The Paterson Performing Arts Development Council (PPADC) is pleased to present its 2023 lineup for its annual Hamilton Arts Festival, a series of events including theatrical productions and film screenings.

The Hamilton Arts Festival (HAF) comprises as series of events, including film screenings, theatrical performances, and panel discussions.

HAF is designed to promote and showcase the works of underrepresented artists from the performing arts and and other disciplines.

The 2023 HAF lineup includes readings and productions.

American River: A Journey Down The Passaic

AMERICAN RIVER is a feature documentary about a 4-day, 80-mile kayak journey down New Jersey’s Passaic River.

The central character is Mary Bruno, who spent her childhood afraid of the polluted stretch of the Passaic near her home.

Decades later, she returns to explore the river of her youth and tell its story.

AMERICAN RIVER: A JOURNEY DOWN THE PASSAIC follows Ms. Bruno and River Guide Carl Alderson as they kayak from the Passaic’s pristine headwaters to its toxic mouth in Newark Bay.

Along the way, candid conversations with residents, experts and advocates reveal the river’s extraordinary history, geology and ecology: How did this powerful and once-celebrated river become one of the most contaminated in the nation? Can it be saved?

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Date & Time : June 15, 2023 at 6:00pm

Location :

Fabian 8 Cinema
301 Main Street
Paterson, NJ 07505

The staged reading of local playwright Robert Tyler’s Douglasville.

Paterson Performing Arts Development Council

JOIN US! For A Staged Reading of DOUGLASVILLE

Two families, two paths into freedom, one LEGACY for a people...based on true events.

Playwright: Robert Tyler

Director: D.E. Womack

Stage Mgr: Kylah Wilson

Dramaturg: Julia R. Maldonado

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Date & Time : June 16, 2023 at 7:00pm

Location : 13-15 North 1st Street, Paterson, NJ 07522

The Hamilton Arts Festival Short Film Showcase

The Hamilton Arts Festival Short Film Showcase featuring 7 short films.

Showcase of film shorts about diverse life experiences

HAF FILM SHORTS 2023

- Like Father, Like Son by Mark Bethea

- Beyond Skin Deep by Stacey Larkins

- No Time Off For Good Behavior by Christopher Riley

- Hot Latin Nights at the Granada by Franco Vidal

- Dismissal Time by André Joseph

- What’s The Mark by Stacey Larkins

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Date & Time : June 19, 2023 at 6:00pm

Location :

Fabian 8 Cinema
301 Main Street
Paterson, NJ 07505

When Women Speak And Talkback

The 2023 Hamilton Arts Festival features When Women Speak & Talkback with live performances on Zoom all attendees must register in advance.

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Date & Time : June 21, 2023 at 7:00pm

Location : Online

Roadmap the Choreopoem by PPADC’s 2023 Playwright In-Residence, Monica Prince

A radical twenty-first century choreopoem

Roadmap tells the story of Dorian, a young American Black man, who is tasked by an ancestral spirit to thwart his inevitable murder. He traces his family tree, from his grandmother to his offspring, uncovering secrets of sex work, self-harm, and assault alongside snapshots of #BlackBoyJoy.

Guided by The Novelist, an omniscient muse, and her troupe of dancers, Dorian must interrogate his legacy, forgive his past, and reckon with being a Black man in modern America.

Monica Prince teaches activist and performance writing and serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania.

She is the author of Roadmap: A Choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, and Letters from the Other Woman.

She is the managing editor of Santa Fe Writers Project and the co-author of the suffrage play, Pageant of Agitating Women, with Anna Andes.

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation.

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Date & Time : June 24, 2023 at 7:00pm

Location :

The Great Falls Center
39 McBride Ave. Ext
Paterson, NJ 07501

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