Photography from the 2025 Queens Rising launch event at Queens Museum last week.

Photography: 2025 Queens Rising Launch Event, Queens Museum 4/21/25

Queens Rising is a month-long multi-disciplinary celebration of the arts created to highlight my home borough’s culture and creative diversity that takes part throughout June.

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 fourth official launch event at Queens Museum last week and the event featured some speeches by local officials and heads of public-serving institutions 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.
Queens World Film Festival‘s Katha Cato
and more