

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Living Legacy: Gwendolen Hardwick
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: IN PERSON | TAKING PLACE  AT THE APOLLO STAGES AT THE VICTORIA THEATER

In collaboration with the Apollo Theater, join us for an evening featuring scene readings and poetry drawn from the expansive Harlem-based theater artist and writer Gwendolen Hardwick. A dynamic performer, visionary theater maker, and devoted community organizer, Hardwick, for over four decades, has helped shape and sustain vital creative spaces for Black and queer women writers and performers in New York.

Additionally, experience excerpts of performances by Dominique Morisseau, LaVonda Elam, NSangou Njikam, and Claro de los Reyes, all of whom have studied under Hardwick's mentorship. The evening will culminate with a conversation, moderated by director, playwright and actor Kevin R. Free.

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***THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE APOLLO STAGES AT THE VICTORIA THEATER*****
Location: 233 West 125th Street (Between Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Blvd (ACP) and Frederick Douglass Blvd (8th Avenue)

Assistive Listening and ASL
ASL interpretation and real-time captioning (CART) are available upon request. Please submit your request via this form or contact the hosting library at least two weeks in advance.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/astoria/living-legacy-gwendolen-hardwick/200029793651947
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2026/03/19/century-black-theater-making-living-legacy-gwendolen-hardwick?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=astoria-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Astoria
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, United States, New York 10037
- **lat**: 40.81472
- **long**: -73.94067
- **full address**: 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, United States, New York 10037, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037-1801, United States, Astoria

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/schomburg-center-for-research-in-black-culture-new-york-public-library/254519)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY, United States, New York 10037, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037-1801, United States, Astoria
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Living Legacy: Gwendolen Hardwick ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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