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 on Broadway for Earth Day
For Earth Day 2016, the Uni Project transformed a section of Broadway into an intimate place to gather around reading, drawing, and learning in the heart of Manhattan, with Union Square as a backdrop. Several blocks were made temporarily car-free for the day's...
Uni at St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx
The Uni brought reading and drawing to St. Mary’s Park in the South Bronx this weekend in support of a city-sponsored event promoting safe, healthy, nurturing environments for children. This deployment is also part of our 2016 partnership with NYC Parks to serve...
In memory of May Tongnok
Leslie and I were stunned to learn that a new friend and fellow New Yorker passed away unexpectedly on Friday. May Tongnok was many things, including a dedicated volunteer at the Uni Project. We will miss her deeply. May hailed from Nakhon Si Thammarat in Thailand,...
Thinking of volunteering with the Uni Project?
No time like the present! Meet other volunteers at a social event coming up soon on Tuesday, April 12. To get started, contact Leslie Davol. Help us put the act of learning “on stage” in New York City public space. We’re looking for dynamic volunteers who want to be...
Uni helps inaugurate new pedestrian plaza in Brooklyn
The Uni helped the Kensington community celebrate a new pedestrian plaza in their neighborhood at a NYC DOT One-Day Plaza event at Avenue C in Brooklyn. Our hosts were the Kensington Stewards and the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership. It was extraordinarily cold and...
Students at Parsons School of Design help develop Uni DRAW program
Sam and I are always looking for more ways to encourage interaction between people at the Uni. So we partnered with students of Professor Rachel Urkowitz at Parsons to design us new, communal drawing activities. Here are photos of the students as they test and...