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Fort Tryon Park – Geology: Fort Tryon Rocks!

Geology: Fort Tryon Rocks!

Sunday, January 12, 2025
1:00 p.m.2:00 p.m.

New York City is the site of ancient earth-shaking and earth-shaping events. The bedrock that anchors the city’s skyscrapers tells a story of a place going back more than a billion years. The island of Manhattan is built on three strata known as Manhattan Schist, Inwood Marble, and Fordham Gneiss.

Location

Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park

Accessible
Manhattan

Directions to this location

 

Cost

Free

No Name Super Storyteller Party (January 2025)

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Word Up Community Bookshop Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.
New YorkNY 10032

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No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York’s best established and emerging authors and storytellers to Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights for their monthly series “No Name At Word Up Super Storyteller Party”.

Super Story Party is curated and co-hosted by author/storyteller Michele Carlo, the author of FISH OUT OF AGUA: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks (Citadel Press).

The show will also include a “Magic Hat Open-Mic” where audience members can signup for a chance at four minutes of stage time to share their own stories.

Hebrew Tabernacle: Mitzvah Day

A Day of Social Action and Learning, Giving and Acts of Loving-Kindness.

Hebrew Tabernacle Social Hall, 551 Ft. Wash Ave

Co-Sponsored by Hebrew Tabernacle and Beth Am

PARTICIPATE:  Pick your activities & workshops from the afternoon

schedule:  https://hebrewtabernacle.org/mitzvah-day/

DONATE BEFORE (or Sunday):  Funds for 100 Care Kits for unhoused neighbors

https://hebrewtabernacle.org/mitzvah-day-donations/

Word Up Recirculation – Workshops 4 Gaza: Muin Bseiso and the History of Anticolonialism in Gaza

Saturday, January 4, 2025 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New YorkNY 10032

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Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $50 USD).

Step 2: Register for “Muin Bseiso and the History of Anticolonialism in Gaza” here.

In this workshop, participants will join Prof. Esmat Elhalaby in reading and discussing translated excerpts from Muin Bseiso’s 1971 Gaza Diaries in order to consider the long history of anticolonial resistance in the Gaza Strip. Muin Bseiso (1926-1984) was one of Gaza’s most prominent 20th century writers.

This workshop will be IN-PERSON at Recirculation in New York City.

Esmat Elhalaby is a historian of colonial and anticolonial thought in West and South Asia. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.