Crossing the High Bridge: From the Bronx to Washington Heights!

About this event

RSVP's begin on Wednesday, August 19th at 9:00pm. Space is set aside for new members, first and 2nd timers who land on the waiting list. Email me at hankorenstein@gmail.com to request a spot. The tour and museum are free with an welcome donation to your guide at the end of the tour via cash, venmo or zelle. **To Bring:** Water to drink, snacks and/or an easy-to-eat lunch, sun protection. **Recommend eating a hearty breakfast/brunch beforehand.** **Closest subway stop is 167th Street on the D train which gets you within 2 blocks of the The Bronx Museum of the Arts. You can also take the #4 or D train to 161st Street Yankee Stadium (longer walk).** **Note the walking tour starts at 12 noon outside the museum** which opens at 11am. Arrive 30-40 minutes early to see the exhibit and use the restroom: The total walking distance on this walk is between 4.5 and 5 miles. There is some uphill walking especially on one moderately steep street in the Bronx. **You should be reasonably fit for this walk!** The Museum always has interesting exhibits along with free admission. **From the museum website**: "This exhibition, in its seventh iteration, showcases artwork from the most recent two cohorts of The Bronx Museum’s AIM Fellowship program. Within the program, these 28 artists developed structures of connection and community; presented together, their artworks here begin a conversation that invites and extends further communal experience. The artworks in this show explore connection and disconnection: to one’s heritage, invoking memory, time, culture, and geography; to society and its norms, practices, and structures, through social and institutional critique; and to other individuals or groups, expressed through ideas of identity, intimacy, and distance. Both individually and seen together, these works map intersections and oppositions, isolation and belonging." Directions and information via this link: https://bronxmuseum.org/visit/ **TOUR OVERVIEW:** En route to…