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March 2024
Word Up: Baseball Preseason Fun with Darren López & Ellen Lindner
Come meet authors Darren López (Martín Dihigo: The Greatest Baseball Player You’ve Never Heard Of) and Ellen Lindner (Lost Diamonds) as they tell stories about lost baseball history, share their own diamond tales, and generally get the Heights ready for the 2024 baseball season!
Find out more »Word Up Recirculation – Divagaciones: Dominican Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Anthologies
Presentation of two anthological books produced by Divagaciones, a transnational and transgenerational collective of Dominican lesbian, bisexual and queer women.
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NYC Book Launch: CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES by Julia Alvarez with Angie Cruz & Elizabeth Acevedo
Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria and the United Palace of Cultural Arts proudly present literary icon Julia Alvarez for The Cemetery of Untold Stories, her new inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland of the Dominican Republic, also available in Spanish.
Find out more »Word Up – Book Salon: Emilie Boone’s A NIMBLE ARC: James Van Der Zee and Photography
Join Word Up for a book salon honoring Emilie Boone and her new book A Nimble ARC: James Van Der Zee and Photography, about the renowned Harlem Renaissance photographer with professors Janée Moses & Laurie Woodard.
Find out more »Play Reading – Local Artist Cheryl Paley: ANN AND ANNA O (Inspired by the work of Ann Jackowitz)
ANN AND ANNA O is based on two true stories. The play switches between screenwriter Ann Jackowitz’s world in 1980 to Anna O’s world in 1880, as Ann searches for the truth about the woman known as “the mother of modern psychotherapy.”
Find out more »Rising in the Heights: Music and Storytelling with Reza Salazar
Celebrate the arrival of spring with the first of four events in the “Rising in the Heights” festival.
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