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MainStage Concert: WHCO – The Music That Inspires Us

Composers often find inspiration from other music, drawing from history, tradition, and artistic lineage. The Music That Inspires Us begins with Reena Esmail’s Avartan, a transcendent fusion of Indian and Western classical traditions. Next on the program is Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for string orchestra. Written in 2011, the piece was inspired by a moment in a Haydn string quartet where the music suddenly shifts in tone and texture. Shaw describes Entr’acte as “taking you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass,” a kind of musical portal that begins in a classical idiom and gradually distorts it. We will conclude the program with Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. Taken from his ballet on the Italian commedia dell’arte character, the Pulcinella Suite is a witty and colorful homage to 18th-century Italian Baroque music filtered through Stravinsky’s modernist lens.

Repertoire

  • Reena Esmail: Avartan
  • Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
  • Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

This concert will be approximately 1hr, no intermission. Reception to follow.

Dyckman Farmhouse: [VIRTUAL] Talking About Race Matters 2025: “Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Identity Formation and Political Consciousness” with Dr. Yalidy Matos

Date: September 25, 2025
Time: 6pm-7pm
Cost: FREE!

Registration Required? YES! Register HERE!

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Join us for DFM’s Talking About Race Matters virtual lecture series with Dr. Yalidy Matos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, as she presents her newest research, Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness.

Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness explores how Afro-Latinas— whether born in the U.S. or abroad but primarily residing in the United States—identify and construct their identities, and how they engage with broader identity categories. Crucially, the work traces the shift from individual identification to the development of an intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness. This consciousness isn’t just about how they see themselves—it’s about how they act, what they believe, and how they engage politically. Rooted in Black feminist thought, this intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness has real consequences for political attitudes and behavior. This works examines how identity becomes action, and how Afro-Latina lives illuminate the power of lived experience in shaping political life.

Yalidy Matos is Associate Professor of political science at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics, immigration, and identity politics. Her book Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics (OUP) was published in 2023. She graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH with a PhD in Political Science in 2015, and Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Gender and Women’s Studies in 2009.

Talking About Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by The Cowles Charitable Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Inwood Hill Park Nature Center: Nature’s Echo, Community Cargo-Container Mural Project

Moses Ros returns to Inwood to continue his project Nature’s Echo, a cargo-container mural project.

Commissioned by Korea Art Forum, in association with NYC parks.

Come join us in Inwood to help create a beautiful mural  inspired by nature’s echoes, led by artist Moses Ros – let’s make art  together!

Community Mural Participation #3:
Saturday, September 27 – 10 am-5 pm

We will meet at the Inwood Hill Nature Center for an afternoon of community participation in creating the Moses Ros’ Natures Echo, a series of shipping container murals.

No  artistic skills required, just bring your enthusiasm and creativity!  Don’t miss out on this unique chance to leave your mark on the Inwood  community.

Inwood Hill Park Nature Center: Nature’s Echo, Community Cargo-Container Mural Project

Moses Ros returns to Inwood to continue his project Nature’s Echo, a cargo-container mural project.

Commissioned by Korea Art Forum, in association with NYC parks.

Come join us in Inwood to help create a beautiful mural  inspired by nature’s echoes, led by artist Moses Ros – let’s make art  together!

After-school mural participation #1:
Wednesday, September 24 – 2 pm-5 pm

After-school mural participation #2:
Thursday, September 25 – 2 pm-5 pm

Community Mural Participation #3:
Saturday, September 27 – 10 am-5 pm

We will meet at the Inwood Hill Nature Center for an afternoon of community participation in creating the Moses Ros’ Natures Echo, a series of shipping container murals.

No  artistic skills required, just bring your enthusiasm and creativity!  Don’t miss out on this unique chance to leave your mark on the Inwood  community.

Inwood Hill Park Nature Center: Nature’s Echo, Community Cargo-Container Mural Project

Moses Ros returns to Inwood to continue his project Nature’s Echo, a cargo-container mural project.

Commissioned by Korea Art Forum, in association with NYC parks.

Come join us in Inwood to help create a beautiful mural  inspired by nature’s echoes, led by artist Moses Ros – let’s make art  together!

After-school mural participation #2:
Thursday, September 25 – 2 pm-5 pm

Community Mural Participation #3:
Saturday, September 27 – 10 am-5 pm

We will meet at the Inwood Hill Nature Center for an afternoon of community participation in creating the Moses Ros’ Natures Echo, a series of shipping container murals.

No  artistic skills required, just bring your enthusiasm and creativity!  Don’t miss out on this unique chance to leave your mark on the Inwood  community.