Tag Archives: Northern Manhattan

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 YorkNY 10032

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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

Fort Tryon Park: Words & Music Acoustic Jam at the Flagpole

Want to express your creative flow in a cool outdoor setting? Bring your words and music to an acoustic jam session to celebrate the arrival of summer. While the sun sets over the Hudson River and the Palisades, sing, play, and dance to your heart’s content. This 12th annual event coordinates with Make Music Day and is part of the NOMAA 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll.

Enter at 190th street and Margaret Corbin circle. Walk around the circle and stroll past Heather Gardens. Go up the stairs to the Linden Terrace Flagpole area.