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Word Up Book Shop Hopes to Reopen before the End of Spring | DNAinfo
By Nigel Chiwaya, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — With a little bit of luck, a beloved neighborhood book store will soon be back to offering reads to uptown residents. Word Up Community Book Shop, an all-volunteer book store that closed its doors last summer, is closing in on a Washington Heights location with the hope [...]
Online effort saves neighborhood book store in Washington Heights | 7online
BY Art McFarland WASHINGTON HEIGHTS (WABC) — A now vacant storefront in Washington Heights had a short life as a community bookstore known as Word Up. “The neighborhood has seemed to say, ‘Yes, we want this and we want Word Up to be the ones bringing it,” book store founder Vanessa Liu said. Run by [...]
Word Up Books Rises Again…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I remember when Word Up Books was just an idea. Before it had a space, before it even had a name, it was just an idea. The thinking was let’s create a space for books, for community and for people to come together and develop and nourish each other with words, [...]
Junot Díaz Appeals for Word Up Community Bookshop Support | GalleyCat
By Jason Boog Novelist Junot Diaz delivered a passionate appeal to readers on YouTube, urging them to donate to the Word Up Community Bookshop campaign on IndieGoGo. The bookseller and community space in Washington Heights, New York City only has five days left to reach its goal of $60,000 on the fundraising site. Here’s more [...]
The Clock is Ticking… Support Word Up Books
A Note From Word Up Books. One week till our Indiegogo campaign ends! Thank you to everyone who has contributed! The campaign has been great so far, but we still have more to raise before we hit our goal by January 1. Please help in any way you can; contributions of $5, $10, $15 are still incredibly [...]
Give A Gift To Washington Heights & Donate To Word Up Books
Ok folks; there is 13 days left to Word Up Books’ indiegogo campaign, so please dig deep and help Word Up Books find a new home. While Word Up has reached an important milestone of 20K, it needs more in order to function and operate in the community. Washington Heights definitely wants Word Up to [...]
Donate to Word Up Books & Win A Signed Junot Díaz Book
Okay folks, the first 3 people who donate at least $50 now (or if you increase your pledge by any amount): you will get, on top of all the regular perks, a signed Junot Díaz book. To win, you have to reference Uptown Collective in the indiegogo comments section, so we all know you heard [...]
The Top 3 Reasons You Should Donate to Word Up Books
By John Paul Infante (@infantejp) The closing of Word Up Community Bookshop on August 31st was heartbreaking for all those who care about Washington Heights and Inwood. Those who experienced Word Up know that it was more than a bookshop. Word Up was maintained by volunteers from the community, providing a space for dialogue, open [...]
Word Up bookstore organizers launch crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo.com | NY Daily News
By Michael. J. Feeney / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A popular Washington Heights bookstore that closed its doors last summer is looking to start a new chapter, but its volunteer organizers are seeking the public’s help to enable them to reopen. Word Up bookstore — a nonprofit experiment that lasted far longer than originally [...]
indiegogo Spotlight: Word Up Books
Help Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria move to a permanent location. Word Up Community Bookshop—the only 100% volunteer-powered, community bookshop and arts space in Washington Heights, New York City—needs your help to remain a viable community resource for our neighbors. After more than a year serving Northern Manhattan, our month-to-month lease at 4157 Broadway was [...]
One of the Last Uptown Bookstores Searches For a Home | The Uptowner
By Marielle Mondon On a humid day last August, a crew of volunteer booksellers came to a familiar space in Washington Heights and packed up the products that had been Word Up Bookshop, a spot first conceived as a week-long pop-up that turned into a yearlong community haven. The task, like most goodbyes, was bittersweet. [...]
Uptown Sounds: Will Glass – Beat Fields
Beat Fields is a collection of beats/songs made entirely on a four-track cassette player with drums, Wurlitzer electric piano, bass, guitar, organ, percussion, and turntables by neighborhood drummer and musician Will Glass. Will Glass has played experimental pop with Dirty Projectors and Nat Baldwin; Afrobeat with Fela Kuti alum Baba Ola Jagun; rock and roll [...]
Politicians Come to Aid of Word Up Bookstore, But It Must Find a New Home | THIRTEEN
BY Lindsay Armstrong On a recent Wednesday evening in Washington Heights, the Word Up Community Bookshop hummed with happy activity. Customers browsed the tidy stacks of English, Spanish and Russian-language titles. A woman dropped off two bags overflowing with books to donate and a volunteer got to work shelving these new arrivals. A small group [...]
Breaking: Word Up Books Gets Lease Extended Until End of August
This just in from the Word Up volunteer collective: We have been granted a small extension at our current location and will be allowed to remain through August 31st! Thanks to the generosity and hard work of our friends, neighbors, customers and local politicians for helping us continue to provide our community with the services and [...]
Hue-Man closes its doors | Manhattan Times
Story, video and photos by Sherry Mazzocchi It was a sad week for uptown bookstores. On the same day that Washington Heights’ Word Up received a termination notice from their landlord, Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore and Café announced they would close after a decade in business. The news made national headlines. Patrons begged the store’s CEO, [...]
Word Up Bookstore receives termination notice | Manhattan Times
By Sherry Mazzocchi Word Up is still accepting donations–but isn’t clear where they will go. The popular Washington Heights community bookstore received notice Tues., July 3rd that their lease would terminate in thirty days, and that they would need to move. Veronica Liu, one of the store’s unpaid volunteers, had been expecting the news, but [...]
Make Music New York Takes Places Tomorrow
That’s right people; the 6th annual Make Music New York Festival goes down tomorrow all over this great metropolis. With 1,000 free outdoor concerts on a single day in all parts of New York City and 8 venues in the Washington Heights and Inwood area, you will not be able to escape it. Our good [...]
Personal Days, Desperate Nights: An All-Star Reading @ Word Up Books Tonight
June 13, 2012 | 7-9pm | $10 | RSVP on Facebook PERSONAL DAYS, DESPERATE NIGHTS: A Reading with Ed Park, Jon Michaud, S. J. Rozan, and S. A. Solomon A reading with Ed Park, author of the multi-award-winning novel Personal Days and the founding editor of the Believer; Jon Michaud, author of When Tito Loved Clara (set in Inwood and named as [...]
‘Word Up’ organizers are staging 10 events in 10 days to keep popular Washington Heights bookstore afloat | NY Daily News
By Michael J. Feeney / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS It was only intended to last a month, but a popular Washington Heights bookstore has now been around for a year and organizers are looking to raise $10,000 in 10 days with hopes of making it a permanent fixture in the book-starved neighborhood. “People seem to [...]
The Word Up Books Birthday Fund Drive Starts Tomorrow
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I remember having a meeting in a sweltering day in late May of last year with Veronica Liu and others about making Word Up Books a reality. This was before the shop actually opened, before it even had a name and we were all there huddled, sweating our respective behinds off [...]
Make Music New York @ Word Up Books on June 21st
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Glass Breaks Launch Party @ Word Up Books – The Video
Video and Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) Glass Breaks, a collection of solo drum works by friend to the UC, Will Glass. While a DJ/Production tool by name and genre, it is also a highly listenable improvisational work from an innovative player who has collaborated with Dirty Projectors and Nat Baldwin, among many [...]
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