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  • Word Up Recirculation: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s DAYLIGHT COME

    Word Up Recirculation 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.), New York, NY, United States

    Word Up welcomes Publisher's Weekly Director of Publishing Joshua Jelly-Schapiro to discuss his new book Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made (Significations), a vibrant, revealing portrait of the "King of Calypso," whose extraordinary performing career and activism helped remake America through the civil rights era and beyond. In this sparkling new biography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro brings Belafonte’s personality and music vibrantly to life, following him from rags to riches and from Harlem to Jamaica to the March on Washington.

    $5 – $30

  • Word Up Recirculation: Catherine Voulgarides on Transforming Special Education

    Word Up Recirculation 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.), New York, NY, United States

    Word Up welcomes Hunter professor Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides to discuss her two books, Beyond Compliance: Reclaiming Agency in Special Education and Does Compliance Matter in Special Education?: Idea and the Hidden Inequities of Practice (Disability), which examine how special education policy in the United States both protects students’ rights and, at times, reproduces deep inequities

    $5

  • Fort Washington Library: Fiction & Florals – Kindred by Octavia Butler Flower Arranging

    Fort Washington Library 535 West 179th Street (Between St. Nicholas & Audubon), New York, NY

     Workshop | Banned Books Week: Kindred by Octavia Butler. Join us for Fiction & Florals, an interactive workshop bringing together the art of floral arrangement and literature. This Banned Books Week, learn to create a flower bouquet inspired by Kindred by Octavia Butler. Guided by florist Ivy Paniagua, we will explore the book’s themes and learn how to express them in floral composition. You will learn how the various colors, textures and personalities of flowers work together in the story of a floral arrangement.

    FREE with registration

  • Hispanic Society: Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop

    Hispanic Society Museum & Library Audubon Terrace, Broadway betw 155th & 156th Sts., New York, NY, United States

    Hispanic Society: Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop. Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop. Find your next Spanish-language read at the Hispanic Society! Whether you’re looking for children’s books, YA literature, poetry, or non-fiction, Word Up has it all. Note: This book fair will take place indoors in our Sorolla Gallery.

    FREE with RSVP

  • Buunni Inwood: Poetry Open Mic with The Writing Fae

    Buunni Inwood 4961 Broadway (Between 207th & Isham St.), NEW YORK, NY, United States

    Join us in person for a chill Poetry Open Mic with The Writing Fae. An evening of creativity and expression at the Poetry Open Mic. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or just wanna share a few lines, this in-person event is the perfect spot to let your words shine. Come vibe with fellow poetry lovers, enjoy some great performances, and maybe even take the mic yourself. Bring your passion and your voice – we can't wait to hear you!

    FREE with RSVP