The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra presents Storytime with the Symphony, a three-concert series 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 in English and Spanish. All performances take place at Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop.
Featuring: A Day with No Words by Tiffany Hammond and illustrated by Kate Cosgrove
WHCO Instrument Family: Winds and Percussion
This concert series is generously supported by the following: New World Symphony, The Fountain Bookshop, and the Medical Center Neighborhood Fund.
Join us for an evening of community and original live performances — music, spoken word, stand-up, and DJing — as we raise money to help our Palestinian neighbors in Gaza. Entry to the event is a suggested $10-$25 donation going to Palestinian families connected with the community org.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.
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In loving memory of Tom Burgess
Uptown Record Fair is back for its third year with specialty sale items from the Recirculation archives, plus record vendors, vinyl DJs, and more. Fans of Recirculation already know that when the project first opened, it was stocked to the rafters with not only the thousands of books collected by our late friend and volunteer Tom Burgess–but also by his records. His collection was so vast that even after distributing large donations to music non-profits, per Tom’s wishes, we still had enough left over to maintain a whole music section in the store. Along the way, volunteers have set aside scores of specialty items, which will make up the core of the Recirculation booth at the Uptown Record Fair.
We’re collecting vinyl donations for the fair! Your donation will go towards keeping the lights on at Recirculation. Donations are tax-deductible. Please email open_in_newrecirculation@wordupbooks.com for more information.
But it won’t just be us! We will have several other vendors join us, setting up tables to offer goods across the musical spectrum–jazz, rock, hip-hop, blues, experimental, you name it.
Providing the soundtrack to the day will be vinyl-centric DJs from uptown and beyond, including a special set culled from Tom Burgess’ collection.
This is a fundraiser for Recirculation. A $5-10 suggested donation is encouraged for entry, but not required.
“Now for something completely different”
Elissa Gore has been a professional landscape painter for the past forty years. Her paintings are in over 60 public collections as well as in solo and group shows. In this exhibit at the Gold Wing she shares both her landscapes and her non-objective paintings, accompanied by two interpretive poems, “Time” and “Finding Space” by Elddry Castillo.
Artist’s opening reception Saturday 1/31/26 from 12:45 – 2 pm. following Sabbath Services ( 10 am ). All welcome. Free. Wheelchair accessible. Closes 3/30/26 Open hours Mon 9-3:30, Wed&Fri 9-5.
