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SUMMARY:Sugar Hill Museum: Kids’ Lit Book launch with author & illustrator Nina Crews.
DESCRIPTION:Liftoff! How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar – In this dual narrative picture book author and illustrator Nina Crews takes a closer look at the creation of Thomas’s abstract painting\, “Snoopy Sees a Sunrise\,” and at the Apollo 10 Mission that inspired it. Celebrate the book’s launch with a read-aloud by the author\, plus art activity and refreshments!
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LOCATION:Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling\, 898 Saint Nicholas Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Ashley D. Farmer's QUEEN MOTHER: BLACK NATIONALISM\, REPARATIONS\, AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF AUDLEY MOORE with Tamara Payne
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 11\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up welcomes the award-winning historian of Black radical politics\, Ashley D. Farmer\, to celebrate Queen Mother: Black Nationalism\, Reparations\, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore\, the definitive biography of Audley Moore—mother of modern Black Nationalism and trailblazer in the fight for reparations. In conversation with Farmer will be Tamara Payne\, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. \n“Queen Mother is a sensitively written take on a century of Black history\, and an absorbing account of a Black woman who survived the ravages of white supremacy and responded to the challenges of her life with intellectual curiosity\, moral courage\, and clarity. Ashley Farmer’s book pays homage not just to Queen Mother Moore\, but also to the scores of Black women who have built movements and dreamt of transforming their worlds.” —Marcia Chatelain\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn the world of Black radical politics\, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life\, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism\, the founder of the modern reparations movement\, and\, from her Philadelphia and Harlem homes\, a mentor to some of America’s most influential Black activists. \nAnd yet\, she is far less remembered than many of her peers and protégés—Marcus Garvey\, Malcolm X\, and Muhammad Ahmad\, to name just a few—and the ephemera of her life are either lost or plundered. In Queen Mother\, celebrated writer and historian Ashley D. Farmer restores Moore’s faded portrait\, delivering the first ever definitive account of her life and enduring legacy. \nDeeply researched and richly detailed\, Queen Mother is more than just the biography of an American icon. It’s a narrative history of 20th-century Black radicalism\, told through the lens of the woman whose grit and determination sustained the movement. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAshley D. Farmer is an award-winning writer\, researcher\, and cultural analyst who explores Black history and its implications today. Her first book\, Remaking Black Power\, was shortlisted for numerous prizes\, and she has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and the Whiting Foundation.  Farmer’s ideas and insights have appeared in multiple venues including Harper’s Bazaar\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Teen Vogue. Farmer lives\, reads\, and writes in Austin\, Texas\, and is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nTamara Payne served as the principal researcher and co-author on The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X\, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the National Book Award for Nonfiction\, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and many other publications. Les Payne\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who served as an editor and columnist at Newsday\, worked on The Dead Are Arising for nearly thirty years.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-recirculation-book-launch-2/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Castle Village Community Room: Book Talk “Every Day Is Sunday” by Ken Belson
DESCRIPTION:Ever Wonder How Football Became Our Favorite Sport? \nKen Belson\, veteran New York Times reporter and CV resident\, will discuss his new book “Every Day Is Sunday”\, on Sunday\, November 9\, at 4:00 PM in the Community Room.  “Every Day Is Sunday” is an in-depth look at the business of pro football.  Specifically\, Ken hones in on the fascinating roster of characters who have made the NFL the economic and cultural super power it is.  With annual revenues of $23 billion\, the NFL’s revenues are comparable to those of Fortune 500 companies like Colgate-Palmolive and Goodyear Tires. \nIn an expansive and favorable review of “Every Day Is Sunday”\, the New York Times summed it up by saying \n“His unique access and firm grasp of football culture have produced “Every Day is Sunday”\, a polished\, entertaining account of what he aptly calls “an immensely profitable American religion.” \nMary Darcy\, CV resident\, WMHT and nationally syndicated radio host\, will moderate.  Please join us: \nWhen:          Sunday\, November 9 \nWhere:         CV Community Room \nFREE to Castle Village residents \n  \nBooks Will Be Available For Purchase
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/castle-village-community-room-book-talk-every-day-is-sunday-by-ken-belson/
LOCATION:Castle Village Annex Community Room\, 110 Cabrini Blvd.\, New York\, NY\, 10033\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bloom Readings: An Autumnal Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Bloom Readings is thrilled to present three excellent poets who will share the bill in The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens\, on Sunday\, Nov. 2nd at 6 pm.  Come hear Rebecca Keith\, Anthony Cappo and Kristina Andersson Bicher read from their current work.  And afterwards\, over wine and cheese\, all three will have their published work for sale and would be happy to sign your copy.    The Lounge is located in Washington Heights near Bennett Park\, just west of the intersection of Pinehurst Ave. and 183rd Street.  Admission is $10. \nBloom Readings is grateful for the on-going support of Poets & Writers through public funding from the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
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LOCATION:Hudson View Gardens Lounge\, 116 Pinehurst Ave. (@ 183rd Street)\, New York\, 10033\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Peggy Robles-Alvarado's BURN ME BACK with Dr. Melissa Castillo-Garsow\, Caridad De La Luz (La Bruja)\, and Massiel Alfonso
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 24\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up welcomes author Peggy Robles-Alvarado for a celebration of her latest book\, Burn Me Back\, published by Four Way Books\, with guest readers Dr. Melissa Castillo-Garsow\, Caridad De La Luz (La Bruja)\, and Massiel Alfonso as they explore and interrogate Latina narrative and family lore that reimagines the future from the ashes of loss. \n“Let us begin by declaring that Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a magic maker. Her poetry plows under your skin until you feel your soul brimming with epiphanies. In Burn Me Back\, Robles-Alvarado invites us to party with the machinations of truth-telling\, and no matter how much you try to avert its gaze\, there is enough lyric\, enough innovative turn of phrase\, enough history\, enough fire\, enough celestial invocation\, enough family lore to make you a believer in rebirth\, in salvaging what is left in the aftermath of a lineage fractured by secrets. If you ever doubted poetry’s ability to make you whole\, welcome to this sublime reckoning.”—Willie Perdomo\, The Crazy Bunch \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th. \nABOUT THE BOOK\n“My Spanglish\,” Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares\, “drops the -s and makes it ma’ o meno’\,” replaces accent marks with side-eye\, “has a Tía sin papeles\,” and recognizes that “there is no other way to say— / Cónchole papi\, you look good!” Igniting across tongues\, cultures\, and countries\, the incendiary poems in Burn Me Back harness the incantatory power of language through hybrid forms\, preserving a beloved father’s memory\, enshrining the legacy of the Latino immigrant community in Washington Heights and the Bronx\, reimagining the world we share\, and speaking toward a hopeful multiplicity of possible futures. At the cross section of Puerto Rican and Dominican diasporas\, rooted in ancestral narratives and infused with generational dislocation\, this speaker refuses to abandon what resists translation\, makes the space she needs\, and transforms objects as she names them: “My Spanglish knows a fire escape is also a terrace.” Yes\, the language here is a feat of engineering — a design shaped by the conditions of emergency\, an architecture of survival\, deliverance to open air. Like isolating the notes in a thunderous chord\, Robles-Alvarado dexterously teases out each word’s many meanings\, listening for the individual strains that created her as she archives family lore and fleshes out her personal history\, writing against patriarchy while codifying working-class wisdom. She reconstructs a whole genealogy in “What They Mean by Papers\,” reciting a negative litany of “papeles.” “Not the Daily News or El Diario La Prensa\, / or the kind my mother read to me on Sunday / mornings\,” her “throat full of / pelitos de mango\,” “Not the kind Tía Weltina used to roll her tobacco with\,” “conjuring / Taíno spirits she exhaled … as she tried to memorize the national anthem\,” but the kind “Uncle Rito forged” while he “learned to curl the R in his name / as if writing sacred geometry\,” “the kind that convinced four of my aunts to marry older / naturalized men in exchange for an acre of my grandfather’s campo” — the kind that required the rest of their lives as payment\, “their bodies\, / all their milk and honey\, all their amber and caña dulce / sacrificed to the lust of viejos verdes\, old bastards / who soured early on too much tabaco y ron and wanted to plant / their moldy seeds in supple girls who had never seen snow.” Robles-Alvarado orchestrates the fullness of her song by refusing to leave anyone out\, by making room for a term’s contradictory definitions and playing through discordant combinations until the dissonance resolves. What began as an elegy composed by a daughter lost in mourning becomes an expansive arrangement sounding rupture and repair. This music travels between loss and recovery\, addiction and sobriety\, the cooling embers of lost childhood and the heat of the present\, this very moment in which you could reach out to the people around you and ask them to be here with you for every scalding second\, the warmth of your skin against theirs posing a burning question — an invitation to burn you back. \nABOUT THE PRESENTERS\nPeggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature\, a three-time International Latino Book Award winner\, and a BRIO award recipient. She has earned writing fellowships from CantoMundo\, Desert Nights\, The Frost Place\, The Ashbery Home School\, VONA\, Candela Playwrights\, Dramatic Question Theater\, and NALAC. With two master’s degrees in education and an MFA in performance studies\, Peggy’s work appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext\, ¡Manteca!\, great weather for MEDIA\, and What Saves Us\, as well as online in Poets.org\, The Quarry at Split This Rock\, The Common\, Tribes.org\, and NACLA.org. She has been featured at Solfest Latine Theater Festival\, The Dodge Poetry Festival\, Lincoln Center\, HBO Habla Women\, The Smithsonian Institute\, PEN America\, Harvard University\, and AWP. Through her 501(c)(3)\, Robleswrites Productions Inc.\,she created Lalibreta.online and The Abuela Stories Project. Learn more at robleswrites.com. \nDr. Melissa Castillo-Garsow is an Associate Professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx\, NY and the CUNY Graduate Center PhD program in English specializing in Latinx Literature and Culture. She is the author/ editor of seven volumes including the poetry collection Coatlicue Eats the Apple; the anthology\, ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets; the edited volume\, La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades; and the edited volume Scholars in COVID Times. Her most recent scholarly book project\, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture (2020)\, examines the creative worlds and cultural productions of Mexican migrants in New York City. Her second book of poetry\, Chingona Rules (2021)\, was a Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award\, International Latino Book Awards (2022). She is a poetry editor for Women Studies Quarterly\, and Arts & Literature editor for Latinx Pop Magazine. To learn more visit www.drmelissacastillogarsow.com \nCaridad De La Luz (La Bruja) won an Emmy in 2022 and in the same year became the Executive Director of the NUYORICAN POETS CAFE where she began her career in 1996. Caridad has balanced her career of activism\, education\, spirituality and entertainment. She received the Puerto Rican Women Legacy Award\, The Edgar Allan Poe Award from The Bronx Historical Society and was honored as A Bronx Living Legend. She was named “Top 20 Puerto Rican Women Everyone Should Know”. \nMassiel Alfonso is a Dominican author\, award-winning poet\, and multidisciplinary artist who believes stories are medicine. Her debut\, Handful of Poems\, dives deep into human emotions with honesty and simplicity\, earning First Place at the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards and Honorable Mention at the International Latino Book Awards. Through poetry\, performance\, and community workshops\, Massiel creates art that challenges societal norms and makes space for conversations about beauty\, identity\, and change. Massiel focuses on documenting her existence through storytelling\, as a reminder that we exist and our art deserves to exist too.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Recirculation: Book Launch Sharina Maíllo-Pozo's BRIDGING SONIC BORDERS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of Bridging Sonic Borders: Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature by Sharina Maíllo-Pozo. Bridging Sonic Borders explores how Dominican and Dominicanyork literary voices across generations\, languages\, and geographies intertwine with popular music to reimagine cultural identity\, history\, and belonging. \nFor this celebration\, Maíllo-Pozo will be in conversation with Lorgia García-Peña\, offering an engaging dialogue on diaspora\, literature\, music\, and the multiple ways dominicanidad is expressed and transformed across borders. The presentation and dialogue will highlight the significance of this work within the broader Dominican cultural landscape. \nExpect a vibrant exchange of ideas\, readings\, and reflections that honor the sonic and literary archives connecting the Dominican Republic and its diaspora in New York City!
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up at Inwood Hill Park: Uptown Kid Lit
DESCRIPTION:Uptown Kid Lit—Word Up’s book festival for kids—is back on Sunday\, September 7\, 2025 at Pat’s Lawn at Inwood Hill Park! \nJoin Word Up Community Bookshop in celebrating the magic of children’s literature and the back-to-school season at the premier Uptown children’s book festival. Young readers will have the opportunity to meet beloved local authors and illustrators as they present new books\, lead story times and activities\, readings and discussions\, workshops\, games\, and more. Plus\, FREE books and school supply giveaways to all registrants. Register today! \nFeatured authors & artists:\nSelina Alko (C is for Camp)\nEthan T. Berlin (The Journal of Nonsense)\nHilda Eunice Burgos (Bodega Cats: Pawsome Pals)\nCynthia Carrión\nCodeSpeak Labs\nRio Cortez (The Blue Velvet Chair)\nEdwidge Danticat (Watch Out for Falling Iguanas)\ntasha dougé\nOlivier ThePlace (with Drag Artists For Expression NYC)\nJames Kwan (I Come from Another Galaxy: A Picture Book)\nAllegra LeGrande\nJenan Matari (Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden)\nClaribel Ortega (House of Elephants (Witchlings 3))\nJasminne Paulino (The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez)\nAlyssa Reynoso-Morris (Bold\, Brilliant\, and Latine: Meet 52 Latine and Hispanic Heroes from Past and Present)\nNeela Vaswani (This Is My Eye: A New York Story)\nJamia Wilson (Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change)\nTanya Wright (The Great Birthday Surprise! (Hairiette of Harlem))\nIbi Zoboi (First Day Around the World) \nCOMMUNITY RESOURCE TABLES\nNew York Restoration Project\nThe Cat Collective Team\nUptown Stories\nHOPE\nLiterary Freedom Project / Sak Pasé\nDrag Artists for Expression NYC\nFamily Connectors\nFACE\nSugar Hill Children’s Museum\nDominican Writers Association/Lil Dominican Readers\nParents Supporting Parents\nDyckman Farmhouse\nFriends of Inwood Hill Park\nLINC \nSCHEDULE UPDATES ON WordUpBooks.com/UKL \nWord Up launched Uptown Kid Lit in 2019 as a one-day festival for our communities in Washington Heights\, Inwood\, Harlem\, and the Bronx. After two years of virtual/hybrid programming in 2020 and 2021\, UKL returned in person in 2022 with a focus on comics as part of the three-day Uptown Comics Fest. Each year has garnered a unique and vibrant group of local authors\, illustrators\, educators\, publishers\, editors\, craftspeople\, artists\, and community organizations—all to support and celebrate our neighborhood’s youngest readers and families. We hope you’ll join us in 2025 at Inwood Hill Park! \nWe are committed to keeping admission to the festival free. Producing a multi-faceted outdoor festival requires a lot of resources. We are grateful for the grant funding we have received\, which helps offset Uptown Kid Lit expenses\, but this funding doesn’t cover all our costs\, especially during this year of budget cuts across nonprofits. In order to keep Uptown Kid Lit a yearly neighborhood event\, please consider registering at one of the ticket levels\, ranging from $5 to $50. \nLOCATION: Pat’s Lawn is located at the northwest corner of Inwood Hill Park off of Indian Road and 218th Street in Inwood\, NYC. You can take the A to 207 St.\, the Bx7 to 218th St.\, or the M100 to Broadway and W 220 St. \nACCESSIBILITY: The closest entrance to the venue at 218th Street and Indian Road is wheelchair accessible. The event is on a grass lawn. \nSPONSORSHIPS: If you would like to be a sponsor of this event\, please email us at UptownReads@WordUpBooks.com. Sponsors will be featured in our promotional materials. \nUptown Kid Lit 2025 is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement\, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ)\, and administered by LMCC. Uptown Kid Lit is also supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, and by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Word Up Community Bookshop’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nADDITIONAL THANKS TO:\nBlick Art Materials\nPenguin Random House\nSimon & Schuster\nMacmillan\nCandlewick Press / Holiday House Publishing\, Inc. / Peachtree Publishing\, Inc.\nRealengo Studios\nJuan Pablo Duarte Foundation\nDominican Women’s Development Center
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X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=DESCRIPTION:Uptown Kid Lit—Word Up’s book festival for kids—is back on Sunday September 7 2025 at Pat’s Lawn at Inwood Hill Park! \nJoin Word Up Community Bookshop in celebrating the magic of children’s literature and the back-to-school season at the premier Uptown children’s book festival. Young readers will have the opportunity to meet beloved local authors and illustrators as they present new books lead story times and activities readings and discussions workshops games and more. Plus FREE books and school supply giveaways to all registrants. Register today! \nFeatured authors & artists:\nSelina Alko (C is for Camp)\nEthan T. Berlin (The Journal of Nonsense)\nHilda Eunice Burgos (Bodega Cats: Pawsome Pals)\nCynthia Carrión\nCodeSpeak Labs\nRio Cortez (The Blue Velvet Chair)\nEdwidge Danticat (Watch Out for Falling Iguanas)\ntasha dougé\nOlivier ThePlace (with Drag Artists For Expression NYC)\nJames Kwan (I Come from Another Galaxy: A Picture Book)\nAllegra LeGrande\nJenan Matari (Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden)\nClaribel Ortega (House of Elephants (Witchlings 3))\nJasminne Paulino (The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez)\nAlyssa Reynoso-Morris (Bold Brilliant and Latine: Meet 52 Latine and Hispanic Heroes from Past and Present)\nNeela Vaswani (This Is My Eye: A New York Story)\nJamia Wilson (Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change)\nTanya Wright (The Great Birthday Surprise! (Hairiette of Harlem))\nIbi Zoboi (First Day Around the World) \nCOMMUNITY RESOURCE TABLES\nNew York Restoration Project\nThe Cat Collective Team\nUptown Stories\nHOPE\nLiterary Freedom Project / Sak Pasé\nDrag Artists for Expression NYC\nFamily Connectors\nFACE\nSugar Hill Children’s Museum\nDominican Writers Association/Lil Dominican Readers\nParents Supporting Parents\nDyckman Farmhouse\nFriends of Inwood Hill Park\nLINC \nSCHEDULE UPDATES ON WordUpBooks.com/UKL \nWord Up launched Uptown Kid Lit in 2019 as a one-day festival for our communities in Washington Heights Inwood Harlem and the Bronx. After two years of virtual/hybrid programming in 2020 and 2021 UKL returned in person in 2022 with a focus on comics as part of the three-day Uptown Comics Fest. Each year has garnered a unique and vibrant group of local authors illustrators educators publishers editors craftspeople artists and community organizations—all to support and celebrate our neighborhood’s youngest readers and families. We hope you’ll join us in 2025 at Inwood Hill Park! \nWe are committed to keeping admission to the festival free. Producing a multi-faceted outdoor festival requires a lot of resources. We are grateful for the grant funding we have received which helps offset Uptown Kid Lit expenses but this funding doesn’t cover all our costs especially during this year of budget cuts across nonprofits. In order to keep Uptown Kid Lit a yearly neighborhood event please consider registering at one of the ticket levels ranging from $5 to $50. \n Pat’s Lawn is located at the northwest corner of Inwood Hill Park off of Indian Road and 218th Street in Inwood NYC. You can take the A to 207 St. the Bx7 to 218th St. or the M100 to Broadway and W 220 St. \nACCESSIBILITY: The closest entrance to the venue at 218th Street and Indian Road is wheelchair accessible. The event is on a grass lawn. \nSPONSORSHIPS: If you would like to be a sponsor of this event please email us at UptownReads@WordUpBooks.com. Sponsors will be featured in our promotional materials. \nUptown Kid Lit 2025 is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ) and administered by LMCC. Uptown Kid Lit is also supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Word Up Community Bookshop’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nADDITIONAL THANKS TO:\nBlick Art Materials\nPenguin Random House\nSimon & Schuster\nMacmillan\nCandlewick Press / Holiday House Publishing Inc. / Peachtree Publishing Inc.\nRealengo Studios\nJuan Pablo Duarte Foundation\nDominican Women’s Development Center;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Enter at W. 218th & Indian Road:geo:-73.9183464,40.8728492
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Jared Fox’s LEARNING ENVIRONMENT with Erick Espin
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, August 26\, 2025 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWord Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria\n2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up welcomes award-winning New York City educator Dr. Jared Fox to discuss Learning Environment: Inspirational Actions\, Approaches\, and Stories from the Science Classroom\, an actionable roadmap for educators interested in making the world a classroom\, even in the city. In conversation with Dr. Fox will be Erick Espin\, a fellow WHEELS teacher and Northern Manhattan native. \n“Few people have the writing ability\, education expertise\, and thoughtfulness to write a book about the state of education. Jared is masterful in the classroom…and [his book] will change the landscape of education.” —Dr. Christopher Emdin\, New York Times best-selling author of ”For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too” \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside. \nWord Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th  St. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nJoin award-winning New York City educator Dr. Jared Fox in—and out of—his classroom on an excursion that goes beyond books and lectures to reimagine teaching and learning. Through a blend of real-life examples and practical commentary\, readers will see how Fox created localized learning opportunities for his students out of canoeing on the Bronx River\, hiking in the Catskill Mountains\, and other unconventional approaches. \nReplete with sample projects\, topics\, theories\, and strategies\, Learning Environment offers an actionable vision for reengaging students and reenergizing teachers. The book encourages K-12 STEM educators to build experiential learning into their teaching styles by: \n\ndesigning field trips as fieldwork\npartnering with local experts\nimplementing localized learning through hands-on application\nleveraging interdisciplinary instruction\n\nFox invites teachers to create dynamic\, transformative educational opportunities by implementing experiential learning based in their own communities. With Fox’s heartfelt wisdom and practical know-how\, readers will be empowered to reconsider and redefine what teaching and learning can and should be. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nDr. Jared Fox is an award-winning educator and former secondary science teacher\, department chair\, coach\, mentor\, and instructional leadership team member currently working as an independent education consultant at the intersection of science\, the environment\, and social justice. Other published works include his writing as a chapter author in From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood: Reflections on Race\, Culture\, and Identity\, edited by Dr. Christopher Emdin and sam seidel; Learning Environment – The Substack; and a growing list of academic journals. Additional information and opportunities to connect with Jared can be found at www.jaredfox.education. \nABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER\nBorn and raised in Washington Heights-Inwood\, Erick Espin is a history teacher and Crew Advisor at WHEELS\, a NYC Outward Bound School in Washington Heights\, and has spent the past 12 years at the school\, aiming to be the teacher he wishes he’d had by building relationships with students and designing inclusive curricula. He recently earned EL Education’s most prestigious teacher recognition\, The Klingenstein Award
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/learning-environment/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Bruce's Garden Summer Readings
DESCRIPTION:Julie Salamon\nThe Ghosts of Tenth Avenue\nNoted author Julie Salamon https://juliesalamon.com/ will discuss her forthcoming book\, The Ghosts of Tenth Avenue (The Penguin Press\, 2026.)  Along with being an accomplished author of numerous books including including New York Times best-seller\, Wendy and the Lost Boys\, a biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein\, (The Penguin Press\, 2011) Julie is also chair of the Board of Directors of the  non-profit Bowery Residents Committee aka BRC. \nPresently\, the BRC is building the women’s shelter on Tenth Avenue and 212th street. When they learned that early maps showed their building’s site had been a cemetery for enslaved people\, the board decided to include a memorial into the shelter’s design. Julie began her research.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/bruces-garden-summer-readings-2/
LOCATION:Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden\, Across from 10 Park Terrace EAST\, near W. 215 St.\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spoken Word,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250819T183000
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SUMMARY:“Clamor:” An Author Discussion and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the impact of an increasingly noisy world on communities\, health and overall wellbeing with the author of the new book “Clamor.” \nAbout the Author\nChris Berdik is the author of Mind Over Mind. His work has appeared in Popular Science\,Wired\, Politico\, and elsewhere\, and he has been awarded reporting grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Society of Environmental Journalists. He lives near Boston\, Massachusetts\, and can be found at www.chrisberdik.com. \nAbout the Moderator\nTanya Bonner appears in the book “Clamor\,” and is the Chair of the WaHI-Inwood Task Force on Noise\, a community-led and based advocacy group of residents seeking mitigation of excessive noise pollution in the communities of Washington Heights and Inwood in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The Task Force has collaborated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Public Health\, and its work has been featured in various news outlets – both locally and nationally. Bonner is a former newspaper journalist and current writer\, media consultant\, creative producer and activist who has lived in Washington Heights for twenty years. \n 
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/clamor-an-author-discussion-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:Sister’s Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center\, 1942 Amsterdam Ave. (Corner of 156th. Street)\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T120000
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SUMMARY:Sugar Hill Kids' LIT!
DESCRIPTION:Sugar Hill Kids’ Lit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m Wrapped in Pride with My Kente!\nDora Owusu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special reading and performance with children’s author Dora Owusu. Through her work\, Dora aims to educate young readers about the significance of African history and culture. Children will have the opportunity to explore African traditions through various art forms\, including storytelling\, dance\, music\, and art\, all inspired by her book\, I’m Wrapped in Pride with My Kente!\n\n\n\nSunday\, August 17th\n12pm
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/sugar-hill-kids-lit/
LOCATION:Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling\, 898 Saint Nicholas Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Kids Activities,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up at Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center - Book Launch: Cleyvis Natera's THE GRAND PALOMA RESORT with Angie Cruz & Naima Coster
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, August 11\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDominican Alliance Cultural Center\n530 W 166th St\n\nNew York \, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up and Dominican Writers Association celebrate the launch of Cleyvis Natera’s The Grand Paloma Resort \, about a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxury\, and the staff is always eager to please—that is\, until they are pushed to the brink. Joining Natera in conversation will be authors Angie Cruz ( How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water ) and Naima Coster ( What’s Mine and Yours ).  \nWord Up and the Dominican Writers Association are celebrating the launch of Grand Paloma Resort \, by Cleyvis Natera \, about a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxuries and the staff is always eager to please—but only until they’re pushed to their limits. Natera will be in conversation with authors Angie Cruz ( Cómo no ahogarse en un vaso de agua ) and Naima Coster ( What’s Mine and Yours ). \nThe event will take place at the Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center\, 530 West 166th Street\, New York\, NY\, USA .  \n“With compelling characters and a narrative that steals your breath from the first page\, The Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable\, unexpected story that will upend readers’ assumptions about power\, pleasure\, and moral salvation.”—Xochitl Gonzalez\, author of Olga Dies Dreaming \n“With captivating characters and a narrative that takes your breath away from the first page\, Natera delivers an unforgettable and unexpected story that will upend readers’ assumptions about power\, pleasure\, and moral redemption.” —Xochitl Gonzalez\, author of  Olga Dies Dreaming \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with a maximum of 100 attendees. Please register in advance . \nABOUT THE BOOK \nLaura is a local Dominican woman who\, through sheer hard work\, has risen through the ranks to become manager at the Grand Paloma Resort. Her idea to pair a “platinum” guest with their own resort employee to attend to their every whim has been wildly successful\, and she’s just weeks away from a promotion that could blaze a path for her off the resort and toward a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister\, Elena—who she’s looked after since the death of their mother—could get with the program. \nElena has tried to live up to her sister’s expectations\, but to escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists\, she’s becoming increasingly dependent on pills and partying. As a babysitter at the resort\, she’s at the beck and calls of guests who are indulging their worst impulses and need someone else to watch their kids while they do so. Now\, after an accident\, a child left in her charge is believed dead\, and Elena knows she’ll be held responsible. \nWhen Elena runs into the child’s father at a nearby beachfront watering hole\, he offers her an obscene amount of money for private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays she’s gotten the girls out of harm’s way. But then the girls are reported missing. \nSet over the course of seven days\, The Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable story of class\, family\, and community\, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are laid bare\, redeemed only by true acts of love. \nLaura is the manager of the Grand Paloma Resort. She’s a Dominican woman who has gotten to where she is through hard work. She’s just weeks away from receiving a promotion that will open the way to new opportunities. But her younger sister\, Elena\, whom she has cared for since their mother’s death\, doesn’t seem to be cooperating. \nElena has done her best to live up to her sister’s expectations. However\, to escape the monotony of serving wealthy tourists\, she has become dependent on pills and partying. As a nanny at the resort\, she is at the mercy of guests who give free rein to their worst impulses and need someone to care for their children in the meantime. After an accident\, a girl in her care is believed to have died\, and Elena knows she will be held responsible. \nAt a beachfront bar\, Elena meets the girl’s father\, who offers her an obscene sum of money so he can be alone with two local girls. Elena stashes the money to fund their escape\, and although she prays nothing happens to them\, the girls disappear. \nSet over seven days\, Grand Paloma Resort delivers an unforgettable story of class\, family\, and community\, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are revealed\, long-suppressed secrets and true acts of love are exposed. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR About the author\nCleyvis Natera is the author of Neruda on the Park . She was born in the Dominican Republic\, migrated to the United States at ten years old\, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has won awards and fellowships from the International Latino Book Awards\, PEN America\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshops\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Hermitage Artist Retreat\, Rowland Writers Retreat\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently a Fulbright Specialist. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair\, New Jersey. The Grand Paloma Resort is her second novel. \nCleyvis Natera  is the author of ” Neruda on the Park .” She was born in the Dominican Republic\, immigrated to the United States at age ten\, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has received awards and fellowships from PEN America\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, The Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshops\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives with her husband and two young children in Montclair\, New Jersey.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-at-alianza-dominicana-cultural-center-cleyvis-natera/
LOCATION:Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center\, 530 W 166th St\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:Bruce's Garden Summer Readings
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Wisner on George Tempelton Strong’s Civil War Diaries\nGeorge Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (Library of America\, 2026) Geoff Wisner\, editor. \nGeoff Wisner is an author and editor whose work is published widely. In his latest book\, the noted Thoreau scholar turned his keen editorial insights to the prolific diarist George Templeton Strong’s writings on the Civil War. These writings are remarkably vivid and suffused with novelistic detail. Strong wrote eyewitness accounts of the 1863 Draft Riots\, field hospitals teeming with wounded men\, and his meetings with both Grant and Lincoln. This book is greatly anticipated by scholars\, and should also be a great read for all interested in New York history.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/bruces-garden-summer-readings/
LOCATION:Bruce Reynolds Memorial Garden\, Across from 10 Park Terrace EAST\, near W. 215 St.\, New York\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art/Culture/Performance,Lecture,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation - YUPANQUI EN EL CAMINO: Belén Ramet & Pablo Maldonado
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, August 3\, 2025 – 4:00pm to 5:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n“Yupanqui on the Road” celebrates the work of one of the greatest exponents of Argentine music by Atahualpa Yupanqui and Astor Piazzolla\, among other Argentine authors. This unique concert combines the emotive voice of Belén Ramet with the excellent arrangements and guitar of Pablo Maldonado\, accompanied by images and scents of the Argentine landscape that Yupanqui loved and sang about. \nIncludes Argentine music classics such as: “Guitarra Dímelo Tú\,” “Tú que Puedes Vuelve\,” “El Árbol que Tú Olvidaste\,” “Criollita Santiagueña\,” “Luna Tucumana\,” among many other well-known titles by Yupanqui. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-recirculation-yupanqui-en-el-camino/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Written Word
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SUMMARY:Sugar Hill - Esther Crow: Environmental Puppet Party!
DESCRIPTION:Esther Crow: Environmental Puppet Party!\nAward-winning NYC Kindie climate-rocker and puppeteer\, Esther Crow teaches climate and sustainability lessons to kids through song\, dance and tales! By weaving comedy and kindness into each session\, Esther empowers kids with the knowledge and confidence to be leaders of social/climate justice actions\, and to understand the importance of the natural world around them. \nSaturday\, August 2nd 11:00am
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/sugar-hill-story-hour/
LOCATION:Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling\, 898 Saint Nicholas Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Kids Activities,Written Word
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T210000
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SUMMARY:NoMAA: 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:23rd Uptown Arts Stroll Closing Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Northern Manhattan arts community at the 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll closing reception with refreshments\, art & music!
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/nomaa-23rd-uptown-arts-stroll-closing-reception/
LOCATION:Morris-Jumel Mansion\, 65 Jumel Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Visual Arts,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park - Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride
DESCRIPTION:Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride is Inspired by James Baldwin’s quote\, “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”  \nThrough 3 weeks and 4 plays\, Irrevocable Conditions spends Pride Month exploring the queer community’s conditions of home: all of the plays being done are intimate in nature\, and lend themselves to being performed in a true DIY sense a.k.a in an NYC apartment. \nSCHEDULE \nJune 27th 6:30pm\nTemporary\nBy Juliet Riggs\nDirected by Marie Finch-Koinuma
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-irrevocable-conditions-a-play-repertoire-for-pride/2025-06-27/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park\, 218th St. Entrance\, 600 West 218th St\, New Yok\, NY\, 10034\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater,Theatre,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Rising in the Heights: Music & Storytelling with Hip Hop Artist Randy Mason
DESCRIPTION:Rising in the Heights: Music & Storytelling with Hip Hop Artist Randy Mason \nDate: June 27\, 2025\, 5-6 p.m. \nLocation: Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave. \nPresenter: Leadlights Ensemble \nWebsite: https://leadlightsensemble.weebly.com/ \n  \nDescription: Hip hop artist Randy Mason and keyboardist Jamell Ogbanna join Leadlights Ensemble for an afternoon of hip hop\, rhyme\, and string music\, featuring “My Block Looks Like” by Janelle Harper. Free copies of the book will be available. \nRising in the Heights is a festival of free outdoor public arts performances curated by Leadlights Ensemble in partnership with Word Up Community Bookshop. The festival celebrates the rich artistic contributions of Latinx and Black cultures and promotes children’s literacy through music and bilingual storytelling. Free copies of the featured book will be available. \nThis project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement\, supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ); and Creative Engagement\, supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and the Howard Gilman Foundation. UMEZ Arts Engagement and Creative Engagement are administered by LMCC. \n  \n************ \nRising in the Heights es un festival de espectáculos artísticos públicos gratuitos al aire libre\, organizado por Leadlights Ensemble en colaboración con Word Up Community Bookshop. El festival celebra las valiosas contribuciones artísticas de la cultura latina y afroamericana y promueve la alfabetización infantil a través de la música y la narración bilingüe. Habrá ejemplares gratuitos del libro presentado. \nEste proyecto es posible en parte gracias a fondos de UMEZ Arts Engagement\, con el apoyo del Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ); y Creative Engagement\, con el apoyo del Departamento de Asuntos Culturales de la Ciudad de Nueva York (DCLA)\, en colaboración con el Consejo de la Ciudad de Nueva York y la Fundación Howard Gilman. UMEZ Arts Engagement y Creative Engagement son administrados por LMCC.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/rising-in-the-heights-music-storytelling-with-hip-hop-artist-randy-mason/
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Book Launch: Ellen Hagan & David Flores’s TELL ME EVERY LIE with Renée Watson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 24\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up celebrates the launch of local authors Ellen Hagan and David Flores’s Tell Me Every Lie\, a moving\, layered young adult novel in two voices about finding truth in the lies we tell ourselves. There will be a reading\, Q&A\, and special guests to celebrate the launch. In conversation with Hagan & Flores will be Renée Watson\, author of All the Blues in the Sky. \n“A simmering romance in which two recent high school graduates at an elite resort endeavor to reinvent themselves by telling lies-and maybe fall in love. The protagonists remain sympathetic even amid their mutual deceit\, while the cozy plot builds to a compassionate\, mature\, and surprising resolution.” —Publishers Weekly \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nJohn Paul Reyes wants to escape the worst truths in his life-other people’s pity since his dad died\, and everyone else’s expectations about what he should do with his life now that he’s graduated high school. When he arrives at the Majestic Mountain resort with his Tita Abrigo’s wealthy family\, he sees a way to escape-he can be JP Abrigo\, rich and set\, and he can lie his way to feeling fine. \nMia Malik is trapped in this town\, working hard at the resort\, trying to escape her broken family and to make her way to the prestigious art program she was accepted into. She’s desperate to afford her way there\, and she’s sick of the privileged guests who have the whole world open to them\, who don’t really even see her. \nBut then another staffer dares Mia to make one of the guests fall for her. If she can\, she’ll collect enough money to get out. Mia knows this is dangerously against the rules\, and doesn’t even want to pretend to like an entitled rich kid\, but then she meets JP. Lying to him starts off easy\, but then there’s more to him than she expected. And the way JP feels about Mia? So real. As their week together runs out\, Mia and JP will have to dig themselves out from the lies they tell to see if there’s any truth in the feelings they have for each other. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nEllen Hagan is a writer\, performer\, and educator. Her books include: Crowned\, Hemisphere\, Watch Us Rise (YA collaboration with Renée Watson)\, Blooming Fiascoes\, Reckless\, Glorious\, Girl\, Don’t Call Me a Hurricane\, All That Shines and Tell Me Every Lie (YA collaboration with David Flores forthcoming from Bloomsbury\, Spring 2025). Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in: So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy\, Loss\, Abortion\, and Birth\, Creative Nonfiction\, Underwired Magazine\, She Walks in Beauty\, Small Batch\, Southern Sin\, ESPNW and Oprah Daily. She is the recipient of a 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship\, the 2013 NoMAA Creative Arts Grant and received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. National arts residencies include The Hopscotch House and Louisiana Arts Works. Ellen is Head of the Poetry & Theatre Departments at the DreamYard Project and directs their International Poetry Exchange Program (founded in partnership with Ambassador Caroline Kennedy) with Japan\, South Korea\, Australia and the Philippines. www.ellenhagan.com @ellenhagan \nDavid Flores is a photographer\, filmmaker\, and educator. His images can be found on the covers of Poets & Writers\, Scalawag\, and PLUCK. His work has been showcased at The Kentucky Center\, The Verbal Arts Centre of Northern Ireland\, and film festivals across the country. In 2018\, David began work on “Nueva Bronx: 21st Century Families” — bringing free family portraiture to Railroad Park in the Bronx. This project is his response to recent nationalist movements that have attempted to remove and erase familial representations of immigrants and people of color. David believes that family\, in all of its beautiful forms\, stands as a cornerstone of the human experience\, creating intersections between past\, present and future and simultaneously weaving larger connections in the community. David is a regular guest artist of the Digital Age Learning Institute\, the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts\, and the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. Recent arts residencies include ArtBuilt\, Global Writes\, Louisiana Arts Works\, and the DreamYard Project. David lives in Manhattan with his partner and children. \nRenée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include the Ryan Hart series\, Some Places More Than Others\, This Side of Home\, What Momma Left Me\, Betty Before X\, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz\, Watch Us Rise\, cowritten with Ellen Hagan\, and Love Is a Revolution\, as well as acclaimed picture books: Summer Is Here\, Maya’s Song\, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water\, written with Nikole Hannah-Jones\, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen\, and Harlem’s Little Blackbird\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée splits her time between Portland\, Oregon and New York City.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/word-up-recirculation-book-launch/
LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park - Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride
DESCRIPTION:Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride is Inspired by James Baldwin’s quote\, “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”  \nThrough 3 weeks and 4 plays\, Irrevocable Conditions spends Pride Month exploring the queer community’s conditions of home: all of the plays being done are intimate in nature\, and lend themselves to being performed in a true DIY sense a.k.a in an NYC apartment. \nSCHEDULE \nJune 27th 6:30pm\nTemporary\nBy Juliet Riggs\nDirected by Marie Finch-Koinuma
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-irrevocable-conditions-a-play-repertoire-for-pride/2025-06-20/2/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park\, 218th St. Entrance\, 600 West 218th St\, New Yok\, NY\, 10034\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park - Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride
DESCRIPTION:Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride is Inspired by James Baldwin’s quote\, “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”  \nThrough 3 weeks and 4 plays\, Irrevocable Conditions spends Pride Month exploring the queer community’s conditions of home: all of the plays being done are intimate in nature\, and lend themselves to being performed in a true DIY sense a.k.a in an NYC apartment. \nSCHEDULE \nJune 27th 6:30pm\nTemporary\nBy Juliet Riggs\nDirected by Marie Finch-Koinuma
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-irrevocable-conditions-a-play-repertoire-for-pride/2025-06-20/1/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park\, 218th St. Entrance\, 600 West 218th St\, New Yok\, NY\, 10034\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up: Rising in the Heights with Carmen Cancél & Jainardo Batista
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 14\, 2025 – 11:00am to 12:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWord Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria\n2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPuerto Rican musicians soprano Carmen Cancél and singer/ percussionist Jainardo Batista of “Buena Vista Social Club” join forces with Leadlights Ensemble for an unforgettable event of music and storytelling\, featuring One Sweet Song by Jyoti Gapal\, ill. by Sonia Sanchez. **Please note the time of this event is 11 a.m.** \nRising in the Heights is a festival of free outdoor public arts performances curated by Leadlights Ensemble in partnership with Word Up Community Bookshop. The festival celebrates the rich artistic contributions of Latinx and Black cultures and promotes children’s literacy through music and bilingual storytelling. Free copies of the featured book will be available. \nThis project is made possible in part with funds from UMEZ Arts Engagement\, supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ); and Creative Engagement\, supported by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and the Howard Gilman Foundation. UMEZ Arts Engagement and Creative Engagement are administered by LMCC.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/rising-in-the-heights-music-storytelling-with-rachael-harrington-leadlights-ensemble/
LOCATION:Word Up Community Bookshop\, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St.\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park - Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride
DESCRIPTION:Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride is Inspired by James Baldwin’s quote\, “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”  \nThrough 3 weeks and 4 plays\, Irrevocable Conditions spends Pride Month exploring the queer community’s conditions of home: all of the plays being done are intimate in nature\, and lend themselves to being performed in a true DIY sense a.k.a in an NYC apartment. \nSCHEDULE \nJune 27th 6:30pm\nTemporary\nBy Juliet Riggs\nDirected by Marie Finch-Koinuma
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-irrevocable-conditions-a-play-repertoire-for-pride/2025-06-13/2/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park\, 218th St. Entrance\, 600 West 218th St\, New Yok\, NY\, 10034\, United States
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SUMMARY:Inwood Hill Park - Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride
DESCRIPTION:Irrevocable Conditions: a Play Repertoire for Pride is Inspired by James Baldwin’s quote\, “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”  \nThrough 3 weeks and 4 plays\, Irrevocable Conditions spends Pride Month exploring the queer community’s conditions of home: all of the plays being done are intimate in nature\, and lend themselves to being performed in a true DIY sense a.k.a in an NYC apartment. \nSCHEDULE \nJune 27th 6:30pm\nTemporary\nBy Juliet Riggs\nDirected by Marie Finch-Koinuma
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/inwood-hill-park-irrevocable-conditions-a-play-repertoire-for-pride/2025-06-13/1/
LOCATION:Inwood Hill Park\, 218th St. Entrance\, 600 West 218th St\, New Yok\, NY\, 10034\, United States
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SUMMARY:Comics and Kids Books at the Inwood Farmer’s Market
DESCRIPTION:Comics and Kids Books at the Inwood Farmer’s Market\n\nEvery Saturday come down to the Inwood Farmer’s Market to catch me selling artist-made\, small-press kid’s books and comics. Browse a selection of work by me – Inwood based cartoonist\, Isaac Roller and a choice sampling of artwork by other local cartoonists. \n\nLocation: Isham St between Seaman Ave. and\, Cooper St\, New York\, NY 10034
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/comics-and-kids-books-at-the-inwood-farmers-market/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Written Word
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Yoseli Castillo Fuertes & Alicia Anabel Santos's PÁJAROS\, LESBIANAS Y QUEERS ¡A VOLAR! with Charles Rice-Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 6\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nDominican Writers Association and Word Up celebrate the launch Pájaros\, lesbianas y queers…¡a volar!: An LGBTQ+ Anthology of Dominican Transnational Writers with editors Yoseli Castillo Fuertes and Alicia Anabel Santos\, in conversation with Charles Rice-Gonzalez\, author of Chulito. \n“Spanning genre\, language\, borders\, and a multitude of interior worlds\, this is an incomparable collection of Dominican letters. Powerful and bold\, Pájaros\, lesbianas y Queers… ¡a volar! is an expansive take that illuminates Dominican queerness from the mundane to the mythical.” – Elizabeth Acevedo\, author of Family Lore. \nPájaros\, lesbianas y queers…¡a volar! An LGBTQ+ Anthology of Dominican Transnational Writers is a bilingual compilation of poetry\, essays\, short stories\, short plays and memoirs by out Dominican writers on the island and the diaspora. It is a powerful representation of some of the literary\, social\, political and cultural movements currently taking place in the Dominican community. The worlds\, ideas\, feelings and stories depicted in this book show how LGBTQ+ Dominicans both fit in and are alienated from the national dictum “Dios\, Patria y Libertad”\, all while navigating typical human traits such as love\, family\, identity\, home\, safety\, courage\, sexuality\, faith\, language. \nPájaros\, lesbianas y queers…¡a volar! An LGBTQ+ Anthology of Dominican Transnational Writers es una compilación bilingüe de poesía\, ensayos\, cuentos\, microteatro y memorias por escritores dominicanes en la isla y en la diáspora\, auto-identificades como parte de la comunidad LGBTQ+. Este libro es una representación significativa de algunos de los movimientos literarios\, sociales\, políticos y culturales que actualmente transcurren en la comunidad dominicana. Los mundos\, las ideas\, los sentimientos y las historias encarnadas en esta antología muestran cómo les dominicanes LGBTQ+ se integran y a la vez se disgregan del lema nacional “Dios\, Patria y Libertad”\, al lidiar con rasgos tan típicos y humanos como el amor\, la familia\, la identidad\, el hogar\, la seguridad\, el valor\, la fe y el lenguaje. \nAlicia Anabel Santos is an Afrolatina lesbian storyteller\, writer\, producer\, playwright\, speaker\, activist\, teaching artist\, and priestess. Born in Brooklyn to Dominican parents\, she is the founder of the New York City Latina Writers Group and a 2018 BRIO Award recipient in fiction. Her memoir\, Finding Your Force: A Journey to Love\, and her one-woman show\, I WAS BORN\, explore themes of identity\, healing\, and empowerment. Alicia co-produced the documentary series Afrolatinos: The Untaught Story and facilitates writing workshops that center on spirituality\, feminism\, and social justice. \nYoseli Castillo Fuertes is a bilingual Afro-Dominican lesbian poet\, educator\, and activist. Born in La Vega\, Dominican Republic\, she migrated to the U.S. at 16 and holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Spanish Literature. A Cave Canem alum\, her work has been featured in anthologies across New York\, Buenos Aires\, Madrid\, and Santo Domingo. Yoseli is the author of De eso sí se habla / Of That\, I Speak and co-founder of the LGBTQ+ open mic series Noche Bohemia in Washington Heights. She is dedicated to creating spaces that uplift queer\, immigrant\, and Afro-Caribbean voices. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Caro de Robertis’s SO MANY STARS with Denne Michele Norris
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 4\, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nWord Up welcomes acclaimed writer Caro de Robertis to celebrate So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans\, Nonbinary\, Genderqueer\, and Two-Spirit People of Color\, a first-of-its-kind\, deeply personal\, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage\, cultural innovations\, and acts of resistance. In conversation with de Robertis will be Denne Michele Norris\, author of When the Harvest Comes. \n“Insightful and educative… Each personal history is notable in its own scope and perspective\, but collectively these voices representing elder queer generations of color become extraordinary… The lasting impressions each of them has made on society beautifully amplify the heartbeat of queer trans life.—Kirkus Reviews\, *STARRED REVEW* \nWord Up is partnering with The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, commonly called The Center\, a nonprofit organization serving the lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender population of New York City and nearby communities. Donated copies of SO MANY STARS will be distributed to students in The Center’s READY program\, which gives workplace training and experience to 45 high schoolers around New York.* Their job placement sites are all vetted to ensure a safe and nurturing queer-friendly environment for their first step into the workforce. Some of these sites include: Word Up Community Bookstore\, BRUJAS skate company\, Bronx Botanical Gardens\, Broadway for the Arts\, Animal Care Centers of New York\, Brooklyn Public Library\, and Generation Q in Queens. Some of READY’s goals are to offer support throughout each learning curve of a youth’s first job\, budgeting throughout their first paychecks\, advocating for themselves as employees\, and being able to enter their next internship/job/or college as seamlessly as possible. Most of all\, the purpose of READY is to build confidence in the youth participating in the internship who are entering young adulthood. \n*Donated copies of SO MANY STARS can be purchased on WordUpBooks.com (comment “donation”) or through our ticketing platform WithFriends.co/WordUp. \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nSo Many Stars knits together the voices of trans\, nonbinary\, genderqueer\, and two-spirit elders of color as they share authentic\, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world. This singular project collects the testimonies of twenty elders\, each a glimmering thread in a luminous tapestry\, preserving their words for future generations—who can more fully exist in the world today because of these very trailblazers. \nDe Robertis creates a collective coming-of-age story based on hundreds of hours of interviews\, offering rare snapshots of ordinary life: kids growing up\, navigating family issues and finding community\, coming out and changing how they identify over the years\, building movements and weathering the AIDS crisis\, and sharing wisdom for future generations. Often narrating experiences that took place before they had the array of language that exists today to self-identify beyond the gender binary\, this generation lived through remarkable changes in American culture\, shaped American culture\, and yet rarely takes center stage in the history books. Their stories feel particularly urgent in the current political moment\, but also remind readers that their experiences are not new\, and that young trans and nonbinary people today belong to a long lineage. \nThe anecdotes in these pages are riveting\, joyful\, heartbreaking\, full of personality and wisdom\, and artfully woven together into one immersive narrative. In De Robertis’s words\, So Many Stars shares “behind-the-scenes tales of what it meant—and still means—to create an authentic life\, against the odds.” \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Caro De Robertis is the author of six novels\, including The Palace of Eros\, Cantoras\, and more. Their books have been translated into seventeen languages and have received numerous honors\, including two Stonewall Book Awards\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, which they were the first openly nonbinary writer to receive. De Robertis is also an award-winning literary translator and a professor at San Francisco State University. They live in Oakland\, California with their two children. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nDenne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature\, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize\, where she is the first Black\, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A 2021 Out100 Honoree\, her writing has been supported by MacDowell\, Tin House\, and Kimbilio for Black Fiction\, and appears in McSweeney’s\, American Short Fiction\, and ZORA. She co-hosts the critically-acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot\, and her debut novel\, When The Harvest Comes\, will be published by Random House in April\, 2025\, and Both/And\, her anthology celebrating trans writers of color\, will be published in August by HarperOne.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hudson View Gardens: Bloom Reading Series (June 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Hila Ratzabi from Chicago\, Maya Pindyck from Philly\, Richard Jeffrey Newman from NYC
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/hudson-view-gardens-bloom-reading-series/
LOCATION:Hudson View Gardens Lounge\, 116 Pinehurst Ave. (@ 183rd Street)\, New York\, 10033\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Performers for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 30\, 2025 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRECIRCULATION A project of Word Up\n876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\n\nNew York\, NY 10032\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of community and original live performances — music\, spoken word\, stand-up\, and DJing — as we raise money to help our Palestinian neighbors in Gaza. Entry to the event is a suggested $10-$25 donation to the Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity Fund and/or Support Gaza’s Future Doctors. \nRegister for FREE at WithFriends.co/WordUp. \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nRecirculation\, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop\, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights\, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St.\, A/C train to 163rd St.\, and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
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SUMMARY:NoMAA: 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join NoMAA & the northern Manhattan arts community\, meet this year’s honorees & celebrate the Uptown Arts Stroll opening in West Harlem\, Washington Heights & Inwood at the Sugar Hill Museum with DJ Taela Naomi and outdoor artist-led workshop by the Sugar Hill Museum on the plaza. \nThe Uptown Arts Stroll runs from May 30-June 30 with exhibitions and events from West 125th to West 220th Street. Pickup a printed guide or view this online calendar & website for more information. \nRSVP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/23rd-uptown-arts-stroll-opening-reception-tickets-1335472667699?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/nomaa-23rd-uptown-arts-stroll-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling\, 898 Saint Nicholas Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Unique Events,Visual Arts,Written Word
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