A compilation of artworks produced by the Gregorio Luperon High School visual arts sessions in a variety of media, exploring a diversity of themes and motifs; from the students’ ethnicity via pre-Columbian traditions to contemporary art and museum visits.
From December 13th 2024 until January 31st 2025.
Latino Outdoors is back at Recirculation for a game night with one of their favorite nature-based board games, Wingspan! Join us to learn/play this birdy game, while enjoying pizzas, wings, tunes, and good company!
Please register for this event – duplicate reservations and/or incomplete surveys will be automatically returned.
The Plain Janes are Naomi O’Reilly and Jackie Zeisloft (a Word Up Collective member).
What started as a one-off collaboration for their high school talent show formed into a decade-plus songwriting partnership for The Plain Janes. Categorized by rich harmonies and a sparse sound, the songs of The Plain Janes are frank, funny, and heartfelt, like a conversation with one of your closest friends. The Plain Janes also had humble beginnings as a cover band singing in a dim-lit suburban Italian restaurant, so expect a Frank Sinatra tune and other eclectic covers thrown in amongst this set of original songs.
Special guest openers include the musical stylings of Sarah Chung and Rodolfo Soto.
All ticket sales will be donated back to Word Up Bookshop.
Holiday cookies and refreshments will be served. Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7pm.
Sit back and enjoy original live music! Featured performers are a mix of local songwriters, composers, and Song A Week members. Each artist will be performing music they have written. To learn more about the Song A Week project visit: www.songaweek.org
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.
Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
Join Recirculation for a reading with writer Miguel Yarull for his latest work in English The Dominican Dream and other stories. In conversation with Yarull will be Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, author of Community as Rebellion and The Borders of Dominicanidad.
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.
Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
The Dominican Dream and other stories reaps the fruits of more than ten years of looking at contemporary Dominican society from both a critical and compassionate perspective. It is inevitable to find ourselves and many others who seem familiar in these characters. The nostalgic storytelling that makes fun of itself, framed in multiple references from world pop culture, makes the hours spent with The Dominican Dream a literary outing through the Dominican Republic’s landscape of hopes, dreams and fears.
Screenwriter, author and composer, Miguel Yarull starts out writing songs in the 90s for Regata, helping establish Spanish Rock as a cultural phenom in the DR. In 2008, Miguel published his first short stories book, Bichán, considered by many a reference in post-modern Dominican literature. His work in the film scene starts right after. His first produced script, La Gunguna, became a game changer in the up and coming Dominican cinema industry, and is, to this day, its most awarded film. Miguel has won on two occasions the “La Silla National Award” for best screenplay, as well as several national and international awards for his literary work. Miguel lives in Santo Domingo, where he currently runs W Room, the first writers room in the Dominican, developing features, documentaries, and serial content for the Dominican and international entertainment industry.
Dr. Lorgia García-Peña is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. She is the author of award winning books, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket, 2022), translated as La comunidad como rebelión (Haymarket, 2023).
