Meet the author and illustrator of
“Miles Davis Was His Name – So What” by Louise Rogers & Francis Hsueh, get a signed copy, hear a musical performance of the book, and enjoy an activity!
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CANCELLED – Word Up: GIY Family Mushroom Workshop
Friday, November 15, 2024 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Word Up Community Bookshop Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10032
Growing Gourmet Mushrooms at Home with Everyday Items
Join us at Word Up to learn about the diverse fungal life in Uptown Manhattan, the lifecycle of a mushroom, how fungal life impacts our daily lives Uptown, and how to engage with them for a future without food insecurity and chronic disease. This event includes a workshop on growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms from brown rice and coffee grounds in plastic cups and ziploc bags (photos of the process and in-depth explanations). The presentation will be sent out by email for reference afterward.
Freshwater Mycology is a black + trans guided futurist mushroom farm, research repository, and art house committed to understanding and sharing the profound benefits of mycelim and mushroom fruits of all diverse types. Seeking to understand ecosystems as systems of natural collaboration, Freshwater Mycology is dedicated to improving the senses of life, nervine homeostasis in humans, and networking across species to make the world kinder and inhabitable for longer. We believe in nature over everything and plan to continue our medicine making research as far as we can extend. Stay tuned for quantum mechanics, molecular biology, mycelium-derived technology, all alchemized for you into our products, for all our higher goods. Freshwater Mycology is a black, trans-guided mycelium house who stays up, stays studious, stays scientific, and stays Fresh. Learn more at https://freshwater-mycology.square.site/
Word Up: Release Party – Louise Rogers & Francis Hsueh “Miles Davis Was His Name – So What”
Saturday, December 7, 2024 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Word Up Community Bookshop Librería Comunitaria
2113 Amsterdam Ave. & 165th St.
New York, NY 10032
Join Word Up for a special story time release party for local musician Louise Rogers’ new children’s book Miles Davis Was His Name – So What. Joining Rogers will be illustrator Francis Hsueh.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 30 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.
Inwood Hill Park: Uptown Kid Lit
Uptown Kid Lit—Word Up’s mini book festival for kids—is back in 2024 to celebrate music!
Stop by Pat’s Lawn at Inwood Hill Park to meet beloved local authors & musicians with new books, as they lead story times and activities, workshops, and more, all with a musical twist. Along with new books, Word Up will be giving away FREE books and school supplies.
Featured authors & artists:
Adria Quiñones (Mi Tierra)
Angie Cruz (Angélica y la güira)
Chris Raschka (Nothing: John Cage and 4’33”)
Crudo Creates
Demetrius Daniel
Hilda Eunice Burgos (Bodega Cats: Picture Purrfect)
Inju Keum
Jackie Azúa Kramer (I Am Salsa, ¡Boogie En El Bronx!)
Janelle Harper (My Block Looks Like)
Jazz WaHi
Jyoti Rajan Gopal (One Sweet Song)
Leadlights Ensemble with Rachael Harrington
Luz Maria Mack (¡Pequeña María descubre su baile! / Little María discovers her dance!)
Megan Madison & Katie Madison (Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race)
Pablo KALAKA (Son de estos mares)
Stacy Davidowitz (Cut Loose!, Camp Rolling Hill series)
Word Up first launched Uptown Kid Lit in 2019 as a one-day festival for the Uptown community. After two years of virtual/hybrid programming in 2020 and 2021, UKL returned in person in 2022 with a focus on comics as part of the three-day Uptown Comics Fest. Each year has gathered a unique and vibrant group of authors, illustrators, educators, publishers, editors, craftspeople, artists, and community organizations—all to support and celebrate our neighborhood’s youngest readers and families. We hope you’ll join us in 2024 for our fourth year of Uptown Kid Lit at Inwood Hill Park!
Spanish interpretation will be provided at the main stage presentations.
This is a free event. Please consider donating so that we can continue creating accessible programming by, with, and for our neighbors.
Word Up: Mia P. Manansala’s GUILT AND GINATAAN with Gabriella Buba (Virtual Event)
Thursday, November 14, 2024 – 8:00pm
Virtual
via Crowdcast
New York, NY 10032
Join the Kwento Bookstore Collective in welcoming Mia P. Manansala and Gabriella Buba for a VIRTUAL event to celebrate the release of Guilt and Ginataan! The Kwento Bookstore Collective is made up of Filipino-owned indie bookstores and this virtual event is co-hosted by Bel Canto Books, Femme Fire Books, Loyalty Bookstores, Waucoma Bookstore, and Word Up Community Bookshop. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event. You can also order the book below to be added to the event’s registration list, and there will also be an option to snag the books during the event.
Preorder Guilt and Ginataan to receive a signed bookplate and a print designed by Arielle Jovellanos.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Autumn is in full swing for the town of Shady Palms—the perfect time for warm drinks, cozy cardigans, and…dead bodies?
The annual Shady Palms Corn Festival is one of the town’s biggest moneymakers, drawing crowds from all over the Midwest looking to partake in delicious treats, local crafts, and of course, the second largest corn maze in Illinois. Lila Macapagal and her Brew-ha Cafe crew, Adeena Awan and Elena Torres, are all too happy to participate in the event and even make a little wager on who can make it through the corn maze the fastest—but their fun is suddenly cut short when a dead body is found in the middle of the maze…and an unconscious Adeena lies next to it, clutching a bloody knife.
The body is discovered to be a local politician’s wife, and all signs—murder weapon included—point to Adeena as the culprit. But Lila knows her best friend couldn’t have done this, so she and her crew put on their sleuthing caps yet again to find the killer who framed Adeena and show them what happens when they mess with a Brew-ha…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series and the forthcoming YA novel DEATH IN THE CARDS (May 2025). She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. Find her on Facebook and Instagram: @MPMtheWriter Check out her website: www.miapmanansala.com
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Gabriella Buba is a mixed Filipina-Czech author and chemical engineer based in Texas who likes to keep explosive pyrophoric materials safely contained in pressure vessels or between the covers of her books. She writes adult epic fantasy for bold, bi, brown women who deserve to see their stories centered. Her debut SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW is a filipino-inspired epic fantasy out with Titan Books. Book 2 of The Stormbringer Saga DAUGHTERS OF FLOOD AND FURY comes out July 2025.
$19.00
ISBN: 9780593549186
Availability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Berkley – November 12th, 2024