Rising in the Heights – Live Music with Carmen Cancél & Jainardo Batista

Puerto Rican musicians singer/ percussionist Jainardo Batista of “Buena Vista Social Club” and soprano Carmen Cancél join forces with Leadlights Ensemble for an unforgettable event of music and storytelling, featuring “One Sweet Song” by Jyoti Gapal, ill. by Sonia Sanchez.

Rising 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.

This 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.

New York Adventure Club at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

If you were to take a time machine back to 18th-century Manhattan, you would come across lush forests, rolling hills, an abundance of wildlife, and small Dutch family farms scattered throughout the countryside.

While most of that rural beauty has vanished thanks to 300 years of industrialization, one lone farmhouse has stood the test of time and still in its original plot on bustling Broadway.

It’s time to explore this important piece of New York history after the doors close to the public.

Join New York Adventure Club for an after-hours tour & wine reception at the Dyckman Farmhouse. Built in 1784, this Dutch Colonial style farmhouse is the last remaining one of its kind in Manhattan

New York Adventure Club’s private experience will include:

– Stories around the Dyckman family, rural Northern Manhattan landscape, and a lifestyle that disappeared during the transformation from farming community to urban neighborhood

– A private, after-hours tour through the historic rooms and garden of the 238-year-old Dyckman Farmhouse.

– A wine & cheese reception in the backyard garden, which includes a small reproduced smokehouse from 1916, a well, and a Hessian Hut that British troops would have lived in during the early days of the Revolutionary War.

Register using the link in our bio and we hope to see you there!

Dyckman Farmhouse: DFM Through Your Eyes

What does Dyckman Farmhouse look like through your eyes?

Visit the Museum during our open hours this July for the chance to take film photos of Dyckman Farmhouse Museum and gardens! As a part of the ‘Dyckman Through Your Eyes’ project, your photos and written reflections of what most interests you about the Dyckman Farmhouse will be displayed in our visitor center. Come share what DFM means to you!

Thursday July 24th from 1-3pm

Thursday, July 31st from 1-3pm

Included with Museum Admission

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

(on the corner of 204th Street and Broadway)

Translocal Feminist Film Series: Immigrant Women: resisting and re-existing

Undocumented Women’s Fund invites you to our annual outdoor Translocal Feminist Film Series, “Immigrant Women: resisting and re-existing” (

As the criminalization of immigrant communities intensifies and our already precarious access to basic social services is curtailed, we have curated a list of films that highlight the intersecting character of our struggles–whether over labor rights, access to social services, and/or against surveillance, detention and deportation. In its fifth year, our Film Series also celebrates the resilience, sisterhood, solidarity and life-sustaining labor performed by immigrant women and gender expansive people.

Join us throughout August for three bilingual (English/Spanish) screenings:

🪶 Saturday 8/30, Hummingbirds (2024) dir Estefanía “Beba” Contreras and Silvia Del Carmen Castaños

English with Spanish subtitles

In Hummingbirds, Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance.

 

🚨 All screenings will be at Haven plaza (711W 168th St NYC 10032 across from Barnes and Noble).

 

⏱️Doors open at 6:30 and film will begin at 7:30, followed by an open discussion lead by fellow organizers and filmmakers.

 

📍Stay tuned for the details on sister screenings in cities throughout Mexico and Central America.

 

💲Donations will be collected at the door, but nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.Come prepared: we will have food by local vendors, drinks and merch for sale!

United Palace: Celebrate Dominican Heritage

Celebrate Dominican Heritage at the United Palace
Celebrate Manhattan’s Dominican community with us, the National Dominican Day Parade, and the Washington Heights and Inwood Chamber of Commerce at the United Palace Theater on July 31st. Enjoy special guests, local artists, and light refreshments after the program.RSVP required. For special accommodations, contact events@manhattanbp.nyc.gov

RSVP required, HERE.

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