December 27, 2007

December 14 - Dec 27, 2007

On the Dock for this Snippet

Otis Redding – from Macon to Memphis Opens
Discount Color Purple Tickets
Port of Harlem Now in Denver
16th Annual LA Pan-African Film Festival
Want to Be in Port of Harlem’s Print Issue?

Artists' Market Sa & Su Dec 15 and 16 Only

Otis Redding – from Macon to Memphis Opens

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music (click here to hear Redding's music), located at the site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, where Redding recorded the songs that captured the hearts of millions, opened "Otis Redding: from Macon to Memphis - An Exhibit from the Private Collection of Zelma Redding" Monday, December 10 in commemoration of Redding's passing.

With items on loan from Otis Redding's widow and daughter, Zelma and Karla Redding-Andrews, the exhibit features a collection of never-before-shown family photographs taken on the Reddings' 300-acre ranch outside Macon, Georgia and shows more than Otis Redding the singer and entertainer. Redding is seen petting his cattle, holding his son Otis Redding III, pitching hay from his barn, and engaged in other activities that portray him at home.

Reddings rise in the music industry was nothing short of meteoric. He arrived at Stax Records in 1962 as the driver and equipment handler for Johnny Jenkins & the Pinetoppers, a band with whom he had occasionally performed in and around his native Macon. At the end of the evening, after having asked all day for a chance to sing, Stax Records founder Jim Stewart and Booker T. & the MGs guitarist and songwriter Steve Cropper gave him that chance. There in the famed Studio A, when Otis Redding began singing "These Arms of Mine," the world changed forever.

For the next five years, Redding would record hit after hit (“Respect,” ... “Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay”), take Europe by storm, and enthrall thousands of love children at the Monterey Pop Festival alongside the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane. But the world changed again that same year, when, on December 10, 1967, Redding, the pilot, and all but two members of his touring band the Bar-Kays were killed when his plane crashed in Lake Monona, just a few minutes from the airport in Madison, Wisconsin, at the age of 26. Only Bar-Kay trumpet player Ben Cauley survived the crash; fellow Bar-Kay member James Alexander was on a different, commercial flight.
The exhibit is open through April 30, 2008.

Discount Color Purple Tickets

The Color Purple is offering tickets this holiday season for as little as $60*! The offer is good thru Sunday, December 23. To purchase discount tickets:

Click here and enter code CPWEB77

or

Call 212-947-8844 and mention code CPWEB77

If you purchased tickets to a performance that was canceled due to the strike, click here for valuable information about ticket refunds and exchanges.

*Offer not valid on Saturday performances. Additional blackout dates may apply. Regular ticket prices are $116.50 - 66.50. All prices include a $1.50 theatre facility fee. Subject to availability and prior sale. Limit 8 tickets per order. Normal service charges apply to phone and online orders. Offer may be revoked at any time. All sales final - no refunds or exchanges. Not valid in combination with any other offer. Casting and performance schedule may change at any time.

Port of Harlem Now in Denver

Port of Harlem is now available in another major Black repository, Denver’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in the historically Black neighborhood of Five Points. You can also find the magazine at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem), Moorland Spingarn Research Center (Washington), and all branches of the Prince Georges’s Memorial Library System and Gary, Indiana Public Library System.

Two branches (Pinney and Sequoya) of the Madison,Wisconsin library system, The Wisconsin State Historical Society, the National Library of The Gambia, and the University of the Gambia Library also subscribe to Port of Harlem. Six branches of the Washington, D.C. Public Library system also offer the magazine to its patrons.

16th Annual LA Pan-African Film Festival

The 16th annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival takes place Thursday, February 17 through Monday, February 18 at the Magic Johnson AMS Crenshaw 15 in Los Angeles. Each year the film festival presents 175 quality films from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Europe, and even the South Pacific, all showcasing the diversity and complexity of people of African descent.

Want to Be in Port of Harlem’s Print Issue?

We are currently looking for a color photo of a not-married mature heterosexual couple and a same sex couple of any age. If you are interested in having you image published with an article that we can talk with you about before using your picture, click here.