HW/IMAGENATION Outdoor Film Festival
The HARLEM WEEK/IMAGENATION Outdoor Film Festival features a FREE Outdoor Film Screening Under the Stars on the Great Lawn of St Nicholas Park. Bring your Blankets, Snacks and the family and conclude Summer In The City with an evening at the movies.
Wind down Summer In The City with a roller-skating dance party featuring surprise celebrity guest DJs, followed by a screening of THE ROOFTOP, a documentary honoring Harlem’s legendary rooftop skating rink — a sacred space of hip-hop origins and Black joy.
FEATURED FILM: THE ROOFTOP
About the Film:
THE ROOFTOP was a legendary roller skating rink in Harlem from 1979-1989. This is where street life, music and fashion collided and introduced themselves to the world. The Rooftop provided a place where future music executives, fashion icons, legendary recording artists and producers and gangsters cooked up a gumbo of what would be later known as hip-hop culture. From LL Cool J to Rich Porter, Teddy Riley to DJ Hollywood, The Rooftop was a unique space for the youth of Harlem and beyond. Part one of this three-part documentary takes you on a journey on what and who ruled the ’80s in Harlem and how that one spot in 155th and 8th Avenue made a world and gave that world to the world. With appearances by “The World Famous” Brucie B, Teddy Riley, Gusto Wells, Alpo Martinez, Michael “Mike Boogie” Hollingsworth, The Gucci Girls, Kevin Chiles, Reika Carter and more…The Rooftop is where that swag in hip-hop all starts
