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Holiday Tree Lightings 

The public is invited to attend the following community holiday tree lightings:

Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. – Hosted by Bronx Community Board 7, at Mosholu Parkway Lawn at the intersection of Mosholu Parkway and Bainbridge Avenue. Featured are caroling, hot apple cider, holiday cookies, goodie bags giveaway and local elected officials. For more information, call (718) 933-5650.

Dec. 11 from 6 to 8 p.m. – Hosted by Jerome Gun Hill BID, at Jerome Avenue and East Mosholu Parkway. Featured are free toys for children, holiday shopping guides, pictures with Santa, and hot cocoa. For more information, call (718) 324-4946.

Onstage
Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents Chamber Music Concert, featuring the Celia Cruz H.S. Orchestra, Dec. 8 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl.org.

Lehman College for the Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd., W., presents José Feliciano in Feliz Navidad, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. (tickets: $50 to $65; $100/VIP; $10/to age 12); Soweto Gospel Choir, Dec. 9 at 4 p.m., to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Nelson Mandela (tickets: $25 to $45; $10/to age 12); and Special Holiday Celebration, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. featuring salsa performers (tickets: $50 to $65; $100/VIP). VIP tickets include pre-concert reception at 6:30 p.m. with wine and hors d’oeuvres. For more information, call (718) 960-8833.

Lehman College and Community Latin Jazz Ensemble presents free cabaret-concert program, “Let the Winter Be HOT!” in Lehman’s Music Building, in the 3rd floor Hearth Room, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., preceded by a mambo dance workshop, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. Refreshments will be available. For more information, call (718) 960-8247.

The Riverdale Choral Society presents two performances: Music of Bach & Faure, at the Christ Church Riverdale, 5030 Henry Hudson Pkwy. (West 252nd Street), with organ and orchestral accompaniment, Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. ($25); and Handel’s Messiah Sing-Along, at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church, 4765 Henry Hudson Pkwy. (247th Street on west side of parkway), free and open to the public. Guests are invited to bring scores or scores will be provided; come to sing or come to listen, Dec. 16 at 4 p.m. For more information, call (718) 543-2219.

Bronx Arts Ensemble presents Bronx Holiday With Manhattan Brass, brass quintet performing jazzed up seasonal and other favorites, free with museum admission, at the Bartow Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Rd., Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. For more information, call (718) 885-1461. 

Events
Williamsbridge Oval presents two free events: Literacy Day: Reading Rainbow: bring your favorite book and enjoy stories and snacks (youth can choose a book to bring home), Dec. 6 from 4 to 6 p.m.; and Winter Wonderland: arts and crafts, carnival games, music, and pictures with Santa, Dec. 15 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 543-8672.

The New York Botanical Garden presents its annual Holiday Train Show, through Jan. 21, 2019, featuring miniature replicas of many NYC building replicas made from natural materials including bark, twigs, fruit and pine cones. For more detailed information, show schedule, and rates, call (718) 817-8700. 

Wave Hill, a Bronx oasis at 675 W. 252nd St. in Riverdale, offers Family Art Projects: Put Wave Hill in the Palm of Your Hand, to trace your hand to make a palm-shaped amulet, Dec. 8 and 9; and Winter Birdy Marionettes, to make bird marionettes to hang, Dec. 15 and 16; both in the WH House, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Grounds admission is free until noon Tuesdays and Saturdays all year. For more information and a schedule of events including tours and walks, call (718) 549-3200.

Bronx photographer Walter Pofeldt and his daughter Eileen present “Kenya and Tanzania in Focus” through Dec. 16 at Metropolitan College, 60 West St., on the sixth and seventh floors, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during normal business days. For more information, email pofeldtww@gmail.com.

Exhibits
The Museum of Bronx History, 3266 Bainbridge Ave. (208th Street), presents Women’s Suffrage and New York City: A Centennial Celebration, through April 11, 2019; and His Muse: The Women of Edgar Allan Poe’s Life, through April 7, 2019. For more information, call (718) 881-8900.

Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse (167th Street), presents Image of an Image, featuring the work of Bronx-born native Rochelle Feinstein, through March 3, 2019. For more information, call (718) 681-6000. 

Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), 1087 E. Tremont Ave., presents River Rising, through June 30, 2019, featuring an exposition of science, art and technology, located in Starlight Park. For more information, call (718) 589-5819.

Library Events
Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents for adults: Microsoft Word 2010 for Beginners: Dec. 11 at 2 p.m.; Computer Basics: Dec. 14 at 2 p.m.; and film: “I Can Only Imagine,” Dec. 15 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl.org.

Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St., offers for children: Crafty Fridays at 3 p.m.: (ages 5 to 12), crafts, Dec. 7 and 14; STEM: Kids’ Science at 3 p.m.: (ages 5 to 12), “building,” Dec. 11 and 18; and Toddler Storytime at 11 a.m.: (ages 18 months to 3 years), interactive stories, action songs, fingerplays, and crafts, Dec. 13 and 20. Teens/young adults can enjoy: film: “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” Dec. 8 at 1:30 p.m. Adults can attend Knitting Circle: Thursdays at 3 p.m. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

Jerome Park Library, 118 Eames Place (near Kingsbridge Road, offers for children ages 5 to 12: film: “Christopher Robin,” Dec. 15 at 2 p.m.; and Winter Extravaganza: fun, story, hot cocoa and cookie decorating, Dec. 20 at 3:30 p.m.  For more information, call (718) 549-5200.

NOTE: Items for consideration may be mailed to our office or sent to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org, and should be received by Dec. 10 for the next publication date of Dec. 20.

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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.