With its 5th annual collaboration with the Havana Film Festival of New York, the Bronx Museum is presenting a screening of “Caminando Aragon, “about Cuban musicians from the group Orquesta Aragón, known as the “Kings of Cha Cha Cha.”
When high winds ripped through the borough’s parks and wooded areas three years ago, most people saw devastation and thousands of downed tree limbs in the aftermath. Barbara Korman saw her next art project.
In collaboration with No Longer Empty’s exhibition, This Side of Paradise (see “Exhibits”), the Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., invites the public to its free Tango Lesson, April 19 at 12:30 p.m.
While we’re hard at working grinding out the next print edition of the Norwood News, take a look at this fantastic footage, set to an Arcade Fire song, of a Riverdale right-of-passage: kids jumping off cliffs of various heights into Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
Thanks to the tireless lobbying of Community Board 7 member Bree Brown-Rosa, the Mosholu Library in Norwood, 285 E. 205th St., will be hosting a Baby Laptime program on Tuesday morning, April 17, from 11 to 11:45 a.m.
Saturday morning, April 14, at 11 a.m., the Friends of Williamsbridge Oval Park and Mosholu Preservation Corporation will be facilitating a planting and doing other beautification of Oval Park. They’re looking for volunteers to help out and everyone is welcome to participate.
Two weeks ago, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. held a forum called “Bronx Fathers Taking Action.” Below is video from the event, courtesy of the multi-media savvy BP’s office.
Here are the Bronx stories (some important, some just funny) that we’re following this Tuesday. Weather: partly cloudy, high in the low-60s, showers possible this afternoon.