Tag Archives: Northern Manhattan

Inwood Hill Park: Sunset Poetry Hike

Friday night’s Sunset Poetry Hike kicks off the 9th Annual Earth Day Festival, organized by the Friends of Inwood Hill Park and led by @donniewelchpoetry!

Friday, April 19th, 6:30pm
Isham & Seaman entrance


Registration required (free)

The hike will start at the Isham street entrance, wander around the shoreline of the cove, then head up the Blue Trail to Overlook Meadow for sunset before we finally hike out together at dusk. We’ll break along the way for poetry about natural spaces and our relationships to land. We’ll also offer time for anyone who wants to share work: their own creation or something that inspires them.

Pack water, snacks, and a poem, song, or rap for the Sunset Poetry Hike. An open mic hike for all ages and abilities.

Please wear sturdy closed toe shoes and bring a flashlight or headlamp for the hike out. All ages and ability levels are welcome for both the hike and readings.

The guided hike will be led and hosted by local poet Donnie Welch, a Super Steward trail maintainer with the Natural Areas Conservancy.

The 1st photo of Donnie, by Donnie, the other 3 by @taryher taken at the 2023 festival hike.

The 9th Annual Friends of Inwood Hill Park Earth Day Festival is April 19-20, 2024. Come on out and care for our common home across the street from yours. The full schedule is announced. Registration links with details are in our bio.

Celebrate earth with your community through park stewardship, volunteerism, advocacy, and education in the Shorakapok Preseve in present-day Inwood Hill Park in the ancestral homeland of the Lenape – Lenapehoking. Inwood Hill Park is Manhattan’s only natural old-growth forest.

This year’s international earth day theme is “Plastics vs Planet.” @earthdaynetwork

UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society

Exhibition Title: Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society
Location: Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Dates: February 23 – June 30, 2024

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library inaugurates Arte en el Alto Manhattan with Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society featuring three Dominican-born co-curators exhibiting works created in artistic dialog with HSM&L’s collection based on their individual aesthetic approaches as well as their unique perspective as Dominican immigrants in New York. The works showcased express the complicated transnational and intercultural identity, which these artists share with over 2 million Dominican-Americans in the United States, approximately half of whom reside in the NYC Metropolitan area, particularly in the museum’s home neighborhood of Washington Heights.

Co-curators: Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Chiqui Mendoza, & Rider Ureña

UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society

Exhibition Title: Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society
Location: Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Dates: February 23 – June 30, 2024

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library inaugurates Arte en el Alto Manhattan with Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society featuring three Dominican-born co-curators exhibiting works created in artistic dialog with HSM&L’s collection based on their individual aesthetic approaches as well as their unique perspective as Dominican immigrants in New York. The works showcased express the complicated transnational and intercultural identity, which these artists share with over 2 million Dominican-Americans in the United States, approximately half of whom reside in the NYC Metropolitan area, particularly in the museum’s home neighborhood of Washington Heights.

Co-curators: Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Chiqui Mendoza, & Rider Ureña

Inwood Art Works presents: BIG TENT

Featuring Jerome Kitzke, Steve Rust, and Harvey Sorgen

Friday, April 5, 2024
8:00pm Doors 7:45pm

Holy Trinity Church Inwood (FIRST CONCERT HERE!)
20 Cumming Street, New York, NY 10034

Minimum Suggested Donation of $20. Pay online or at the door.

Enjoy a community concert of beat poetry and jazz improvisation performed by Big Tent. All are welcome!
They are not a political party, but given all the different musical points of view brought to bear by these three veteran improvisers, a delicious Big Tent in sound is created when drummer/percussionist Harvey Sorgen, bassist Steve Rust and pianist/vocalist Jerome Kitzke come together. The resulting music is possessed of raw energy or delicate filigree and everything in between, all delivered with a passionate verve rooted in broad deep emotions that are served beautifully by the prodigious technique each player possesses. Electric twists and turns abound in these pieces that sound at once spontaneous and composed. The use of poetry brings a tight formal cohesion to some of the cuts, so when you hear Kitzke reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s I Am Waiting with intermittent ringing piano chords over a stanza by stanza ranging bass line by Rust, joined at just the right moment by Sorgen’s insistent snare and kick drum cadence, you know you are not hearing your average improv band. When they are ferocious, the roar is also quirky and when they are tender, the tears that form will most likely come with a smile. Big Tent: endorsing bipartisan listening since 1998.
Get Tickets Here!

Dyckman Farmhouse: What We See Matters! – Storytelling Through Photography

What We See Matters! – Storytelling Through Photography

April 5th, 2024; 4PM-6:30PM

REGISTRATION REQUIRED, OPEN TO AGES: 11-15

Register here

Facilitated by Christopher Lopez

Embrace your inner artist with this photography workshop at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum! Students will learn about photography and how to use the provided cameras. Afterward, the group will explore Inwood and take photographs following a selected theme. One photograph will be selected from each student to be exhibited at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum!

Students will learn to understand photographic form and use related vocabulary to support their analyses of photographs, as well as articulate the process of creating meaning through form, content, and context. Students will expand their visual literacy by learning to look, and by decoding images reviewed in class and encoding these ideas into their own original photographs outside of class in the surrounding area. The students will be asked to see the Dyckman community as a principal subject. Through direct involvement with the camera they will be asked to create unique visual images that articulate the varied aesthetics of the community.

 

¡Lo que Vemos Importa! – Narrativa a Través de la Fotografía

5 de Abril, 2024; 4PM-6:30PM REQUIERE

INSCRIPCIÓN, ABIERTO A LAS EDADES: 11-15

Facilitado por Christopher Lopez

¡Abraza a tu artista interior con este taller de fotografía en el Museo Dyckman Farmhouse! Los estudiantes aprenderán sobre fotografía y cómo usar las cámaras provistas. Luego, el grupo explorará Inwood y tomará fotografías siguiendo un tema seleccionado. ¡Se seleccionará una fotografía de cada estudiante para ser exhibida en el Museo Dyckman Farmhouse! Los estudiantes aprenderán a comprender la forma fotográfica y usar vocabulario relacionado para apoyar sus análisis de fotografías, así como a articular el proceso de creación de significado a través de la forma, el contenido y el contexto. Los estudiantes ampliarán su comprensión aprendiendo a mirar y decodificando imágenes revisadas en clase y codificando estas ideas en sus propias fotografías originales fuera de clase en

los alrededores. Se les pedirá a los estudiantes que vean a la comunidad de Dyckman como un tema principal. A través de la participación directa con la cámara, se les pedirá que creen imágenes visuales únicas que articulen la estética variada de la comunidad.