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
On Sunday, June 1st, the PS 187 Film Festival returns to the United Palace stage for their 12th annual celebration of film! Born and bred in our very neighborhood, this festival is unlike anything else in the country: a Pre-K – 8th grade school event that has produced over 600 original shorts films by students and families, with representation in the New York City Public School Film Festival for six of the last seven years. For the past two years, film students from NYC’s leading high school film program at Art & Design High School have worked alongside 187 middle schoolers to craft creative content, which will get its world premiere at this year’s 187 Film Festival. Witness the boundless creativity that flows within NYC’s greatest neighborhood while also embracing a community steeped in artistic talent. It’s a great time enjoyed by all, and you never know if the next Hitchcock, Coppola, or Spielberg lies amongst this talented group of young filmmakers. We’ll see you there!
ASSOCIATION OF DOMINICAN CLASSICAL ARTISTS SPRING SHOWCASE
Sunday, April 6th @ 3pm
Celebrate the arrival of spring with an unforgettable afternoon of music, talent, and community spirit! The Association of Dominican Classical Artists invites you to a vibrant showcase featuring their incredible young musicians from the Washington Heights Community Conservatory, Gregorio Luperon High School, PS 115 Alexander Humboldt, and Community Health Academy of the Heights. Witness the dedication and artistry of these students as they bring the season to life through their performances at the United Palace. Don’t miss this inspiring celebration of culture, passion, and the next generation of musical excellence!
GET TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-showcase-at-united-palace-tickets-1284905349489?aff=oddtdtcreator
Sneak Peek: “Choir Games” documentary featuring Young People’s Chorus of NYC
Friday, April 11, 2025
Doors: 6:00pm, Show: 7:00pm
United Palace
4140 Broadway, NY, NY 10033
FREE with reservation
The United Palace of Cultural Arts is proud to present the first two episodes of Choir Games, a four-part documentary about the World Choir Games, the largest choral competition on Earth. View trailer.
Two choirs – Young People’s Chorus of New York City and the Kaitaia Community Voices from rural New Zealand – live oceans apart, but find they are connected by music as they navigate personal challenges and the pressure of competition, and find their lives forever changed. Choir Games is a deeply moving, often hilarious, exploration of the transformative power of song.
After the two 45-minute episodes (90 minutes total) there will be a talk back with the filmmakers.
This program is supported by the United Palace of Cultural Arts, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
TICKETS: https://unitedpalace.boletosexpress.com/sneak-peek-choir-games-documentary-featuring-young-peoples-chorus-of-nyc/81305/
Date: Monday, January 27th | Doors: 6:30pm | Performance followed by talkback: 7–8:30pm | $20 general admission
Literature to Life adapts Erika L. Sánchez’s YA novel as their newest title in their Signature Performance series. This title will be co-produced in partnership with Freedom Reads, the only organization in the nation transforming the experience of incarceration by opening libraries in prison housing facilities. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter takes place in modern day Chicago. The novel focuses on the idea of finding one’s own identity, and breaking free from societal, cultural, and familial expectations.
United Palace of Cultural Arts presents
Literature to Life stage presentation of
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By Erika L. Sánchez
Performed by Elizabeth Raquel Ramirez
Adapted and Directed by Ana Maria Jomolca
Based on the novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, © 2017
Production produced in partnership with Freedom Reads.
Elizabeth Raquel Ramirez is a proud Hispanic actress from San Antonio, Texas. Her credits include In The Heights at Oklahoma City University and two award-winning shorts, Most Likely To and Dream Carriers. She is most known for her contribution to the HBOMax documentary Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020, produced by Tony Award winner Laura Benanti.
LITERATURE TO LIFE (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. LTL’s mission is to perform great books that inspire young people to read and become authors of their own lives. LTL was founded more than three decades ago as the educational program of the American Place Theatre. Now an independent organization, this mighty collective of artists and educators brings the voices of diverse authors to thousands of students and audiences nationwide, giving them the tools to become the empowered “voices worth hearing” of our future. www.literaturetolife.org | @lit2life
