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BREAKING NEWS: New York City’s Inwood Film Festival Postponed Because of Coronavirus Concerns

Greggory W. Morris
2 min readMar 9, 2020

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Statement from Film Festival Officials:

In an abundance of caution over COVID-19 coronavirus, Columbia University, which includes the Campbell Sports Center (venue for the Inwood Film Festival), has updated its events policy to suspend non-essential events of more than 25 people for the upcoming week, this includes the Inwood Film Festival.

We are devastated to share this news with you however, Inwood Art Works will faithfully follow the university’s direction and postpone the film festival. We are now working through the difficulties of this unprecedented situation.

There are a growing number of cases being diagnosed in New York City. Amid cold and flu season it is prudent to take the side of caution. Inwood Art Works is committed to do our part to help protect staff, attendees and our Uptown community.

We’d like to emphasize that the festival has been postponed and not cancelled. IAW is committed to showcasing our hardworking and talented filmmakers and providing exciting arts programming for the community. Along with Columbia University and the staff at the Campbell Sport Center, we are exploring options to reschedule the Inwood Film Festival in late Spring 2020. We will be reaching out to ticket holders with…

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Greggory W. Morris
Greggory W. Morris

Written by Greggory W. Morris

Award Winning Assistant J-Professor, Hunter College/CUNY. Author, Writer. Blogs at blog.hunterword.com. Using Medium.com to test-drive writing projects.

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