

"Self-Representation in Harlem Renaissance Arts"

As part of the Harlem 2032 activities on campus this spring, Karen Taborn, author of Walking Harlem: The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2018), will speak on Tuesday, April 2, at 12:30 p.m. in Shepard Hall 306.

This event will also be hosted virtually via Zoom: https://ccny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwod-2tqTksGdQOmRhhWEtVK4IwzjkhduGp

A resident of Harlem, New York for over 40 years, Karen Taborn began her research on the community in the early 1990s as the historical consultant for The Strivers Center project—a consortium of professionals gathered by the Harlem Chamber of Commerce to acknowledge the rich history of Harlem culminating in the creation of the Harlem Walk-of-Fame on West 135th Street between Adam Clayton Powell (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in Harlem. Taborn taught Harlem history in the 1990s at the New School (now the New School University) in New York City and she currently gives talks and tours on and in the community of Harlem.
 
Taborn holds double master's degrees in jazz (NYU, 1987) and in ethnomusicology (Hunter College, 2006). To learn more about Karen Taborn's work in Harlem, visit her website at karentabornwalkingharlem.com

 Pulitzer-winning author Colson Whitehead is the 2024 CCNY Langston Hughes Medalist

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead is this year’s City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient. He’ll receive the Medal at CCNY's 45th annual Langston Hughes Festival on Thursday, February 1, 2023.

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