Word Up Books

Word Up Books: Community Bookshop. Libreria Comunitaria. Word Up is a multi-language, general-interest community bookshop and arts space in Washington Heights, committed to preserving and building a neighborhood in which all residents help each other to live better informed and more expressive lives, using books as an instrument of reciprocal education and exchange, empowering not only themselves, but their community. By hosting literary readings, music concerts, film screenings, theater productions, art openings, workshops, community meetings and talks, language salons, and other activities for kids and adults, we do our best to support and fortify the creative spirit unique to our diverse, uptown community.

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June 21 - Uptown Queer Collective's Rainbow Readers June Book Club Meeting

June 21 – Uptown Queer Collective’s Rainbow Readers June Book Club Meeting

Join Uptown Queer Collective’s Rainbow Readers Book Club for a discussion of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History by Hugh Ryan. Members receive 15% off the book at WordUpBooks.com. To receive the Zoom registration link, RSVP via @queercollective_ on Instagram, or through the Uptown Queer Collective’s Facebook group. ======================= About When Brooklyn Was Queer:The never-before-told story…

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June 14- The Songs We Write: An Afternoon of Live Original Music

June 14- The Songs We Write: An Afternoon of Live Original Music

Come listen and enjoy original music! Featured performers are a mix of local songwriters, composers, and Song A Week members. Each artist will be performing music they have written. Trivia questions will be provided between acts – answer correctly and win a prize!

To learn more about the Song A Week project visit: www.songaweek.org

The Songs We Write: An Afternoon of Live Original Music Sunday,…

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27 de mai/May 27 - Lugar común

27 de mai/May 27 – Lugar común

Registración aquí/Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udOmqqj0rEtShnNZa00en-4QsRZFJZaNV

Lectura de las participantes del taller de escritura creativa en español coordinado por Claudia Prado, con el apoyo de Culture Push, Poets & Writers y Word Up Community Bookshop – Evento en español

Public reading by participants of the Spanish-Language Creative Writing Workshop facilitated by…

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May 24 – Uptown Queer Collective’s Rainbow Readers Book Club Join Uptown Queer Collective for a book club meeting of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions…

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June 6- RYAN'S CHAPBOOK RELEASE !

June 6- RYAN’S CHAPBOOK RELEASE !

Join us for a virtual launch of Ryan Schulte’s first nonfiction chapbook, “Notes on Water and Blood” (Greying Ghost Press, 2020). Bruce Springsteen, whose fan base includes a lot of cops, wrote a protest song called “41 Shots (American Skin)” about the murder of Amadou Diallo in 1999. When he and the E. Street Band played it at Madison Square Garden, people literally turned their backs to the…

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May 16- A live reading of Armando Batista's new e-chapbook (with live music by Reza Salazar)

May 16- A live reading of Armando Batista’s new e-chapbook (with live music by Reza Salazar)

A live reading of Armando Batista’s new e-chapbook (with live music by Reza Salazar)   RoaDMaN shares poems about the beautiful struggle of being a diasporic Brown Man. It dives into family, ancestral trauma, house parties and even dystopic realities.  Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-2sqjMsEt1asKHMtFpW_PNGWxKtdIQn

After registering, you will…

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Sundays- Online Comics Workshop: Stories I Would Tell A Million Times: Creating Comics Rooted in Activism and Personal Experience

Register: Email instructor Ellen Lindner at [email protected] In this online intermediate class taught by uptown cartoonist Ellen Lindner (The Black Feather Falls, Cranklet Chronicles), students will learn all of the skills necessary to take their comics-creation skills to the next level. Topics include book design, layout, storytelling structure, nonfiction reportage and more. This class…

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April 8- **VIRTUAL**Hector La Fossé's No Regret

April 8- **VIRTUAL**Hector La Fossé’s No Regret

RSVP TO RECEIVE ZOOM INVITE: https://withfriends.co/event/4365794/virtual_event_hector_la_fosss_no_regrets_the_journey_a_wild_kid_from_the_heights_comes_back_to_share_his_story

Join us in welcoming back Heights native and award-winning author Hector La Fossé. He will be reading and signing his memoir No Regrets: The Journey and sharing his success and life story.

No Regrets: The Journey is a…

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El Gran Combo: Three Bookstores, Twelve Books, One Virtual Fiesta! Don't know what to read next while sheltering-in-place? Join EL GRAN COMBO by buying ONLINE one or more of the following twelve books on MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2020…

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~April 1 is Census Day~

April 1 is Census Day! If you haven’t already filled out the census, please do at my2020census.gov, then let us know that you did here.

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With all the news understandably focused on coronavirus, why are we bothering to remind our community to fill out this once-in-a-decade survey? Word Up collective member Taylor Lampe (MPH, Epidemiology, ’19) explains:

  The 2020 Census is still happening…

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Uptown Check-In, the Return of Story Time, ¡y más!

[See the full 3/27/20 newsletter—with books & online events!—here.]

Hi neighbors,

How are you? We hope that you are staying home if you can. We miss you and would like to check in. So, we are having an Uptown Check-In today on Zoom, 8pm–9pm! No agenda, just BYOB and stop by whenever you can for that hour. At 8pm, click this link to join.

Because we could all use more togetherness, we are doing…

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#StayHome #QuedarmeEnCasa

[See the full 3/25/2020 newsletter—with books and more!—here.]

Hi Word Up family,

We haven’t been able to see you at the shop since we closed (temporarily!) on March 13th. We hope you all are staying home if you can, and taking care of yourselves and your loved ones. These are tough times right now and we’re all trying to stay sane—please call 888-NYC-WELL if you are feeling stressed or…

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Word Up store hours suspended through March 31

Community is in our name. And while we normally want to spread love the Uptown way . . . right now, “community spread” of COVID-19 is precisely what we need to quash. While one may seem healthy and/or asymptomatic, it’s still possible for them to put others at risk. And we don’t want to do that—to our fellow collective members, to our visitors and customers, to our events organizers and authors…

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Preparing for COVID-19

Paper-cut “Wash Up!/¡Lávate las manos!” by Jerise Fogel, March 2020. Word Up customer bathroom door.

March 10, 2020

Dear fellow community members,

As concern grows over the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), and as more people test positive for the virus in NYC, we at Word Up are monitoring the situation and following recommendations from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NYC…

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March 25- Reading with RJ Fox

RSVP at https://withfriends.co/event/4016236/reading_with_r_j_fox?

Join us for a reading with author R.J. Fox and his debut novel Awaiting Identification.

Five bodies, five intersecting storylines. . . each searching for hope and redemption

Set against the backdrop of a Devil’s Night party at legendary Detroit concert venue and nightclub, Saint Andrew’s Hall, Awaiting Identification details the…

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March 21- Decur "When You Look Up" Talk & Workshop

March 21- Decur “When You Look Up” Talk & Workshop

RSVP Join author-illustrator Decur as he leads a workshop in Spanish on his artistic process. “When You Look Up” will be his debut book to be translated into English. Únase en Word Up con el autor e ilustrador Decur mientras dirige un taller en español sobre su proceso artístico. “When You Look Up” será su primer libro traducido al inglés. Decur “When You Look Up” Talk & Workshop Saturday,…

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