IN CINEMA

PERSON PLACE THING:
RANDY COHEN interviews DR. DAVID LEVERING LEWIS
Tuesday, April 29th at 6PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/ $7 Reduced Price 

Music by HENRIQUE PRINCE follows!

PERSON PLACE THING is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them, yielding a new perspective on the featured guest’s work, life, and inspirations. On April 29th, PERSON PLACE THING will host a live, in-person conversation between host Randy Cohen and Dr. David Levering Lewis at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem. 

DAVID LEVERING LEWIS is professor emeritus of history at New York University. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Lewis received the Pulitzer Prize for each volume of his W. E. B. Du Bois biography. He is the author of eleven books. Lewis has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in New York City.

​​RANDY COHEN’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of PERSON PLACE THING, a public radio program.

HENRIQUE PRINCE was born in Harlem, NYC. He began playing the violin as a child and completely immersed himself in both classical and the rich American folk violin styles. Later he studied classical with Charles Meacham of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Henrique also played with numerous charanga bands, jazz ensembles, reggae bands and guesting with such music pioneers as The Sun Ra Arkestra, the Country Alt band - The Palace Bros., and with late nite television's Saturday Night Live Band. He has taught worldwide sharing the history of the African-American String Band tradition and experience with The EBONY HILLBILLIES. As a violinist, he has shared his knowledge with The Ladsonian Foundation, Folk Alliance, The Noel Pointer School and NYC's Jazzmobile.