October 15, 2019

Harlem 100 to celebrate the Harlem Renaissance at Purdue University

Harlem 100 Harlem 100 will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse. (Courtesy photo) Download image

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Harlem 100 will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse. This performance is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from the Friends of Convos Endowment, Stuart and Branigin Lawyers, and Purdue Black Cultural Center. 

Cornelius Bynum, an associate professor in Purdue University’s Department of History, will lead a discussion before the evening’s performance at 7 p.m. in Stewart Center, Room 310.

The Harlem Renaissance represented an explosively creative, resolutely empowering era — a cornucopia of expression and entertainment that formed America’s music and pursuit for civil rights. Today’s performers stoke this wildfire’s embers to spark new innovation in the iconic neighborhood. Created in collaboration with the National Jazz Museum, Harlem 100 presents sounds and ideas from Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday and others in a modern-day variety-show homage to evenings at the Apollo, Cotton Club or Alhambra.   

Tickets are $30 for adults and $24 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Stewart Center box office at 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW. Group tickets are also available to groups of 10 more. Call 765-494-3933 for more details or visit https://purdue.edu/convocations/group-sales/.

Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations was one of the first professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 30-40 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theater, dance, children's theater, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing, 765-494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu

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