MAIN STAGE: Hip Hop Legends: Grand Wizard Theodore (Inventor of Scratching!), DJ Phase, T Ski Valley, Voice of Harlem, Happy Original Pioneer | M.A.K.U. Soundsystem | Mazarte Dance Company | UpBeat NYC Latin Jazz Big Band
The 2nd Annual Mott Haven H.E.ARTS Festival will bring together a wide array of local South Bronx residents, artists, musicians, grassroots organizations and businesses to celebrate Mott Haven as a uniquely vibrant and diverse community. The event's focus will be on the conversion of the former Lincoln Detox Center into a center for health, education and the arts that will serve as an anchor for our families and local organizations who are fighting systemic injustice and displacement (including the unveiling of our recently completed feasibility report!)
Participating Organizations: Birthing Project | Boogie Down Books | Bronx Filmmakers Collective | BxArts Factory | Community Connections for Youth | ID Studio Theater | MLK SUNY ATTAIN | Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards | National Acupuncture Detoxification Association | NY Dept of Youth and Community Development | Radical Health | South Bronx Unite |Taller Experimental del Arte | UpBeat NYC
FOOD Traditional cuisine for sale from local families and vendors
ARTS, FILMMAKERS, CRAFTS & APPAREL Local artisans, filmmakers and vendors will offer their goods for sale
ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS Arts projects, children's books, face painting and bouncy house
HEALTH & EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Meet and greet education and health professionals with discussions/services related to community building, alternatives to incarceration, acupuncture, pregnancy, birthing and much more
FEASIBILITY REPORT UNVEILING H.E.ARTS Center design and feasibility report and model unveiling, as well as information about our local community land trust, the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards
More about the H.E.ARTS Community Center- Following multiple community envisioning sessions and several large-scale events and festivals, the Mott Haven- Port Morris Community Land Stewards (community land trust) aims to acquire and renovate the city-owned, vacant, 28,000 square foot former Lincoln Detox Center into a home for more than a dozen health, education and arts organizations in the Mott Haven-Port Morris community.
