Uptown Arts Stroll 2018 Paseo De Las Artes 16Th
16TH ANNUAL UPTOWN ARTS STROLL 2018 JUNE 1- 30 SHOWCASING THE ARTS UPTOWN
PASEO DE LAS ARTES CELEBRANDO LAS ARTES EN EL ALTO MANHATTAN
OPENING/APERTURA: MAY 30 | 6PM Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling (898 St Nicholas Ave @ 155th St)
HONOREES/ HOMENAJEADOS: Kim Hamilton Rosa Naparstek Victor LaValle LEGACY AWARDS: Coogan’s and Indian Road Café
CLOSING/CLAUSURA: JUN 27 | 6PM
Atrium & Garden Ft Washington Collegiate Church (729 W 181st St)
POSTER BY/AFICHE POR: MIRANDA SPENCER
Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance | 5030 Broadway, Suite 723, NYC 10034 www.artstroll.com | www.nomaanyc.org
@NoMAArts Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance @NoMAAnyc
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02 2018 UPTOWN ARTS STROLL KICK OFF WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
THE STROLL IS FINALLY HERE! ¡LLEGÓ EL PASEO!
Welcome to the 16th Uptown Arts Stroll in Washington Bienvenidos a la 16ª edición Del Paseo de las Artes Heights, Inwood and West Harlem. The Stroll celebrates del alto Manhattan en Washington Heights, Inwood northern Manhattan’s dynamic arts and diverse cultural y West Harlem. El Paseo celebra las artes en el alto scene with scores of exhibits and performances Manhattan y su diversa escena cultural con exhibiciones scheduled from May 30th to June 30th spanning y presentaciones culturales desde el 30 de mayo hasta three vibrant neighborhoods, from West 135th to el 30 de junio desde entre las calles West 135th hasta West 220th Street. West 220th Street. We thank the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art Agradecemos al Museum of Sugar Hill por ser la sede & Storytelling for hosting the opening reception de la apertura del Paseo el miércoles 30 de mayo a las on Wednesday, May 30th at 6pm. The opening 6pm. Aprovechamos para homenajear a: Kim Hamilton, acknowledges this year’s honorees Kim Hamilton, Victor LaValle y Rosa Naparstek y los premios Legacy Victor LaValle and Rosa Naparstek for their outstanding a Coogan’s e Indian Road Café, por sus contribuciones contributions to the arts communities of Washington al arte y la cultura en Washington Heights, Inwood Heights, Inwood and West Harlem. The Legacy Awards y West Harlem. Queremos también agradecer al Ft will also be presented to Coogan’s and Indian Road Café. Washington Collegiate Church, un colaborador nuevo Our thanks is also extended to our newest community y donde tendrá lugar la Clausura del Paseo el miércoles collaborator, Ft Washington Collegiate Church, which 27 de junio a las 6pm. will host the Closing reception of this year’s month- El norte de Manhattan volverá a ser el centro de todo long event, in their Garden & Atrium on Wednesday, lo relacionado con las artes a lo largo del próximo June 27th at 6pm. mes, con más de 300 exposiciones, eventos, dos fines Northern Manhattan will once again be the center of de semana de estudios abiertos y por segunda vez everything arts-related. With over 300 exhibitions ArtStrollstice (celebrando el solsticio de verano, el 21 and cultural events. Artists will open their workspaces de junio) y nuestra primera colaboración en un evento and homes during open studios to the public over two apoyando a la comunidad LGBTQ y sus contribuciones packed weekends giving visitors an opportunity to en las artes en el alto Manhattan. Nuestro sincero see where they work, and to learn about their creative agradecimiento a todos los artistas locales, sedes, process. We are also excited to announce that, for organizaciones artísticas, negocios, patrocinadores, the second year, we will celebrate ArtStrollstice on donantes y voluntarios que hacen posible el Paseo June 21st, and a special event in recognition and as a de las Artes 2018. ¡Muchas gracias, y esperamos que collaboration in support of the contributions that the disfruta el Paseo! LGBTQ community uptown gives to keeping the arts Joanna E. Castro alive in upper Manhattan. Our sincerest gratitude goes Executive Director to all of the arts community, venues and businesses, sponsors, donors and volunteers who made the 2018 Uptown Arts Stroll possible. Thank you, and we look forward to a successful and fun Stroll!
BOARD OF STAFF
DIRECTORS Joanna E. Castro Michelle Orsi Gordon Administrative Assistant Luis Miranda Executive Director Rafael Álvarez Martin Collins Brezzy Higa Sandra A. Garcia-Betancourt Arts Stroll Coordinator Designer Consultant Lenny Lazzarino Consultant Image: Opening: Carol Jenkins Eduardo Gomez Michael Palma Mir, 2016 Angelina Ramirez Volunteer Webmaster
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Kim Hamilton is Director of Hamilton Landmark Galleries, a contemporary art gallery operating in Harlem since 1997. A self-taught visual artist and urban farmer, Ms. Hamilton was raised to be an activist, picketing against the centralization and segregation of New York Public Schools in 1962 as a second grader with her mom and siblings. In 1992 she went on to help write Procurement Policy and Rule #52 that implemented the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Program for city contract ofcers. Ms. Hamilton has secured work for dozens of entrepreneurs and small businesses through the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp programs, Medgar Evers College partnership with Bedford Stuyvesant Kim Hamilton Community Trust, and Bronx Council on the Arts Development Corp’s Art Handlers’ Training and African Burial Ground Projects.
Victor LaValle is the author of seven work of fiction and one comic book, Victor LaValle’s Destroyer. His most recent novel, The Changeling, was named one of the 10 Best Book of 2017 by Time Magazine, USA TODAY and the New York Public Library, among others. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and many more. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in Washington Heights with his wife and two kids.
Victor LaValle Rosa Naparstek’s artwork explores the emotional roots of the world we create personally and Photo by Teddy Wolf politically and the connection between art (the aesthetic experience) and its power for personal/ political transformation. She present her work in conjunction with “Circles of Engagement”, a community building process she helped develop that allows participants to explore their own feelings and deepen connections with one another. Naparstek came to America as a young child, a refugee of WW II. As a student, she was a political activist and became an attorney in furtherance of social and political change. Rosa is a co-founder of the Uptown Arts Stroll, and has participated every year. She is a founder and director of Artists Unite, an arts organization which has organized the MTA-Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project for ten years, the only community art project of its kind in the city. Rosa Naparstek
04 2018 Uptown Arts Stroll Honorees Paseo de las Artes 2018 Homenajeados
Coogan’s Indian Road Café
Coogan’s owners: Peter Walsh, David Hunt Jason Minter spent 18 years in the production and Tess O’Connor McDade end of the film business, the last ten years The Washington Heights equivalent of on The Sopranos. The idea for the Indian Rick’s Place in Casablanca, a neighborhood Road Café was conceived in 2007 with his saloon with an Irish feel and a multicultural childhood friend Jason Berger. They lamented clientele. Situated on Broadway of 169th the fact that Upper Manhattan had few spaces Street, Coogan’s décor and menu reflect and outlets for local artists and musicians the community’s diversity and surrounding to display and perform their work. In 2008, institutions. Since 1985, politicians have Minter and his friend teamed up to find broken bread and made deals and on any an appropriate space to open an eclectic given day doctors in white coats sit across neighborhood café. For the past ten years, from workers in hard hats at lunch while actors Indian Road Café has showcased visual and and musicians blend with local residents to performing artists of many diferent mediums celebrate the evening. on the very last corner of Inwood. More than a few published books have been written Next door to the Armory Track, home to within the café’s confines, and Indian Road the National Indoor Track Hall of Fame and Café has served as a set for movie, film and the Millrose Games, Coogan’s has forged TV shoots. Indian Road Café was also the a partnership that receives international first (and still perhaps the only) restaurant attention. Peter Walsh is the founder of the in Inwood to source the majority of its food Coogan’s Salsa, Blues and Shamrocks 5k run, from farms in New York State, and organically which for 15 years has raised funds for the in origin when possible. children running at the Armory, and along with his partners they have made Coogan’s the community center of Northern Manhattan.
NoMAA expresses its most heartfelt appreciation to Eduardo A. Gómez Dosado for his immeasurable as well as generous contributions to community arts, and his commitment to culture uptown. For the past ten years, Eduardo served as NoMAA´s Volunteer Webmaster. He created both the artstroll.com and nomaanyc.org websites, and maintained them tirelessly. For all this and more, he was a 2015 Uptown Arts Stroll Honoree. As he embarks new adventures close and far, we say: ¡Hasta pronto!
05 Serving Healthful Art
Ruben Natal-San Miguel Ansel Oommen Stephanie Lindquist Alexis Agliano Sanborn
PRESENTED BY THE NORTHERN MANHATTAN ARTS ALLIANCE (NOMAA) IN COLLABORATION WITH NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN ALLEN HOSPITAL
An exhibition curated by Henone Girma, Art in FLUX
NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital Main Administrative Corridor On view until June 30 5141 Broadway @ 220th St. NYC
NewYork Presbyterian Allen Hospital Promoting Arts Uptown
Ofce of Assemblywoman Carmen de la Rosa
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09 EVENTS WEEK 1: MAY 30 - JUNE 3 EVENTOS 1ERA SEMANA: 30 DE MAYO AL 3 DE JUNIO
WEST 135TH TO WEST 898 St. Nicholas Ave at 155th St musicians, orators & dancers! 155TH STREET www.sugarhillmuseum.org First Friday every month. Saturdays, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Word Up Community 1-2pm Japanese Drums & Dance Bookshop/Libreria Experience thunderous Comunitaria The Little Mermaid th ancestral rhythms w/ colorful 2113 Amsterdam Ave & W165 St Based on the original story https://wordupbooks. costumes, dynamic motion by Hans Christian Anderson & & magical sounds w/ Taikoza wordpress.com adapted by 15-year-old HSA Friday, June 1, 6-9pm Live http://taikoza.com Theatre Alliance member, Jackie Robinson Park Geneva Foster-Navarez, the 14th Hike the Heights th 85 Bradhurst Ave & 146 St company will present a staged Celebration of our northern Thursday, May 31, 6-7pm reading prior to its 2018- Manhattan parks! 2019 mainstage production. www.hiketheheights.org Damien Hoar de Galvan: FREE|Suggested donation Sunken Playground everything bagel Harlem School of the Arts W167th St & Edgecombe Ave Paintings, works on 645 St. Nicholas Ave b/t Saturday, June 2, 11am-3pm paper & sculpture 141-145 St https://hsanyc.org damienhoardegalvan.com Saturday, June 2, 5-7pm Story Time for Kids Gitler & ____ Bring your kids to hear 3629 Broadway b/t 149/150 St Sunday Fundays their favorite stories read http://gitlerand.com Sing, dance & play w/ the out loud every Saturday by Opening: Thursday, May 31, magical musical stories experienced, trained readers! 6-9pm performed by the fabulous Word Up Community Flor Bromley! Free w/ museum Bookshop/Libreria Zana with Victor Rosso admission. Singer/songwriter duo Zana Comunitaria Sugar Hill Children’s 2113 Amsterdam Ave & W165th St www.zanazora.com & Museum Saturday, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Victor Rosso www.facebook. 898 St. Nicholas Ave at 155th St 11am-noon com/victor.rosso4 www.sugarhillmuseum.org perform every Thursday! Sundays, June 3, 10, 17, 24, Still Lives Panel Discussion Of The Grid Pub Yael Ben-Zion’s photographic nd 1-2pm 3480 Broadway & 142 St exhibit portraying objects www.ofthegridpub.com NORTH OF WEST 155TH of homeless & formerly Thursday, May 31 & June 7, 14, TO WEST 181ST STREET homeless people 21, 28, 7:30pm www.yaelbenzion.com/ photography Virtuous Journeys Weekly WaHi Jazz Jam Join Mando as he shares Jazz singer Louise Rogers & Word Up Community amazing stories filled w/ virtues pianist Mark Kross host every Bookshop/Libreria
like Courage, Grace, Humility Wednesday. Bring your axe to Comunitaria 2113 Amsterdam Ave & W165th St & Love. Be sure to sing along, play! http://jazzwahi.com Saturday, June 2, 3pm dance & even play musical Le Cheile st instruments! Free w/ museum 839 West 181 St. & Cabrini Obrien Luna admission Blvd. http://lecheilenyc.com Singer/songwriter performs Sugar Hill Children’s Wednesday, May 30 & June 6, every Saturday Museum 13, 20, 27, 8-11pm @obrienluna Twitter/IG th 898 St. Nicholas Ave at 155 St Manolo Tapas www.sugarhillmuseum.org Hump Day Comedy Produced & hosted by Ashlynn 4165 Broadway b/t West Fridays, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 176-177 St 3:30-4:30pm Salzano every Wednesday! Bringing diferent comedians www.manolotapas.net Saturday, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 9th Annual NYC from all over NYC. 30, 10pm Multicultural Festival Coogan’s Produced by NY African 4015 Broadway at W169 St Summer Sundays Chorus Ensemble celebrating www.coogans.com Every June Sunday, all cultures w/ music, dance, Wednesday, May 30 & June 6, Community League of poetry, art 13, 20, 27, 9pm the Heights brings art & Jackie Robinson Park Studio 351 Summer entertainment w/ a diferent (Bandshell) weekly theme th Dance-a-Thon 85 Bradhurst Ave & 146 St www.cloth159.org Join us as we celebrate Black www.multiculturalfestival.nyc Music Month in the Heights! Ilka Tanya Payan Park Saturday, June 2, 11am-7pm West 157th Street & Broadway Participants enjoy the sounds & Showtime Saturdays songs of the 70’s & 80’s. Free! Sunday, June 3, 1-5pm Move your body, make music RSVP at studio-jhw-0601. Marjorie Eliot & be a part of the story every eventbrite.com For 27 years, the Harlem jazz Saturday with Dancer, Actor J. Hood Wright Park legend has presented free and in-house talent, Alexander Ft. Washington Ave & 174th St concerts every Sunday! Elisa. Free w/ museum Friday, June 1, 5:30-8:30pm Marjorie Eliot admission. th Open Mic 555 Edgecombe Ave & W160 Sugar Hill Children’s St (#3F, ring #107) Museum Calling all writers, rappers,
10 For updated information, visit artstroll.com / Para información actualizada, visite artstroll.com WEEK 1: MAY 30 - JUNE 3
1ERA SEMANA: 30 DE MAYO AL 3 DE JUNIO artstroll.com
Sunday, June 3, 10, 17, 24, Comic Kevin Berrey & Singer/songwriter performs 3:30pm comedians perform every every Tuesday, Friday & Saturday! @Berrey Twitter Sunday! Open Mic Parkview Restaurant @obrienluna Twitter/IG Musicians, poets, singers & more http://www.theparkviewcafe. Guadalupe Bar & Grill every Sunday! com www.guadalupebargrill.com Pocion Lounge 219 Dyckman St b/t 597 West 207th St. b/t 704 West 177 St b/t Broadway & Broadway & Seaman Ave Broadway & Vermilyea Ave Ft. Washington Ave Saturday, June 2, 9, 16, 23, Friday, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, www.pocionlounge.com 30, 10pm 10pm; Sunday, June 3, 10, 17, Sundays, June 3, 10, 17, 24, 8pm 24, 9pm; Tuesday, June 5, 12, LGBT Washington Heights/ ST 19, 26, 9pm NORTH OF WEST 181 Inwood meet-your- TO DYCKMAN STREET neighbors Summer Heat by UP Theater Event to open Pride Month. A popular al fresco play Uptown Social Dance Series Nonprofit organizations will reading series uptheater.org Bachata taught by Ximena table & if you have a Meetup Bring a blanket. Light Salgado (salsa, bachata) or FB group for a hobby, refreshments served & Alessandra Marconi cause, or activity, come & Isham Park (hustle) by Dance Project of table too! uptheater.org Washington Heights Email [email protected] Enter at Broadway, Park www.danceprojectwh.org Live music by The Meetles Terrace East or West WHAS Cultural Art Center Anne Loftus Playground Saturday, June 2, 16, 30, 4450 Broadway & 190th St Broadway & Riverside Drive 4-6pm Thursday, May 31 & June 7, Sunday, June 3, 12-4pm th 6:30-7:45pm 16 Drums Along the Hudson Gagá Pa’l Pueblo Native American Festival Victor Maldo Presentation of diferent & Multicultural Celebration Dominican singer/songwriter folkloric dance traditions presented by Lotus Music soothes your soul w/ his of the Dominican Republic. & Dance in collaboration passionate acoustic guitar & Genaro Ozuna with NYC Parks www. seductive voice every Friday! [email protected] drumsalongthehudson.org www.victormaldo.com Dyckman Rest in Inwood Hill Park 809 Restaurant Highbridge Park Enter at Indian Road & 218th St 112 Dyckman St b/t Post & Corner of Dyckman St & Sunday, June 3, 11am-6pm Nagle Ave Nagle Ave. rain or shine https://809nyc.com Sundays, June 3 to Fridays, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, September 23, 3-7pm Uptown Jewish Film 9pm Major & critically acclaimed NORTH OF DYCKMAN films will be shown: Raise Emi Antonio TO WEST 220TH STREET the Roof, The Wedding Plan, Composer & singer Above and Beyond. Speakers performs every Friday! & refreshments included. Emi Antonio @emiantoniomusic IG Omanut: Jewish Uptown Composer & singer performs Arts www.sukkahwood.com/ Corcho Wine Room every Wednesday! 227 Dyckman St b/t uptown-jewish-film @emiantoniomusic IG Broadway & Seaman Ave Campbell Sports Center Sahara Café Friday, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, West 218th St. & Broadway http://saharacafe.business.site 10pm Sunday, June 3, 12-9pm 4026 10th Ave b/t 214-215th St. 19th Juan Pablo Duarte Wednesday, May 30 & June 6, Uptown Guitars Festival 13, 20, 27, 9pm Acoustic jazz every Sunday! Live music, bands, dancing, @UptownGuitars Twitter Music at Grandpa’s Indian Road Café food kiosks, fun & games Local musicians perform http://www.indianroadcafe. http://jpdfoundation.org every other Friday! St. Nicholas Ave from W181- com Grandpa’s Brick Oven Pizza 600 W218th St & Indian Road 188 St. www.grandpaspizzanyc.com Sunday, June 3, 10, 17, 24, Saturday, June 2, 10am-6pm 4973 Broadway & Isham St 7-9pm Christina (Bumbly), Friday, June 1, 15, 29, 4-6pm Zeo Munoz Fab Pimentel & Enniel Bohemian Fridays Singer/songwriter performs Trio dazzles audiences w/ With Enniel Ventura www. every Sunday! Spanish & American pop facebook.com/enniel.ventura @zeomunoz Twitter rock! @bumblymusic IG Guacamole Taqueria Inwood Local Corcho Wine Room www.instagram.com/ https://inwoodlocal.com 227 Dyckman St b/t guacamolenyc 4957 Broadway b/t 207/ Broadway & Seaman Ave 5025 Broadway & 214th St Isham St Saturday, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Friday, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Sunday, June 3, 10, 17, 24, 9:30pm 9pm 10pm Dope Free Comedy Show Obrien Luna
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June 4 Dancer Samuel Coleman will ofer free instructional class, partners not required. Comfortable shoes recommended. With Harlem One Stop June 11 Marimba: Mariana Ramirez & Andrew Beall. With Mano a Mano June 18 Bailaora/Dancer: Xianix Barrera, Cantaor/Singer: Sol "La Argentinita" & Tocaor/Guitarist: Raphael Brunn. With Xianix Barrera Flamenco Company June 25 Dale Turk (Tuba), Brian Pasian (Guitar/Accordion/Vocals), Andrew Carvajal (Drums), Marc Wishengrad (Trumpet) and Demetrius Daniel (Trombone/Vocals). With New York City Brass
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With support from the Partnership for Parks Inwood Parks Grant, made possible by Columbia University
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