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No Free Walls: Art and Gentrification Collide In Bushwick

Uptown you NEED to see No Free Walls. The film is an in-depth look at Brooklyn’s changing landscape, through the eyes of Joseph Ficalora, the founder and inadvertent art curator of The Bushwick Collective. Joe, son of Italian immigrants,…

Gabe Dominguez Bien Conectao Table

And The Winner Is…

First of all, we have to thank all the folks who submitted such outstanding images. It was not easy to pick a winner out of the hundreds of submissions we received. After it was all said and done, Gabe…

The Afro-Latino Festival NYC – The Recap

“This is a safe space for black and brown people,” affirmed Princess Nokia before sending a shout-out to Oshun, the neo-soul hip-hop duo with a cult following that performed hours before on the same stage at the Afro-Latino Festival…

Spread Love: The Rep Ya Block Photo Contest

The Uptown Collective has teamed up with the good folks at Bien Conectao to bring you the Rep Ya Block Photo Contest. Let your best photo capturing the essence of Uptown, come to life as a domino table/work of…

Word At 4F 1 Year Anniversary @ Apt 78

Word At 4F 1 Year Anniversary @ Apt 78

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Put You On: Lemon Andersen @ Guild Hall in East Hampton

On Thursday August 29th, Lemon Andersen (playwright, actor and Tony Award-winning poet) will take the stage at Guild Hall in East Hampton for a special engagement performance of County of Kings, his acclaimed memoir. We hope you can join us for this memorable evening to start Labor Day weekend…

LEMON performs COUNTY OF KINGS on Sept 12th

Put You On: Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings @ The BEAT Festival

Lemon Andersen is something else. I have seen County of Kings now several times but the searing autobiographical memoir of this incredibly talented artist, performer and critically acclaimed poet never gets old. After the performance you are left there…