Performance Schedule 2009

January

• 17th - Stories of Freedom - part of A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Queens Library, Central Branch, Jamaica, NY, 1:30 pm. For more info, contact Youth Services Division, 718-990-0767, website at www.queenslibrary.org
• 25th - An Afternoon of Music - with April Armstrong, Soprano and Leon Reid, Pianist. Works by: Copland, Ellington, Gershwin, Lerner & Loewe, Mozart, & R. Strauss (program subject to change). 3:00 pm at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, located at 521 West 126th Street, New York, NY 10027 (bet Amsterdam and Old Broadway) For more info, please call (646) 431-3703

February

• 11th - A Celebration of African American Through Stories and Song - with Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist, PS 70, Bronx, NY. Sponsored by Music for Many, Inc. 9:00 & 10:15 am
• 12th - A Celebration of African American Through Stories and Song - with Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist, PS 21, East 225 Street, Bronx, NY. Sponsored by Music for Many, Inc. 9:00 & 10:00 am
• 13th - A Celebration of African American Through Stories and Song - with Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist, PS 131, 170-45 84th Avenue, Jamaica, NY. Sponsored by Music for Many, Inc. 9:00, 10:00 & 11:00 am
• 20th - Black History Month Program - with World Harvest Storytellers & Players featuring April Armstrong, storyteller and Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist
• 21st - Songs and Stories from Around the World - at the Newark Public Library, Weequahic Branch, 355 Osborne Terrace, Newark, NJ 07112 at 11:00 am. For more info contact: 973-733-7752, website at www.npl.org
• 24th - A Celebration of African American Through Stories and Song - with Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist, PS 120, located at 58- 01 136th Street, Flushing, NY at 8:15 & 9:15 am. Produced by Music for Many, Inc.
• 27th - A Celebration of African American Through Stories and Song - with Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist, CS 300, located at 2050 Prospect Avenue, Bronx. Shows at 9:15 & 10:15 am. Produced by Music for Many, Inc.

March

• 18th - A Celebration of African American Through Stories and Song - with Ayodele Maakheru, guitarist & percussionist, PS 114, 1155 Cromwell Avenue, Bronx. Shows at 9:00, 10:15 am & 1:00 pm. Produced by Music for Many, Inc.

• 23rd, 24th, & 25th Storytelling at annual Animals and Acrobats Festival, Van Cortland Manner, Croton, NY. Call Historic Hudson Valley for schedule and admission prices (914) 631 - 0089 or on the web at www.hudsonvalley.org

October

• 11th Scrambled, written by June Ospa, Shortened Attention Span Horror Fest, directed by April Armstrong. Starring David Askew, Hope Clarke, and Aisha DeHaas at the Players Loft, 115 MacDougal Street, 3:00 pm. For more info: www.theatermania.com
• 17th & 18th Spooky Stories with April and Ayodele (Ayodele Maakheru on banjo & guitar) at Legends Weekend at Washington Irving's Sunnyside Historic Site, 3 Sunnyside Land, Tarrytown, NY 10533. Call Historic Hudson Valley for schedule and admission prices (914) 631-0089 or on the web at www.hudsonvalley.org
• 31st Halloween Storytelling at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11354 (718) 463-7700, at 2:30 & 3:30 pm. For more info: www.flushingtownhall.org

November

• 7th Screening of Love is Deaf (written & directed by Paul Haber), part of the 6th annual Big Apple Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas, 1:45 pm www.bigapplefilmfestival.com
• 9th A Time to Remember, Stories for the Troops, Storytelling Program with Ayodele Maakheru at the VA Hospital, Pennsylvania. Time: TBA
• 20th American Celebration, stories & music with Ayodele Maakheru, PS 40, 109-20 Union Hall Street, Queens, NY, 9:30 & 10:30 am

December

• 21st Winter Celebration Stories & Songs, with Ayodele Maakheru (guitars), PS 20, 161 Park Avenue, Staten Island, NY 9:30 & 10:30 am

Theater links

Historic Hudson Valley - www.hudsonvalley.org

Shortened Attention Span Horror Fest - www.theatermania.com

Flushing Town Hall - www.flushingtownhall.org

Big Apple Film Festival - www.bigapplefilmfestival.com/

Providence Black Repertory Co. - www.blackrep.org/

Vineyard Playhouse - http://vineyardplayhouse.org/

Casa Manana - www.casamanana.org/

TheatreWorks - www.theatreworks.org

NYSF - www.publictheater.org

WASHINGTON SQUARE - www.imdb.com/title/tt0120481/