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.

     The 15th annual exhibition of Women in the Heights features the artistry of dozens of Uptown women. Curated by Andrea Arroyo.

     The show is open Tuesday and Saturday afternoons from 1 to 5 at the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance in Lower WaHi at 4140 Broadway at 176th Street. Through May 7.

     The latest production from UP Theater looks at life in New York through newcomers’ eyes.

     In Lost Sock Laundry, three immigrant women in Astoria confront their differences while negotiating the unwritten rules of washer and dryer etiquette, revealing what our country could be.

     $27.68; students and seniors, $17.02. Wednesday through Saturday nights at 8 at Fort Washington Collegiate Church in Hudson Heights on 181st Street at Col. Robt. McGaw Place. Through April 27, when there’s also a matinee performance at 3 with a Spanish translation.

      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 April 18; it’s also on August 26 in Hudson Heights Henge. Fort George Henge is on May 30, 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 30 and June 12.

     Hudson Heights Henge: Thursday at dawn and dusk.

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

     Rose B. Simpson, a Native American artist, presents a paper show of a collection of her preparatory sketches, engineering drawings, and images in an open-air sculptural installation.

     Free. In Bruce’s Garden in Isham Park in Inwood Across from 10 Park Terrace East (not West!), near 215th Street. Through April 30.

     Expanding its scope to the New World, the Hispanic Society presents the work of three Dominican-born co-curators who exhibit art demonstrating their perspective as Dominican immigrants in New York.

     The show, Dominican Yorks, is part of Arte en el Alto Manhattan.

     Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library on Audubon Terrace on Broadway at 155th Street. Through June 30.

     Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who arrived in New York in 1889, was greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society’s most vulnerable.

     After the nun’s death, the Vatican made her a saint. Her shrine, in Uptown, hosts a screening of the new film about her life, Cabrini. A wine and cheese reception is included.

     Free. Thursday evening at 6:30 at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Hudson Heights on Fort Washington Avenue just below 190th Street.

     Pack water, snacks, and a poem, song, or rap for the sunset poetry hike.

     It’s an open mic trek marking the first event of the Earth Day Festival organized by the Friends of  Inwood Hill Park.

     These creative wanderers will perambulate around the shoreline of the cove, then head up the Blue Trail to Overlook Meadow for sunset before hiking out together at dusk. In between will be pauses for anyone who wants to share their own creation or something that inspires them.

     Wear sturdy, close-toe shoes and take a flashlight or headlamp for the hike out. All ages and ability levels are welcome for the 90-minute excursion.

     The guided is the local poet Donnie Welch, a super steward trail maintainer with the Natural Areas Conservancy. Registration required.

     Free. Friday evening at 6:30; meet at the Isham street entrance.

    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.

    Discover what it was like to live in New York before honking, double-parking, and exhaust fumes.

     Car-free Earth Day takes place around the city and includes two stretches Uptown. Look for special programming and events  at the annual event.

     Fort George St. Nicholas Avenue from 181st Street to 190th Street

                                Audubon Avenue between 189th and 190th Streets

     Inwood Dyckman Street from Broadway to La Marina
     Saturday from 10 to 4.

     Celebrate our home on Earth Day.

     The Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden offers tours the garden and you can participate in wildflower seeding while learning more about volunteering and membership.

     Children will enjoy story time at 11.

     A full array of events throughout the day is listed on the Kids’ Events page under April 20.

     Saturday from 10 to 4 in the RING garden in Inwood at the confluence of Broadway, Riverside Drive, and Dyckman Street.

     Join the Urban Park Rangers and learn how to identify plants traditionally used for making cordage—ropes.

     You’ll get the chance to try your hand at creating this essential tool yourself, and to experiment with different crafts that require cordage.

     Free. Saturday from 11 to 12:30 in Inwood Hill Park near 218th Street and Indian Hill Road.

     Wander a colonial farmhouse while listening to the sounds of Jose Luis on the harp.

     Luis has been performing for over thirty years and is highly regarded as a gifted harpist by his peers. He is the only musician to play both the classic concert harp and the Latin lever harp, which requires him to pluck the strings with two techniques.

     $3 (free for Inwood residents). Saturday from noon to 2 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street. Also on May 18; and on Fridays, May 24 and June 7, from 1 to 3 (free).

     Come out to experience the Appearances sculpture exhibition, an outdoor display, on a free walking tour with MJ Dickson, who curated the show. The show is so popular that it’s been extended through the summer.

     Free. Saturday afternoon at 2 in Fort Tryon Park; meet at the northern end of the Cloisters Lawn near the UDD sculpture by Wolf (in the photo).

     The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a featured guest, offering cross-cultural and multidisciplinary sets of new works and jazz standards.

     If you have a little musical talent, you’ll be invited to join in and jam, bringing together artists, neighbors, and fans to experience the power of jazz, community, and swing.

     Saturday night at 7 at the Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Lower WaHi on 166th Street at Broadway.

     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.

     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.

     Say hello to Meryl Streep when she joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on stage after a screening of The Devil Wears Prada.

     It’s the latest in the Movies at the Palace series. The 2006 film, directed by David Frankel, also stars Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci.

     Tickets available starting Monday.

     Free. Monday night, April 29, at 7 at the United Palace Theater in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Connect, balance, and challenge yourself with yoga in Spanish.

     Conéctate, equilibra y desafíate con yoga en español.

     Esta clase de Vinyasa Yoga incluye flujos de intensidad media que te llevarán desde el saludo al sol hasta una postura máxima final.

     Se recomiendan tapetes, pero no son obligatorios, y todos los niveles son bienvenidos. 
     Tuesday morning at 10 in J. Hood Wright Park in Lower WaHi on Fort Washington Avenue at 175th Street.

     The Harlem Chamber Players will perform music from Harlem Renaissance composers. in an American Dreams concert.

     Take a lawn chair or a picnic blanket for this outdoor performance. 

     Free. Saturday afternoon, April 27, at 3 in Roger Morris Park in Lower WaHi.

     A presentation o the African diaspora will explore community bonds, healing, and adaptability with Cheyney McKnight, who speculates on a distant future while looking to the past and present.

     A performance artist and historian, McKnight presents “The Ancestor’s Future: An Afrofuturist’s Journey Through Time,” a personally curated exhibition. Join her for the show’s opening.

     Free. Tuesday evening, April 30, from 6 to 8 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Only in New York ...

     Defend against the Great and Glorious Grand Army of The Bronx on its annual fight to annex Marble Hill. 

     The 52-acre Manhattan neighborhood has been wedged in The Bronx since 1913, upsetting some of our Bronxian neighbors. Attempting to re-take it is a tradition that dates 1939, when Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons drove to 225th Street, at the summit of Marble Hill, and planted the Bronx flag to the dismay of local residents.

     Care to fight back? Everyone is welcome, even hecklers. If you have the temerity to join the rebels, you must wear battle gear; walking is involved so wear comfortable shoes.
     Free. A Saturday morning in May at a bar. The invasion begins once the tab is settled.

     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, May 3, 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.

     The season’s first concert in Leadlight’s outdoor series premiers with a peppy performance featuring storyteller Rachael Harrington and the Puerto Rican folk tale The Legend of the Coqui. Take home a free copy of the book.

     Free. Friday afternoon, May 3, at 5 at Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street.

     It’s springtime for … zany comedy.

     Mel Brooks’ classic, The Producers, opens the friendship season of Movies at the Palace. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder co-star.

     Experience the film that kick-started the comedy legend’s cinematic career the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen. You’ll also get a chance to win movie memorabilia in a raffle.

     $7.74. Friday night, May 3, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     How do Black descendants of those enslaved in America see the future of sites of enslavement?

     Cheyney McKnight, a historical interpreter, shares her persepective in her exhibit, The Ancestor’s Future: An Afrofuturist’s Journey Through Time.

     Her view from the past of Black America to the future of the African diaspora uses clothing and set design to center the descendants in the conversation.  After the performance, you’re invited to join McKnight over a cup of tea in a conversation about the African experience in America.

     $3. Saturday morning, May 4, at 11 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street. Also on May 11 and Saturdays in June.

     Find that gewgaw you didn’t know your needed at the spring flea market in the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden.

     You’ll get to choose from secondhand clothes, home goods, and bric-a-brac. Or if you’ve done your own spring cleaning and are ready to part with some cherished tchotchkes, you can sign up as a vendor.

     Free to browse. Saturday, May 4, at a time to be announced later in the RING garden at the confluence of Broadway, Riverside Drive, and Dyckman Street.

     The Miró Quartet, one of the great American string quartets of today, performs an underground program of music by U.S. composers past and present from their new album, Home.

     The concert centers around Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions [vol. 1], an eclectic series of miniatures inspired by science fiction and surrealist art. The ensemble will also play Samuel Barber’s shattering Adagio for Strings, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, which was inspired by the Barber Adagio and composed in memory of Walker’s grandmother, and the title movement from Kevin Puts’ Home.

     The performances are preceded by a wine and cheese reception an hour before the concerts.

     $75. Saturday night, May 4, at 7 and 8:30 in the Crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     As the weather warms up, snowbirds return to the north.

     The Feminist Bird Club hosts a beginner-friendly birding walk and workshop over a 90-minute hike. A limited number of binoculars will be available to borrow, so take your own if you have some.

      Wear comfortable shoes and pack a water bottle and a snack.

     Free. Sunday morning, May 5, at 9 in the entrance to Fort Tryon Park at Margaret Corbin Circle, in Hudson Heights.

     The Renaissance Choir of New York returns Uptown for a performance featuring Austro-Hungarian court composers.

     Mary, queen of Hungary, employed the court composer Thomas Stoltzer to set Luther’s 1524 Hebrew-German Psalm translations into six- and seven-part harmonies. The choir presents the pieces accompanied by two viols.

     Sunday afternoon, May 5, at 4 in The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     The Cornerstone Chorale presents is annual spring concert. The details are still being worked out, but the group typically performs in the afternoon at a Hudson Heights venue.

     Sunday, May 5, at a time and place to be announced.

     The Dior Quartet traces the musical threads of New York, reverberating through time in this great melting pot of the city.

     It’s the latest concert in the Ghosts of Gotham series from Death of Classical. Each concert is preceded by a wine and cheese reception an hour before the performance.

     $75. Wednesday night, May 8, at 7 and 8:30 in the Crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Unleash your creativity and get your hands dirty.

     The Growing Uptown May Workshop gives you a terracotta pot to decorate, a seedling to transplant, and a lesson in using  everyday items from your home to plant vegetables.

     Not only will you learn the basics of gardening, you’ll also gain insights into harvesting the fruits (and veggies) of your labor.

     The program is for anyone looking to sprout their knowledge on gardening and sustainable practices. Materials in the 90-minute program are provided first-come, first-served.

     Free. Tuesday evening, May 14, at 5:30 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     The Leadlights ensemble returns with Rising in the Heights, the annual spring commemoration of Uptown music.

     This month’s outdoor concert features the Latin musicians Carmen Cancel (vocalist) and Jainardo Batista (percussion/vocals).

     Free. Wednesday evening, May 15, at 5 on the sidewalk outside Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street.

     Help the UP Theater company celebrate Uptown, reach its fundraising goal, and honor the 2024 UPstanding Persons of the Year at a gala fundraising event.

     This year’s honorees are Sarina Prabasi and Elias Gurmu, who moved from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Washington Heights, where they founded Buunni Coffee in 2012.

     $107.62 (until May 1, $80.98). Wednesday night, May 15, at a time and place to be announed later.

     How do you find your voice in the loudest city in the world?

     The second show in the Death of Classical’s Ghosts of Gotham series features the dynamic duo of bassoonist andvocalist Eleni Katz and pianist/composer Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner.

     They will perform the titans of the past (Bernstein, Copland, and Gershwin) as well as voices of tomorrow like Cindi Hsu, Lila Meretzky, Jeff Scott, and Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner himself.

     A wine and cheese reception precedes each concert by an hour.

     $75. Wednesday night, May 15, at 7 and 8:30 in the Crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 155th Street.

     Celebrate the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library at a spring party.

     The foremost collection of Iberian art outside Europe, the society shares the ideas of Spain and Portugal with the New World.

     $150 to $500. Thursday evening, May 16, a6 6:30 in the museum in Audubon Park on Broadway at 155th Street.

     The Songs of Solidarity concert features the Leadlights Ensumble to celebrate the connections among people of various ages, cultures, and religions. Joining the string quartet are the Latin quartet Sofrito and the Blues and klezmer musicians.

     Sunday afternoon, May 19, at 2 at the YM & YWHA in Fort George on Nagle Avenue.

     Fans of screwball comedy in the spirit of vaudeville already know Duck Soup, and they can probably reel of a number of its jokes with ease.

     On its surface, it stars Groucho Marx as the president of Freedonia, but Roger Ebert put the rest this way: “To describe the plot would be an exercise in futility, since a Marx Brothers movie exists in moments, bits, sequences, business and dialogue, not in comprehensible stories.”

     The 1933 classic is the next film in Movies at the Palace. After the screening you can listen to a conversation between The New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik and Marxian connoisseur Noah Diamond.

     $7.74. Sunday evening, May 19, at 7 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     Colonial Crossroads is a family-friendly interpretation of African and European traditions and instruments that influenced each other during the Colonial period.

     In this Pinkster celebration, you’re encouraged to participate in call-and-response and body percussion techniques. You’ll be led by a musician who uses baroque guitar, mandolin, mountain dulcimer and recorders to perform European music from eighteenth century, and another musician who represents the African side of Colonial America through stories and songs performed on shekere and djembe.

     Free. Tuesday evening, May 21, at 6 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

      The best of Uptown filmmaking gets its time on the screen at the Inwood Film Festival.

     The ninth annual series includes thirty films, including five that were commissioned, in eight screenings. Of those, ten are world premieres. Most of the films were made by women and underrepresented groups.

     Panels for filmmakers take place amid the screening schedule.

     $17.85 for a single film; $55.20 for a festival pass; $125 for the opening night gala, Thursday through Sunday, May 23 through 26, at the Campbell Sports Center at Columbia’s athletic fields in Inwood on 218th Street.

     Take part in the traditions of African drumming when Wula Drum offers a workshop and performance to celebrate Pinkster.

     The African-American holiday originated in the Dutch colony of New Netherland (present-day New York) in the seventeenth century. Pinkster was celebrated in mid-summer, seven weeks after Pentecost, or Pinksteren, and was originally a Dutch holiday.

     Pinkster became one of the few days of the year when enslavers would allow the people they enslaved to gather in groups, sell goods, dance, make music, and celebrate. Between 1790 and 1810, Pinkster became primarily an African American holiday.

     Free. Thursday evening, May 23, at 6 at the Dyckman Family Farmhouse in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this trek, you’ll walk from Battery Park over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps and continue along the Palisades. Don’t worry, that’s not all in one day: It’s separated into two parts, taking place on Memorial Day and Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Monday morning, May 27, in Battery Park at a time shared with registrants.

     Founded last year, the Orchestrating Dreams Sinfonietta is a community chamber orchestra that combines its top students with college students majoring in music and professional musicians.

     This concert includes the Adagio for Strings, by Samuel Barber, Serenade for Strings, Antonín Dvořák, and Camerata en Guaguancó, Guido Lopez-Gavilán.

     Thursday night, May 30, at 7 on the second floor of the Alianza Dominicana in Lower WaHi 530 West 166th Street.

     After touring North America last year, dancer Amador Rojas is back, performing the show Authentic Flamenco.

     Originating in Spain, this special show, in partnership with the Royal Opera of Madrid, brings together award-winning professionals for music and dance.

     $70.99 to $130.99. Saturday night, June 1, at 8:30 at the United Palace in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The Inwood Chamber Players present a classical community concert with arrangements by Gil Dejean. 

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

     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.

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

     The twentieth season of the Scandinavian Music Festival presents three outdoor spring concerts performed by musicians of the Scandia Symphony showcasing the musical treasures and cultural heritage of Scandinavia.

     The first week is family friendly, with popular folk tunes and brass quintets from all of the Scandinavian countries. (Can you name them?)

     Free. Sunday afternoon, June 9, at 2 on the Billings Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

     The twentieth season of the Scandinavian Music Festival presents three outdoor spring concerts performed by musicians of the Scandia Symphony showcasing the musical treasures and cultural heritage of Scandinavia.

     The second performance is a sunset concert with the Scandia String Quartet performing pieces from Scandinavian composers.

     Free. Tuesday evening, June 11, at 6 on the Billings Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

     Butterflies of Steel, the stunning musical that tells the story of the Mirabal Sisters, arrives in time to celebrate the 18oth anniversary of the founding of the Dominican Republic.

     The story sets their tale to the rhythms of rap, trap, jazz, and Caribbean fusions, connecting with different generations, and revealing details about their fight against the Trujillo regime. Resceduled from the winter.

     $99.33 to $220.33 (includes fees, assessments, and surcharges). Thursday and Friday nights, June 13 and 14, at 8 at the United Palace Theater in Lower WaHi on Broadway at 175th Street.

     The Leadlights ensemble returns with Rising in the Heights, the annual spring commemoration of Uptown music.

     This month’s outdoor concert, the last one in the series, features the hip hop musician Randy Mason (voice/percussion) and Jamell Ogbanna (keyboard).

     Free. Friday evening, June 14, at 5 on the sidewalk outside Word Up Community Bookshop in Lower WaHi on Amsterdam Avenue at 165th Street.

     Family, honesty, and new connections are at the core of Untitled Devised Piece, a new work by Marco Antonio Rodriguez.

     The debut will be a staged reading, organized by the People’s Theatre Project.

     Free. Friday night, June 14, at 7 at the Alianza Dominicana in Lower WaHi at 530 West 166th Street.

     Art in the garden returns with paintings, sculpture, performances and more.

     Stroll the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden to take in the flora, fauna, and festivities the come with Uptown artists’ creativity.

     Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16, at times to be announced later in the garden at the confluence of Broadway, Dyckman Street, and Riverside Drive.

     Celebrate the end of the classical season with House of Time’s favorite works by Bach, Handel, and Rameau.

     The Uptown Arts Stroll is the setting, so come early for a stroll around the rose garden and stay late to toast the ensemble’s season.

     $39; seniors, $33.50; students, $19. Saturday night, June 15, at The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens in Hudson Heights on Pinehurst Avenue at 183rd Street.

     The twentieth season of the Scandinavian Music Festival presents three outdoor spring concerts performed by musicians of the Scandia Symphony showcasing the musical treasures and cultural heritage of Scandinavia.

     The concluding performance is a concerto program featuring three soloists, representing the Baroque, the Romantic, and the contemporary from the peoples of Scandinavia.

     Free. Sunday afternoon, June 16, at 2 on the Billings Lawn in Fort Tryon Park.

     Eat from garden to table when you create a chopped broccoli and chickpea salad.

     The Growing Uptown June workshop shows you how to make this nutritious dish and learn how to compost effectively at home. The instructors will share insights on composting, teaching you how to reduce food waste and create nutrient-rich soil for your garden.

     Materials in the 90-minute program are provided first-come, first-served.

     Free. Tuesday evening, June 18, at 5:30 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     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, June 27, 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.

     A modern ballet about immigration, Strangers is the summer performance of the Inwood Art Works community concert series. 

     Featuring Julia Bengtsson, Brian Morales, a woodwind quintet, percussion, and four dancers.

     Saturday night, June 29, at 8 in the Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood on Broadway at Isham Street.

     Join the Shorewalkers on a hike to Bear Mountain.

     On this trek, you’ll walk the second leg of a journey from Battery Park, over the George Washington Bridge, down 400 steps and continue along the Palisades. Don’t worry, that’s not all in one day: It’s separated into two parts. The first took place on Memorial Day and it continues on Independence Day.

     Register here.

     Thursday morning, July 4, at a place and time shared with registrants.

     Enjoy a meal in the room where it happened.

     The Morris-Jumel Mansion honors George Washington’s famed cabinet dinner, which the first president hosted in the mansion (before the Heights were named after him). The annual event typically features historical dishes and a presentation, and this year may include a tribute to the Revolutionaries’ assistance from the French.

     Tickets will be available later this spring. Sunday evening, July 14, at 6 at the mansion in Lower WaHi on Jumel Terrace.

     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, July 23, at 5:30 at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood on Broadway at 204th Street.

     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 August 15 for autumn classes and December 15 for the spring semester. Class is held at Columbia University in Manhattanville this semester.

     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.

     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.

     Postponed by construction to the autumn, at a date to be announced later at the Academy in Lower WaHi on Audubon Terrace.

     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.