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Hispanic Society: Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society

Exhibition Title: Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society
Location: Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Dates: February 23 – June 30, 2024

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library inaugurates Arte en el Alto Manhattan with Dominican Yorks at the Hispanic Society featuring three Dominican-born co-curators exhibiting works created in artistic dialog with HSM&L’s collection based on their individual aesthetic approaches as well as their unique perspective as Dominican immigrants in New York. The works showcased express the complicated transnational and intercultural identity, which these artists share with over 2 million Dominican-Americans in the United States, approximately half of whom reside in the NYC Metropolitan area, particularly in the museum’s home neighborhood of Washington Heights.

Co-curators: Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Chiqui Mendoza, & Rider Ureña

Dyckman Farmhouse – Talking About Race Matters: Redressing American Fashion: Black Designers in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Elizabeth Way

Talking About Race Matters: Redressing American Fashion: Black Designers in the 19th and 20th Centuries Lecture by Elizabeth Way

February 28th at 6PM – Virtual

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Black people have always significantly shaped American fashion through their style, their labor, and as innovative fashion makers. From nineteenth-century dressmakers, both enslaved and free, to transitional creatives who helped navigate what an American designer could be, and late-twentieth century designers, embedded in the formal New York industry, Black people have always been a driving force in American fashion. Their stories, however, are often left out of the narrative. Examining the lives and careers of just a few starts to create a more wholistic understanding of American fashion and its wider impacts on culture and society.

Elizabeth Way is Associate Curator of Costume at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she co-curated/curated Black Fashion Designers (2016), Fabric In Fashion (2018), Head to Toe (2021), Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style (2023), and Food & Fashion (2023). Way guest-curated Ann Lowe: American Couturier at Winterthur Museum Garden & Library (2023). She edited the books Black Designers in American Fashion (2021) and Ann Lowe: American Couturier (2023). She holds an M.A. in Costume Studies from New York University.

 

Hablar de Temas Raciales: Revistiendo la Moda Estadounidense: Diseñadores Negros en los siglos XIX y XX. Una Conferencia de Elizabeth Way el 28 de febrero a las 6:00 pm – Virtual

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Las personas de color en este país siempre han dado forma a la moda estado unidense de una manera significativa a través de sus estilo, su trabajo y como creadores innovadores de ésta. Modistas negros del siglo XIX, tanto esclavizados como libres, hasta creativos en transición que ayudaron a navegar lo que podría ser un diseñador estadounidense y diseñadores de finales del siglo XX, se integraron todos en la industria formal de la moda neoyorquina. La gente negra siempre ha sido una fuerza impulsora en la moda estadounidense. Sus historias, sin embargo, a menudo quedan fuera de la narración. Ven a examinar las vidas y carreras de unos pocos; lo que hace que se comience a crear una comprensión más integral de la moda estadounidense y su gran impacto en la cultura y la sociedad.

Elizabeth Way es curadora asociada de vestuario en el museo del Instituto de Tecnología de la Moda, donde fue premiada por el Black Fashion Designers (2016), Fabric In Fashion (2018), Head to Toe (2021), Fresh, Fly y Fabuloso: cincuenta años de estilo hip hop (2023). Ann Lowe, curadora invitada: American Couturier in Winterthur Museum Garden & Library (2023). Editó los libros Black Designers in American Fashion (2021) y Ann Lowe: American Couturier (2023). Tiene una maestría en Estudios de Vestuario de la Universidad de Nueva York.

Comedy with Morir Soñando (6:30pm & 9:00pm Shows)

February 27, 2024 6:30 & 9:00pm Shows

Only a few months removed from staging a historic night of stand-up comedy at the United Palace, Glorelys Mora and Sasha Merci of Morir Soñando return to the Grand Foyer to celebrate Dominican Independence Day with two shows, at 6:30pm and 9pm. Celebrate the funny primos/primas in our community, honor our roots, and join us as we laugh, heal, and cry together!

Tickets are extremely limited – order today.

About Glorelys Mora – @GLORELYSMORA  

Glorelys “The Legend” Mora is a Dominican-American stand-up comedian, writer, and actress hailing from Washington Heights. Known for her hilarious observations, honest storytelling, and relatable “homegirl” humor (as well as inadvertently launching her career by telling her advertising boss to “suck it” in 2018), she has quickly become a rising star in the comedy scene. Recently, she made the big move from the Big Apple to the Golden state and is now one of the co-hosts of the Girl Let Me Tell You Podcast on Mitú (a John Leguizamo company). Notably, she has opened for comedians such as Aida Rodriguez, Erik Rivera, Yvonne Orji, Ralph Barbosa, and more.

About Sasha Merci – @SASHMERCI 

Second-generation Dominican American comedian, actress, and digital creator Sasha Merci is a Bronx native now based in Los Angeles. Sasha can be seen starring in the feature film De Lo Mio (HBO), her very own series Like, Subscribe Demilo (FUSE), and in the popular web-series Group Therapy (COMPLEX). Sasha has amassed a social media following of over 180k and has collaborated with brands like Bumble, AT&T, Heineken, Old Spice and many more. Last year Sasha was selected as one of Freeform TV’s #YoungBlackAndFreeform inaugural honoree’s which celebrates diverse content creators and thought leaders, and this year you can catch her starring in the feature film SHELTER opposite Lisa Vidal and Cam Gigandet.

Word Up – Poetry Reading: TRELLISES AND THORNS by Pamela L. Laskin

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Word Up Community Bookshop Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10032

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Join us for a reading with Pamela L. Laskin for her latest poetry collection Trellises and Thorns (Dos Madres Press 2024).

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 max attendees. Please register in advance. 

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees for this event must wear a mask inside.

Word Up Community Bookshop is located at 2113 Amsterdam Ave. (& 165th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 168th St and the A/C train to 163rd or 168th  St.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pamela L. Laskin is a lecturer in the English Department at City College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate Children’s Writing, and directs the Poetry Outreach Center. Several of her children’s and poetry books have been published. RONIT AND JAMIL, A Palestinian/Israeli ROMEO AND JULIET in verse was published by Harper Collins in 2017, and was named among the 35 books to have on your radar for 2017. BEA, a picture book, was a finalist for the Katherine Paterson Prize for Children’s Fiction in 2018. She is the winner of the 2018 International Fiction Prize from Leapfrog Press, and WHY NO BHINE, an epistolary novel about the Rohingya Muslims, was published in 2019. The Operating System published a bilingual picture book, MONSTER MARIA, which is about Hurricane Maria, and is being used as a fundraiser for after-school programs in Puerto Rico. Linus Press published MY SECRET WISH about families seeking asylum, and is also being used as a fundraiser for Immigrant Families Together.