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Visitors will have free access to exhibitions from 6 to 9 p.m. each Wednesday through Aug. 9. View Full Caption

Filip Wolak

EAST HARLEM — This year’s Uptown Bounce block party is all about the past. 

Musicians who defined an era — like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and George Michael — will be celebrated through exhibitions, art and dance classes, as well as music spun by a number of DJs that will take over The Museum of the City of New York and El Museo del Barrio each Wednesday night starting July 19.

The community will have free access to all the events and both museums, which are located next

Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray at a press conference announcing “Create NYC” at Materials for the Arts in Long Island City on July 19, 2017. View Full Caption

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LONG ISLAND CITY — The city will begin considering the demographic makeup of arts organizations when deciding which groups it will fund, in an effort to encourage more diversity in the city’s cultural scene, the mayor announced Wednesday.

Starting this year, art and cultural institutions vying for city grants will be asked to share what they’re doing to address “equity and inclusion” as part of the

The Dominican Film Festival opens Tuesday, July 25 with the award-winning film “Carpinteros/Woodpeckers.” View Full Caption

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WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — The Dominican Film Festival is back in its sixth year of celebrating filmmakers and works that reflect the history, culture, and relationship between the Dominican Republic and the United States. 

The festival, produced by Cine-Art Entertainment, this year will feature 70 movies throughout six different venues in Washington Heights, Harlem, Inwood and Midtown.

The films highlight many subjects relevant to Dominican communities in the Caribbean island, New York City, and Haiti, from street vendors in Manhattan to the significance of

(Whole Foods Market)

The city’s newest Whole Foods debuts July 21st in Harlem at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, nearly five years after the grocer announced the new store. As with all of their new stores, the company will mark the occasion with a bread-breaking ceremony Friday morning at 8:45 a.m., followed by the official door opening at 9 a.m.

A solid roster of local food makers will be stocking the shelves of the new store, including several who operate out of the Hot Bread Kitchen Incubator. Overall there will be 20 Harlem brands stocked at what is the company’s