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:
The Uni at James Weldon Johnson Playground in East Harlem
In May and June 2015, the Uni Project offered weekly open-air reading rooms at James Weldon Johnson Playground in East Harlem as part of a partnership with NYC Parks aligning our efforts with the goals of city’s Community Parks Initiative. Generous funding from Leaves...
The Uni at James Weldon Johnson Playground in East Harlem
In May and June 2015, the Uni Project offered weekly open-air reading rooms at James Weldon Johnson Playground in East Harlem as part of a partnership with NYC Parks aligning our efforts with the goals of city’s Community Parks Initiative. Generous funding from Leaves...
The Uni Project adds reading to Marcy Plaza in Bed Stuy
On May 16, 2015, the Uni Project created an open-air reading room on a recently-created pedestrian plaza in Brooklyn. We visit these emerging public spaces to help activate space, give people a way to gather, and show how reading and learning can be part of the mix at...
New partnership with NYC Parks
We're proud to announce a new partnership between the Uni Project and NYC Parks Department that will bring pop-up reading rooms to priority parks identified in the Mayor’s Community Parks Initiative addressing equity in the city. Thanks to support from Leaves of Grass...
Uni Project to help create portable local history museum
The Uni Project is partnering with SoHo native Yukie Ohta to create the first roving neighborhood history museum for NYC. Today starts a monthlong Kickstarter campaign by Yukie to launch the effort. Yukie is founder of the SoHo Memory Project, an archive and blog, and...
Sesame Street in the Uni
Long before the Uni portable reading room, New York City streets provided a rich environment for learning. New Yorkers of all ages, colors, fur, and feathers sounded out words and read together on stoops. It happened on television, but it forever changed people’s...