Fort Washington Library: Teen Movie "National Treasure" A modern-day fortune hunter races to find an ancient treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. Join us for the movie that started the craze! Snacks and drinks will be available. Relevant for Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years)
Join us every Wednesday for this fun, family-friendly performance and jam session! Jazz musicians of all levels welcome to sit in. Bring chairs, blankets, picnics, children!
Harlem Quartet @ Sugar Hill: Beethoven, Wynton Marsalis, William Bolcom, William Grant Still + more. In many ways, Ludwig van Beethoven’s turbulent and fiercely concentrated Op. 95 “Serioso” Quartet points toward the restless individuality that defines so much American music today. Its sharp contrasts, rhythmic urgency, and emotional directness resonate across genres and generations—from the jazz-infused classical language of William Bolcom, to the stylistic fluency and improvisatory spirit of Wynton Marsalis, the lyrical originality of William Grant Still, and the virtuosic cross-cultural voice of Aldo López-Gavilán.
Broadway Mall Association (BMA)in collaboration with Five Flies Coffee proudly announces a community poetry reading in connection with the art exhibition, Pablo Caviedes: The Unknown Way. This exhibition showcases 20 of the artist’s original works from his CRANIUM series, displayed along the Broadway malls from 150th to 158th Street last year to commemorate the Day of the Dead.
Sound Bridges: Women in Harmony"- a free, family-friendly, multi-day event highlighting the contributions of Women in Latin & Latin Jazz Music and providing space for women's collaboration. Featuring: Linda EPO & L’Ensemble New Yorkino @theharlequin
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.
