Tag Archives: Local Artists

Eli Yamin and the Jazz Power All Stars: Birthday, Blues, Bebop, and Boogaloo!

In celebration of Eli Yamin’s birthday, the Jazz Power All Stars play a celebratory mix of music that will blast open your imagination and make you want to dance.

Join us for a spectacular evening as Eli Yamin and The Jazz Power All Stars present “Birthday, Blues, Bebop, and Boogaloo!” in celebration of Eli Yamin’s birthday! This unforgettable event will ignite your imagination and get you moving with a dynamic mix of blues, bebop, and boogaloo. Featuring an all-star lineup—Eli Yamin, Michael Blake, James Zollar, Jennifer Vincent, David F. Gibson, Jonathan Troncoso “JBlak,” Charenee Wade, and Antoinette Montague and dance from Carmen Morillo—this performance promises to bring the best of Jazz Power Initiative to life. Don’t miss this high energy celebration!

NoMAA – Ritual, Rites, & Routine: Performing the Human Experience.

Join us to celebrate NoMAA’s new exhibition: Ritual, Rites, & Routine: Performing the Human Experience.

November 8, 2024 – February 6, 2024
Check NoMAA website for hours.

NoMAA Gallery
4140 Broadway @ W 176th St
NY NY 10033
(in the first floor annex of The United Palace)

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Nadema Agard, Andrea Arroyo, Arza Young, Yael Ben-Zion, Julie Berman, Susan Bresler, Arcadia Reyes Caraballo, Estefania Caraballo, Domingo Cruz, Michael De Los Santos, Rose Deler, Charlotte Dewald, Diane Drescher, Jeff Elliott, Felipe Galindo, Regina Gradess, Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper, Laurence Elle Groux, Takashi Harada, Josefina Hernandez, Francis Hsueh, Cesar Kastro, Chae Kihn, Lilia Rogovaya Levin, Em Miller, Malgorzata Moore, Tomo Mori, Rosa Naparstek, Devin Osorio, Jennifer Peng, Paula Maria Persiani, Kathia Regalado, Simona Riccardi, Darcy Rogers, Tom Sanford, Arlene Schulman, Tony Serio, Uniqua Simmons, Elizabeth Starčević, Rafaelina Tineo, Shu Tu, Sahare Wazirali, Tasha Woodson

 

Word Up Recirculation: Uptown Out (February 2025)

Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032

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A creative improvised music series, featuring Uptown- and Bronx-based musicians performing in different combinations.

Featuring Claire de Brunner (bassoon), Mary Cherney (flute), Matt Lambiase (trumpet), Will Glass (drums), and Nick Lyons (alto sax).

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

This event is a $10 suggested donation ticket with 100 max attendees. Please register in advance.

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.

Hudson View Gardens Lounge: Bloom Readings

“Bloom Readings presents “A September Reading – Two Authors/Two New Books!”, Saturday, September 21st, 6:00 pm, in The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, just west of the intersection of 183rd St. & Pinehurst Ave. Tickets are $10, and can be purchased in advance with Venmo: @wicked-rufous-press.

Sarah Van Arsdale is a fiction writer, poet, and artist living in New York and Oaxaca, Mexico. Her seventh book, Catch and Release, (Finishing Line Press, 2024) is a book-length poem about the human impact on the sea life in Mexico, levied by Van Arsdale’s watercolor illustrations. Her first novel, Toward Amnesia, was published by Riverhead Books in 1995. She is the author of three other books of fiction: Blue, winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the novel (2003 University of Tennessee Press);  Grand Isle (SUNY Press, 2012) a novella collection, In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (Queens Ferry Press, 2016), and another book-length poem, The Catamount (Nomadic Press, 2016). She’s assistant director of the Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction, and she teaches creative writing in the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University.

David Ebenbach is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including his new novel Possible Happiness, called “a beautiful coming-of-age novel” by Booklist, in a starred review. His books have won such awards as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Juniper Prize, among others. His fiction and poetry have also been published in numerous magazines, including The Kenyon Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and The New England Review. He lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com

For more information visit BloomReadings.net, or email us at bloomreadings80@gmail.com