Welcome to the eleventh year of Bruce’s Garden Summer Readings!
All Readings are on Wednesdays and start at 7 P.M. with refreshments starting at 6:30.
JULY 22 LESLIE DAY River–A Hudson Memoir (Cornell University Press, 2025)
We are honored to have Leslie Day https://www.leslieday.nyc/ as this year’s Sid Horenstein Memorial Reader. Dr. Day is an accomplished and prolific writer about the natural world, particularly in New York City. She will read from and discuss her latest book, River–A Hudson Memoir, a unique look at life on and of the Hudson River. It is a love letter to New York City, its famous waterway, as well as the environment around us and the people who shape it.
Get LIT! Teacher Appreciation Cardmaking
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week ! Show some teacher love by creating a card. Use quotes and images inspired by your favorite books. Do it by hand or on a computer and let us print it out for you.
Audience: Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years)
Word Up welcomes Michael Staudenmaier to discuss his new book White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago (Latinx Histories), a portrait of the Puerto Rican community’s experience of racialization in Chicago. Joining Staudenmaier will be Johanna Fernandez, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History.
Drawing on an extraordinary array of archival material, much of it previously inaccessible, Michael Staudenmaier highlights cultural and political projects profoundly informed by nationalist sentiments, from beauty pageants and parades to protests and bombings to elections and legal battles. Revealing how nationalism became a key site of racial formation for Puerto Ricans in Chicago, White, Black, Brown shows how they understood themselves and demanded to be seen by their neighbors and the world.
Medieval Drama at The Met Cloisters Lawn
Join the Fordham Medieval Dramatists for a spectacular, interactive outdoor staging of the 13th-century animal fable The Fox and the Wolf. Virtually unperformed since the Middle Ages, this play brings Reynard the fox, Sigrim the wolf, Chaunticleer the cock, and a flock of befuddled friars to vibrant life with bold costumes, creative staging, and a new translation for the occasion.
Free: Space is limited; first come, first served.
MOSA Concerts is thrilled to welcome Dust Roots for our second concert of the spring season
Specializing in jazz and free improvisation, the Harlem-based ensemble Dust Roots is led by Colin Babcock, a trombonist, composer, improvisor, and teacher originally from Pickerington, Ohio. He is one of the founders of the New York City Brass Choir and the Brownstone Brass Quintet. He is also a member of William Parker’s “Little Huey’s Pocket Watch”, the Fort Greene Orchestra, and can be found freelancing in various groups of all genres across the NYC area. He released his albums “Circle” in 2020 and “Concrete” in 2024. Colin is Music Partners Faculty and Program Manager at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Concert at 7 • Doors open at 6:30
Program: Colin Babcock & Aakash Mittal—Original works (announced from stage) / Sun Ra—Springtime Again / John Coltrane—Peace on Earth
