2024 Film Works Alfresco: The Birds

The Birds

Monday, August 26, 2024 – 119 minutes. Horror Thriller in English with Spanish Subtitles (1963, USA). Appropriate for Young Adult. Pre-show local dance performance by Pigeonwing Dance begin at 7:00pm.

Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, and Jessica Tandy star in one of Hitchcock’s most terrifying tale. A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Programming:

7:00pm – Pre-show dance performance by Pigeonwing Dance

8:00pm (approximately) – Feature Presentation

Programming will take place rain or shine at The Hudson, located at Dyckman Marina in Inwood Hill Park, 348 Dyckman Street, New York, NY 10034. Food and drink available for purchase until 9pm.

Free admission. Donations appreciated.

Tickets required through www.inwoodartworks.nyc and Eventbrite only. Unclaimed tickets will be released by 8:20pm to the Wait List. Walk-ups will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Seating for 100 people will be provided on first-come first served basis, but you can also bring your own folding chairs if you prefer, to guarantee your seat. All Covid-19 protocols followed as advised by CDC.

For the full Film Works Alfresco summer film schedule click here.

Film Works Alfresco focuses foremost on presenting independent and popular films with local relevance that culturally resonate with the Northern Manhattan community. It is New York City’s only free outdoor English and Spanish cinema series.

This curated film and local artists series by Inwood Art Works provides free screenings and theatrical performances every Monday evening at sundown at The Hudson, located at 348 Dyckman Street on the edge of Inwood Hill Park and the Hudson River, from June 5 through August 28, 2023. Pre-show performances by local artists begin approximately one hour before the film.

Inwood Hill Park: Outdoor Skills – Knot Tying

Outdoor Skills: Knot Tying

Saturday, March 8, 2025
1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Our Urban Park Rangers are well-versed in outdoor lore. Learn tips and tricks that will enhance your knowledge of the natural world, and might just save your life. There’s a knot for every need! Learn methods to tie very useful knots.

Location
West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park

Manhattan

Directions to this location

 

Cost

Free

Word Up Recirculation: Name/Gender Marker Change Assistance

Thursday, January 23, 2025 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032

Advocates for Trans Law Students at Fordham University School of Law will be doing Name/Gender Marker Change petition assistance at Recirculation, a project of Word Up.

For more information, check out https://www.advocatesfortranslaw.org/

Word Up Recirculation: Collage Night

Thursday, December 19, 2024 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032

register

Recirculation, Word Up Community Bookshop’s second location, is full of used books & journals that need help finding a new purpose. Join us for a COLLAGE NIGHT where we can use old book materials and create something new. Base supplies & vibes will be provided. Additional materials are available for purchase at PWYC prices.

If you have art supplies you’d like to donate, consider dropping them off at Recirculation’s Arts Community Cabinet, an open storage space to donate & take arts-related items.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. 

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all times.

Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.

United Palace: Finding Nemo

Date: Sunday, July 28th | Doors: 4:00pm | Screening: 5:00pm | $5 Tickets

400 Nemo’s are missing in the United Palace – help find them before the movie starts! One Nemo finder will win a pair of tickets to the New York Aquarium and other Coney Island goodies.

This 2003 Pixar classic follows the story of a timid clownfish who sets out on a rescue mission for his son after he’s captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney. Voiced by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres. Directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. Written by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds. The movie is 1 hour and 40 minutes, Rated G, and will be screened on DCP.

Finding Nemo continues the Movies at the Palace Season of Friendship. We chose that theme after asking ourselves what we need most to get through 2024. Our supporters and fans helped us select the movies in the series, including:

  • Finding Nemo (2003): July 28
  • Thelma & Louise (1991): Date TBD
  • The Breakfast Club (1985): Date TBD
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Date TBD
  • Little Women (2019): Date TBD

 

Please note: The Season of Friendship is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening.

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