Monthly film screenings continue at Inwood Library! June is Pride Month, and we’ll be celebrating with the nineties film BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER, starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall and Cathy Moriarty. Join us on Wednesday, June 25th, 4:30-6:30pm, for this cult classic.
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Word Up Recirculation: I’m Working On Something by Handmade for Kids
Saturday, June 28, 2025 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032
A free musical performance for children and their families by the Washington Heights band Handmade for Kids. I’m Working On Something is an interactive, bilingual, and kinetic show presenting original compositions and songs from the Latin American songbook for children of all ages!
Preview some of the music here.
With flavor, purpose, and joy
To sing, dance, and wonder
Con sabor, propósito y alegría
Para cantar, bailar y maravillarse
Handmade For Kids is a bilingual performance of songs, stories and and beats that make the body move, the mind think, and the imagination wonder.
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 time.
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.
Word Up Recirculation – NYC Book Launch: Nadia Alexis’s BEYOND THE WATERSHED with Cynthia Manick, JP Howard, and Edythe Rodriguez
Friday, June 27, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032
Word Up welcomes poet and photographer Nadia Alexis to celebrate the NYC launch of her debut collection Beyond the Watershed. Featured in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2025 Preview, the collection is a hybrid of poetry and photography exploring generational trauma, healing, and reclamation through the experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother. There will be a poetry reading by Nadia Alexis, Cynthia Manick (No Sweet Without Brine), JP Howard (SAY/MIRROR), and Edythe Rodriguez (We, The Spirits). Join us for a night of poetry, celebration, and community. Books will be available for purchase, and a signing will follow the reading.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.
United Palace – The Muse: Hair Stories
Date: Tuesday, June 24th | Time: 7:00pm–9:00pm | Free with Registration
Doors open at 6:30pm. The Muse begins at 7:00pm in the NoMAA Gallery.
Join us for The Muse: Hair Stories, with special guest speaker Dr. Niria E. Leyva-Gutiérrez, Executive Director of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA). In conjunction with NoMAA’s 16th annual Women in the Heights Exhibition, Hair: Untangling Identity, The Muse presents Hair Stories. Through art, reflection, and the sharing of personal stories and experience, we will explore how hair identifies & informs our lives — for better or worse!
The Muse is a monthly program dedicated to celebrating inspiration, the arts, and community. It brings together open-minded artists and art lovers to explore the many ways inspiration, or The Muse, elevates our daily lives. Through shared human experiences, creative expression, and a deep love for the arts, we reflect on life’s biggest questions, uncovering new meaning in the world around us.
This event is free with registration, and light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome as we give back to those who have given us so much.
Event Schedule:
- Doors – 6:30PM
- The Muse – 7:00PM
- Refreshments – 8:30PM
- Event Concludes – 9:00PM
Dyckman Farmhouse – Backporch Concert: “Echoes Across the Pond” with Silentwoods Collective
Join the musicians of Silentwoods Collective on the lawn of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum for “Echoes Across the Pond”, an hour-long performance featuring lively traditional New England fiddle music and early country dances led by expert violinist and master fiddler, Jimmy Drancsak and performed on 18th century period instruments.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
5pm-6pm
FREE
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Acompáñanos en el jardín del Museo Dyckman Farmhouse junto a los músicos de Silentwoods Collective para “Ecos al Otro Lado del Atlántico”, una presentación de una hora con animada música tradicional de violín de Nueva Inglaterra y antiguos bailes campestres, dirigidos por el experto violinista y maestro del fiddle, Jimmy Drancsak, interpretados en instrumentos de época del siglo XVIII.
26 de junio de 2025
5pm-6pm
Gratis
El Museo Dyckman Farmhouse