Photos From Queens Rising Reception Event

April 20, 2022 – Yesterday, Queens Rising hosted artists, arts and cultural organizations, local business representatives, and creatives from the borough at the The Queens Museum to toast the upcoming launch of the initiative, which celebrates the diverse and vibrant arts and cultural offerings throughout Queens this June.   

Speakers included 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; City Council Cultural Chair Chi Ossé; Michael Goyfman, MD, Chief of Cardiology at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, part of Northwell Health; Seth Bornstein, Executive Director, Queens Economic Development Corporation; Dennis Walcott, President and CEO, Queens Public Library; and Karesia Batan of the Queensboro Dance Festival.

View/download photos here. 

Current Queens Rising collaborators include: 

A Better Jamaica | Allure Art Studio | APAC | Art House Astoria | Astoria Park Alliance | Bowne House Historical Society | Center for the Women of New York | The Chocolate Factory | The Church-in-the-Gardens | Culture Lab LIC | Dance Entropy/Green Space | Dancing Classrooms | FitzgeraldArt | Flushing Town Hall | Forest Hills Choir | Forest Hills Stadium | The Garage Art Center, Inc. | Glow Community Center | The Godwin-Ternbach Museum | Greater Astoria Historical Society | Indo-American Arts and Cultural Forum | Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning | King Manor Museum | Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc. | Kupferberg Center for the Arts | LaGuardia Performing Arts Center | Lewis Latimer House Museum | Louis Armstrong House Museum | Maspeth Squash | MoMA PS1 | Museum of the Moving Image | Musica Reginae Productions | New York Hall of Science | NYC Department of Transportation | QED | The Queens Borough President’s Office | Queens Botanical Garden | Queens Chamber of Commerce | Queens Economic Development Corporation | Queens Historical Society | Queens Museum | Queens Night Market | Queens Public Library | Queens Theatre | Queens Tourism Council | Queens Underground International Black and Brown Film Festival and The Artist Market NYC Live | Queens World Film Festival | Queensboro Dance Festival | RISE Rockaway | School of Rock Queens | Socrates Sculpture Park | South East Queens Artist Alliance | Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc. | Theatre Beyond Broadway | Voelker Orth Museum | VP Music Group | Wild Heart Performing Arts Studio | Yeh Art Gallery, St. John's University

Queens Rising on the web: QueensRising.nyc | #QueensRisingNYC

For more information on Queens Rising, please contact Nora Lyons (nlyons@shorefire.com) or Rebecca Shapiro (rshapiro@shorefire.com)