Join the Word Up collective for an evening of music, food, and drinks to celebrate our community space and raise money to cover the rent (it’s too damn high)!
Word 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.
Dominican 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.
The Great Indoor Make Music NY Community Play-In: Improv workshop and free jazz jam for players of all levels.
Word 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.
The film is made up of four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era and is part of the Criterion Collection.
