Bronx Pod Wins Webby

Bronx Podcast Wins Prestigious Webby Award

Go Bronx Pod has been named the Best Limited Series Podcast in the 25th Annual Webby Awards Internet Celebration. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), is the leading international awards organization honoring excellence on the Internet. IADAS, which nominates and selects The Webby Award Winners, is comprised of Internet industry experts including Mitchell Baker; MOMA Senior Curator Paola Antonelli; Host of NPR’s Code Switch Shereen Marisol Meraji; R/GA Global Chief Creative Officer Tiffany Rolfe; CoInventor of the Internet Vint Cerf; DJ and Founder, Club Quarantine D-Nice; Co-host Desus & Mero on Showtime Desus Nice; SVP of Content at Twitch Michael Aragon; Twitter Senior Director, Product Design Richard Ting; and Founders of VERZUZ Swizz Beatz and Timbaland.

This is an unparalleled honor and a remarkable achievement! With nearly 13,500 entries from all 50 U.S. states and 70+ countries—and 2.2 million votes cast by over 600,000 people in the Webby People’s Voice Awards—the 25th Annual Webby Awards is our most competitive season in our history! As a Webby Winner, you truly set the standard of excellence on the Internet.

“Go Bronx Pod has set the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet,” said Claire Graves, Executive Director of The Webby Awards. “This award is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators.”

“We launched the podcast in the height of the pandemic because if people couldn’t come to The Bronx, we brought The Bronx to people,” says podcast producer/host and

Executive Director of The Bronx Tourism Council,

Olga Luz Tirado. “It was our way of sharing the history of this great borough with them even if they couldn’t be here.”

Co-host and historian Angel Hernández said “working with Olga on Go Bronx Pod was one of my best experience during the pandemic. With museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions closed, we’ve managed to keep our borough citizens informed with their hometown history – and we did it with fun. The Bronx is a special place with a rich history encrusted with firsts, while it continues to host an array of diversity and change that always made good content for a future episode. We are so honored to receive the 2021 Webby Award and would like to thank our supporters and subscribers for listening to us. God bless The Bronx.”

“The ‘Go Bronx Podcast’ combines two of my favorite things: history and the borough of The Bronx,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. ” I want to congratulate Olga Luz Tirado and Angel Hernández for their Webby Award and for being recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. This platform is a great way for all of us to learn more about what makes The Bronx so historically special.”

To see the five-word acceptance speech, click here.

The Nina Gordon Party will perform retro -rock classics on the back terrace overlooking the pebble court and gardens. Enjoy the music, stroll the grounds! Light refreshments will be served. If inclement weather, the event will take place in the double parlors. | Tickets BPMM Heritage Members and above: Free; Not-Yet Members: Adults $15; Students/Seniors: $10 Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum | 895 Shore Road info@bpmm.org | 718. 885.1461

SAT, JUL 10 | 9 am - 11 am VEGETABLE GARDENING PRIMER: FOLLOW-UP

Join Ann Loughran in Bartow-Pell’s veggie garden for a mid-summer workshop to see how the garden is coming along. Learn tips and tricks designed for the home farmer. This event is free, but registration is required. Click here. Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum | 895 Shore Road info@bpmm.org | 718. 885.1461

MON, AUG 9 | 9 am – 3 pm ADVENTURES IN TIME SUMMER HISTORY CAMP

Send your child on an adventure back in time this summer at Van Cortlandt House Museum at our Adventures in Time Summer History Camp. Campers will learn about the history of the Van Cortlandt family and how they relate to the history of New York City all while having fun. All activities will take place outdoors including on rainy days when we will make use of an 18thcentury style canvas dining fly. We will be immersed in activities exploring the everyday life of a child in the 18th century, historic foodways, and the local history of the land as a plantation and park. Children will also travel in time back to the early years of the Revolutionary War and experience the life of a soldier in General George Washington’s army. They will lend a hand with pitching a tent and setting up camp. “Enlistment” in the army, military drill, and reconnaissance are also part of the action.

Camp Dates 2021

Week 1: AUG 9 - 13 | Week 2: AUG 16 - 20 Hours: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm each day Registration Fees $350.00 per child/week Campers who are enrolled in two weeks of camp or two or more children from the same family qualify for a 10% discount on registration fees. Click Here. Van Cortlandt House Museum

JUL 26 - AUG 6 - 9 am - 2 pm BPMM DISCOVERY CAMP

Children ages 6 – 12 are invited to spend a week at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum from 9 am to 2 pm having fun and learning about gardening, sustainability, and local history. This unique program mixes core activities in the vegetable garden with exploration of the 19th-century mansion, the Northeast Woodlands wigwam, and family life in both. Kids will also enjoy engaging crafts, wildlife investigations, creative cooking, nature hikes, and more. Click here. Space is limited to 10 children per session. Session I JUL 26 through JUL 30 Session II AUG 2 through AUG 6 Cost per session: $300

APR 10 - OCT 31 | 10 am - 5:30 pm KIDS GET COSMIC!

Kids and their families embark on an adventure to observe the natural environment while learning about the life and work of Yayoi Kusama. Click here. New York Botanical Garden | 2900 Southern Blvd.

SAT, APR 10 – SUN, OCT 31 | 10 am – 6 pm KUSAMA: COSMIC NATURE

Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is one of the most popular artists in the world, drawing millions to experience her immersive installations. Exclusively at NYBG, Kusama reveals her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery. Her artistic concepts of obliteration, infinity and eternity are inspired by her intimate engagement with the colors, patterns, and life cycles of plants and flowers. Click here. New York Botanical Garden | 2900 Southern Blvd.

TUE, MAY 22 - AUG 15 | 2 pm - 3:30 pm THE SHADOW OF THE SUN: ROSS BLECKNER AND ZACHARI LOGAN

The Shadow of the Sun: Ross Bleckner and Zachari Logan pairs New York-based artist Ross Bleckner and Canadian artist Zachari Logan, kindred spirits whose individual practices and collaborations explore the omnipresence of life and death through notions of loss, decay, visibility/ invisibility, memory, flora and landscape. In conjunction with the exhibition, Wave Hill presents a series public programming, including conversations, a panel discussion, and verbal description tour. Zoom | Free Registration

SUN, JUL 4-11-18-25 | 2 pm - 3 pm GARDEN HIGHLIGHTS WALK

Join a knowledgeable Wave Hill Garden Guide on a tour of favorite garden areas and summer highlights. Severe weather cancels. Walks do not include the Conservatory at this time. This walk ends at 2:45PM. Free Admission Wave Hill | 4900 Independence Avenue

MAY 22—JUN 27 SHOSHANNA WEINBERGER: FRAGMENTS OF PERCEPTION

Inspired by Wave Hill’s Aquatic Garden pool and tropical plants, Shoshanna Weinberger’s installation treats the garden as a metaphorical space to explore the complexity of her Caribbean-American heritage. The artist uses a grouping of abstracted, anthropomorphic sculptures made of laser-cut, two-sided, acrylic mirrors to draw associations between plants and the human body. The work features parts of Weinberger's signature muse “Strangefruit,” a recurring figure that represents her own body and other, marginalized, female bodies. These hybrid, plant-human forms reflect the challenges of seeking refuge in a tropical landscape and simultaneously struggling to blend in. | Wave Hill | Glyndor Gallery | 4900 Independence Ave

JUL 22 to 25 | 6:30 pm INDIGENOUS WOMEN ARTISTS RESIDENCY

Pregones/PRTT is proud to partner with Jane Gabriels and PEPATIÁN for the first digital edition of their annual Indigenous Women Artists Residency, a project co-directed with Caridad de La Luz. This border-crossing gathering raises the visibility of selfidentified Indigenous women artists by providing virtual space to share knowledge through conversation, creative workshops, informal showings, and opportunities to reflect, rejuvenate, and reconnect with the rivers and green spaces of The Bronx, and with its people. Culminating in online performances and public dialogue, this third installment provides the artists with novel ways to build bridges and deepen connections for First Nation peoples from British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, to the Boogie Down, NYC’s greenest borough. More information click here.

FRI, JUL 23 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm MEET THE ARTIST: KAMARI CARTER

Join exhibiting artist Kamari Carter and Curator of Visual Arts Eileen Jeng Lynch for a conversation about Carter's project in the Sunroom. They will discuss the artist’s multimedia installation, which investigates the local, forgotten, colonial-era histories of Black communities in the Hudson Valley, examining systems of violence, racial and social control and identity. Carter will talk about how his sculpture commemorates and memorializes the lives of two, young, enslaved Black women who were accused of arson and publicly lynched in 1794, despite a lack of evidence. | Zoom| Free Registration

TUE, AUG 24 | 7:30 pm JOE CONZO’S MAS AFRO LATIN

“I was blessed to be around to document the birth of Hip Hop with my camera as a young Latino growing up in The South Bronx. But when I wasn’t hanging out with my childhood friends, I was hanging on my Dad’s coat tails. You see, my dad, Joe Conzo Sr., is known as the foremost historian of Afro Latin music, and it was with him I documented some of the genre’s great talents and great events. The late 1970’s and early 1980’s were a thrilling high point for Salsa —Tito Puente hated that word!— and I was right there with Dad, a fly on the wall, capturing moments among the giants. Growing up listening to Puente, Celia, Lavoe, Eddie, and Charlie, I was in heaven and in awe that I got the chance to photograph them. I was a teenager with “all access,” and the legends treated me like family: ‘Déjalo. Es el hijo de Conzo, is all good!'” All photos property of the artist and used by permission. See more at www.joeconzo.com. Curated in dialogue with Alvan Colón Lespier, Associate Artistic Director, Pregones/PRTT. Catch our SPOTLIGHT: Creatives at Work episode with Joe Conzo. More information here.

TUE, AUG 10 | 6 pm - 7:30 pm ART IN CONTEXT: CRITICAL DISCUSSION

The Shadow of the Sun: Ross Bleckner and Zachari Logan pairs New York-based artist Ross Bleckner and Canadian artist Zachari Logan, kindred spirits whose individual practices and collaborations explore the omnipresence of life and death through notions of loss, decay, visibility/invisibility, memory, flora and landscape. In conjunction with the exhibition, Wave Hill presents a series public programming, including conversations, a panel discussion, and verbal description tour. | Zoom | Free Registration

TUE, WED and THUR AUG 3-5 | 7:30 pm SOLFEST: A LATINX THEATER FESTIVAL...

is back in innovative digital format and ready to provide drama and inspiration during the dog days of summer! Produced by The Sol Project in close partnership with Pregones/PRTT, this year’s program is also realized in collaboration with Play At Home and North Star Projects. SolFest 2020: Virtual Edition will include three days of Latinx work, including works in progress, film, panels, short plays, immersive and interactive projects and multi -disciplinary collaborations. RSVP Now Open for the festival’s three public events all starting 7:30 pm.