Harlem Stage Announces Upcoming WeDaPeoples Cabaret Events

Join Harlem Stage's for Arts and Activism with Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Marc Cary, Universes and more, September 15th and 17th.

WeDaPeoples Cabaret will be presented in partnership with The America Project/ MAPP International Productions on Thursday, September 15 at 7:30 PM in The Gatehouse. The evening will be Curated by Samita Sinha and Emceed by Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp.

Featured artists will include: Marc Cary and Indigenous People, Sunny Jain (of Red Baraat) & Friends, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Samita Sinha, Cecilia Vicuña, Daria Faïn & Robert Kocik's Phoneme Choir, Darian Dauchan and The Mighty Third Rail, Mildred Ruiz, Steven Sapp and Universes and Paloma McGregor and Patricia McGregor / Angela's Pulse.

In the wake of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, Harlem Stage and MAPP International invite you to an intimate evening with artists and activists, such as Marc Cary and Indigenous People, Universes and Samita Sinha as they challenge us to imagine ourselves as part of a larger social organism. Through interactive explorations of body and voice, rhythm and sound, food and language become a part of this engaging experience as artists and audience discover realities within our globally interdependent world.

Throughout and around The Gatehouse (outside and in stairwells and throughout the main space), WeDaPeoples Cabaret presents artists that will activate the audience and space on multiple levels, in a multitude of tones that go beyond mere presentation to engaged participation. The artists of the evening carry perspectives that are global in scope, inviting us to imagine ourselves as part of a larger social organism-the organism of the audience at the Gatehouse within the mythical reality that is NYC.RIGHT NOW! (A WeDaPeoples Cabaret), Featuring Nona Hendryx and Curated by Carl Hancock Rux will be presented on Sat, Sep 17 at 7:30 pm at The Gatehouse.

Join us as Nona Hendryx, Reno and Nelson George examine the nature of identity pushed to the margins. They'll question the world out loud with a profound sense of love and friendship, call for recognition, hold the world accountable for its actions, and celebrate the regenerative spirit of humanity.

In the spirit of two fisted singer songwriters such as Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Betty Davis, Odetta, Nikki Giovanni, and others, Carl Hancock Rux presents a rare performance by legendary singer/songwriter, Nona Hendryx. With a career spanning six decades of sound & style evolution paralleling the changing times, from bluebelle doo-wop to brill building revolutionary rock poetics to space age new wave goddess, Hendryx morphs into yet another incarnation.

Writer/filmmaker Nelson George pays tribute to poet Gil Scott-Heron and introduces a short film by Rux focusing on the impact of Scott-Heron's radical political vision and his transformative contribution to activism, connecting social movements rooted deeply in civil rights struggles from integration to the exploitation of mine workers, anti-nuclear war and apartheid protests as well as Scott-Heron's own political disillusionment and return to freedom struggles, all while impacting poets, musicians and the community at large, decrying a true America for real Americans.

Brutally honest comedian, political monologist Citizen Reno tackles America with an incendiary wit and a machine-gun delivery in a rant that expands from the neighborhood to the nation, reflecting on the ruins of 9/11, and the Ground-Zero guerrilla puzzle of voodoo patriotism, with scalding assessments of everyone from George W. Bush to Larry King to Donald Trump and the Obama/Osama drama.

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