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NoMAA – Women in the Heights: DRESS

NoMAA presents the 15th annual exhibition of Women in the Heights
Curated by Andrea Arroyo

NoMAA Gallery – 4140 Broadway @176 St, NY, NY 10033

Artist Talk: April 25, 2024, 6-8pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesdays and Saturdays 1-5pm and by appointment

Last Day: Tuesday May 7, 2024

Featuring 44 artists from El Barrio, West Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood

Nadema Agard, Robbie Bailey, Carla Bellisio, Yael Ben-Zion, Julie Berman, Chandler Borrero, Junell Brazier, Melanie Brewster, Miggy Buck, Cathleen Campbell, Lisa Candela, Arcadia Caraballo, Rose Deler, Elsie Deliz, Raquel Du Toit, Maria Fernandez, Kat Gooch-Breault, Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper, Josefina Hernandez, Kathleen Holloway, Camilla Huey, Charlecia Joy, Julia Justo, Chae Kihn, Rafaela Luna, Patricia Miranda, Tomo Mori, Adaley Muñoz, Rosa Naparstek, Sky Pape, Denise Penizzotto, Bonnie Phillips, Leah Poller, Kathia Regalado, Darcy Rogers, Melvis Santa, Kaé Sato, Uniqua Simmons, Debbie Taylor-Kerman, Rafaelina Tineo, Tami Tyree, Ruthy Valdez, Tamara Wasserman, Patrice Yourdon

PLEASE RSVP
Those arriving without an RSVP will be admitted based on capacity.

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

Le Chéile: Concussion Comedy with Host Ed McGowan

Hey everybody, come out Thursday April 18th to laugh with this insanely talented lineup🔥🔥🔥

  • Rob Christensen (The Problem w Jon Stewart, Comedy Central)
  • Teddy Smith (Showtime, BET’s “Comic View”)
  • Abbi Crutchfield (Hulu’s “Up Early Tonight”, Comedy Central)
  • Kitty Reynolds (regular host at Comedy Cellar, 2.3M views on TikTok)
  • Youjean Chang (Caroline’s March Madness, New York Comedy Festival)
  • Erik Angel (CBS, Comedy for Peace)
  • Ed McGowan (“Working Classholes” podcast, 5th Borough Comedy Festival)

(*Lineup subject to change without notice)

One drink or food item will be required. Seating starts at 8:00pm upstairs at Le Chéile, 839 W 181st St, NY, NY 10033. 

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ON EVENTBRITE OR AT THE DOOR FOR $10(cash or Venmo). 
EVENTBRITE HERE

IF PURCHASING INDIVIDUAL TICKETS AS PART OF A LARGER GROUP. PLEASE MESSAGE WITH GROUP SIZE SO YOU CAN ALL SIT TOGETHER.

Work Up: Paul Yamazaki’s Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale with Veronica Santiago Liu

Thursday, April 18, 2024 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Word Up Community Bookshop Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10032

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Word Up welcomes legendary bookseller Paul Yamazaki to celebrate his new book Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale and to discuss his 50+ years at City Lights Bookstore and the past, present, and future of bookselling with Word Up founder & general coordinator Veronica Santiago Liu.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 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 BOOK

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki’s love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind.

Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco; the care and prowess of his approach to book buying; his upbringing in a Japanese American family in Southern California and moving to San Francisco at the height of revolutionary foment; working with legendary figures in the book publishing industry like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sonny Mehta, and others; and his vision for the future of bookselling. Navigating building trust with readers and nurturing relationships across the literary industry, Yamazaki testifies to the value of generosity, sharing knowledge, and dialogue in a life devoted to books.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Paul Yamazaki has been the principal buyer at City Lights Booksellers, the legendary San Francisco bookstore and publisher founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin, for more than fifty years. A champion for national and global literature, writers, publishers, and independent bookstores, Yamazaki was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2023 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. He has mentored generations of booksellers across America.

ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTOR

Veronica Santiago Liu is the founder and general coordinator of the collective that operates Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria. Prior/concurrent to that, she was managing editor then senior editor for more than a decade at Seven Stories Press, where she currently contributes as an editor at large. Veronica cut her teeth in bookselling 21 years ago as book buyer’s assistant and website producer at Kim’s Video and Music, and in publishing 20 years ago as the co-founder of Fractious Press.