“Dance Yrself Clean” The fourth year in a row – another year, another reading across literary genres and named after an LCD Soundsystem song. Come hear five exciting new voices work out their ideas and find an audience among friends. Featuring:
India Marin Stachyra (she/her) is an interdisciplinary theatre artist and arts administrator.
Josephine Sloyan is a writer living in New York. Her stories have appeared in the Penn Review, Identity Theory, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Hunter College MFA program.
Naomi Washer is a writer and psychoanalyst in formation in New York City. Her most recent book is Marginalia: an autobiography (Autofocus Books, 2025).
Memphis Washington is a Harlem-raised bookseller, facilitator, and writer based in Uptown NYC. Memphis has facilitated diverse programs and workshops for youth and adults,
Ran Schulte (he/him) is a graduate of Macaulay @ CUNY Hunter College. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The North, Oyez Review 51, Blood Orange, JAKE, and elsewhere
Market for Gaza presents a celebration of the Lunar New Year with local vendors and artists selling jewellery, artworks, crafts, baked goods, olive oil, and more to raise funds for families in Gaza. There will be an intention setting for the new year activity, along with tattoo artists @scaitattoos and @2.libras.
At 3pm, Asians 4 Palestine NYC will present a teach-in.
100% of proceeds going to verified initiatives and families
Join our open forum on immigration enforcement in the US and the racialization and criminalization of Latine communities, featuring Dr. David Hernández (Latina/o Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy, Mt. Holyoke) and an NYC-based organizer. Dr. Hernández will situate the present within the longer history of US immigration detention and deportation. We will then hear from our organizer about how immigration enforcement is unfolding in NYC and strategies being developed to counter it. Brief presentations will be followed by a Q&A, during which attendees can ask questions and voice their concerns.
Readings by Dr. Hernández will be precirculated to registrants should they wish to learn more about his work and the US immigration detention regime.
This event is part of a year-long program that CSSD has been organizing, Countering the Carceral State, which explores the crises of disciplinary enforcement at home and abroad. In partnership with the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of Ethnicty and Race at Columbia University.
English with Spanish Translation.
Join fellow nyc readers for a book swap hosted at Recirculation, a project of Word Up!
Please bring new or gently used books you are willing to pass along, and find new-to-you books to take home! Bring any books—we will have sections set up for different genres to drop off books and look through!
This event is ticketed and is pay-what-you-can ($5 minimum). All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Word Up Community to help continue their mission to serve the community in Washington Heights and beyond!
