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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!

Word Up Recirculation: “Folksongs of the Bronx”

Music that represents the citizens of the Bronx, NY, performed by Jazz Bassist Hilliard Greene. Since 1984, Hilliard Greene has been acclaimed as leader of The Jazz Expressions, as Jimmy Scott’s musical director, and as composer of solo contrabass music he performs around the world. This project is supported by Bronx Council on the Arts.

Uptown Out is a creative improvised music series, featuring Uptown- and Bronx-based musicians performing in different combinations. Every second Thursday of the month at 7pm ET at Recirculation, a project of Word Up.

This event is a $10 suggested donation ticket with 100 max attendees. Please register in advance.

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!

 

United Palace: Mad Hot Ballroom, Anniversary & Reunion

Celebrate the 21st anniversary of the classic documentary about 11-year-old New York City public school kids, including students from P.S. 115 in Washington Heights, journeying into the world of ballroom dancing and revealing pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to “ladies and gentlemen,” on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition. The documentary provides unique insight into that moment when becoming that “cool” teenager vies for position with familiar innocence, all while learning how to merengue, rumba, tango, foxtrot, and swing.

After the movie the “stars” of the documentary – including Alejandro (aka Wilson), Yomaira Reynoso, and others – director Marilyn Agrelo, and other filmmakers will be interviewed by Dancing Classrooms Executive Director Eve Wolff.

Doors Open: 6:00pm | Dance: 6:45pm | Movie: 7:00pm | Reunion & Talk Back: 9:00pm

Please note: The Season of Community is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening.