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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
