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The Philadelphia Inquirer
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“'It’s a way to encourage people to think about the neighborhoods they grew up in,' Heath says. 'And maybe to think about supporting that, being active participants in preserving the culture.'”
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The Philadelphia Tribune
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"'We hope to shed light on the positives and negatives of gentrification while paying homage to our beautiful village of Harlem, New York,' Owens says."
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ABC 7
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Click here to view our interview with Sandra Bookman on New York's ABC7 program, "Here and Now."
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NBC News
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"In addition to being a teacher, Heath is also a writer of and performer in the AUDELCO-award winning play about the gentrification of Harlem, 'Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale.' The first iteration of the show was performed in March 2011 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, but Heath and her co-writers, Jaylene Clark Owens, Janelle Heatley, and Chyann Sapp have updated the piece since then."
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The New York Times
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"'I’m just a Harlem girl,' said Ms. Sapp, 27, an author of “Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale,” a play about gentrification. "
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The Philadelphia Tribune
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"Additionally, Owens is the executive director of Harlem KW Project LLC, a theatrical company she co-founded with three other women to create the play about gentrification in Harlem, titled “Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale.”
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NY Daily News
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"A Harlem poet, who is fighting to preserve the name of her beloved neighborhood, took first place at the Apollo Theater's Amateur Night for her original piece focused on the ongoing gentrification that has rattled the nerves of many long-time residents."
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NY Daily News
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“The playwrights - all in their early 20s - have mixed feelings about the new businesses, towering new luxury apartment buildings and new faces in Harlem, and just want to see the rich culture of their neighborhoods preserved."
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The New York Times
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"We go to a movie or catch a matinee of a play. We went to go see the new “Twilight” and also a play, “Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale,” at the National Black Theater in Harlem."
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Architectural Record
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"Architecture plays a role in this saga. “It’s starting to look like downtown,” says Jaylene Clark, a young Harlem native who critiques the neighborhood’s gentrification in her new play, Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale."
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Rolling Out Magazine
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"Rolling out spoke with Clark, who also directs the piece, about honoring the Harlem Renaissance amid a shifting racial landscape, why gentrification is, in essence, an economic issue and the need for financial self-empowerment."
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