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.

     Tuesday from 8 to 4 on 168th Street at Fort Washington Avenue. Weekly on Tuesdays through December 23.

     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. (Spiked shoes 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.

     The No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings the city’s best established and emerging authors and storytellers together for a monthly revue.

     Stories, humor, and poignancy are all part of the super storyteller party.

     Free. Tuesday night at 7 at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street. Monthly on the first Tuesday.

     Explore old New York—really old New York. Back before street cars, when Inwood Valley was still agricultural, and look further back before Europeans arrived, and sometimes even earlier.

     Cole Thompson, an armchair historian (and real estate broker) presents stories of Inwood’s history in his series on Uptown’s past. Can you imagine the days when  mastodons roamed the hills and meadows or settlers harvested wheat?

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

     Wednesday jazz is back.

     Enjoy jams al fresco with Uptown ensembles and your music-loving neighbors every Wednesday with pleasant weather. Organized by Jazz WaHi.

     Free. Wednesday afternoons from 4 to 5:15 in Bennett Park in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue at 183rd Street. Through October.

     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.

     Thursday from 8 to 4 in Lower WaHi on 175th Street between Broadway and Wadsworth Avenue. Weekly on Thursdays through November 20.

     Four new exhibits are on display at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 

     Watch for information about gallery shows by the photographer and filmmaker Sam Contis (right), the sculptor Diane Simpson (above), the poet and sculptor Rhea Dillon, and the multimedia artist Eric N. Mack.

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 6 at the Academy on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. Through February 8. 

     A Collection without Borders brings together the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Goa, and the Philippines. The pieces come from the collection of the Hispanic Society of America.

     The exhibition takes place in the magnificent Main Court, designed 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 pieces are well-known, others are exhibited here for the first time in decades, together representing only a small fraction of the museum’s vast collection.

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Society’s museum on Audubon Terrace at Broadway at 155th Street. Through October 19.

    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 to 3 on Isham Street between Seaman Avenue and Cooper Street. Open year-round.

     Visit Manhattan’s only remaining farmhouse during Path Through History Weekend.

     You’ll get an hour-long guided tour of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum and its historic Hessian military hut. Also on display is a contemporary art exhibition and the permanent collection of  Upper Manhattan history.

     Registration is required, so save your spot here. Only 15 places are available.

     Free. Saturday morning at 11 at the farmhouse in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Experience the Met Cloisters’ collection through creative drawing challenges in the galleries with expert teaching artists.

     Materials are provided, but you may bring your own sketchbook. Please note, only pencils are allowed in the galleries. Demonstrations repeat every 30 minutes over two hours. For visitors of all ages. First come, first served.

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3 in the Cloisters. On the second Saturday of the month.

     This Spooky Season, book a paranormal investigation of Manhattan’s oldest surviving house, where local lore has it Eliza Jumel, who was Aaron Burr’s wife and who died in 1865, sometimes pays a visit to her former home.

     If if you don’t meet her ghost, you’ll learn the background of paranormal investigations, including the legendary paranormal activity at Morris-Jumel Mansion, while learning the history of the Mansion, its former residents, and interesting facts about the museum collection.

     During the program, you will have after-dark access to ghost hunt in the period rooms of the Mansion, normally closed off to the public. Believers and skeptics alike will enjoy the evening.

     $71.21. Saturday night at 7 at the mansion in Roger Morris Park. Also on October 17, 18, 24, 31, and November 1.

     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.

     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.

     Taking the form of a vibrant garden in the middle of Audubon Terrace, Natura Extracta invites viewers to reflect on the entangled histories of extraction, migration, and environmental transformation across the Americas.

     The shape of the work evokes the route of the Pan-American Highway, a vast network of roads stretching more than 19,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina.

     The artist, originally from Masaya, Nicaragua, is Oscar M. Caballero, who  holds a master’s degree in advanced architectural design from Columbia, where he is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

     Natura Extracta is the selection for the 2025 open call for Art on Audubon Terrace.

     Free. On the terrace outside the Hispanic Society daily, just off Broadway at 155th Street.

     It’s been ninety years!

     Fort Tryon Park opened to the public on October 13, 1935, with remarks by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose family donated the land.

     The park’s design was entrusted to the Olmsted Brothers, the renowned landscape architecture firm led by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park. Their vision transformed the rocky terrain into a scenic retreat featuring rolling lawns, curving pathways, and meticulously planned gardens.

     Spend some time this month exploring the park that’s called a crown jewel of Manhattan. Here are resources from the Fort Tryon Park Trust and from the NYC Parks.

     Commemorate the life of the baritone saxophonist and community anchor Claire Daly, who died last autumn.

     The program begins with a new piece commissioned by JPI and composed by Joel Forrester with poetry by Kirpal Gordon and ends with a jam session on Daly’s favorite tunes with some of her favorite musicians.

     Featuring The Jazz Power Orchestra with Eli Yamin, piano and co-leader, Michael Blake, tenor saxophone and co-leader, Lisa Parrot, baritone saxophone, James Zollar trumpet, Deb Weiz, trombone, Dave Hofstra, bass, Steve Johns, drums.

     Wednesday night, October 15, at 7 at the Alianza Dominicana in Lower WaHi on 166th Street between Broadway and Audubon Avenue.

     Visit Audubon Terrace for a month of programming highlighting the richness and diversity of Hispanic cultural heritage.

     The acclaimed Harlem Chamber Players visit the Hispanic Society for a special performance featuring works by William Grant Still, Tania León, Gabriela Lena Frank, Heitor Villa Lobos, and Astor Piazzolla.

     Thursday evening, October 16, at 6 at the Hispanic Society on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations feature Día de los Muertos festivities presented in collaboration with Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders.

     Come by for artmaking, live music, face-painting and fun.

     Free. Saturday afternoon, October 18, at the Hispanic Society on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     During Open House New York you can take a rare peek  inside a historic cottage at Fort Tryon Park for an annual opportunity to explore one of the park’s original structures.

     Built as the gatehouse for the early twentieth-century Billings Estate, the cottage now serves as an office for NYC Parks and the Fort Tryon Park Conservancy. Drop by and you will learn about the building’s architecture, its connection to the Billings Estate, and its continuing role in the stewardship of the park.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, October 19, from 2 to 5 at the gatehouse just east of the entrance at Margaret Corbin Drive in Hudson Heights.

     Two Latin divas join forces to offer contrasting and complementary versions of tango as song when the operatic diva Carla López Speziale and the tango diva Diana López come Uptown.

     They will present a concert including tangos, milongas and valses from the early 1900’s, with piano accompaniment and arrangements by the renowned Latin music authority Pablo Zinger.

     A reception with light snacks and beverages follows the performance.

     $28.29; children, $10. Sunday afternoon, October 19, at 2 at Good Shepherd Church in Inwood at 620 Isham Street.

     Sit in on a conversation between Riccardo Frizza, the musical and artistic director of the Donizetti Opera Festival, and Fred Plotkin, one of America’s foremost experts on opera who has distinguished himself in many fields as a writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher.

     Plotkin will interview Frizza during the run of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera, which Frizza is conducting. The one-hour conversation will be followed by a 30-minute audience Q&A.

     Free. Monday night, October 20, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in history, the works of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), which encompass portraits, paintings, drawings, and prints, have captivated American collectors and the public for many years.

     A day-long symposium on collecting Goya will explore the artistic, cultural, and commercial networks through which his art has entered museum collections in the United States, including the Meadows Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, and the symposium’s host, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. A distinguished group of curators and scholars will convene to discuss the practices of collecting and curating Goya’s art, as well as the evolving academic discourse surrounding the artist from the late ninetheenth century to the present.

     Staff from the Goya Research Center, at the Hispanic Society, will be on hand.

     Free with reservation. Friday, October 24, starting at 10:30 a.m. at the Society’s Library on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     The Ladies’ Philoptochos Society of Saint Spyridon are at it again. The Greek Food Festival welcomes you to homemade kebobs, moussaka, papoutsakia, baklava and more. 

     You may dine in or carry your treats home. There will also be a boutique of Hellenic crafts and gifts. Valet parking is available too.

     Friday through Sunday, October 24 through 26, from noon to 6 (on Sunday, until 5) in Fort George at Saint Spyridon Church on Wadsworth Avenue between 179th and 180th Streets.

     Autumn garden maintenance is an important step to a successful growing season.

     Help the friends of Inwood Hill Park maintain the pollinator garden by preparing it for a dormant winter. You’ll also learn more about the ways pollinator species help plants flourish in our parks.

     Wear clothes to get dirty in.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, October 26, at 1; meet at 218th Street and Indian Road.

     Explore materials and process through artist-led demonstrations and drop-in art-making activities with Met Museum experts during an open studio. Hosted in the Pontaut Chapter House.

     For visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.

     Free with museum admission. Saturday afternoon, October 26, from 1 to 4 in the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park. Also on November 30, and December 28.

     As Movies at the Palace continues the Season of Community, one title highlights our need for human connection more than all the others: Shaun of the Dead.

     This is your chance to redeem mankind. Come dressed as the undead and you may be chosen to compete in our first ever Zombi-lympics, a series of terrifyingly ridiculous challenges to prove you can blend in with the worst Hell has to offer. 

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, October 26, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 176th Street.

     The final work Franz Schubert completed in his too-short life, the String Quintet in C Major, is generally agreed to be one of the most deeply moving, transporting pieces of music ever written.

     The work moves between sorrow, serenity, and sublimity, with a slow movement so utterly celestial that the legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein called it “the arrival at the gates of heaven,” and had it played to him at his deathbed.
     To perform this masterpiece, the Parker Quartet along with the cellist Jay Campbell perform an underground concert.

     $95. Tuesday and Wednesday nights, October 28 and 29, at both 7 and 8:30 in the Crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Celebrate the spookiest night of the year with a mysterious fantasy featuring astonishing acrobatics and unforgettable thrills in this family-friendly spectacle.

     Step into The Vampire Circus, a mesmerizing theatrical experience that fuses artistry, technology, and twisted acrobatics. It’s a world that pushes the boundaries of human performance with acrobatics performed by international artists with multidisciplinary skills in theater, dance, and gymnastics. 

     $49.50 to $86.90. All Hallow’s E’en at 9 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Dance away an enjoyable evening with live Motown classic hits.

     One of Uptown’s Broadway performers, Raun Ruffin, shares the Detroit sound for all to enjoy.

     $28.29; children, $10. Saturday night, November 1, at 7 at Good Shepherd Church in Inwood at 620 Isham Street.

     Manhattan’s oldest surviving house is in need of some renovation. To accomplish the job the Morris-Jumel Mansion will close this month.

     When it reopens, the home will be refreshed — and it will have its fourth column back in place to greet visitors. 

     Check back for occasional updates.

     From the height of Spain’s imperial power in the middle of the sixteenth century to the fall of the Habsburg dynasty at the close of seventeenth century, Spanish fashion was characterized by luxurious excesses that were widely critiqued within Spain and that shaped perceptions of Spanish culture abroad.

      A new exhibition at the Hispanic Society draws exclusively from its collection, recreating the strange splendor of Golden Age Spanish fashion with a rich array of objects that includes illuminated manuscripts, textiles, ecclesiastical vestments, jewelry, and more.

     This exhibition examines how Spain’s most powerful institutions—the crown, the church, and the military—harnessed the power of fashion, and the ways that ordinary citizens of the Spanish Empire used clothing to shape their identities and social status.

     Free. Thursdays through Sundays, starting November 6, from noon to 5 at the Society’s museum on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street. Through February 8.

     Mark your calendar for the eighth annual Washington Heights Jazz Festial.

     Organzied by Jazz WaHi, the festival highlights the best jazz that Upper Manhattan has to offer. Last year sixteen bands – over 60 musicians – performed in various venues around the neighborhood, reflecting Uptown’s musical and cultural variety.

     Thursday through Sunday, November 6 through 9, at locations across Hudson Heights.

     The Season of Community film series continues with this year’s members’ choice: The Breakfast Club.

     Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the John Hughes classic as five high school students in Saturday detention remind us that we have a great deal more in common than we may think. Starring Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, and Judd Nelson. 

     $12.72. Sunday afternoon, November 9, at 3 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 176th Street.

     Composers often find inspiration from other music, drawing from history, tradition, and artistic lineage. The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra’s new season, The Music That Inspires Us, begins with Reena Esmail’s Avartan, a transcendent fusion of Indian and Western classical traditions.

     Next on the program is Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte for string orchestra. Written in 2011, the piece was inspired by a moment in a Haydn string quartet when the music suddenly shifts in tone and texture. 

     The concert concludes with Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite. Taken from his ballet on the Italian commedia dell’arte character, the Pulcinella Suite is a witty and colorful homage to eighteenth-century Italian Baroque music filtered through Stravinsky’s modernist lens.

     $21.50; seniors, $16.25. Saturday night, November 15, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

     Step into a journey through musical archives when the Spanish pianist Antonio Galera investigate anecdotes and highlights musical references found in the correspondence of the collection of the Hispanic Museum and Library.

     In Musica y Letra, Galera shares letters from other renowned Hispanic artists who traveled to New York City throughout the Museum’s history, including Joaquín Sorolla, Concha Piquer, Zenobia Camprubí, and many others.

     Free. Thursday evening, November 20, at 6 in the society’s library on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th 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.

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

     Shorakopoch 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.

     Did you know that the location is in Manhattan’s only untouched forest? The Shorakopoch Preserve was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network last year.

     At Shorakopoch 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.

     You’ve had plenty of turkey and too much pie, so now’s the time to burn some calories.
     On this Shorewalkers trek, you’ll start at the southern tip of Manhattan, walk the Hudson River Greenway, and end in Fort Washington Park at the Little Red Lighthouse.

     Sign up here. Dress for the weather, take a snack, and wear comfortable shoes.

     Saturday morning, November 29, at a time and meetup spot shared with the participants.

     For his fourth and final concert, the Spanish pianist Antonio Galera presents Cuadros de una Exposición, featuring works by Granados and Mussorgsky, as well as the world premiere of two solo piano pieces by Francisco Coll, commissioned by the Hispanic Society and Antonio Galera. The acclaimed Valencian composer has created two contrasting pieces inspired by Goya and Zurbarán, both represented in the museum’s collection. 

     Free. Thursday evening, December 4, at 6 at the Hispanic Society and Museum on Audubon Terrace at Broadway and 155th Street.

     The Inwood Chamber Players present classical holiday classics arranged by Inwood resident Gilbert Dejean.

     A reception with light snacks and beverages follows the performance.

     $28.29; children, $10. Sunday afternoon, December 7, at 2 at Good Shepherd Church in Inwood at 620 Isham Street.

     The critically acclaimed CSOT Concert Chorale, conducted by Courtney Carey, brings Handel's masterpiece to life. The Messiah was an instant popular upon its premiere in 1742 and has remained a perennial favorite ever since.

     Established in 2014, the Courtney’s Stars of Tomorrow  performs a range of choral repertoire from early Baroque classics through twenty-first-century choral literature. This program lasts about an hour and includes Part I and the Hallelujah chorus.

     Free. Monday night, December 8, at 7:30 in the Grand Foyer of the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Imerse yourself in the holiday season with Frank Capra’s beloved 1946 classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore.

     Before the movie, enjoy festive pre-show caroling by students from Statement Arts and a special introduction by Mary Owen, daughter of Donna Reed. 

     $12.72. Sunday evening, December 14, at 6 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     New York City’s leading avant-garde string quartet kicks off its 2025–26 Met residency with a holiday-season homage to medieval music at the Cloisters.

     Over the last 20 years, the JACK Quartet has championed twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers around the world. In this concert, the ensemble features new and old works inspired by the most daring musical experiments of the Middle Ages.

     Violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, along with New York City trailblazers, perform amid Romanesque architecture.

     $75. Two performances on Sunday, December 14, at 6:30 and 8:15 at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Prepare for Christmas in a European cloister.

     After two sold-out Renaissance marathons, the four-time Grammy nominee Clarion Choir returns Uptown with a serene program for Advent. Take a deep breath and bask in the splendor of music from Renaissance motets to recent settings of favorite carols, presented by some of New York City’s finest vocalists.

     Featuring works by Poulenc, Sweelinck, Victoria, Davis, Dawson, Tavener, and Weir.

     $95. Saturday night, December 20, at 6:30 and 8:15 in the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.

     Start 2025 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.

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

     Human connections can often be the spark that breathes life into great music. The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra’s theme this season is The People That Inspire Us.

     The winter concert begins with Revelry by the American composer  and WHCO Spotlight Composer, Valerie Coleman. The work pulses with rhythmic drive and jubilant energy. Next is Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, inspiring not only because it was composed by a woman in a male-dominated musical world, but because of its extraordinary emotional depth, formal elegance, and expressive power.

     The concert concludes with a rarely heard gem from Louise Farrenc, a French Romantic composer and groundbreaking music educator. Her Nonet combines the textures of strings and winds in a richly melodic, symphonic-scale chamber work.

     $21.50; seniors, $16.25. Saturday night, January 10, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

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

      The so-called 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.”

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

     Inwood Henge: Friday, January 23, at dawn and dusk.

     Take a step toward the New York Marathon at the Shamrocks, Blues, and Salsa 5K.

     Both races are sponsored by the New York Road Runners, so the perennial Uptown jaunt is a qualifying race for the fabled autumn marathon. The course takes you from Lower WaHi, up through Hudson Heights,  turning around at the edge of Fort Tryon Park to head back downhill.

     Annually in March, usually on the first Sunday morning.

      Like any visionary not afraid to rock the boat, the journey of Wim Hof has been filled with love and dedication, perseverance in the face of ridicule, joy and heartbreak. During an evening with him, you will hear about every high and every low, and how each critical turn of events helped shape the method that now transforms the lives of millions of people around the world.

     In this presentation, Hof shares his story of exploration, resilience, and discovery. You’ll experience all the trials and triumphs that shaped both the man and his breathwork method.

     $64.90 to $344.40. Sunday night, March 8, at 9 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     In The Places That Inspire Us, the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra explores music inspired by real-world settings and the emotional landscapes they evoke.

     The program of the season’s final concrrt begins with Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans, a thrilling contemporary work for chamber orchestra that channels the turbulence and strength of the sea. This work draws inspiration and its title from A Woman Speaks, a poem by Audre Lorde.

     Next on the program, the ensemble is joined by Ariadne Greif for Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic meditation on childhood and place, set to the words of James Agee. Concluding the concert is Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish,” a sweeping tribute to the rugged romance of the Scottish Highlands.

     $21.50; seniors, $16.25. Saturday night, April 18, at 7:30 at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights on Bennett Avenue at 179th Street.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this Memorial Day trek, you’ll walk from Battery Park to the GWB.

     The second leg of the journey, over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps, and continuing along the Palisades, takes place on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday, May 25, at a place and time shared with registrants.

     Want to learn about the golden age of cinema? Discover Paris for romantics? Take a class at Columbia University.

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

     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 for the fall semester is in July. Class is held at Columbia in Morningside Heights and Manhattanville.