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By Forum Staff
This Tuesday, April 25, at the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Rising—the month-long, multi-disciplinary arts celebration created to highlight The World’s Borough’s culture and creative diversity—will officially launch its June 2023 Initiative.
During next week’s event, Queens Rising will officially announce lead sponsor Northwell Health and major sponsor, South Ozone Park-based casino Resorts World New York City, both of whom were supporters of the inaugural Queens Rising last June.
Speakers will include: Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr.; Jeff Rosenstock, AVP for Governmental Relations and External Affairs, Queens College; a representative from Northwell Health, a representative from Resorts World NYC; and two representatives from the Queens Rising Advisory Board.
This initiative arose from an Arts Advisory Board meeting of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts in Flushing, where leading individuals representing various Queens-based arts and culture organizations gathered to form a Planning Committee. The larger Queens artistic and cultural community were invited to join various working groups to help with Queens Rising’s programming, operations, marketing, and fundraising.
Participating organizations will present work that highlights the variety of traditions and cultural expressions that make Queens one of the most diverse regions in the world, a borough whose resiliency and strength will overcome any present—or future—challenges. While Queens Rising’s core programming will take place within Queens, the celebration will be extended throughout New York City, with arts and cultural institutions in other boroughs showcasing Queens-based artists and organizations.
Some current collaborators include:
A Better Jamaica | Allure Art Studio | Aimi Cultural Center | APAC | Art House Astoria | Ashreynu | Astoria Park Alliance | Bayside Historical Society | Bayside Village BID | 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 | Diverse Street Initiative | Espresso 77 | FitzgeraldArt | Flushing BID | Flushing Town Hall | Forest Hills Choir | Forest Hills Stadium | Friends of the Crocheron & John Golden Park | 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 | Long Island City Partnership | Louis Armstrong House Museum | Make Music New York | Maspeth Squash | MoMA PS1 | Museum of the Moving Image | Musica Reginae Productions | New York Hall of Science | NYC Department of Transportation | Oratorio Society of Queens, Inc. | QED | The Queens Borough President’s Office | Queens Botanical Garden | Queens Chamber of Commerce | Queens Council on the Arts | Queens Economic Development Corporation | Queens Historical Society | Queens Museum | Queens Night Market | Queens Public Library | Queens Theatre | Queens Together | Queens Tourism Council
