BronxArtSpace invites Bronx artists to apply for new exhibition
BronxArtSpace is holding an open call for artists for an upcoming exhibition, called Giving Light: An Art Antidote to Gun Violence. Applicants have until Jan. 22 at midnight to apply.…
Dancer launches local ballet school
Jessica Epting was a gymnast as a child. After she mastered her tumbles, cartwheels and walkovers, her instructors told her to take ballet if she wanted to continue in the…
Bronx Book Festival founder announces plans to crowdfund for new Bronx bookstore
Literary organization The Bronx is Reading recently announced its plans to begin crowdfunding in 2021 to open a bookstore. Book publicist Saraciea Fennell unofficially started the organization in 2009 with…
Humans of Mott Haven: Amaurys Grullon
Steps away from the Third Avenue Bridge is a small shop that brings warm memories to Amaurys Grullon and customers who grew up in the Bronx. Displayed in the window…
Virtual book talk brings feel of a poetry slam
At a recent virtual book talk held over Zoom, Colombian-American poet Carlos Andrés Gómez called his debut full-length book of poetry, Fractures “very New York.” Several of the more than…
Melrose community garden holds screening of Netflix’s “Vampires vs. The Bronx”
A socially distanced screening of the Netflix original “Vampires vs. the Bronx” was held at the El Coquí Community Garden on November 14th. Mission Helping Hand, Bronx Film 48 and…
Paving the way: Graffiti transformed from a crime to an art
Bianca Romero’s floor to ceiling “Phoenix Rising” mural is the newest addition to increasingly filled walls of the WallWorks art gallery in the South Bronx. Completed in just one evening,…
Award-winning Bronx filmmaker adapts collaborative methods to pandemic
On a Thursday evening in October, Leomary Rodriguez is taking her nightly break from social media in her Highbridge apartment-studio. Five rows of different-colored paper rolls line the wall behind…