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Queens Rising is a month-long multi-disciplinary celebration of the arts created to highlight my home borough’s culture and creative diversity.
The program has a specific mission that includes:
- Launching a wide-reaching campaign to promote Queens-based arts and culture.
- Amplifying venues, performance companies, cultural centers, institutions, and small businesses by promoting events around the borough.
- Outreach to less visible and often overlooked institutions and organizations interested in reaching new audiences.
- Unify neighborhoods by providing audiences with easy-to-find event and calendar listings featuring artistic and cultural offerings, and other sites of interest with specific communities.
- Connect artists, venues and businesses to provide as many opportunities as possible for arts and culture to be seen in Queens.
- Fundraise from both public and private sources, without pursuing or affecting any partners’ current or ongoing funding channels.
- Celebrate Queens with opening and closing events produced by local partners.
Queens Rising had their third official launch event at Queens Museum earlier this month that featured some speeches by a number of local officials including:
- Sally Tallant, President and Executive Director, Queens Museum
- Jeffrey Rosenstock, Assistant Vice President for Governmental Relations & External Affairs, Queens College
- Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Jr.
- New York State Assemblyman David I. Weprin
- Culture Lab‘s Edjo Wheeler and Tess Howsam
- Jamaica Performing Arts Center‘s Courtney French and Leonard Jacobs
- and more
Donovan Richards, Jr.
David Weprin
Courtney French and Leonard Jacobs
Jeffrey Rosenstock
Sally Tallant
Culture Lab’s Edjo Wheeler and Tess Howsam
