Corey Glover will kick off Downtown Urban Arts Festival on March 4 at Joe’s Pub
DUAF
Joe’s Pub, Nuyorican Poets Café, HERE, Tribeca Film Center
March 4 – April 9, $10-$30
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The fourteenth annual Downtown Urban Arts Festival gets under way this week, kicking off with Corey Glover & Friends playing a one-time-only intimate show at Joe’s Pub on March 4 ($30, 7:30). The five-week extravaganza, dedicated to promoting diversity, features music, theater, poetry, and film over five weeks at several venues below Fourteenth St. Other highlights include Joe Gulla exploring growing up gay in an Italian family in The Bronx Queen (March 8, Joe’s Pub, $20, 7:30), the open poetry slam “Words Matter” with Miguel Algarin, Reg E. Gaines, and others at Nuyorican Poets Cafe (March 17, $12, 9:00), Anthony B. Knight Jr.’s No Cowards in Our Band, about Frederick Douglass (March 25, HERE, $18, 7:00), Dean Preston’s Canned Laughter, about a recluse who is asked to resurrect his children’s television show (March 30, HERE, $18, 7:00), and three days of short films at the Tribeca Film Center (April 7-9, $10, 8:00).