 |
||||||||||||||
| December 3, 2004 - December 16,
2004 |
||||||||||||||
| for best viewing,use Netscape 7.0 or Microsoft
Explore 5.0 or higher |
||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||
| On
The Dock for this Snippet |
||||||||||||||
| Free Tickets to Hallelujah,
baby
at
Arena Stage and More BZB Black Gift Show - Dec 4/11/18 / Artists Market - Dec 11/12 The Art of Shaunté Gates Reception - Sat. Dec 18 Marion Barry, Doyle Mitchell, Brother Simba Discuss Black Business Success Port Of Harlem Contributor Releases New Book Travel Ministry of Peoples' UCC Church European Excursion Michael Brown / Robin Holden on From The Desk of Lil |
||||||||||||||
|
Free Tickets to Hallelujah,
baby
at Arena Stage and More  Happy Holidays! As a Port
Of Harlem on-line edition reader, you can win a pair to
tickets to see Hallelujah, baby
at Arena Stage in Washington,
D.C., or a copy of either Walkerswood
Caribbean Kitchen by
Virginia Burke, or The Black Woman’s
Guide to Menopause by
Carolyn Scott Brown with Barbara S.
Levy, M.D.We will RANDOMLY select the three winners from all electronic entries. You may enter the drawing for one or all three prizes. We will select the winners Monday, December 6, at 7p.m. We will notify the winners by email Monday, December 6. Winners must claim their prize by 7p Wednesday, December 8 by sending us an email with their mailing address. No exceptions. (Sorry, Port Of Harlem writers and advertisers are not eligible.) We will select new winners for unclaimed prizes Wednesday, December 8 at 7:30p. They will have until 7p, Friday, December 10 to claim their prizes. To enter, send us an email by clicking on the name of the show and/or book(s) below: Hallelujah, baby - running at Arena Stage, Wednesday, December 10 thru February 13 - the story follows Georgina from decade to decade as she dreams of trading in her maid’s mop for the excitement of the stage. Look for a review of the play in an upcoming Snippets. Walkerswood Caribbean Kitchen by Virginia Burke. We featured one of the recipes from the book in the August 2004-October 2004 print issue. The Black Woman’s Guide to Menopause by Carolyn Scott Brown with Barbara S. Levy, M.D. We featured an excerpt from the book in the February 2004 - April 2004 print issue. To subscribe to the print issue, click here. Photograph: Ann
Duquesnay
as Mamma.
Photo
credit: T. Charles Erikson
|
||||||||||||||
|
The BZB Gift and Art Show continues at Shiloh Baptist Church, 9th and P Streets, N.W., Saturday, December 4, 11 and 18th. Admission is free and street parking is always plentiful. The event is from 11a to 7p. Artists Market - Sat and Sun, December 11 and 12. The markeplace includes 26 unique, juried artists. There is no admission and there is plenty of free parking. Pick up a free copy of our latest print issue at the Market. Back to top |
||||||||||||||
|
Meet
Shauté Gates, POH Cover Artists
The Art of Shaunté Gates Reception - Sat, Dec 18 Many of Shaunté Gates’ visions on canvas and paper reflect his growing up in the urban Southeast and Northeast quadrants of the nation’s capital. He recalls drawing when he was as young as he can remember. “I still have a picture of singer Curtis Blow that I drew when I was about six,” he says.  At
the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Gates foll owed his dream of developing his
visual arts skills. After
graduating from the
Washington, D.C. high school
in 1997, Gates attended Bowie State, Montgomery Junior College, and the
University
of the District of Columbia.He currently works at the Perry School Community Service Center where he teaches 8 to 18 year-olds artistic skills. “We are trying to keep them out of the streets, by keeping them occupied with something positive,” he says. Though most of the scenes he paints are of urban America, he sometimes incorporates Italian images that he experienced while bumming around Italy. In one romantic picture, for instance, he painted a guy pushing a fruit cart across a stone road with a couple strolling by. “My mission is to inspire hope and provide a vision of life’s beauty through the eyes of a young, inner-city Black American,” he continued, “and that includes visions from whatever environment I experience.” Gates lost his mother in May. He never knew his father. He often paints male figures, but rarely with the intention of them representing a father figure. Nonetheless, for the most recent Port Of Harlem cover, he had no trouble envisioning a family with a mother, father, and two children. Before starting the cover picture, Gates started a similar one with a pregnant woman and her child. He birthed that idea after attending a funeral, and seconds later, getting a phone call about the birth of a cousin. That piece, Gates says, represented the old adage: when a person dies, another person is born. He continued, “I started the painting, my mother got sick, she passed, and I didn’t complete it.” The piece on our cover is the first that he has completed since his mother’s transition. In the depiction, the woman has had the child. And what do the people outside the windows represent? “They represent life, too,” Gates says. Port Of Harlem presents “The Art of Shaunté Gates,” Saturday, December 18 from 3p to 5p at The Graham Collection (Belmont Arts East) and Saturday, January 15, from 3p to 5p at Attitude Exact Gallery Afro-Centric. At the receptions, you can meet Gates, buy his works, mingle, and enjoy light refreshments. The receptions are free. [Gates will also be one of 26 juried artists at The Artists Market, Saturday and Sunday, December 11 and 12 - St. Francis Hall - 1340 Quincy Street, NE - Washington, D.C. - 11a - 6p, there is no admission] The mix media on canvas original (23 inches tall x 15 inches wide) of the Port Of Harlem cover sells for $2,600. Gates will also produce 30 limited edition pieces on canvas and paper at $200 each. You can see the cover image, samples of his other works, and sign up for an email reminder for the receptions by clicking here. Photographs: Familia by Shauté Gates on canvas and POH cover. |
||||||||||||||
|
How to survive and succeed in business was the focus of the  DuBois Business
Summit in Prince Georges County, MD on November 8. More than 150
Washington area business persons participated in the educational and
networking event including B. Doyle Mitchell, Jr., President and
CEO of the fifth largest Black bank in America, Industrial Bank of
Washington, and Brother Simba,
cofounder of the country’s largest Black-owned bookstore, Karibu Books.Commenting how a business can increase it chances of successfully getting a bank loan, Mitchell advised, “You should come to the table with some [assets].” Simba, commenting on what Black businesses must do to succeed, added, “The key to Black business development is based on our ability to rely on us.” Joshua Smith, the business savvy and humorous founder,  chairman, and CEO of The Maxima Corporation; and
chairman and a managing partner of The Coaching Group, LLC opened the
daylong session emphasizing the importance of personal relationships in
business. “I don’t do business with brochures, but with people,”
he said. “People in business do business with people in other
businesses,” added his friend, Mike Little, President and CEO of
B/W Solutions.Many of the other entrepreneurs also talked about the building of their businesses and their business philosophies including Kathryn Freeland. She believes that society teaches women to be multi-taskers, which is a trait that many agree that a successful business person must have. She recalled having to maintain her business while losing a child and an executive; and battling breast cancer within a very short period. “I fell down, and managed to get back up,” said the CEO of RGII Technologies. Dorothy Bailey, founder of the Harlem Renaissance Remembrance Foundation, hosted the event and talked about the event’s namesake, W.E.B. DuBois, and his belief that the talented 10% of the race would take on the responsibility of reaching back and pulling the others along. During lunch, Smith introduced keynote speaker former D.C. mayor and councilman-elect Marion Barry, Jr. as an example of one who reached back into his community by increasing the share of contracts that Black businesses got from the District government from 3% to 47% during his tenure as mayor. When Barry reached the podium, he reminded the talented tenth, “Don’t be ashamed to talk Black.” On the flip side, said Berry, “You have to make sure that the [Black-owned] business [that you hire] can do what it said it can do.” Photographs: B. Doyle Mitchell, Jr. of Industrial Bank and Brother Simba of Karibu Books. Effi Barry and Port Of Harlem publisher Wayne Young. Back to top |
||||||||||||||
 PublishAmerica.Com
has released Lion Mountain: A
Perilous Evolution of
the Dens ($11.95) by Karamoh Kabba. Kabba is Port Of Harlem
print issue’s short story writer. The fictional account is
based
on historical events and centers on Chief
Morquee III, an obdurate and powerful chief, and veteran of tribal
wars. The chief throws down the gauntlet with the colonialist
when its governor orders a new tax that Chief Morquee opposes. Photograph: Karomah Kabba. Editor's Note: Read Kabba's A Secret with Endimbaekena in the current print issue. Back to top |
||||||||||||||
| |
||||||||||||||
Travel Ministry of Peoples' UCC Church European Excursion People's Congregational Church
- - United
Church of Christ - - is planning a European tour Sept 20 to 30,
2005. The
tour includes three days in London, Paris and Rome. The fare
includes round
trip air fair from Dulles to Rome, train to London and Paris, and first
class
hotel accommodations. The $2,998 ($500 supplement) fare includes
a deluxe
motor coach tour in each country, tour guide, entrance fees, breakfast
and
dinner daily, and all related taxes and gratuities.
A small deposit will hold your space. There will be a slight increase in the fare after Jan. 10, 2005. For more information, reach Herb Quarles at 202-723-4407 or click here, or call Jean Smith on 301-652-3173. |
||||||||||||||
|
Michael Brown / Robin Holden on
Back to topFrom The Desk of Lil Michael Brown, Vice Chairman of the DC Boxing Commission, is scheduled to appear on From The Desk of Lil- The TV Show on District Cablevision. The show aired during the week of November 29, however, repeats will appear in the coming weeks. Brown, who is expected to run for D.C. Mayor in 2006, offers his views of the D.C. baseball stadium. WFPW radio personality Robin Holden is scheduled to be the guest during the week of November 28. Holden has started a new project, Project Helping Hands, that will provide qualified seniors a free gift card to pay for their prescriptions at DC area chain pharmacies. District Cablevision airs the news analysis talk show Sundays at 2p with a repeat on Wednesdays at 10p on Comcast 5 and Starpower 10. Click here for more info the show. |
||||||||||||||
|
Back to front page |
||||||||||||||
|