The Uptown Tweet of the Week
Presenting the Uptown Tweet of the Week, our pick that represents the good, the bad, and the lovely in this week’s UC Twitterverse… Related: The Uptown Tweet of the Week – Margot’s We invite you to subscribe to the Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at [...]
I LOVE MY HOOD: A Graffiti Stroll Through Washington Heights this Saturday
I LOVE MY HOOD: A Graffiti Stroll Through Washington Heights Art Tour ~ Saturday, June 16 | 2 & 3:30pm Join local artist Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez (FEEGZ) as he leads a tour through Washington Heights focusing on the works of DISTER and other prominent local street artists, examining public street art uptown in both [...]
Art in Washington Heights – A Look Back
Check out this video from 2010 on art in Washington Heights that features our good friends Mr. “I Love My Hood” Dister and Sandra Betancourt of NoMAA. Shout out to the both of them as they have been doing, in their own separate ways, a lot of the heavy lifting of keeping the arts alive [...]
Picture of the Week
Photography by Miguel Kron Mr. I Love My Hood himself Dister getting inked at Liquid Skin studio (165 Sherman Ave). We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com. Your email:
Help Make WORD UP A Permanent Bookstore Uptown! | The Petition Site
The opening of WORD UP marked an exciting day for our community. Since our opening, we have hosted readings by novelists, comic book artists, performance artists, travel writers, zinesters, poets both famous and first-time, English and Spanish, teen and adult; live music free improv, hip-hop, Latin jazz, poetry/performance; informative publishing Q&As; children’s story hours; knitting [...]
Word Up Books: A Video Retrospective
Video by Art By Dj Boy (@DjboyNYC) We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com.
Putt-Up @ Word Up Fundraiser This Weekend
Putt Up at @ Word Up Weekend Mini-Golf Extravaganza & Awesome Raffle SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 & SUNDAY, AUGUST 14th 12pm to 4pm each day Astroturf in a bookshop? Well, this ain’t just any bookshop. Putt Up at Word Up is a mini-golf extravaganza, with local artists and kids designing each hole, and with all proceeds [...]
Word Up Extension Celebration Tomorrow @ Word Up Books
SATURDAY, JULY 30 1pm to 4pm 4157 Broadway near 176th Street YOU’RE INVITED to the WORD UP EXTENSION CELEBRATION! Remember how Word Up was going to close in mid-July? Delightfully, it has not! We’re still here through the end of September, and hopefully beyond. So it’s time to celebrate! Come join your neighbors, Word Up volunteers, authors, artists, [...]
A Few Words of Praise for Word Up Books
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) It was all supposed to end tonight. July 14th was slated to be the last day of Word Up Books but thanks to the people of the neighborhood and their support of this community affirming space and Vantage Residential, we now have an extension until the end of September. While it [...]
Word Up Community Book Store Grand Opening Tonight
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Word Up Pop Up Book Shop – Grand Opening Friday June 17th 6 PM 4157 Broadway near 175th Street Like I have said many times before, the future is ours to shape. There is no such thing as impossible. The only limits that exist are only in our individual and collective [...]
Dister x La Sala 78 x Sound of Art
Once again, La Sala 78 (111 Dyckman St) shows its support of local artists by allowing Mr. I Love my hood, Dister, to bless its wall with a mural. Brought to you by Uptown’s very own the Sound of Art (SOA), Dister and company broke night this weekend to bring forth some visual eye candy [...]
UPTOWN'S DISTER LOVES THE HARLEM HOOD TOO.
BY DeJesus Uptown based Art entity, SOUND OF ART, recently brokered a deal between Real Estate based firm RIPCO and Uptown’s very own muralist/graffiti artist DISTER. The deal consisted of DISTER bringing some artistic flavor to a RIPCO Harlem community event that took place in one of their empty commercial spaces (which they were showcasing [...]
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