The 22nd ANNUAL IMAGENATION OUTDOOR film and Music Festival will run from July 27th – to Sept 21st in Harlem, New York.
In addition to outdoor screenings of Black films, live music performances, and DJs some of the festival highlights include; Drive-In Movie Series at East River Plaza and the HW50 Sidebar a celebration of Harlem Week 50th Anniversary (HW50) feat. films about Harlem and/or made in Harlem, the first annual ImageNation’s Afro Cinemusic Festival a 3-Day film and music festival in Marcus Garvey Park, Kids Night Out Back to School Event and the NYC premiere of Luther: Never Too Much at our annual ImageNation’s Soul Train Tribute which is also an official billboard Live Hip Hop and R&B Week event in also in Marcus Garvey Park and the ImageNation X FDBA Open Streets Movie Series, ImagiNation has partnered with BuyBlack.org to create BuyBlack Shopping Village, a marketplace that will be at most outdoor festival events and the festival lounge.
2024 Festival Schedule
ImageNation’s Drive-in @ East River Plaza in Harlem (cars and public seating)
Sat. July 27th – film: BARBIE
Sat. Aug 24th – KIDS NIGHT OUT/BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT film: IF
HW50 Sidebar: ImageNation celebrates HARLEM WEEK 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Thurs. Aug 8th – film THE CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM (2019) in partnership w/ urbanworld Film Festival Indoor screening @ Mount Morris Church, 16-20 Mount Morris Park W.
Sat. Aug 10th – Presented by THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NY film: TBA @ The Museum of the City of NY, 1220 5th Ave.
Tue,. Aug 13th – film COTTON COMES TO HARLEM (1970) @ Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center, 104 Malcolm X Blvd
Thus. Aug 15th – film IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018) @ Maysles Documentary Center
Fri. Aug 16th film LOUDMOUTH (2022) indoor screening w/ NAN Panel Discussion feat. The Exonerated 5’s Korey Wise, Gwen Carr (Eric Garner’s mother), Terrence Floyd (brother of George Floyd), and others @ The National Action Network, 106 W 145th St.
Sat. Aug. 17th, film SUMMER OF SOUL (2021) an official HARLEM WEEK Outdoor screening in St. Nicolas Park
Aug 20th – film COMEBACK CHARLESTON BLUES (1972) @ Harlem Heritage Tourism & Cultural Center, 104 Malcolm X Blvd
Imagenation Cinemusic Festival
A 3-day festival in Marcus Garvey Park
DAY 1 Thurs. Aug 29th – film: MAY THE LORD WATCH: The Little Brother Story w/ music: The Hip Hop Fraternity artists paying tribute to the iconic rap group and Sundae Sermons’s DJ Stormin Normin spinning on the 1’s $ 2’s.In partnership with the Hip Hop Education Center‘s 50 for 50 film series.
DAY 2 Fri. Aug. 30th – music: JAZZMOBILE’s SUMMERFEST various live jazz artists performances.
DAY 3 Sat. Aug. 31st – film: HAL KING w/ music: various neo-soul artists, from the film Hal King, performing live before the film.
IMAGENATION’S ANNUAL SOUL TRAIN TRIBUTE LUTHER: NEVER: TOO MUCH
Thurs. 9/5 in partnership w/ InJoy Enterprises. The official billboard Live Hip Hop and R&B Week event is happening in the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park. The event will feature various music artists performing Luther Vandross tribute songs, audience participating in a Soul Train Dance Line, DJ’s, vendors, surprise celebrity guest and ends with a premiere screening of LUTHER: Never Too Much.
Imagenation X FDBA Open Streets Movie Series
Sat. Sept 7th – Reel Sisters Film Festival celebrates the HW50th w/ Film: The APOLLO (2019)
Sat. Sept 14th – Film to be announced
Sat. Sept 21st – Film to be announced
Official Destial Lounges And After Party Venues
Shrine World Music Venue- 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd
Silvana – 300 West 116th St.
Ouaga Sports bar – 2280 ACP Blvd.
Vendors are welcome. To be a vendor send an email to gregory@imagenation.us w/ the subject line “VENDOR“.
To be an festival sponsor, email Gregory Gates at gregory@imagenation.us w/ the subject line “SPONSOR FESTIVAL“
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