Tag Archives: Northern Manhattan
Word Up Recirculation: Resonance — A Community Sound Healing Experience
healing designed to help you reconnect, rebalance, and recharge.
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Culture Lime is reimagining how people connect through culture. Through live experiences that blend music, art, and wellness, we aim to inspire people and co-create community with purpose and heart.
Word Up Recirculation: Bethune Big Band
Charles Lonny West was the director of the Bethune Senior Center located on 157th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem from 1973 until 2003. He became aware that there were some men who frequentled the center — having lunch, shooting pool and just hanging out–who were retired jazz musicians, who played with jazz and swing bands in the 20’s through the 50’s — The Big Band Era. Lonny West got these men together and organized and developed the Bethune Big Band. Over time, the band performed at many senior centers across the New York City area.
Lonny appointed his brother, Paul, a jazz bassist well known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie and Lee Morgan, to conduct the Bethune Big Band from 2003 to the present. Lonny passed away on June 3, 2018. Paul West continues to keep the band playing as a tribute to its founder, Charles Lonny West.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.
Word Up Recirculation: SEVERED Film Screening, Discussion, & Solidarity Building
Join the SURJ Immigration Justice Working Group for a screening and discussion of the documentary Severed which follows the journey of Mohamad Saleh, an 18-year-old from Gaza who has lived through five major assaults by the Israeli military. In a moment in which the imperial boomerang of militarized repression in Gaza loops sharply back towards our immediate neighbors in US cities, and the violent machinery of deportation is continually wielded to silence expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people, Mohamad’s story helps us understand the fight for racial justice, for immigration justice, for disability justice, and for Palestinian liberation as a multivalent but unified struggle.
We will gather via Zoom and at Recirculation (876 Riverside Drive, New York, NY) on November 7th at 7pm to bear witness, build solidarity, and move resources. Masks are required for in-person attendees.
Word Up Recirculation: A New York Novel-ty
Riverside Brass Quintet presents a free recital and meet & greet in a cozy bookshop uptown! With a program made up of entirely NYC-based composers, past and present, we are celebrating community and connecting with art and artists in new ways at Recirculation.
This project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the funding agencies DCLA in partnership with the City Council The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by LMCC.


