#queensishome: neighbors who play together stay together: A Queens Art Intervention w/ NYC artist, Betty Yu

 

What: Checkers and Cheese

When: Saturday, September 27th from 3-5pm

Where: Gantry Plaza State Park @ 4-09 47th Rd, Long Island City, Queens  (by the Concrete Chess stumps seats near the park's iconic Pepsi-Cola sign) 

*** Important: Enter into the Park at 46th and Center 

Description:
#queensishome: neighbors who play together stay together will invite neighbors and the general public to drop by and get to know each other in a playful and fun way. From an unconventional picnic to a remixed checkers game, participants will help create a collect narrative and story of "home" in the borough of Queens. 

As NYC experiences rapid gentrification, how does it impact working class and immigrant communities in Queens? What challenges are New Yorkers faced with? What do you love about your neighborhood? What do want to change about it? What are your hopes, dreams and possibilities? Come and add to this collective memory, narrative and story of "home".

Participants are encouraged to drop by and stay for at least 20 minutes to play a game and contribute to the joint piece. 

Lights snacks will be provided. 

To see the full line-up of Art Interventions go to:
http://www.regoparkgreenalliance.org/#!art-interventions/c3nw

Made possible by a grant from Rego Park Green Alliance.

Betty Yu Speaks on "Asian American Art & Activism in NYC" Panel at Brooklyn Museum on May 3rd

Celebrate the rich history of Asian American activism in NYC. Artists and activists will lead an interactive dialogue about important political and social issues their work addresses.

Part of Target First Saturdays

Panelists:

- Corinne Manabat: Media Educator, Filmmaker: 'Why We Rise', Tribeca Film Institute
- Corky Lee: Undisputed Unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate of NYC
-R yan Lee Wong: Exhibition organizer, Program Director, Asian American Writers' Workshop
- Betty Yu, Multi-media artist, organizer, Center for Media Justice 
- Cynthia Brothers (moderator): Consultant, 18MillionRising.org, Hyphen Magazine, Four Freedoms Fund

Free tickets at the Visitor Center at 6 p.m.

"The Garment Worker" featured in the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute Interactive

Betty Yu's "The Garment Worker", an interactive media installation was part of the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute's line up for their Interactive Day.  "The Garment Worker"  focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships she/he encounters working in a sweatshop.  Through the integration of a sewing machine, video and audio, “The Garment Worker” provides a rare look into garment working conditions that Chinese immigrants face in New York City through the personal story of the artist. The user experiences the sounds and motions of a garment worker. When the user turns the balance wheel or slide the stitch control different stories and facts of the garment industry appear on the screen.

This interactive media piece also includes a short film, Discovering My Grandfather Through Mao, about the artists’ grandfather who was a hand laundry worker that helped started the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance in 1937, one of the first immigrant labor organizations in the U.S.

Betty Yu receives a grant from Art Matters Foundation for her film

Support for The War Within: Healing the Wounds, a feature-length documentary capturing the lives of veterans and active duty soldiers of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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