Tuesday in the Heights means Jazz at Kismat! The WaHi Weekly Jam - now in our 12th year! No long opening set… the jam starts when you arrive. No cover. House band: Louise Rogers, voice, Mark Kross, piano, John Loehrke, bass, Jeff Potter, drums.
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!
The haunting story of a vanished Gilded Age inventor. On the eve of presenting the first motion picture camera to the world—2 years before Edison—its inventor, Augustin Le Prince, vanished without a trace. Two years later, after his experiments had strained both his finances and his marriage, he was finally ready to present his invention to New York’s most illustrious patrons at the Morris–Jumel Mansion. Laurel Avery, author of “Light and Shadow”, will go into depth about the research involved in retracing Le Prince’s steps before his mysterious disappearance
Dust Devil is equal parts sexy, gory and metaphysical, with themes exploring the region's fraught racial politics of the time. A surreal, violent horror-western from South Africa about a murderous demonic shapeshifter, hunting lonely travelers in the desert. We’ll be presenting the "final cut," approved by the director.
The Hebrew Tabernacle: Blood Drive at the Social Hall. Once again the blood drive will take place in the Tabernacle’s Social Hall from 1:00-7:00 pm. To date the Tabernacle has collected over 1500 pints!
Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman. Join the Hispanic Society for a conversation with Jonathan Goldman on the Puerto Rican experience in 1920s New York. In Hidden Histories of Jazz Age: New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange, Jonathan Goldman offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City. Jonathan Ezra Goldman’s whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices.
