Join the Urban Park Rangers for a monthly hike exploring Inwood Hill Park. The hike will begin at the Inwood Hill Nature Center. This month’s hike will be highlighting re-introduced species in Inwood Hill Park.
Location: West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Hill Park
Registration not required.
Word Up welcomes mental health advocate and storyteller Leah 수진 Kim to discuss her new book, Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood, a deeply personal examination of the dire state of our maternal and postpartum care for mothers.
In conversation with Kim will be Frederick Joseph, author of This Thing of Ours and Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance.
ABOUT THE BOOK
For expecting and new parents, too often the care is so focused on a healthy baby that the mother’s physical and mental needs are overlooked. Mothers face intense pressure to have the perfect birth plan, breastfeed with ease, and immediately bond with their baby. Unfortunately, these expectations can lead to anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Mom, Unfiltered is profoundly personal and brutally honest, yet it is ultimately deeply hopeful. It is about survival and growth, an invitation to move beyond our current social, cultural, and familial realities to support mothers in a meaningful way-physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Drums Along the Hudson 2026: A Native American & Multicultural Celebration
Featuring: Mohawk Elder Tom Porter, a Pow Wow led by Louis Mofsie, storytelling, crafts, food, and more!
Lotus Music and Dance is thrilled to announce that Drums Along the Hudson: A Native American Festival and Multicultural Celebration will celebrate its 24th anniversary
This all-day event features an open air pow wow – a celebratory gathering of Native American people – led by Louis Mofsie and the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. Mohawk Elder Tom Porter will give the opening Thanksgiving Address.
Featuring performances by Kalpulli Huehuetlatolli Aztec Dancers and Drummers, Saung Budaya West Sumatran Dance, Feraba West African Rhythms and Tap, Parijat Desai Dance in the Round and more!
Activities will include craft demonstrations, storytelling, multicultural cuisine, native crafts for sale, and more! To promote environmental awareness and education, eco-friendly and community-focused organizations will also be in attendance.
Please note that this is a free, non-ticketed event.
Reading keeps us connected. Join us for a neighborhood book club at the Fort Washington Branch!
The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. This book club will take place IN PERSON at the Fort Washington Branch.
The April title is Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Lake Effect – a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades.
It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible—but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara’s world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood.
Years later, Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.
