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Carlitos Jatubey and Christoper Amarante are part of the driving forces behind the Mangu Aqui franchise. Which is a Dominican romantic comedy set in New York City. Mangu 2, which premiered last night, follows the path of Young Robert, and expounds on the struggles and resilience of a Dominican family living in the United States. Carlitos is the writer, and Christoper plays the role of “Young Rober...

Welcome to a special concert edition of On Air featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert featuring lively dance pieces for Woodwind Octect, which include some arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. We titled the concert “Dances through the Centuries” in tribute to the selections you’ll here from the composers that make up this light and joyful program, which was r...

Lou Burno has worked as a professional bass player since the early 1960s, playing with both commercial and jazz groups. He performed with jazz legends John Mehegan, Dill Jones, Zoot Sims, Carmen Leggio, Toots Thielmans, and Bucky Pizzarelli, among others. He attended the Manhattan School of Music where he received both BMus and MMus degrees. After his training at Manhattan, he was a member of the...

Regina has lived in a multi-cultural, multi-generational Northern Manhattan Michell-Lama Cooperative since 1960. She grew up there as did her children. In 2008, after retiring as a social worker, she became a volunteer curator at an art gallery in her local spiritual home, bringing a diverse range of artists to share solo and group exhibitions.   Her own themed exhibitions began in 2013. At her Ra...

Lee Feldman is a New York based songwriter, pianist, singer and composer. He has released five critically acclaimed albums under his own name. • Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury Records 1996) • The Man in a Jupiter Hat (Bonafide/Mercury Records 2000) • I’ve Forgotten Everything (Bonafide/Urban Myth Recordings 2006) • Album No. 4: Trying to Put the Things Together that Never Been Together Before (...

Arlene Schulman is a writer, photographer, podcast creator and documentary filmmaker. Ms. Schulman’s extraordinary body of work illuminates facets of New York City that the majority of us never see: gritty city living, boxing gyms, baseball dugouts, police officers on the beat, Holocaust survivors, an early interview with Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, a look at a guidance counselor by day/drag...

Inwood Art Works kicks off the fifth season of our On Air podcast with our first State of the Arts episode. Founder and Executive producer, Aaron Simms answers frequently asked questions by audiences and artists, highlights resources, and expounds on a who's who of community cultural arts organizations and venues in Northern Manhattan.

This is our 2023 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 2. It’s where we take a pause at this end of the season, look back at the second part of 2023, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcasts that has appeared throughout the second half of the fourth season of Inwood Art Works On Air. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pic...

Welcome to a special concert edition of our On Air podcast featuring the Double Entendre Music Ensemble performing a Holiday Concert Featuring a performance of highlights from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker arranged by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. The concert was recorded live on December 3, 2023 at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood, NYC. Holida...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert featuring an introduction to the instruments of the wind quintet in arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. We shameless titled the concert The Mighty Winds in tribute to the instruments, and it was recorded live on September 10, 2023 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium i...

Pedro H. da Silva is a multicultural composer, equally at home writing for orchestra, for film, a Middle Eastern ensemble, and his rock band Tritone King. He’s also an innovator of the Portuguese guitar, classical guitar, and other plucked string instruments. Pedro has performed and recorded his own works as a soloist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the London Metropolitan Orchestra,...

Mike Fitelson passions have charted him through many careers. From teaching underserved 5th grade students in a Harlem classroom, to helping build community as Photographer, Reporter, Editor, Associate Publisher the bilingual community newspaper, The Manhattan Times, to helping reestablish The United Palace as a historic theatre and destination for the metropolitan area. www.unitedpalace.org

Xianix Barrera is a Bessie award nominated flamenco dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in New York City. Female empowerment, sexual identity and social justice color her choreographic work and create the focal point for the company she founded in 2012; Xianix Barrera Flamenco Company. With a background in dance and percussive studies, Xianix has dedicated herself to the lifelong study of fla...

Gabrielle Lamb is a choreographer and 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is based in NYC, where she directs Pigeonwing Dance, described by The New Yorker as “eccentric…playful…curious”. Her work has also been presented by the American Ballet Theatre Incubator, the New York Choreographic Institute, the MIT Museum, BalletX, the Juilliard School, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet Collective, Whim W’HIM, Jacob’s...

Colin Alistair Campbell is an actor, writer, producer and newly minted director. His debut short, "Patricia Says Goodbye," is a narrative drama that screened as part of the 2023 Inwood Film Festival. His second, most recent short is "Fundamental Shapes," a gentle romantic comedy. "Fundamental Shapes" is in the middle of its festival run and has garnered the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative...

Chen Drachman is an Israeli-American, award-winning actress and filmmaker based in NYC. She was a film and TV major in high school in Israel specializing in scriptwriting, producing and editing. She became a permanent resident through an application of excellence in the field of production. Her acting credits include Last Week Tonight, and The Path, starring Aaron Paul. Chen's first film, The Book...

Brian Morales is a composer who thrives on the communal participation of music and storytelling. He is most widely known for his orchestration of John Doyle’s The Color Purple, which featured Cynthia Erivo. From a young age, Disney’s Fantasia has always inspired Brian: The combination of expressive and extroverted visuals mixed with dynamic, melodramatic music is an element that regularly dominate...

Raun Ruffin has performed on and off Broadway in such productions as The Civil War and The York Theater Company’s Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope. Regional Theater credits include five separate productions of Five Guys Named Moe, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Faust, Some Enchanted Evening, and Dreamgirls. Tours include the European leg of “Sophisticated Ladies” and the North American tour of Joseph and the Amaz...

Jeff Hoppa is a New York-based visual artist. His oil paintings on panel and works on paper celebrate the history of exploration, the natural world, and the metamorphic potential of abstraction. His inspirations run the gamut from rock formations at Joshua Tree National Park, where he was Artist-in-Residence in 2007, to the inner ear bones of narwhals at The American Museum of Natural History.  ww...

In this episode, we welcome Natalie Espino and Ryan Pinchot from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. Located on the Audubon Terrace Broadway between 155th and 156th streets, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library was founded by Archer Milton Huntington in 1904, as a free, public museum and library for the study of the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines...

Lena Kaminsky studied acting at Emerson College and has been working in the theater and film world for over 20 years. As an actor, she has worked in tv, film and regional theaters around the country. She has written two full length plays Salvage and Ursa Major. Little Mouse a short film (written and directed) is her first film and is currently making its way through the festival circuit. In additi...

Jeanne Jalandoni is a painter and textile artist born and based in New York City. Her practice involves personal research, relating family stories to historic Filipino American archives, in order to draw out a mythological narrative that traces the complexities of inheriting two cultures. Jeanne received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University, and has had solo shows with Taymour Grahne Pro...

Inwood Art Works celebrates 150 episodes of our On Air podcast with this special podcast. When we hit a milestone, we like to take a moment to recognize it. If you didn’t know it, I nwood Art Works On Air is the only podcast dedicated to profiling the artists that reside in Northern Manhattan. For this episode we would like to do something a bit different and unique for our listening audience. The...

Jeanine McAdam is a long time Northern Manhattan resident that loves our community, and she channeled that love to co-creating and overseeing Heightsites.com, a website and newsletter dedicated to sharing the wonderful artistic and cultural events happening in Washington Heights and Inwood. Heightsites covers cultural events river to river, from 155th Street to the Northern tip of Manhattan.  www....

Ruth Cunningham is a classically trained musician, a sound healing practitioner, and a founding member of Anonymous 4. She combines these skills to improvise music that connects people to the healing and spiritual power of music. She specializes in improvisational sacred music from varied spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings. Her solo program Light and Shadow encompasses a...