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 begins a run at Sean’s Place, a park in Astoria, Queens
Through the end of the month, the Uni reading room will appear every Friday at Sean's Place in Astoria, Queens. Our work here is in partnership with NYC Parks in support of the Community Parks Initiative. We're reaching some of the city's parks that have the greatest...
The Uni at Morrison Ave Plaza in the Bronx
On three Mondays in June, the Uni transformed Morrison Ave Plaza in Soundview, the Bronx, into a place for the community to gather, read, and draw. Our host was Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and our partner was the nearby Clason’s Point branch of the New...
NYC Chinatown residency to extend through July
For eight weeks, a Uni has taken up residence in NYC's Chinatown, serving up reading, drawing, and learning opportunities to people of all ages in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Thanks to new support from the Ong Family Foundation, we'll keep things rolling an extra month...
READ and DRAW come out in support of a One Day Plaza
Friends of Stryker Park is committed to transforming the north side of 97th St between Columbus and Amsterdam into a greener, safer public space. The Uni Project teamed up with NYC DOT to help create a One Day Plaza to help demonstrate and build support for this...
Uni visits SoHo this weekend
The Uni is on the street nearly every day of the week through the end of June! Join us this weekend for reading, drawing, and other hands-on activities outdoors in SoHo. We’ll be at Vesuvio Park at Thompson and Spring Streets on Saturday from 1-4pm 11am-2pm (to beat...
Uni begins an eight-week run in NYC’s Chinatown
The Uni Project has launched an eight week residency in Sara D. Roosevelt Park in NYC's Chinatown. Our work in Chinatown is part of a partnership with NYC Parks to serve neighborhoods in the city's Community Parks Initiative, and we're supported by Leaves of Grass...