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YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood: Uptown Arts & Culture Pop-Up Series – Voices of the Heights!

Winter Rocks! Exciting Family happening featuring: Live music, Mural making studio and cooking workshop!

Live music by Brooklyn-based duo Y&I.  Imagine MIA, Kate Bush, and Tom Tom Club mixing aesthetics. Not influenced by pop but creating pop songs, it’s “rhythmic and primal, airy and ethereal, and intense and catchy, all with a sense of playful fun.”

Community-powered mural workshop with Artist and Curator Gal Cohen open to kids, adults, elderly everyone! In this collaborative project, artists of all ages are invited to step in and help paint a large scale mural inspired by the stories, colors and everyday life of the Heights. This workshop celebrates creativity, collaboration, and the power of community led art. No experience needed—just curiosity, imagination, and a love for the Heights and Inwood.

Bubbie’s Kitchen Tu Bishvat Cooking Workshop with Cyndi Rand! So many fun and delicious snacks that you can make with fruit! Celebrate the New Year of the Trees (Tu B’shvat) with some fun edible arrangements!

Inwood Hill Park: Inwood Hill Wetland Restoration

Inwood Hill Wetland Restoration

Monday, January 19, 2026
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Join NYC Parks Stewardship as we celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.! Volunteer with the Stewardship Team to protect wetland areas in Inwood Hill Park! Volunteers will contribute to ongoing restoration work and learn the importance of species diversity to ecosystem health, as well as remove debris in order to help restore the wetland and create a healthier ecosystem. Come dressed in sturdy boots or shoes, long sleeves, long pants, and clothing that can get dirty. Face masks may be worn at your discretion. Space is limited and registration is required. Volunteers under 18 must be accompanied by a chaperone. This event has been funded in part by NYC Service. To sign up a group of 10 or more volunteers please reach out to stewardship@parks.nyc.gov.

Location

Gaelic Field in Inwood Hill Park
Manhattan

Directions to this location

Cost

Free

Inwood Hill Park: Kids Week: Wigwam Gathering and Campfire

Kids Week: Wigwam Gathering and Campfire

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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 mid-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
Manhattan

Directions to this location

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!