Back for a second season! The National Black Theatre’s Learn to Love Yourself: Silent Disco & Portrait Series.

The party and photo shoot is coming back to our community space under the train tracks at 125th Street for three Saturdays this summer: August 19, August 26 and September 2.

This year, the National Black Theatre (NBT) is celebrating female-identifying DJs and photographers who are creating a sonic, transformative journey for our community to learn, love and heal ourselves. Let loose with the musical stylings of cry$cross, Dent, Duneska, Poison Ivy and Rimarkable! And what better way to celebrate you than with free portraits taken by notable photographers: Ayesha Kazim, Floradis Espinal and Maria J Hackett.

NBT is also releasing never-before-heard archival audio called “Chants of Liberation" that was recorded by The Liberators, the original leaders and powerhouse voices of the theater. Curated and creatively driven by Nabii Faison, the chants will allow community members to listen to seminal text that helped to “Keep The Soul Alive” at NBT for more than half a century.  

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