Washington Heights Book Store Hosts Music-Making Session

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — Live music and the chance for kids to learn how to play instruments is always a good thing, and a local Washington Heights bookstore is helping do precisely that on Saturday.

The Word Up: Community Bookshop Libreria Comunitaria is hosting "Music for Strings and Community" outside the bookshop at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The community bookstore is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue on the corner of West 165th Street in Washington Heights.

The live music is a family-friendly event, and it is part of the NYC Cultural Affairs Department programming.

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Social distancing guidelines will be enforced during the event.

The Word Up bookstore first opened in June 2011 on the corner of W. 176 Street and Broadway and moved to its current location at 165th Street and Amsterdam Ave. in 2013.

"Word Up is a multilingual, general-interest community bookshop and arts space in Washington Heights, New York City, committed to preserving and building a neighborhood in which all residents help each other live better informed and more expressive lives, using books as an instrument of reciprocal education and exchange, empowering not only themselves, but their community," reads an About page on Word Up's website.

You can find out more about the community bookstore on its website.