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The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Schomburg Center Collaborate on Celebrating Ellison at 100: Reading Invisible Man -

Posted February 18, 2014

The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are pleased to announce a major collaboration celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest writers, Ralph Ellison. On Saturday, March 1, 2014—a century after Ellison’s birth in Oklahoma City—Ellison at 100: Reading Invisible Man will kick off a year of programs and initiatives celebrating the Ellison Centennial.

Thanks to support from the Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust, Ellison at 100 embraces both the international influence of Ellison’s work and his love for the Harlem neighborhood, his home for nearly six decades. On March 1, a wide variety of actors, writers, musicians, visual artists and community leaders will stage a collective reading of selections from Invisible Man (1952) at the Schomburg Center’s Langston Hughes auditorium. From Harlem youth to celebrated performers, diverse voices will bring highlights from Ellison’s iconic novel to life and celebrate its spirit with musical interludes.

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Ralph Ellison, 1961
Photographer unknown.
Courtesy of the National Archives. (61-8989, 306-PS-A).

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