Mixed-media Collage Portraits:
Join artist Elan Cadiz to celebrate Black identity! Using black and white portraits of famous black people we will embellish and decorate the images with watercolor, pencil, marker and collage.
Sunday 1/18
11am -1pm
Tag Archives: Washington Heights
Word Up Recirculation: Fanzine y espacios | Zines and Spaces
Thursday, January 15, 2026 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032
Zine y los espacios: Una conversación sobre cómo la comunidad, los zines y la memoria son herramientas de liberación
Zine & Spaces: A conversation about how community, zines, and memory become tools for liberation
Esta conversación explora cómo los espacios comunitarios están evolucionando para dar la bienvenida a formas alternativas de digerir, compartir y amplificar el arte — particularmente fanzines. Como un medio decolonial, los fanzines ofrecen una manera de democratizar el conocimiento, reclamar independencia creativa, y centrar la comunidad como el autor primario de cómo sus historias, su arte y su sabiduria son comunicadas.
This conversation explores how community spaces are evolving to welcome alternative forms of digesting, sharing, and amplifying art — particularly zines. As a decolonial medium, zines offer a way to democratize knowledge, reclaim creative independence, and center the community as the primary author of how its stories, art, and wisdom are communicated.
Hosting this event at Word Up Community Bookshop, a space deeply rooted in community-led storytelling and cultural exchange, is an opportunity to strengthen connections with the Dominican diaspora living beyond NYC. It allows us to continue uplifting dissident experiences and to contribute to a broader movement that is redefining how we want our knowledge, memories, and imaginations to be shared and preserved.
Word Up: The Afterlives of Bestselling 18th-century Novelist Marie Jeanne Riccoboni – A Conversation Between Translators
Friday, December 5, 2025 – 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.
New York, NY 10032
Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni was a bestselling 18th-Century writer—one of the first female authors who managed to finance an independent life away from her abusive husband thanks to her writing. Her novels explore the impossible choices that women in pre-Revolutionary France faced. Translators Kate Deimling and Karen Santos Da Silva will discuss Riccobboni’s protofeminism, unique style, and the challenges of rendering her prose for modern English-language readers.
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/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St, turn left, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue).
Word Up Recirculation: NYC Educators For Palestine TRSNYC Divest: Author Talk
Thursday, December 4, 2025 – 5:30pm to 7:30pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032
NYC Educators for Palestine is hosting author & scholar Amanda Najib to discuss the divestment movement for DOE and CUNY educators. A fundraiser for Gaza Great Minds Foundation.
Light refreshments will be provided.
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.
Word Up Recirculation: UPTOWN BOOKS: An Original Bilingual Play
“Set in a Washington Heights bookstore, a quirky mix of strangers—an ex-firefighter, a bookstore owner who doesn’t read, and a woman facing eviction—find connection and community in unexpected ways.”
Written & Directed by Adrian Miranda
Cast: Adrian Miranda, Kelsey MacDonald, Jorge (Tuto) Taveras, Jeunia (Junie) Bergado, Gabe Gutierrez, Emma Lee Scholz, Vincent Saia, Delmy Miranda, and Megan Troost
Company Stage Manager: Michaela Lichvanova
Special Thanks: Shannon Harris, Frank Nibbs, and James Bosley
Presented by Uptown Actors and Gross Anatomy Studios, Inc.
in collaboration with Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria
Recirculation, a project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032
(near 160th Street)
SHOWTIMES
Saturday, December 13 – 4:15 PM & 6:00 PM
Sunday, December 14 – 2:00 PM
Featuring the original songs “Sign Me Up” and “Ain’t Nothing”
Music & Lyrics by Nicola Vazquez
An original production created in and for Washington Heights, blending story, music, and community into a live, site-specific experience you won’t forget.
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UPTOWN BOOKS
UNA OBRA ORIGINAL BILINGÜE
“Ambientada en una librería de Washington Heights, un grupo peculiar de desconocidos —un exbombero, una dueña de librería que no lee y una mujer enfrentando el desalojo— encuentran conexión y comunidad de formas inesperadas.”
Escrita y dirigida por Adrian Miranda
Presentada por Uptown Actors y Gross Anatomy Studios, Inc.
en colaboración con Word Up Community Bookshop / Librería Comunitaria
Recirculation, a project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032
(cerca de la calle 160)
HORAS DEL ESPECTÁCULO
Sábado, 13 de diciembre – 4:15 PM y 6:00 PM
Domingo, 14 de diciembre – 2:00 PM
Con las canciones originales
“Sign Me Up” y “Ain’t Nothing”
Música y letras de Nicola Vazquez
Una producción original creada en y para Washington Heights, que combina historia, música y comunidad en una experiencia en vivo e inmersiva que no olvidarás.