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SUMMARY:Woodlawn Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Help restore the beautiful woodlands of Van Cortlandt Park’s east side! Join us for Woodlawn Wednesdays\, where volunteers like you play a vital role in preserving this important urban ecosystem. \nYou might: \nRemove Invasive Species: Tackle harmful plants like multiflora rose\, bush honeysuckle\, bittersweet\, and Japanese angelica tree that threaten our native biodiversity. \nMaintain Trails: Keep paths clear\, safe\, and welcoming for all park visitors. \nNo experience needed! We provide all tools and gloves. You’ll also learn about forest ecology\, plant ID\, and restoration techniques. \nWhere: \nMeet outside the handball courts at Woodlawn Playground \n(Located on the east side of Van Cortlandt Park) \nRSVP Now.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/woodlawn-wednesday/2026-04-22/
CATEGORIES:Volunteer
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SUMMARY:Trail Work Thursdays
DESCRIPTION:Help Maintain the Trails that Keep the Park Connected\n\n\n\n\n\nBe a part of the community effort to maintain the trails in Van Cortlandt Park. Whether you’re an experienced trailblazer or new to trail maintenance\, your help will make a significant impact! \nWhat We’ll Be Doing: \nLearn how to plan and assess site to install a puncheon. \nClearing debris and overgrowth \nEnsuring trail safety and accessibility \nTrail structure installation \n\n\nMeeting Location: Southern end of Van Cortlandt Park Golf House\n\n\n\nRSVP Now.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/trail-work-thursdays-6/2026-04-23/
CATEGORIES:Volunteer
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SUMMARY:Forests Uptown Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays at 5pm\nJoin Riverside Park Conservancy and Van Cortlandt Park Alliance for our hybrid lecture series on our urban forest. All talks are free & open to the public\, including time for a Q&A & discussion.\nMarch 12: Winter Tree Identification\nMarch 19: Forest Assessments in NYC\nMarch 26: History of NYC Wildfires\nRSVP Now
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/forests-uptown-series/2026-04-23/
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:Super Seedlings
DESCRIPTION:Join VCPA for tons of family-friendly garden fun! Let’s grow together! \nSuper Seedlings is a free\, drop-in gardening program for kids ages 3-7 and their caregivers. \nEach Saturday session will have a fun theme to explore\, nature crafts\, planting\, soil digging\, and more! \nCome once\, twice\, or all four weeks for some playing and planting! We hope to see you there! \nDates: 4/18\, 4/25\, 5/2\, 5/9\nTime: 10 AM – 12 PM\nLocation: The VCPA Learning Garden is located near the Mosholu Avenue and Broadway entrance of the park (past the Northwest playground). \nDrop-ins are welcome\, but advance registration is recommended. \nPlease e-mail us with any questions at gardening@vancortlandt.org \n 
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/super-seedlings-4/2026-04-25/
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:Family Fun Day
DESCRIPTION:Van Cortlandt Park Alliance\, Women of Woodlawn and Woodlawn Taxpayers Association Present Woodlawn Family Fun Day featuring: \n\nFace Painting\nNYRR Mobile Van\nUrban Park Rangers\nWoodland Family Walks\nNature Crafts\nBocce\nGames\nAnd more!\n\nRSVP Now.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/family-fun-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:Birding with NYC Bird Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and NYC Bird Alliance invite you to join us during 4 weekend mornings of birding in the park this spring. \nExplore Van Cortlandt Park’s ecologically diverse grounds and celebrate a long tradition of birding in the park. We will look for various species of resident and migratory birds and discuss a wide range of avian topics. Each walk will be led by a NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon) guide. \nAdvance registration is required. You must register separately for each date you would like to attend. \nBirding sessions meet at 9am on the following dates: \n\nSaturday\, April 11\nSunday\, April 26\nSaturday\, May 16\nSunday\, June 14\n\nNote: We do not provide binoculars and suggest that attendees bring their own. \nWant us to continue birding programs in the future? Please make a donation during checkout. All donations made will be used to continue birding programs. \nAs space is limited\, if you are not able to attend please let us know ASAP so we can fill in your spot by emailing info@vancortlandt.org. \nRSVP Now. \nThese birding events are generously supported by NYC Bird Alliance. \nPhoto by Jack Rothman
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/birding-with-nyc-bird-alliance-4/2026-04-26/
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SUMMARY:Sunday Stewardship
DESCRIPTION:Join Van Cortlandt Park Alliance for Sunday Stewardship — hands-on ecological restoration in Van Cortlandt Park. No experience necessary. Tools\, gloves\, and guidance provided. \nThis will be City Nature Challenge weekend!  Celebrate by helping with garlic mustard removal and iNaturalist species mapping.\nBring your phone and a water bottle. \nMeeting at the southern end of the Van Cortlandt Golf House. \nRSVP Now.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/sunday-stewardship/
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SUMMARY:Tune-up Tuesdays
DESCRIPTION:Turnip to volunteer and help us take care of our Learning Garden! \nVolunteers will help care for our garden\, maintain compost bins\, weed\, water\, and harvest produce. \nNo gardening experience needed – just show up in clothing you will be comfortable getting dirty in! \nLocation: The VCPA Learning Garden is located near the Mosholu Avenue and Broadway entrance of the park (past the Northwest playground). \nHeld on the following Tuesdays from 10am to 1pm: \n\nApril 14\nApril 28\nMay 26\nJune 9\nJune 23\n\nVolunteers must be 18 and older. \nRSVP Now. \nGroups of 5+ must register as a unit via email to gardening@vancortlandt.org.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/tune-up-tuesdays-2/2026-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Volunteer
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SUMMARY:Unhired Hands
DESCRIPTION:Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and Van Cortlandt House Museum presents a poetry reading by poet and Bronx byproduct David Mills.\n\nMills will read from Unhired Hands\, his new poetry collection about slavery in Queens and Massachusetts.  The reading will be held the downstairs educational space inside the Van Cortlandt House Museum (only accessible via stairs). \nSpace is limited so advance registration is required. \nRSVP Now. \nThis reading is a part of Van Cortlandt Park Alliance’s Reimagining initiative. In partnership with the Design Trust for Public Space and Immanuel Oni\, Liminal Sp\, VCPA invites the community to reimagine the park’s Enslaved African Burial Ground site as a memorial space that fosters long-term healing and restoration. This project is supported by the Mellon Foundation. \nThis event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \nAbout Unhired Hands:  You never quite know where to place Mills’ work in the poetic landscape. This is a good thing given the clusters of poets bunched around the same subjects and approaches. In Unhired Hands\, where he explores slavery in Queens and Massachusetts\, he’s formal while wild in style; he’s both historical/recognizable and strange/innovative. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson tuning in from the outer boroughs; like Phillis Wheatley riding Funkadelic’s mothership. He possesses an archival acumen akin to Natasha Trethewey; a cultural vernacular rich as that of August Wilson; the intellectual quirks of Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra. Unhired Hands highlights his expressive documentarian impulses while adding to his clear technical mastery. He reconstructs / conjures Queens (through the lives of enslaved individuals Victoria Earle Matthews\, Millie Tunnell\, and Martha Peterson)\, and Massachusetts (with an homage to Phillis Wheatley). His research is exacting\, but open; the poems are formal but never formulaic. The image of Matthews sneaking books between chores\, her eyes “learning to swim\, learning to sink into literature’s at turns clear and sometimes troubling waters” is a kind of statement of poetics and a lyrical reconstruction of history. Mills writes beyond “the jurisdiction of flinch\,” into the intimacy of interrogation:  its also an “interrogation of intimacy.” This collection is akin to a history book scored by form and spirit\, ingenuity and telepathic empathy…\nTerrance Hayes\, National Book Award and MacArthur-Genius-Award winning author of Lighthead. \nAbout David Mills: David Mills is currently a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow finishing a poetry collection about slavery in the Bronx. He holds an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College and an M.A. from New York University in creative writing. He’s published five collections: Unhired Hands\, Boneyarn (Manhattan slavery poems)\, After Mistic\, The Sudden Country and The Dream Detective. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Colorado Review\, Fence\, Crab Orchard Review\, Jubilat\, Callaloo\, Brooklyn Rail\, and Obsidian. He has received a 2026 NYSCA grant to write a poetry collection about Brooklyn slavery.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/unhired-hands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T180000
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SUMMARY:Springtime Shindig 2026
DESCRIPTION:Cocktails • Lite Bites • Dessert\nMusic • Picturesque Setting • Raffle\nHONOREES\nBetty Campbell-Adams Award\nChristopher Rizzo of Carter\, Ledyard & Milburn\, LLP\nLyman Casey Spitzer\, Attorney\nNYC Parks current and past leadership\nFor facilitating VCPA’s license agreement with NYC Parks\, recognizing Van Cortlandt Park Alliance as its official partner.  \nCultivating the Bronx Award\nRiverdale Main Streets Alliance\nFor their stalwart support and stewardship of the park. \nVisit our Shindig Page to purchase tickets.
URL:https://vancortlandt.org/event/springtime-shindig-2026/
CATEGORIES:Community
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