Harlem Week pays tribute to Jamaica and Bob Marley on Saturday and South Africa, Japan, and Don Cornelius on Sunday
West 135th St. and St. Nicholas Ave.
Saturday, August 18, and Sunday, August 19, free
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Harlem Week offers a wide range of free programs this weekend, from health and education to sports and music and more. Saturday’s theme is “Summer in the City,” with the NY City Children’s Festival, a live broadcast of Stephen A. Smith’s ESPN radio show, a senior citizens swimming demonstration by the Harlem Honeys and Bears, the Historic College Fair & Expo, a Dancing in the Street salute to Jamaica’s fiftieth anniversary hosted by Dahved Levy, the Fabulous Fashion Flava Show, an international vendors village, Great Jazz on the Great Hill with Wycliffe Gordon, Alyson Williams, Steve Kroon, and Brianna Thomas, an Uptown Saturday Nite tribute to Harry Belafonte and Bob Marley, and an outdoor Imagenation screening of the documentary Marley. On Sunday, “Harlem: Where the World Meets the World” honors South Africa and Japan, including such seminal figures as Nelson Mandela, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, and Don Cornelius, the legend behind Soul Train. The festivities feature the Upper Manhattan Auto Show, the NY City Health Village, the Upper Manhattan Small Business Expo & Fair, Tri-State Junior Tennis Clinics, the NY City Back to School Children’s Festival, and a live concert.