images sourced from “Eyes on Harlem” (Urban Video Project, 1987), transferred by XFR Collective in February 2022.
MARCUS GARVEY PARK - SANKOFA INSTALLATION
(124th St. between 5th + Madison)
ARCHIVING WORKSHOP and HARLEM FILM DAY!
Tickets: FREE
Sunday, July 28th 10AM-5PM
Co-presented with XFR Collective
Join us for a hands-on celebration of all-things Harlem Film in Marcus Garvey Park! All activities will take place outdoors at the Sankofa Installation on 124th St. (between 5th and Madison).
This program is presented by Maysles Documentary Center with the generous support of XFR Collective, The Mellon Foundation, Harlem Grown, and the NYC Parks Department.
10:00AM – 1:30PM:
We’ll begin the day with a pop-up archiving workshop, hosted by our friends at the XFR Collective. Learn about caring for home movies and other personal at-risk media with an on-site digitization tutorial. Bring VHS tapes if you have them! We will also have tables set up with crafts, zines, and snacks.
In the afternoon, we will gather for a series of short talks on different aspects of Harlem film/visual culture and cultural heritage preservation!
SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS
1:30PM - Hip-Hop Archiving & Preservation in Harlem by Martha Diaz
2:15PM - Race And Journalism: My Stor by Milton Allimadi
3:00PM - The Palimpsests of Gentrification: Making sense of Neighborhood Change in the Archive by Nia Whitmal
3:45PM - The Harlem African Community and Cinema by Dr. Boukary Sawadogo
4:15PM - The Sankofa Installation in Marcus Garvey Park by Jerome Haferd
MARTHA DIAZ is a Colombian-American social entrepreneur, media producer, educator, archivist, community organizer and curator dedicated to advancing social justice and equity through the power of Hip-Hop culture, media, technology, and storytelling. In 2010, Martha founded the Hip-Hop Education Center and serves as the CEO, Chief Curator and Archivist. Martha is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study and Tisch School of the Arts Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. She serves as an advisor and associate archivist and curator at The Hip Hop Museum
MILTON ALLIMADI is a Ugandan-American author, journalist, and professor. After graduating from Columbia’s School of Journalism, he co-founded Black Star News, a Harlem-based Pan-African news outlet that also focuses on investigative journalim. He is known for his critique of racist writing by white authors about Africa and Africans, in his books “The Hearts of Darkness” (2003) and “Manufacturing Hate” (2021). He's an adjunct professor in Africana Studies Department at John Jay College and in Fall 2024 he'll start the PhD program in History at Howard University.
NIA WHITMAL is a budding filmmaker and PhD candidate in anthropology at Cornell University. She studies black homeownership, memory, and belonging in Harlem as gentrification and the draw of more affordable housing down south alters neighborhood demographics. She utilizes documentary filmmaking in her research to redress the limited representations of black elite groups in anthropological inquiry. Alongside her research, she interns at the Maysles Documentary Center, working in archives and preservation
DR. BOUKARY SAWADOGO is Associate Professor of Film at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. He is a scholar of African cinema and African immigrant diaspora in the USA. In addition to four books on African cinema, Dr Sawadogo has authored a book on the history and the cultural and economic presence of African immigrants in Harlem, “Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story” (2022). Also, Dr Sawadogo is the founding director of Harlem African Animation Festival.
JEROME W. HAFERD is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. He is assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. Haferd is principal of award-winning studio Jerome Haferd Architecture and co-founder of BRANDT : HAFERD Architecture. He is also a core initiator of Dark Matter U (DMU), a BIPOC led network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and practice. He is lead designer for the 2023-24 Marcus Garvey Park Culture, Creativity, and Care Initiative with Harlem Grown. Jerome’s recent projects include the Sankofa installation in Harlem, among others.
