Tenement Museum’s Grand Reopening Block Party

Juma Sultan

Juma Sultan is a jazz musician, most often recording as a percussionist or bass player. He performed at the Woodstock festival of 1969, playing with Jimi Hendrix. He is also one of the co-founders of Studio We, a community music-performance and rehearsal space built inside an abandoned building on the Lower East Side in 1968, a stop on our Reclaiming Black Spaces walking tour. He currently plays in the African performance group Sankofa, the band Sons of Thunder, and with the Juma Sultan Band

Jia Sung

Jia Sung with Assembly for Chinatown will be doing a live mural painting. She is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, bred in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn. Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1. She was a 2018-2019 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow, and is currently an adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design.

Chembo Corniel Trio

Chembo Corniel Trio is a latin jazz trio, comprised of Grammy-nominated Chembo Corniel on the tumbadoras, Gilbert “Pulpo” Colon, Jr. on piano, and Alex “Apollo” Ayala on bass. They are being sponsored by the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Advocate of Wordz

JF Seary

Suzen Baraka