IN CINEMA
The Lafargue Clinic Remixed:
WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM?
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Thursday, May 16 at 7PM
Co-presented with the Doc Forum at CCNY and Third World Newsreel
Richard. E. “Shades” Dunbar & Marcus Turner, 2004
Free jazz French horn player Richard Dunbar, takes fellow musicians on a musical journey between dreams, fantasy and reality as he interrogates his mental health and explores the relationship between jazz, spirituality and life.
Live Jazz to follow!
Made In Harlem: The Lafargue Clinic Remixed
Founded by Reverend Sheldon Hale Bishop (Pastor of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church that housed the clinic in Harlem) with co-founders Richard Wright (author of “Native Son” and former Harlem bureau chief for the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) and Fredric Wertham (German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States after the rise of the Nazi Party), The Lafargue Clinic was the first of its kind in Harlem: a pay-as-you-wish anti-racist mental health clinic, staffed largely by volunteers. Operating 1946-1958 out of the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, The Lafargue Clinic pioneered a form of social medicine that linked patients' medical needs with the struggle for housing and economic justice. MADE IN HARLEM: THE LAFARGUE CLINIC REMIXED is a series of films, talks, and seminars on the legacy of this groundbreaking Harlem institution and its impact today on radical healthcare organizing, mutual aid, and collective wellbeing.
Curated by Kazembe Balagun.
This series is made possible with the generous support of the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC)
Post Screening Conversation with Andrew Castillo and Film Director Marcus Turner
Live Solo Set with Ras Moshe
Andrew Castillo is a record collector and cinephile from the Bronx. He hosted Jazz Alternatives on WKCR-FM from 2016-2020, and has presented film programs at Spectacle Theater and Light Industry.
Ras Burnett is a Brooklyn born saxophonist, flautist, composer, writer and educator. He hails from a musical family via his grandfather and father, both saxophonist/composers. He studied music with both as well as public school bands from 5th grade through high school.
In 1987 he began performing in local reggae bands and African drum ensembles concurrent with his lifelong free jazz engagement.
In 2018 he received a BA in Music Studies from SUNY/Empire State College and in August 2023, his MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is a recipient of grants from The Jerome Foundation, New Music USA and Media Alliance Inc.
Ras believes in the power of creative music and its effect on social and personal change.
