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Published on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain The Queens Museum of Art is proud to present Another Detroit is Happening, an exhibition by Detroit Summer’s LAMP program, in our Partnership Gallery. The story of how this exhibition came to the museum, and why, is an interesting one.   At the moment, QMA’s galleries are full of images of Detroit.  Up until now, it has [...]...

Published on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain Neighbors: bring out your tables, chairs, and food and enjoy an afternoon together! Every year, the Louis Armstrong House Museum closes 107th Street for our annual Jazzmobile concert. This year, we have requested that the streets close earlier in the day so that neighbors can do more together on that day. We are also collaborating again with [...]...

Published on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain On Sunday, June 5, as part of the third installation of Make A Movement Sundays, Immigrant Movement International invited the Ghana Think Tank to host a special event inviting community members to participate in a live problem-solving session around issues in Corona, Queens. A little background:  the Ghana Think Tank is a collaboration of three US [...]...

Published on Thursday, June 2, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain On Saturday, May 21, a group of us gathered to help paint the fences at Corona Plaza for It’s My Park day (a program of Partnership for Parks and the NYC Parks Dept).   A few local organizations were involved: the Dominican American Society, the Drogadictos Anonimos, Corona Community Action Network, the Ecuadorian Civic Committee, [...]...

Published on Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL is co-presented with Creative Time and is the first project of Corona Studio, an initiative that continues the work of the Heart of Corona coalition through artist-initiated projects in Corona, Queens that reduce the distinction between art and social action. IMMIGRANT MOVEMEMENT INTERNATIONAL is gathering people on April 3 (and every...

Published on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Jose Serrano-McClain “If Bogad is interested in helping “social movements express themselves and make interventions,” do you think that we can get someone from Make the Road and/or NICE to this event – i.e. giving people involved in community activism access to these tools?”  -Feb  17 email message from Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director of the Queens Museum [...]...

Published on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by preranareddy Continuing our support community organizations that are creating access to health services, we would like to invite you to the Health Fair taking place at Corona Plaza this  Saturday, October 2nd (from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm). There is a great line-up of activities, including art workshops for children. Please see the flyer above for more [...]...

Published on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by preranareddy On September 19, 2010 Make the Road NY (MRNY) hit the road with more than 500 community members and raised almost $50,000 to support and empower NYC’s Latino, immigrant and low-income communities. The walk journeyed through Elmhurst and Corona, two of the most diverse immigrant neighborhoods in the world, and finished with a lively cultural festival [...]...

Published on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 by peintern We here, at the Queens Museum of Art, care about the community and its safety. It has been incredibly hot lately in NYC and there have been many instances in the past of people suffering heat strokes and other ailments that have landed them in the hospital. Keeping this in mind, we ask that you [...]...

Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by Alexandra García Our neighborhood Corona has a very rich cultural history, and the residents’ journeys and stories as well as the neighborhood’s impressive diversity are treasures that all neighbors, old and newcomers are part of. Corona has beautiful treasures and one of them is the  link to Jazz history, music and civil rights movement that allowed Corona [...]...