Come work with NYC Parks Stewardship to care for local street trees! Volunteers will learn how to aerate, cultivate, mulch, and identify street trees. They will also learn about the important role street trees play in New York City. Volunteers should dress in clothes that can get dirty and closed toe shoes. Face masks may be worn at your discretion. Space is limited and registration is required. Volunteers under 18 must be accompanied by a chaperone. This event has been funded in part by NYC Service. To sign up a group of 10 or more volunteers please reach out to stewardship@parks.nyc.gov.
Join artist Elan Cadiz to celebrate Black identity! Using black and white portraits of famous black people we will embellish and decorate the images with watercolor, pencil, marker and collage.
Zine y los espacios: Una conversación sobre cómo la comunidad, los zines y la memoria son herramientas de liberación
Zine & Spaces: A conversation about how community, zines, and memory become tools for liberation
Esta conversación explora cómo los espacios comunitarios están evolucionando para dar la bienvenida a formas alternativas de digerir, compartir y amplificar el arte — particularmente fanzines. Como un medio decolonial, los fanzines ofrecen una manera de democratizar el conocimiento, reclamar independencia creativa, y centrar la comunidad como el autor primario de cómo sus historias, su arte y su sabiduria son comunicadas.
This conversation explores how community spaces are evolving to welcome alternative forms of digesting, sharing, and amplifying art — particularly zines. As a decolonial medium, zines offer a way to democratize knowledge, reclaim creative independence, and center the community as the primary author of how its stories, art, and wisdom are communicated.
Hosting this event at Word Up Community Bookshop, a space deeply rooted in community-led storytelling and cultural exchange, is an opportunity to strengthen connections with the Dominican diaspora living beyond NYC. It allows us to continue uplifting dissident experiences and to contribute to a broader movement that is redefining how we want our knowledge, memories, and imaginations to be shared and preserved.
Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni was a bestselling 18th-Century writer—one of the first female authors who managed to finance an independent life away from her abusive husband thanks to her writing. Her novels explore the impossible choices that women in pre-Revolutionary France faced. Translators Kate Deimling and Karen Santos Da Silva will discuss Riccobboni’s protofeminism, unique style, and the challenges of rendering her prose for modern English-language readers.
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 for this event must wear a mask inside.
Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St, turn left, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue).
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