Inner City Cultural Center’s Annual Fall Celebration

Featuring:

Intimate Stories, read by members of the Longwood Writers Workshop

CHARLES FLOYD JOHNSON, Presenter & Moderator (Managing Partner, CHARTOR Entertainment LLC; Executive Producer, “NCIS,” “The Rockford Files,” “Magnum P.I.,” “J.A.G.,” “Red Tails”)

DENISE NICHOLAS (“Room 222,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Let’s Do It Again”)

HATTIE WINSTON (“Becker,” “Rugrats,” “The Rugrats Movie,” “The Electric Company”)

Introduction by DR. VICTOR LEO WALKER II (Managing Partner, CHARTOR Entertainment LLC; Executive Director, African Grove Institute for the Arts, Inc.)

Presentation of the Inner City Essence Award to:

DUANE “CHIEF YELLOW FEATHER” SHEPARD, SR. (“Brother Malcolm X: Reminiscences of a Revolutionary,” “General Hospital,” “Batman: Arkham”)

Honoring the 2023 winner of the UCLA / C. Bernard Jackson Bridge Builders Award

GLYNN TURMAN (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, Cooley High”, “A Raisin in the Sun”)

Honoring the first LAICCC participants in the Performing Arts Legacy Project (https://performingartslegacy.org)

• Christine Avila • Gloria Calomee • JD Hall • L. Martina Young, PhD

Musical selections by MATILDA HAYWOOD, songstress / pianist

Video presentation of LAICCC selection as a South Los Angeles Cultural Treasure

Presentations by Rosamaria Marquez, Rockrose Gallery • James V. Burks, Leimert Park Village Theatre Coalition • Tuesday Conner / Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center II, video “An Intimate Evening with Icons”

Refreshments will be served

OUR SPONSORS:

• African Grove Institute for the Arts, Inc. (AGIA) • The Kenneth F. & Harle G. Montgomery Foundation • CHARTOR Entertainment, LLC • Ebony Repertory Theatre