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From Nephelie 4-28-18.
Slower day today.
A high point was my visit to
the Hindu Temple on Holly Street. The canteen in the basement has been
recommended, so I tried it for lunch. Several temples in the surrounding
blocks. The temple was very busy (I thought it was just a Saturday, but
realized later in the day that today was the festival of holi which may explain
why it was so busy.) My Lyft driver was familiar with the place. “I’m not Hindu
he said, but I go there with my friends to eat sometimes. For South Indian
food. I am from Punjab.” The canteen was everything you’d expect of a canteen
in the basement of a temple.
Folding tables, plastic trays and foam plates. And amazing food. It was lively and filled with families many of whom looked like they’d just come from the temple. I ate my delicious masala dosa sitting next to a large, colorful figure of Ganesh, adorned with flowers, garlands and multi- colored lights.
Folding tables, plastic trays and foam plates. And amazing food. It was lively and filled with families many of whom looked like they’d just come from the temple. I ate my delicious masala dosa sitting next to a large, colorful figure of Ganesh, adorned with flowers, garlands and multi- colored lights.
Took a long walk from Main
street, through the park, Queens Botanical Garden and Flushing
Meadows-Corona Park, to reach the Queens Museum. When Paula and I visited
this area in late March it was cold out, and nearly empty. Today the weather was warm and the cherry blossoms were blooming.
It seemed like most of Queens
was out on the streets and filling the park spaces. The botanical garden was
beautiful and bustling, with a children’s gardening program, variety of gardens
and programs, wedding garden and people out enjoying a perfect spring day.
Passed an AMAZING community garden.
Met up with the daughter of a friend; she is heading to SUNY Purchase to major in costume design in September and will work with me as an intern when we are in residence. There was a well attended holi program filling most of the Queens Museum so we got to see lots of traditional Indian dance. Talked about expectations and goals for her internship, and looked at the current show in their main galleries, a wide ranging installation by Mel Chin called “All Over the Place” - provocative (and beautifully crafted) work. Worth a visit!
Met up with the daughter of a friend; she is heading to SUNY Purchase to major in costume design in September and will work with me as an intern when we are in residence. There was a well attended holi program filling most of the Queens Museum so we got to see lots of traditional Indian dance. Talked about expectations and goals for her internship, and looked at the current show in their main galleries, a wide ranging installation by Mel Chin called “All Over the Place” - provocative (and beautifully crafted) work. Worth a visit!
I returned to Electchester to visit with Chelsea G. before Working Theater's show. I met Kendra (past 2DI participant & about to graduate NYU
with a degree in artistic practice and civic engagement) and
Tamilla, the Artistic Director for the Five Boroughs/One City
project. Also met Tricia, Working Theatre’s Community
Engagement Coordinator. We’ve been in touch through email so it was good to
meet in person. Tricia may be a useful resource for us, as she’s been heading
up the community engagement at Pomonok for their project. Chelsea's task will
be to facilitate post-show talk backs for the NYC tour of this play, so there
was some conversation about how best to frame and lead that, that I was folded
into. Interesting to be part of that conversation from another company's point
of view. I found myself thinking about assumptions we all make.
Finally, attended reading
of The Apocalypse Plays, part of of the New American Voices
Reading series at Queens Theatre. I have reached out to the artistic director and hope to connect with her soon. It
was good to get inside the building and get a sense of the spaces there.
NMA
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