Here’s a new chance to pause and reflect.

     The Poetry Society of America and the City Parks present the second annual installation of Park Poems, an initiative to transform poems into site-specific works of public art.

     One park in each borough hosts a poem, and for Manhattan it’s
J. Hood Wright Park. Noelle Kocot shares “Trappings” with us. The poet laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey, Kocot teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the New School.

     In the Lower WaHi park on Fort Washington Avenue at 175th Street.

     It’s hot and it’s summer so it’s time for restaurant week.

     This time around four WaHi restaurants signed up to offer two-course lunches and three-course dinners at $30, $45, or $60. And as before, restaurant week has a multiplier involved: It runs four weeks.

     The neighborhood spots are:

     Chez Messy tapas; participating in dinner only, in Lower WaHi at 5 Edward M. Morgan Place (between 157th and 158th Streets).

     Döden Pizza pizzeria in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 156th Street.

     Uptown Garrison American, brick-oven pizza in Hudson Heights at 821 West 181st Street.

     Saggio Italian: Pasta and wine bar in Hudson Heights at 827 West 181st Street.

     Starting Monday, then through August 18.

     Get your food fresh at a GrowNYC Greenmarket.

     On Thursdays, this stretch of Lower WaHi transforms into a bustling marketplace overflowing with fresh local fruits and vegetables. Neighbors show up to mix and mingle while purchasing produce, Mexican specialty products and bread, pies and scones made with local flour. In many ways, the market doubles as classroom and social center. 

     Greenmarket’s farmers and fishers come from parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, providing a bountiful array of fresh foods.

     Re-opens on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., then open weekly on Thursdays in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue. Through November 21.

     Uptowners and staff from the Columbia University Medical Center flock to the Fort Washington Green Market for its bounty of fresh, locally grown offerings.

     Mexican herbs, peppers, greens, honey, cheese, juice pressed from ripe orchard fruit — it’s all grown in the rich soil of Orange County's Black Dirt region.

    Pastries and fresh bread make this the perfect market for putting together a healthy lunch or stocking up your larder mid-week. Visit the Market Information tent each week for cooking demonstrations, nutritional information, kids’ games and health-related events and activities throughout the season.

     Tuesdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Through November 26.

     Over 60 and want to excercise with your crew?

     Columbia invites you for wellness walks and fitness sessions, organized around incentives and rewards for your effort.

     The weekly workouts are held indoors—on the world’s fastest indoor track. (Cleats not required.) To sign up, call (212) 305-9483.

      Free. Tuesday mornings from 10 to 11:30 at the Armory in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 168th Street.

     Join the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance when it reveals Uptown Treasures: Past & Present, featuring works highlighting Uptown’s artistic heritage and rich cultural landscape.

     Free. Tuesday through Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5 at the NoMAA Gallery in Fort George on Broadway at 176th Street. Through September 5 (except holidays).

     Delve into the history of butter-making during the colonial period.

     You’ll step back in time to discover the traditional methods and techniques used to produce this essential staple, learning about the process from churning cream to separating the butter from the buttermilk.

     After exploring the historical background, roll up your sleeves and create your very own batch of creamy butter to take home. This immersive event promises to be both educational and delicious, offering a fun and interactive way to connect with the past while enjoying a tasty treat.

     Materials for the 90-minute event are provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

     Free. Tuesday evening at 5:30 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Stretch, focus, and relax at outdoor yoga session this summer, each an hour long.

     A few yoga mats will be on hand, so if you have one take it with you, along with a bottle of water.

     Free, Tuesday evenings at 6 in Roger Morris Park in Lower WaHi. Through August 27.

     Start your day with tranquility and community. Wake up with sunrise tai chi classes, taught by the certified tai chi nstructor Robert Martinez, overlooking the Hudson River.

     Wear comfortable clothing and take a bottle of water. The hour-long class is suitable for all levels and open to the public. Rain cancels. For accessibility information, call (212) 795-1388.

     Free. Wednesday morning at 6:30 on the Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park. Through September 11.

     Join current Met Cloisters undergraduate interns for thematic, interactive conversations about works of art in the Met Cloisters’ collection. The talks last an hour.

     Free with museum admission; admission is free for children under 12 with an adult. The tours are popular and fill up, so availability is first-come, first-served.

     Thursday afternoon at 1 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. Also on July 29 and 30, August 5 and 6; and at 3 p.m. on August 1 and 8.

     Take a moment to tune into your senses and practice mindfulness in this guided session.

     Throughout the Middle Ages, people from all walks of life retreated to monasteries to contemplate the spiritual and experience inner calm. Taking inspiration from global contemplative practices, as well as the unique art, atmosphere, and gardens of The Met Cloisters, step back from the usual pace of life and connect with the beauty that surrounds us. Practitioners of all experience levels are welcome.  

     Registration is required.

     Free with museum admission. Thursday afternoon at 3 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Jazz WaHi’s weekly outdoor jam session returns.

     Enjoy an hour of energetic improvisation from Uptown musicians.

     Free. Wednesday afternoons at 4 in Bennett Park in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenuet at 183rd Street. Weekly through the summer.

     Express your creativity and practice your art in a weekly outdoor workshop.

     Drawing in Community returns this summer with its sessions en plein air.  Exploring dry media with a weekly meeting facilitated by the artist Reynaldo García Pantaleón.

     Register here.

     $60 suggested donation (includes supplies). Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 7; meet at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street. Through August 14.

     How would you spend a chunk of $10 million in our neighborhood?

     Every year New York State provides economic development funds for a New York City neighborhood, and this year WaHi and Inwood are applying for the funding.

     City Council Member Carmen de la Rosa and a committee of local non-profit businesses have been working on the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative and seek your input on potential funding areas. 

     Hear the initiative’s outlines during a town hall meeting, or take a survey of the types of improvements you’d most like to see Uptown.  

     Free. Thursday evening at 5:30 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     If you were to take a time machine back to eighteenth-century Manhattan, you would come across lush forests, rolling hills, an abundance of wildlife, and small Dutch family farms scattered throughout the countryside.

     While most of that rural beauty has vanished after three hundred years of industrialization, one lone farmhouse has stood the test of time, still in its original plot on bustling Broadway.

     Join New York Adventure Club for an after-hours tour & wine reception at the Dyckman Farmhouse. Built in 1784, this Dutch Colonial home is the last of its kind in Manhattan. The evening concludes with a wine and cheese reception.

     $45. Thursday evening at 6 at the museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Relax with twilight picnic performance of Heirlooms by Trio Fadolín in a Hudson Heights garden.

     Pack a light meal for the hour-long concert, and take a blanket, chairs, and bug spray. Sponsored by the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra.

     Free (donations appreciated). Thursday night at 7 in the garden of Fort Washington Collegiate Church in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue at 181st Street.

     Take a blanket for an outdoor movie.

     Stand and Deliver tells the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante, who taught Latino students in Los Angeles how to figure out calculus. The 1988 film runs 102 minutes.

     Sponsored by the Morris-Jumel Mansion.

     Free. Thursday night at sunset (about 8:15) in Roger Morris Park on Jumel Terrace in Lower WaHi.

     Get a tour of the Heather Garden from the gardeners who help take care of Uptown’s crown jewel of a park.

     On these one-hour excursions, you’ll meet John, Craig, and Ash and learn how Dr. Ruth’s Tulips got planted, why heather has to be sheared, and ask green thumb questions that have been on your mind.

     Free. Friday afternoon at 1 at the Heather Garden entrance to Fort Tryon Park in Hudson Heights at Margaret Corbin Circle. On the last Friday of the month.

     A veteran pilot successfully lands a commercial airliner following a disastrous malfunction and is hailed by the public as a hero, but a subsequent investigation threatens to expose his history of substance abuse.

     Denzel Washington stars in Flight (2012), which is rated R. Take a blanket and a snack; glass bottles and alcohol are probited.

     Free. Friday night at 9 in J. Hood Wright Park in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 175th Street.

    The Inwood greenmarket is a year-round neighborhood favorite.
    People of all ages, backgrounds, and tastes gather each Saturday to meet and greet their friends and neighbors and do their weekly shopping. Even on the coldest, darkest winter Saturdays, loyal Inwood shoppers come out because they know they can’t get products like this anywhere else.
     A core group of 15 farmers attends every week of the year, and during the peak of the season, five more join to round out the offerings with the summer’s bounty.
     Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Isham Street between Seaman Avenue and Cooper Street. Open year-round.

     Una edición especial de nuestro recorrido, Mansion and Grounds, presentado en español por nuestro guía experto.

     Los boletos deben comprarse con al menos un día de anticipación para asegurar un lugar. El recorrido comenzará en el porche delantero de la mansión e incluye entrada autoguiada al interior del edificio después de la parte guiada al exterior.

     $18.91 por persona. Sabado a las 11 a.m. Also on August 24.

     Learn the fundamentals of formulating contracted herbal extracts from plants that are traditionally used in therapeutic and spiritual practices with the herbalist Arvolyn Hill.

     In this three-hour workshop, you can create a personal tincture to take home. No experience is necessary, and all materials are provided.

     Space is limited; advance registration is required. Registration closes Wednesday, July 24, or when the spots fill up.

     $95. Saturday afternoon at 1 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Relax, inhale, exhale, and refresh in the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden with yoga.

     Gardener Kai Watkins will host the hour-long classes, which are open to all experience levels.

     Take your mat, a bottle of water, and a willingness to open yourself to a new experience.

     Sunday morning at 10 in the RING garden in Inwood at the confluence of Riverside Drive, Dyckman Street, and Seaman Avenue. Sunday mornings through the summer.

     Inspired by the art of the Metropolitan Musuem?

     Join an open studio. where you’ll explore materials and process through artist-led demonstrations, drop-in art-making activities, and conversations with Met experts.

     The session last three hours and are for visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Sunday afternoon at 1 in the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. Also on August 25, September 29, October 27, November 24, and December 29.

     The power of art to make an emotional connection is on display every Sunday afternoon in Apartment 3F—that’s  Marjorie Eliot’s place, where she invites veteran musicians to play along to her piano accompaniment. 

     Famous and up-and-coming artists perform at Eliot’s weekly sessions and her free concerts are legendary among jazz aficionados.

     Join her live—in her home for Parlor Jazz.

     Free. Sunday afternoons at 3:30 at 555 Edgecomb Avenue, Apartment 3F, in Lower WaHi at 160th Street.

     Do you live or work along Audubon Avenue?

     Those thirty blocks from Lower WaHi to Fort George are the subject of a community survey on how you’d like to see the avenue developed along with the streets along. That includes thoughts on street closures for community events, plazas, and safety measures.

     Complete the NYC Department of Transportation survey here.

     When the heat and humidty are predicted to reach a truly uncomfortable heat index, the city helps residents without adequate air conditioning by opening cooling centers to keep New Yorkers safe from the heat.

     Cooling centers are air-conditioned facilities such as libraries, community centers, or senior centers, that are open to the public during heat emergencies. Those nearby are:

     Hudson Heights Agudath Israel Moriah Older Adult Luncheon Club, 90 Bennett Avenue, (212) 923-5715

     Fort George Washington Heights Neighborhood Senior Center (older adults only), 650 West 187th Street, (212) 781-8331

     Fort George  Center for Adults Living Well @ the Y (older adults only), 54 Nagle Avenue, (646) 738-6084

     To find your other cooling centers, call 311 or visit https://maps.nyc.gov/cooling-center/.

     For more information, visit http://nyc.gov/beattheheat.

     Take in an evening of live jazz from Uptown musicians and their collaborators around the city in a weekly performance. The lineup varies, so check this week’s personnel here.

     There’s no charge for the music. Food and drink are on you.

     Tuesday nights at 7:30 at Kismat restaurant in Hudson Heights on 187th Street and Fort Washington Avenue.

Postponed by rain

    Watch artists work en plain air as they compete in creativity while painting a canvas for an Uptown destination.

     Seven artists will share their inspiration and techniques as they interpret the courtyard of the Radio Hotel (we’re hoping they aren’t rained out).

     Free. Saturday, July 13, from 10 to 2 at the Radio Hotel in Fort George on Amsterdam Avenue at 181st Street.

     Search for an invisible connection to the past on a paranormal investigation of Manhattan’s oldest surviving house and celebrate Eliza Jumel’s birthday, too.

      With any luck … or an occult hand … you may encounter the legendary paranormal activity at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, while learning the history of its former residents. Believers and skeptics alike may attempt to communicate with the Morris-Jumel Mansion’s former residents using paranormal investigative equipment.

     This event highlights women who made the house famous and is strictly for those 18 and older.

     No tours are currently scheduled.

     A Collection without Borders brings together a selection of works from the Hispanic Society that celebrates the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Goa, and the Philippines. Many of the works were acquired by the Hispanic Society’s founder, Archer Milton Huntington (1870–1955) in the early twentieth century.

     The exhibition takes place in the magnificent Main Court, designed by architect Charles Pratt Huntington (1871–1919) under the direction of the museum’s founder, who sought to recreate a sixteenth-century Spanish Renaissance patio in terracotta.

     Paintings from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries hang in the open arches and under the arcade, representing religious figures, portraits of individuals of various backgrounds, in addition to a few abstract works. While many of the works are well-known, others are exhibited for the first time in decades.

      Free. Thursday through Sunday afternoons, from noon to 5, at the Hispanic Society of America on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. Through October 20.

     Join the tradition of Gregorian chant at a workshop open to anyone who can carry a tune.

     Chantmaster Paul Novosel leads you through the history of this contemplative, liturgical music, letting you experience the cleansing effects of its ritual. The session lasts two hours.

     Take a tablet or smartphone (or laptop) to view the score.

     Free. Friday afternoon, August 2, at 4 at the St. Francis Cabrini Shrine in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue just below 190th Street. On the first Friday of the month.

     A heartfelt mockumentary from the mind of Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, A Mighty Wind follows three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands coming together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on a reunion concert in his honor. 

     The 2003 film will be screened in English with Spanish subtitles.

     Reserve your seats here. Hot Glue & The Gun perform at 7, before the screening.

     Free. Monday night, August 5, at dusk (around 8:05) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Explore old New York —  really old New York. Back before street cars, before Europeans arrived, and sometimes even earlier.

     Cole Thompson will present stories of Inwood’s history in his series on Uptown’s past.

     Tuesday night, August 6, at 7:30 at The Inwood Farm (though not at the farm in Inwood) on 218th Street. On the first Tuesday of the month.

     The first sociological study of its kind, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States is an intimate portrait of resilience, agency, and hope amidst unimaginable adversity.

     The daughter of Salvadoran immigrants to the U.S., Professor Stephanie Canizales spent six years gaining the trust of migrant youth  in Los Angeles. She learned how undocumented young adults who arrived in the U.S. as unaccompanied minors navigate perilous jobs, emotional hardships, and adolescent transitions in pursuit of survival and success. Register here.

     $5 donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Thursday evening, August 8, at 7 at Recirculation in Audubon Park at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th Street).

     The new owner of the Cleveland Indians—in the years before they became the Guardians—puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose so she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.

     A light and silly boys of summer film, Major League has sports action sequences and funny performances by Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernson, and Tom Berenger. The 1989 film is in English with Spanish subtitles.

     Reserve your seat here. Before the film, Edge performs at 7.

     Free. Monday night, August 12, at dusk (around 7:55) at The Hudson in Inwood on where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Want to learn about the golden age of cinema? Discover Paris for romantics? Take a class at Columbia — on Columbia’s dime.

     The university’s School of Professional Studies invites adults who are not enrolled in college to attend selected courses from the University’s offerings in the Arts and Sciences during the academic year free of charge.

     It’s a community benefit available to Uptown residents. Class auditors are silent participants in class who are encouraged to keep up with the reading. No examinations or papers are required, no grade is assigned, and no credit is granted for course completion.

     Find the current list of open courses and sign up for class.

     Free. The deadline to sign up is Thursday, August 15, for autumn classes and December 15 for the spring semester. Class is held at Columbia University in Manhattanville this semester.

     Ten years after hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor Nick Rice cut a deal with the killers who murdered Clyde Shelton's family, Shelton wages a deadly vigilante campaign in order to fix a broken legal system.

     Jamie Foxx stars in Law Abiding Citizen (2009), which is rated R. Take a blanket and a snack; glass bottles and alcohol are prohited.

     Free. Friday night, August 16, at 8:45 in J. Hood Wright Park in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 175th Street.

     After its debut last summer, the Inwood Jazz Festival is back for more. Although it competes with an Uptown institution, Jazz at the Mansion, the Inwood event offers an option for northerners who don’t want to travel downtown (to Lower WaHi).

     The music comes in the form of a moveable feast, so you’ll want to plan your travel based on the time of day or type of music you’re after.

     Bruce’s Garden, 10 a.m. Sit in on the pre-festival workshop in Isham Park at 11 Park Terrace East (not West).

     Pat’s Lawn, 12:30 to 7:15 p.m. A variety of performers take turns on the main stage all afternoon and evening in Inwood Hill Park near 218th Street.

     Inwood Farm, 7:15 p.m. The Melvin “Tiger” Vines Quintet leads a jam session at the restaurant at Indian Road and 218th Street (do not confuse Inwood Farm with the farm in Inwood).

     Sunday, August 18, around Inwood.

     Celebrate summer with delightful and refreshing concoctions.

     Discover tips on how to harvest freshly grown herbs. Next, you’ll craft mocktails using garden-grown ingredients. Fans of fruity flavors or a tangy twist can choose between a strawberry mocktail or a zesty cucumber lime mocktail.

     The interactive session will leave you enjoying a hands-on experience with like-minded enthusiasts.

     Materials for the 90-minute event are provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

     Free. Tuesday evening, August 20, at 5:30 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

        The history of United Palace, Manhattan’s fourth-largest theater, began in 1930 when it was then one of five Loew’s Wonder Theatres across the boroughs and New Jersey. Designed by the noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theatre, the former Ziegfeld Theater) with interiors overseen by decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall), it was one of the region’s premier vaudeville and movie houses.

     In Inwood until the late 1800s, the Dyckman and Nagel family cemeteries still had grave markings and a fence to protect them. A few hundred yards away were unmarked graves of enslaved Africans.

     The cemeteries were forgotten in the nineteenth century, but during rapid development in the early twentieth century, the sites were discovered in March 1903.

     Time had erased the significance of the people buried Uptown, and the bodies were exhumed, examined, and stolen.

     The location of the Inwood sacred site is bound by 211th and 212th Streets between Broadway and 10th Avenue. Until recently, the block was occupied by various auto shops and the faculty parking lot of P.S. 98 Shorac Kappock.

     Inwood residents are fighting to raise awareness of the former burial site. Hear from the effort’s organizers during a session of Back Porch History.

     Free. Thursday evening, August 22, at 6 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Sit back and enjoy original live music.

     Uptown performers share their talents at songwriting and composition, and include members of Song A Week.  

     Each musician performs their own pieces. More info at www.songaweek.org.

     Free. Friday night. August 23, at 7 at Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, in Lower WaHi at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th Street).

      If you like outdoor geometry, get on the street for sunrise and sunset when the shadows line up with the streets.

      The “Manhattanhenge” effect works Uptown on days different from the rest of the island’s.

      To see the sun line up with the streets in Hudson Heights (on 181st Street in the photo), where the street grid is aligned differently from most of the borough, get out on August 26; it’s also on April 18 in Hudson Heights Henge. Fort George Henge is on May 28 and 29, and July 12 and 13, the same as Manhattan, and Inwood Henge is on January 23 — the grid there is so katy-wompus that the sun aligns when it is due “south.”

     The effect works below 174th and above 174th if you go east of Broadway (for sunrise: sunset views may be blocked by buildings to the west). So if you want to see Manhattanhenge, as it’s dubbed, hope for clear skies on May 29 and July 12.

     You can look for the dates in all of the city’s neighborhoods on this map from Carto.

     Hudson Heights Henge: Monday, August 26, at dawn and dusk.

     The 1991 pop-culture landmark Thelma & Louise follows two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong. Their high-speed southwestern odyssey has them they eluding police, picking up a young Brad Pitt, and discovering freedom on their own terms.

     It’s the next film in the season of friendship series. Tickets available here.

     $7.24 (includes the 45% fee). Monday night, August 26, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

      You know the basics of The Birds. A small northern California coastal town is inexplicably attacked and rendered helpless by massive flocks of aggressive birds.

     If you haven’t seen it (or haven’t seen it lately), watch how Alfred Hitchcock used suspense, not simply surprise, to make his 1963 film a classic. Starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor.

     The evening begins with a performance by Pigeonwing Dance at 7.

     Free. Monday night, August 26, at dusk (about 7:45) at The Hudson in Inwood where Dyckman Street meets the river.

     Create an intricately woven basket using natural willows in a workshop led by the master weaver Jesica Clark of Willow Vale Farm.

     You’ll discover the ins and outs of traditional willow weaving and learn how gardeners use this important material for practical purposes, including basketry.

     The day-long workshop takes place in the inspiring Cuxa Cloister while the Cloisters is closed to the general public and includes an hour-long break. No weaving experience is necessary, and all materials are provided.

     Space is limited; registration is required. Registration closes Sunday, September 1, or when all spots are taken.

     $175. Wednesday, September 4, from 10 to 5 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     One of the treasures of Uptown life is the private garden that’s open to everyone. Maintained by volunteers who get their own key, the oasis hosts special events year-round.

     And now it’s turning 40. To celebrate its birthday, the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden seeks artists and performers to share their talents on the anniversary. If you’d like to help, complete this form.

     Saturday, September 14, from noon to 2 in the RING garden in Inwood at the confluence of Broadway, Dyckman Street, and Riverside Drive. Rain date: September 15.

     Sit in when the best-selling author Caro de Robertis celebrates the launch of The Palace of Eros with a reading.

     The story is a subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Ero. After the reading you can listen in on a conversation between de Robertis and Jaquira Díaz, author of the award-winning memoir Ordinary Girls.  The event is perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun. 

     Register here.

     $5 donation. Thursday evening, September 19, at 7 at Recirculation in Audubon Park at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th Street.

     Enjoy a classical program featuring arrangements of Mozart by Gilbert Dejean, performed by the Inwood Chamber Players.     

     A reception with light snacks and beverages follows the performance. All proceeds benefit Good Shepherd School.

     $20; children, $5. Sunday afternoon, September 22, at 2 at Good Shephard Church in Inwood on Isham Street at Broadway.

     Thirty-one years after the installation The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism opened critics’ eyes at the University of California, Irvine, the exhibition book has been re-issued.

     The ideas of Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord broke Black artists out of the categories they had been placed in. The exhibit showed artists and their art from different generations, working across Fluxus, Conceptualism, assemblage, photography, and new forms of installation.

     To mark the anniversary, the American Academy of Arts & Letters will host a conversation moderated by Jamillah James.

     Renovations are going on this summer and the galleries are scheduled to re-open on Wednesday, September 25, at the Academy in Lower WaHi on Audubon Terrace.

     The sweet sounds of a jazz trio led by Nicole Pettit will drift through the air as you sip on Uptown’s Dyckman Beer.

     Jazz fans and brew aficionados alike will enjoy Rhythm and Blues, the autumn fund-raiser at Inwood’s farm.

     The event includes lawn games, tours of the historic farmhouse, the musuem, and the working garden, or you can stroll the grounds and enjoy the folliage.

     Register here; ages 21 and older only.

     $23.18; after September 7, $33.85. Thursday evening, October 22, from 6 to 8 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Caballito Negro’s Birds, Bees & Electric Fish features flute and percussion in a family concert. It’s the autumn performance in the Inwood Art Works community concert series.

     Sunday afternoon, October 27, at 2 in the Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood on Broadway at Isham Street.

     Spend some time on Thanksgiving to remind yourself of the Lenape people and the blessings of their land we now call home.

     Shorakkopoch Rock is fabled to be the spot where the Lenape traded the island to Peter Minuit for goods worth 60 Dutch guilders. In pre-pandemic years, a short ceremony honored inhabitants’ duty to Mother Earth and responsibility to the forest, the river, and each other.

     At Shorakkopoch Rock in Inwood Hill Park. From the intersection of 214th Street and Indian Road, follow the path that runs along the water; the boulder is on the far side of a large, open field.

     Inwood Art Works presents a holiday concert for a festive conclusion to its community concert series of 2024.

     Sunday afternoon, December 8, at 2 in the Good Shepherd Church in Inwood on Broadway at Isham Street.

     Start 2024 by stretching your legs and your expectations.

     The Shorewalkers’ Happy New Year’s Day Hike starts in Inwood Hill Park and from there strolls along the east side, taking you  under the three great bridges that span the Harlem River in High Bridge Park.

     Dress for the weather, wear comfortable shoes, pack some water and take a snack.

     Wednesday morning, January 1, at a time and an Uptown meet-up spot shared with participants.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Memorial Day trek, you’ll walk the first leg of a journey from Battery Park to the George Washington Bridge. The second legs takes you over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps and continuing along the Palisades.

     Don’t worry, that’s not all in one day: It’s separated into two parts. The second takes place on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday morning, May 26, at a place and time shared with registrants.