About the Project
Harlem On My Mind, Too hopes to engage community members to share what they cherish most about living in Harlem thus amplifying the narratives of Harlemites. Ola intends to translate the documented responses in to a compilation CD project to be shared with the community via a listening party.
About the artist
beluvid ola-jendai is a Cave Canem poet and was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship for poetry in 2001. Between 1995 and 2005, he actively performed at spoken word venues throughout New York City and self-published two bodies of work, “Butterflies in Disguise” and “A Place Called There.” He edited Mikaylah Simone’s “My Manufactured English” and, as an extension of a summer arts series, produced its collaborative cd project entitled “I Am.” Between 2001 and 2005, he founded and actively moderated an online community of artists called melanation. Ola also led the Urban Lyricists Artist Collective based in Flatbush, Brooklyn where he evolved a style of poetry that is half-spoken, half-sung and heavily utilizes Ebonics as lexicon.
PARTNER LAUNDROMAT
361 Laundromat (361 Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY)
UPCOMING EVENTS
- October 30, 5:30–8
Listening Party
Countee Cullen Library (Auditorium)
104 West 136th Street, New York, NY 10030
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The LP Interview with beluvid ola-jendai