Bennett Park: Jazz WaHi Jam
Join us every Wednesday for this fun, family-friendly performance and jam session! Jazz musicians of all levels welcome to sit in. Bring chairs, blankets, picnics, children!
FREE
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Bennett Park Fort Washington Ave., W. 183 - 185 St., New York, United States
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Virtual Parlor Chat: Light, Shadow, and Chasing the Ghost of Augustin Le Prince
Virtual via ZoomThe haunting story of a vanished Gilded Age inventor. On the eve of presenting the first motion picture camera to the world—2 years before Edison—its inventor, Augustin Le Prince, vanished without a trace. Two years later, after his experiments had strained both his finances and his marriage, he was finally ready to present his invention to New York’s most illustrious patrons at the Morris–Jumel Mansion. Laurel Avery, author of “Light and Shadow”, will go into depth about the research involved in retracing Le Prince’s steps before his mysterious disappearance
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Inwood Art Works Dimensions of Darkness: Dust Devil (Richard Stanley, 1992)
Inwood Art Works Studio 112 Seaman Ave. (@ 204th Street), NEW YORK, NY, United StatesDust Devil is equal parts sexy, gory and metaphysical, with themes exploring the region's fraught racial politics of the time. A surreal, violent horror-western from South Africa about a murderous demonic shapeshifter, hunting lonely travelers in the desert. We’ll be presenting the "final cut," approved by the director.
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Hebrew Tabernacle: Blood Drive
Hebrew Tabernacle Synagogue 551 Fort Washington Ave (@185 St.), New York, United StatesThe Hebrew Tabernacle: Blood Drive at the Social Hall. Once again the blood drive will take place in the Tabernacle’s Social Hall from 1:00-7:00 pm. To date the Tabernacle has collected over 1500 pints!
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Hispanic Society: Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman
Hispanic Society Museum & Library Audubon Terrace, Broadway betw 155th & 156th Sts., New York, NY, United StatesBook Presentation with Jonathan Goldman. Join the Hispanic Society for a conversation with Jonathan Goldman on the Puerto Rican experience in 1920s New York. In Hidden Histories of Jazz Age: New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange, Jonathan Goldman offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City. Jonathan Ezra Goldman’s whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices.
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NoMAA: Opening Art Reception “Dear Earth… Love, Uptown”
NoMAA Gallery 4140 Broadway (Between 175 & 176 Streets), New York, NY, United StatesDear Earth is conceived as a visual letter to our planet — an act of address, apology, gratitude, or promise. We invite artists to consider what it means to speak directly to the earth at this moment. Themes include healing and art as a site of repair; the immediacy of the unfolding crisis; calls to action and appeals for planetary change; preservation and cultivation of indigenous lands; the fragility of the earth and our own; uncertainty or hope; the honoring of beauty and resilience; the artist as witness.Featuring 29 artists from West Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.
FREE with RSVP