About The Gloster Project
The Gloster Project was created out of the simple idea that kids do best when they have access to education, and we believe that the arts give children a bigger sense of the world, and ultimately, a bigger sense of themselves. The arts also teach reading, writing, editing, listening, speaking, performing and most of all – critical thinking. We firmly believe that exposure to the arts, culture, and history should be available to everyone, especially to kids in chronically underserved areas like Gloster, Mississippi.
Kelvyn Bell
Last summer Kelvyn Bell, Ebony Noelle Golden, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Nambi E. Kelley, Quincy Troupe, and Carlos Uribe gave 45 kids ages 7 to 17 years three weeks of learning fun with free instruction in the basics of poetry, guitar, drawing, painting and musical theater production.
About the Harlem Arts Saloon
Reinvigorating a tradition that recalls the salons of A’Lelia Walker during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, Margaret Porter Troupeand her husband poet, writer, and Miles Davis biographer, Quincy Troupe have been presenting programming in Harlem in the intimacy of their historic Graham Court apartments for ten years.
Notable recent guests have included: Toni Morrison, Randy Weston, Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, former USA poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, new literary sensation, Marlon James, baritone saxophonist, Hamiet Bluiett, stunning new tenor saxJames Brandon Lewis, basketball legend Earl “the Pearl” Monroe, and Caribbean novelist, Earl Lovelace, Elizabeth Nunez and a stellar list of other creative luminaries such as Ron Carter, John Edgar Wideman, Maryse Conde, Oliver Lake, Mildred Howard, the list is so long….
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