Events this week! Word Up is closing on TUESDAY at 6pm for our volunteer holiday party 🪅 ⁠ ⁠ This weekend, check out our final skillshare of the year and learn how to make pop-up holiday cards. Then see the (short) play Uptown Books!

Karen Santos da Silva and I will be at @wordupbooks.bsky.social this Friday talking about our translations of the best-selling French author you've never heard of: Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni. If you're in or near Manhattan, please drop by! #translation #womenwriters

#WordUpWednesday Even with book and art events, this year we made space for dozens of organizing meetings, classes (including ones rerouted due to challenging campus environments), and trainings in first aid, self defense, Narcan, and more. WordUpBooks.com/Donate

Events this week!

Events this week!

Stop by Word Up 12-6pm and Recirculation 6-9pm for free candy and books!

THURSDAY launch party for new graphic memoir from Raymond Santana, Harlem activist and one of the #ExoneratedFive RSVP: withfriends.co/event/267851...

Events this week at Word Up and Recirculation!

Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz has a debut novel out today!!! If you're in NYC, stop by the launch of "This Is the Only Kingdom.”⁠ ⁠ 📍Recirculation 876 Riverside Dr. NYC ⁠ 🎟 RSVP at WithFriends.co/WordUp ⁠ ⁠ 🛒 Order a signed copy on WordUpBooks.com!

Bilingual watercolor workshops with Gabriel Castillo are back next month! Over the course of six sessions, learn the basics and explore new techniques of watercolor. Saturdays 1-3pm November 1 to December 6 at Recirculation, a project of Word Up withfriends.co/event/268965...

Free yoga classes on Thursdays at 10am at #Recirculation. RSVP: withfriends.co/event/268351...

We're hosting an #ArtistVendorMarket for the community to celebrate Uptown artist! More info & vendor application on WordUpBooks.com/Events DEADLINE TO APPLY: Sunday, October 12, 2025

We <3 Libro.fm!! The Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale is live now through October 13! There are lots of bookseller picks discounted, many for less than $5 USD. Reminder: anyone can shop the sale, no membership needed! libro.fm/sale?booksto...

October events at #WordUp and #Recirculation 🎃 WordUpBooks.com/Events

We'll be at The Latinx Project's La Feria Print Media Fair! Come through!! www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/2025-26/2025...

Happy fall! 9/23 Elvis Alves's “Exile Is Home” with Ellen Kombiyil and Kay Poema 9/24 Luke Kemp’s “Goliath’s Curse” with Todd Portnowitz 9/25 Screening: MADAN SARA with Lu Childs 9/26 Sharina Maíllo-Pozo's “Bridging Sonic Borders” with Lorgia García-Peña WithFriends.co/WordUp

Today's event with Kalonji Jama Changa has been postponed. We'll reschedule for a future date.

Screening of Madan Sara (2021), a film from Haitian journalist Etant Dupain, centered on the informal status of women in the Haitian society and their importance to that same society and how it functions. ⁠ Lu Childs will be present for the Q&A. ⁠ ⁠ WithFriends.co/WordUp

<<EVENTS THIS WEEK>> ⁠ * 9/16 No Name Variety Show * 9/17 LFI Spark Animation Fellowship Shorts Showcase + Mixer * 9/18 Collage Night * 9/19 Chanchal Garg * 9/20 Fatemeh Jamalpour * 9/20 Kalonji Jama Changa * 9/21 Brooklyn Book Festival (Booth 616) * 9/21 Fall Equinox Jam

NYC friends please join me September 26 to celebrate the publication of @smaillopozo.bsky.social’s important book Sonic Borders @wordupbooks.bsky.social (Recirculation location).

The rain won’t stop us! #UptownKidLit is off to a great start with a comedy workshop, drag story time, Tanya Wright with Harriette of Harlem, and a bengali tabletop role playing game! Plus soooo many Free books and school supplies for registrants.

#UptownKidLit is still happening! We’re running 30 minutes behind on programming. But the rain is clearing up 🌥️

We’re making sustainability a priority at this years festival! Thanks to Friends of Inwood Hill Park, we’ll be recycling & composting in the park, something that the city parks does not do. Additionally, we’ll provide water refill stations, so don’t forget your reusable bottles!

We’ll be at the park tomorrow bright and early setting up the in rain ☔️ which should clear up by the time programming begins at 11:45am. Please be aware of the wet ground and chairs, along with a possible delay in scheduling. We hope the rest of the day is bright and warm ☀️⛅️

September events at Word Up, Recirculation, and across the boroughs!

BIG BIG THANK YOU to Peligro Sports for our volunteer t-shirts for #UptownKidLit this Sunday! Make sure to check them out for your sports and uniform needs <3 #ShopLocal #ShopWashingtonHeights

#UptownKidLit this Sunday!! www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/04/t...

#UptownKidLit schedule! Check out the great line up of authors, illustrators, workshops, and performers we have for an afternoon of celebrating stories. Read about each program on our website: WordUpBooks.com/UKL

📚La programación de Uptown Kid Lit ESTÁ VIVO! Cuentos con drag queen, paseo espacial con la NASA, gatitios, ¡y más! - mailchi.mp/wordupbooks/...

Last weekend of the month means discounted used books! Just in time for the school year!! Receive 30% off all used books inside the shop this Friday 8/29 and Saturday 8/30.

📚Uptown Kid Lit SCHEDULE IS LIVE! Drag Story Time, Space Walk with NASA, Meow Time, ¡y mas! mailchi.mp/wordupbooks/...

Hey kids! Don't forget to submit your summer reading challenge logs by September 6th to get your prizes! If you read at least 20 books (audiobooks included), you'll win prizes like toys, stickers, and books at our shop. Instructions on wordupbooks.com/UKL

#UptownKidLit line-up is here!

AUGUST EVENTS at #WordUpBooks and #Recirculation

Inventory in July is a wrap! BIG THANKS to our collective for helping check our shelves (and all the various nooks and crannies where books can hide). We're not done, but we'll continue next month.

Uptown Kid Lit—Word Up’s book festival for kids—is back on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at Pat’s Lawn at Inwood Hill Park! Register at WordUpBooks.com/UKL

Word Up is CLOSED this week for inventory! Recirculation will continue to be open during regular hours.

We’re taking things a bit easy in July and slowing things down. Our monthly programs will continue (except Uptown Out, which is taking a break for the summer). We’ll be closed at both shops on 7/4 and closed at Word Up from 7/16-21.

BIRTHDAY CAKE SATURDAY 6/28 AT 4:30PM AT WORD UP 🎂 Word Up’s turning fourteen!!! It’s been a busy month for us so we’re having a small celebration with cake and friends at the shop. We’ll also have a big sale going on, too, so you can do some shopping to help our nonprofit :)

Summer reading challenge AND a sale?? Yes!!! This summer we’re kicking off the season with a 30% off sale on kids, YA, and comics/manga until July 3rd! And all of this is in lead up to #UptownKidLit on Sunday, September 7th — SAVE THE DATE! WordUpBooks.com/UKL

Tomorrows Uptown Pride Picnic is postponed due to the heat 🥵 New date in July will be announced soon.

Don’t miss THE event with THE books of the summer next Wed. at @HSAnyc with #RobFranklin and #RoxaneGay ! Check out #GreatBlackHope which @VanityFair is calling “the Novel You’ll See by Every Hamptons Lounger This Summer.” RSVP: WithFriends.co/WordUp

TOMORROW we’re hosting the amazing @caroderobertis.bsky.social for this inspiring and much needed anthology!

SOOO MANY JUNE EVENTS come thruuu!!!

Confused about Ranked Choice Voting? Feeling uncertain about the upcoming elections? Join this community event for clarity! eventbrite.com/e/community-...

Recirculation Rent Party today!!! Get your tickets to join us for delicious foods from local businesses, drinks, and music from Trio Cachimbo and DJ Michou 🎟️ and donate at WithFriends.co/WordUp

@wordupbooks.bsky.social will be hosting Ana Martínez and Heather Hennes as they introduce their English translation of Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom with Minou Tavárez Mirabal on May 22nd. You can RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/232900...

30% OFF COMICS & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS AT WORD UP Get your summer reading ready this week! This is perfect for all ages and educators looking for graphic novels, manga, and the latest young adult fiction & nonfiction books. From May 21 to 31st.

Word Up’s first field trip with our Sustaining Members! Thanks #HispanicSociety for hosting us ❤️

TONIGHT join us for a the launch of POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY with some amazing featured poets! Make sure to RSVP: withfriends.co/wordup.