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Inwood Hill Park: Kids Week: Wigwam Gathering and Campfire

Kids Week: Wigwam Gathering and Campfire

Wednesday, December 31, 2025
1:00 p.m.2:30 p.m.

Even when school’s out, our parks are still the city’s natural classroom! Bring your kids to parks throughout the city for Kids Week during Winter Recess. With programs led by our Urban Park Rangers, kids will get to experience nature in a hands-on and fun way. Explore and enter our recently restored Lenape wigwam and enjoy an afternoon by a warm campfire. Learn how to use a bow drill and other methods to start a fire.

Location

West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park

Cost

Free

Registration

Registration not required.

Word Up Recirculation: Community Potluck with Caroline Choe

In an attempt to remind folks there is still love, life, and safety in our community spaces, especially in such a turbulent time, chef Caroline Choe, author of Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides, is hosting a community potluck at Recirculation.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite dish and fill up on joy before the Bad Bunny concert at a football game.

Please register in advance.

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.

Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.

Heights Mediation & Yoga: 2025 Closing Ceremony – Affirmations

2025 Closing Ceremony at Heights Meditation & Yoga: Join us for a Sound Bath, Land Offering, and Affirmation Integration to close out the year with Love & Intention.

This Unique HMY Ceremonial Fundraiser is our way of integrating the collective intention to both give to oneself while helping to raise funds for others. Every dollar beyond the base fee goes to support HMY’s scholarship fund so that everyone, regardless of financial status, are able to attend our classes.

Thanks to you, we have never turned anyone away.   Selfcare has been rebranded time and time again. This unique fundraiser is a reminder that investing in yourself is not selfish — investing in yourself is never selfish — and in this case your investments also support your local contemplative community center while nourishing your own mind, body and heart.

During this Ceremony you will be guided in:   Grounding Meditation A Communal Land Offering Sound Bath Integration Circle Affirmation   Join us to release what has been weighing on you, to make space in your body, mind, and heart for your inner peace and light that will ripple throughout your interactions with others in every corner of your life. We look forward to meeting you!

 

United Palace: Mad Hot Ballroom, Anniversary & Reunion

Celebrate the 21st anniversary of the classic documentary about 11-year-old New York City public school kids, including students from P.S. 115 in Washington Heights, journeying into the world of ballroom dancing and revealing pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to “ladies and gentlemen,” on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition. The documentary provides unique insight into that moment when becoming that “cool” teenager vies for position with familiar innocence, all while learning how to merengue, rumba, tango, foxtrot, and swing.

After the movie the “stars” of the documentary – including Alejandro (aka Wilson), Yomaira Reynoso, and others – director Marilyn Agrelo, and other filmmakers will be interviewed by Dancing Classrooms Executive Director Eve Wolff.

Doors Open: 6:00pm | Dance: 6:45pm | Movie: 7:00pm | Reunion & Talk Back: 9:00pm

Please note: The Season of Community is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening.