Community

Music Monday is a free and open-to-the public monthly concert series hosted by The Forum. Performances, which feature local artists and musicians, take place in The Forum's ground-floor Atrium on Monday evenings, once a month.

This initiative aims to celebrate and explore the vibrant tapestry of our neighborhood culture in creative ways. We hope to offer a nook where people can forge new connections, foster deeper understandings, and discover the diverse heritage that makes Manhattanville unique. 

Twice a year, The Forum joins our Manhattanville neighbors in hosting a free, fun-filled celebration of community! Activities include film screenings and sketch sessions, food samples galore, live music, interactive STEM projects led by Saturday Science - and much more.

Films at The Forum is a public program bringing free movie screenings to The Forum on a monthly basis. Previous screenings have included Ray, Invisible Beauty, Black Is... Black Ain't, and On The Basis of Sex. 

The Forum is proud to have partnered with the Harlem Public Art Project to present "Icons of Activism," a summer 2023 exhibit featuring portraits of civil rights activists Rosa Parks and Angela Davis. The paintings, on display in The Forum's Atrium, were painted by artists Gina Samson and Taylor Capers-Armstead, pictured here.

Organized by The Trust Collaboratory at Columbia University in collaboration with the Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3), the My Streetscape Photovoice Exhibit focused on the intersection of urban technology and trust. The exhibit featured work from local high school students enrolled in the My Streetscape Summer School, a six-week-long program fostering dialogue on how urban technology can be implemented in ways that elicit trust, safeguard privacy, and serve the needs of the local community.

The Forum is pleased to have partnered with the Trust Project at INCITE to present their photovoice exhibition, “#TrustWorkers: (Re)Building Relationships between New Yorkers and the Medical System.” The exhibit, installed in The Forum's ground-floor Atrium, featured intimate photographic narratives of Community Health Workers (CHWs) who work at the frontlines of building trust and providing medical care to New Yorkers.

The Forum is proud to serve as an early voting poll site for our Manhattanville neighbors, during both the Primary and General Election periods each year. 

The Forum partnered with Colección INICIA to present Aquí y Allá, a photo exhibit featuring the work of renowned Dominican-American photographer Winston Vargas who documented life the Washington Heights neighborhood in the 1960s and '70s.

The Forum once again hosted Columbia Community Service's annual grantee reception celebrating the 55 nonprofit organizations in Harlem and Morningside Heights that were awarded grants as part of this year's fundraising efforts. 

The Forum was proud to collaborate with Columbia University’s Wellness Center and Columbia Doctors to host an open-to-the-community pop-up vaccination site at The Forum. The pop-up was held over four different weekends in April and May, providing relief for some of New York’s most underserved populations.

The Forum welcomed Council Member Shaun Abreu (CC'14) and Congressman Adriano Espaillat who hosted a Mother's Day celebration honoring District 7 moms. 

To celebrate the creative work of students in the YWCA afterschool photography program at New Design Middle School, sponsored by The Josephine Herrick Project, The Forum, as part of its collaborative programming with community organizations, invited the students to exhibit their photos at The Forum. Click through to view their photographs. 

The Uptown Inner City League's holiday toy giveaway event with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer