After a bustling, month-long residency at Chelsea Market, our WRITE program served a few last patrons before heading out onto the streets for the rest of summer. WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market for hosting DRAW and now WRITE in Chelsea Local. Scroll down to look back at blog posts from our deployments here during 2019.
Look back at more of our deployments at Chelsea Market:
Uni reading room at Little Red Lighthouse Festival
The Uni portable reading room landed in Fort Washington Park at a riverside festival to celebrate Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse! Thanks to our partners NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. This deployment made possible with funding from Manhattan Borough...
Uni reading room in Washington Square Park
The Uni returned to one of our favorite parks at the invitation of the Washington Square Park Conservancy, creating a small reading room in the northwest corner of the park on four separate days in September. Our collection was augmented with a loan of books from...
Leslie assigns Uni email newsletter to Sam!
Everyone working at the Uni Project wears a basket of hats. Examples include: fundraiser, librarian, truck driver, bookkeeper. This quarter, Leslie assigned the email newsletter to me! Here are the results. You can use the same link above to subscribe to our...
The Uni turns five
This has been a good, busy, familiar kind of weekend. Today we created two, simultaneous outdoor reading rooms along 125th Street with terrific partners in Harlem. Tomorrow, we go to Chinatown to launch a residency with our DRAW cart. Good stuff for New Yorkers to do...
Uni at Playground 103 in East Harlem, series wraps tomorrow
The Uni has been at Playground 103 in East Harlem to reach kids and families living nearby at NYCHA East River Houses. Our work here is in partnership with NYC Parks in support of the Community Parks Initiative, and tomorrow is our final...
Uni Project thinking about Ozone Park
Recent events in Ozone Park have us thinking about the neighborhood. Here are photos of a beautiful evening on Liberty Ave in 2014 with our friends at Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services Corporation. Taken from our original blog post here....