Q&T Community is excited to host an Open Mic night of queer music, poetry, and storytelling at Recirculation Word Up. This is meant to be an open space for mingling and getting to know more Uptown LGBTQ+ people.
Community Potluck with Caroline Choe (Independent Bookstore Day). In an attempt to remind folks there is still love, life, and safety in our community spaces, especially in such a turbulent time, chef Caroline Choe, author of Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides, is hosting a community potluck at Recirculation.
Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra presents Storytime with the Symphony, in partnership with Word Up Community Bookshop. Each program features stories and music with thoughtful connections to themes familiar to children growing up in Washington Heights, with bilingual narration.
Word Up celebrates the gallery opening of visual artist Elizaveta Kozlova's show ANTE PERPETUUM. Join us for drinks, snacks, and a discussion with the artist. Please register in advance.
Word Up welcomes Jacqueline Jimenez Polanco to celebrate the launch of Honoring Sappho: A Lesbian Poetry book and Sappho en Santo Domingo: Un poemario lésbico.
Word Up welcomes award-winning professor Seth Michelson to discuss his new book Hope on the Border: Immigration, Incarceration, and the Power of Poetry, a humanizing story of immigration shown through the lens of undocumented, unaccompanied children and the poems they write.
