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 in Summer Residency at Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Uni enjoyed a summer-long residency in Pier Kids events. The residency was made possible by a new reading room kit funded by long-time Uni Project supporters, Leaves of Grass Fund Thank you to Uni Librarians Emily Jacobson and Stephanie Yee for helping us manage...
Uni reading room at Irving Street Play Street, 2014
In August 2014, we deployed the Uni reading room to Irving Street in Brooklyn, one of the city's oldest continuously running play streets. Learn more about our ongoing effort at play streets. Our participation was made possible by a generous grant from...
Uni reading room at Forest Ave Play Street, 2014
In July and August 2014, we deployed the Uni reading room to a play street on Forest Avenue in the Bronx run by Harvest Home next to their farmers' market. Learn more about our ongoing effort at play streets. Made possible by a...
Keeping things happening in East Village and Greenwich Village
The Uni is about more than books—it's about creating a place where people can gather around books. When we roll out the reading room, people start to acknowledge each other, connect. Sometimes they even read poetry out loud. You don't see many headphones in the Uni....
Why we keep going to Corona
Since 2012, the Uni Project has created open-air reading rooms on Corona Plaza 13 times. Our first deployment was to a strip of sidewalk next to a parking lot that would eventually become this remarkable pedestrian plaza. Over the years, we've brought our Uni tower,...
Why we keep going to Brownsville
Three times in 2014, the Uni Project created an open-air reading room on Pitkin Avenue near Zion Triangle Plaza in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to help draw people out, meet each other, read together, and have fun. We’ll return for a fourth and final visit on Halloween. Our...