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Q & T Community’s Annual Pride Picnic (RESCHEDULED)

Sunday, July 7, 2024 1:00 – 4:00pm
Fort Tryon Park
New York, NY 10033

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Join Q & T Community for its Annual Pride Picnic! Enjoy food, games, and good company in Fort Tryon’s beautiful Cloister’s Lawn.

Q&T Community is a small LGBTQ+ group based at Word Up Community Bookshop. Its weekly virtual writing group celebrated 4 years of intimate co-working and creative space in April 2024. Run by a team of one, its annual pride picnic and occasional open mics supplement its program.

WHEN: Sunday, July 7th from 1-4pm
WHERE: Cloister’s Park, Fort Tryon Park

SCHEDULE

1:00-2:00pm |  Mingling w/ Food + Drinks

2:00-2:45pm | Queer Trivia w/ Prizes

3:00pm-End | Games + Food + Drinks

Feel free to bring:

  • something to sit on (a picnic blanket, a chair, etc.)
  • sunscreen
  • games
  • snacks
  • a friend

Accessibility:

  • Masks are strongly encouraged, even though we will be outside! Masks will be provided
  • Please take a covid test prior to coming.
  • Food items are being made and brought from different sources. Allergen free foods cannot be guaranteed. Please reach out to the organizers ASAP to communicate any needs around that.
  • This event takes place deep in Fort Tryon Park. If taking the train, there are a number of roads and/or stairs that you can take to access the lawn. The M4 is the public transportation that will take participants closest to the Lawn. Please take it to the following bus stop: Fort Tryon Park/Cafe Lot.
  • Weather Contingency: In the event of rain, we will postpone the picnic to another date.
  • In the event of outdoor Air Quality Index (AQI) numbers projected to reach or exceed 100, this event will be rescheduled .
  • This event is taking place on grass, but adjacent to benches and paved areas.

If you have dietary restrictions, questions, comments, or concerns, please email Memphis Washington at qntcommunity@gmail.com.

***This is meant to be an open space for mingling and getting to know more Uptown LGBTQ+ people. This is an explicitly LGBTQ+ space, which means that we expect people to respect each other’s various modes of expression, pronouns, and showing up.

If you want to support our programming, please support the immediate needs of those experiencing increasing genocidal violence, famine, water and medicine shortage in Palestine, please donate to a crowdfunding campaign vetted by Operation Olive Branch, an organization that shares the crowdfunding links of people directly affected. 

Hudson View Gardens: House of Time

Handel in Italy featuring Soprano Clara Rottsolk presented by House of Time, New York’s finest baroque ensemble.

November 22, 2024 at 7pm

The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens 
128 Pinehurst Ave. New York, NY 10033

Lauded by The New York Times for her “clear, appealing voice and expressive conviction,” soprano Clara Rottsolk joins New York’s finest Baroque ensemble, House of Time, for an evening of cantatas and trios by the incomparable George Friderick Handel and his Italian contemporaries Caldara and Porpora. During his time in Italy, Handel went from a promising young musician to Europe’s greatest composer, while leaving an indelible mark on Italian music.

UPTOWN ARTS STROLL: Neighborhood Sketch Walk at 615 West 186th St

Bring your sketchbook, color pencils, brushes, watercolors, pastels, inks or other drawing tools of choice, and your sharp eyes as we wander in search of beautiful, strange, everyday or odd plants to sketch in the Heights! All ages welcome. We will walk from the steps of 615 West 186th St east to Laurel Terrace, down to 181st St, and back up Audubon Avenue, looking for plants, trees, flowers, vines, and more–from cultivated gardens to beautiful “weeds”–and capture them on paper. Walk ends back at 186th St, where we will compare our sketches. All participants will receive a free deck of 12 beautiful plant cards featuring my artwork, to identify and keep.