Lew Zuchman, 1961 Freedom Riders honored at performance of “MANDELA” Play

On Saturday, Febraury 26th, the East Harlem Repertory Theatre hosted a special showing of their play MANDELA. The performance honored Lew Zuchman and the 1961 Freedom Riders. In attendance  along with Lew Zuchman, was fellow Freedom Rider Bob Heller, and both were brought on stage at the end of the performance. The performance was attended […]

SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Academy Spring Registration is OPEN!

SCAN-Harbor’s Performing Arts Academy is opening Spring Enrollment for its programs!   If you would like to learn more about registering for Spring Sessions, please email Chloe McMillan, cmcmillan@scan-harbor.org, or Kelly Smith ksmith@scan-harbor.org To enroll your child in a program please fill out this short form. Click Here              

Seasons’ Greetings from SCAN-Harbor

From all of us at SCAN-Harbor, we wish you many blessings during this holiday season, and a peaceful and happy new year!   Please enjoy this performance of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” as covered by SCAN-Harbor’s Elite Ensemble.   Click Here or anywhere on the image below to hear this great performance!  

SCAN-Harbor awarded $49,500 by the New York State Council on the Arts

NEW YORK – SCAN-Harbor announced today a grant award totaling $49,500 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Following New York State’s $105 million investment in the arts for FY2022, NYSCA has awarded more than $80 million since June 2021. NYSCA […]

SCAN-Harbor and NYSCA logos

SCAN-Harbor Afterschool Program Gets Special Shout-out

It is always great to feel appreciated. We wanted to share this small note of gratitude from our partners at Patrick Henry Preparatory School (PHP)   Principal Dimitres Pantelidis has been enthusiastically pleased with the SCAN-Harbor After-School program run by Vanessa Taylor. Recently Pantelidis shared this brief message of gratitude with everyone associated with the […]

SCAN-Harbor afterschool program pictures at Patrick Henry Preparatory (PHP)

SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Academy Student Awarded Chadwick Boseman Scholarship

Shawn Smith Jr. has been named as one of the original recipients of the Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship. Recipients of the award receive a 4-year scholarship covering the full costs of tuition at Howard University. Shawn has not only been a fantastic student, and a stellar performer in SCAN-Harbor’s Performing Arts Academy Elite Ensemble, […]

DJ Webstar Features SCAN-Harbor Kids in Hit Video

SCAN-Harbor has been partnering with Harlem’s own DJ Webstar since before the summer began, and we could not be more excited! This past week, a video dropped online that recorded over Two million views in the first 24 hours after it was released! The video featured dancers from all over Harlem, young and old, and […]

SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Academy Program Registration Open!

Announcing: SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Academy Registration for Fall and Winter activities is now open!   The Performing Arts Academy is offering tuition free programming for New York City residents.   Each weekday (except Mondays) there will be a Hybrid Arts Academy from 3pm-9pm. In addition, the Academy will host a  Hybrid Arts Academy each Saturday […]

SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Academy Presents a New Musical

Using Our Voices… One City Many Tales We are so excited to announce that starting next week, the SCAN-Harbor Performing Arts Academy will be featuring a new musical: “Using Our Voices… One City Many Tales.” The production combines popular covers and original music by Tayon Burton and Khalifa White, and will feature the Elite Ensemble […]

SCAN-HARBOR Presents LOVE DAY Wednesdays!

Come Join us for LOVE DAY! SCAN-Harbor’s T2 team will be hosting Love Days in different cornerstones throughout the summer.   Throughout this pandemic we’ve made sure our community has access to PPE and Covid-19 related resources.   As New York is opening back up, our goal is to bring our community together, while we eat, play […]