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A Ditmas Park arts hub is building community through theater and wellness
Somalia Seaton sees theater everywhere: the guy backing out of a parking spot on the busy street outside her business, the way neighbors gather and in the stories that bubble up in the streets of New York. “Community is saturated with that magic,” she said. “And it feels so important that at a time where…
This NYC dance club wants you to dance with strangers
Nina Cheng’s earliest memory of a dance party with her peers is from fifth grade, at one of the rare sleepovers her immigrant parents let her attend. While the other girls jumped around, she felt every bit the “quiet Asian girl,” the new kid on the New Jersey block. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh my god,…
How Christine Choy helped transform Asian American documentary filmmaking
Jeremy Chi’s clearest memories of Christine Choy were of her sharp eye and sharper tongue, both of which he observed from close at hand three years ago as a teaching assistant in her film class at New York University’s Tisch School. “This is so bad,” he recalls her telling a student. Choy went on to…
Never too late to get back in the game
Steve Bzomowski’s basketball business started with a missed shot. In 1991, he was an assistant coach on the men’s basketball team at Harvard University when the head coaching job opened up. He applied but didn’t get it, and started to look elsewhere. Bzomowski fielded offers from colleges in Toledo and Alabama, but his wife was…
In Southeast Queens, Haitian neighbors are building a safety net of their own
In Southeast Queens in the 1970s and 1980s, Sacred Heart Church was the Friday night hangout for teens in the Haitian Creole-speaking community. Marco Solomon, Katia Celifie-Aime, Phillipe P. Titus and many of their peers got their first paid jobs there as camp counselors through a grant that employed young people in the community. Elders…
Cooking up a new model for food connections in Queens
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, chefs Kim Calichio and her husband, Omar Bravo Pavia, lost their food industry jobs. Calichio had to shut down her Queens-based cooking and gardening programs and Bravo Pavia was let go from his job as a restaurant chef. That left the couple with two young children and no steady source…
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