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.
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New CITYzens produces short video about the Uni Project
Here's a short video about the Uni Project, featuring interviews with Leslie and our staff. It was filmed in the Bronx and Manhattan by Louise Andrieu and Nils Van Effenterre from New CITYzens, an organization that sends filmmakers around the world. The goal of New...
Uni Project at work in Boston
New York is the home of the Uni Project, but Boston is in our DNA, and we stay connected. Here are a few Uni things going on up north. Making it in Boston The Uni Project sends our award-winning portable infrastructure all over the world, and much of that effort...
Uni staff and volunteers appear on NY1
The Uni Project had a visit from NY1 last week during a deployment at Sean's Place, a park in Astoria Queens (series at Sean's Place with another visit next Friday, and you can see all of our CPI deployments here. Thanks to the Shippy Foundation and Leaves of...
Uni begins Bronx residency at Concrete Plant Park next to Swale, a floating farm
The Uni launched a four week residency at the newly renovated Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx today. We're here in partnership with a terrific Bronx community organization, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and we're deploying next to Swale, a floating urban...
READ, DRAW, and more in Hunts Point, Bronx
We're in the middle of a string of visits to Hunts Point Playground in the Bronx. Our weekly deployments are made possible by Leaves of Grass Fund and are part of a partnership with NYC Parks to support the Community Parks Initiative. Photos below. Almost every day...
Uni goes “Under the Viaduct” in West Harlem
On July 16th, the Uni transformed a block of 12th Avenue under the viaduct at a festival called “Under the Viaduct” organized by Savona Bailey-McClain and her West Harlem Art Fund. Check out the moss below!