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An Inwood nonprofit organization will turn one of the neighborhood’s vacant spaces into a “culture hub” — hosting both free and ticketed programs open to the public — for the month of June, the nonprofit announced. The culture hub will open June 1 at 440 W. 202nd St., located between Ninth and 10th avenues, and will be run by Inwood Art Works and partially funded by a grant from the city Department of Small Business Services’ Neighborhood 360° Program.

The Inwood Film Festival is set to return for its third year in March, and the event will be bigger than ever before. The festival will now span three days and include an opening night benefit event for Inwood Art Works, the nonprofit organization that organizes the festival.

At Inwood Art Works Pop-Up Gallery, curator Aaron Simms challenged local artists to submit two-dimensional works of the same size on the theme “Bridging the Invisible Divide.” The fifty-one works selected constitute part of an ongoing dialogue; one can find attempts here to distinguish the east side from the west side of Broadway or to extinguish the notion of a divide altogether.

Aaron Simms walked Inwood’s major corridors, looking for space. First Dyckman Street, then Broadway toward 207. That’s when he saw it: an empty storefront that would make the perfect pop-up art gallery.

Inwood, say cheese. Works produced by eight neighborhood photographers will be on display at the Inwood Art Works pop up gallery during the month of October.

Film Works Alfresco is a curated film series that will present both independent and popular films that have local relevance and cultural significance to the Northern Manhattan community.