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UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Brookins’ PRETTY with Edgar Gomez at Word Up Recirculation

Join us for a reading with KB Brookins from their new memoir Pretty, which discusses queerness, masculinity, and race. In conversation with Brookings will be Edgar Gomez, author of High-Risk Homosexual.

Pretty is one of the most brilliantly constructed memoirs I’ve read. There is not one wasted paragraph or scene here. The language cradles but never ever coddles. Some art just makes you thankful. I am so thankful.

—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

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 are encouraged to stay masked at all time.

Dyckman Farm: The Pinkster Stroll Send-Off

The Pinkster Stroll Send Off
Saturday, May 25th from 10AM-11AM
FREE

The Pinkster Stroll will be a group of Black New Yorkers dressed in historically inspired garb walking from Dyckman Farmhouse to New-York Historical Society in commemoration of both enslaved and free Black people in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch New York who celebrated Pinkster, the oldest African American holiday. Join us at Dyckman Farmhouse in sending them off on their long walk, and to discover how the Christian feast of Pentecost celebrated by the Dutch, evolved into a Black American festival used by Black New Yorkers to gather with family and friends and reconnect with their African cultures. This program is a partnership between New-York Historical Society, the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, and Not Your Momma’s History.

 

Sábado, 25 de mayo de 10:00 a.m. a 11:00a.m.

GRATIS

El Paseo Pinkster será un grupo de neoyorquinos negros vestidos con ropa de inspiración histórica que caminarán desde la Granja Dyckman hasta la Sociedad Histórica de Nueva York en conmemoración de los negros esclavizados y libres en la Nueva York holandesa de los siglos XVII y XVIII que celebraron el Pinkster, la festividad afroamericana más antigua. Únase a nosotros en la Granja Dyckman para despedirlos en su larga caminata y para descubrir cómo la fiesta cristiana de Pentecostés celebrada por

los holandeses evolucionó hasta convertirse en un festival afroamericano utilizado por los neoyorquinos negros para reunirse con familiares y amigos y reconectarse con sus culturas africanas. Este programa es una colaboración entre la Sociedad Histórica de Nueva York, el Museo de la Granja Dyckman y Not Your Momma’s History.

UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Pied Piper Theatre presents Stone Soup at Hebrew Tabernacle

The Pied Piper Theatre presents a delightful twist on the classic tale, with this original play for kids, written and directed by Joe Burby. Performed at the Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights (corner of Ft. Washington Ave. and 185th St.)

Shows on Saturday June 1st and Sunday June 2nd at 4pm and 6pm both days.