Dec 09 2022
Queens Memory Family Stories Workshop
Zoom
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
OF QUEENS
Photo courtesy Ken Harris, Jamaica, NY circa 1975
The Queens Memory Project is our record of how we got here, who we are, and what we want from our future.
Queens Name Explorer
The Queens Memory team introduces the Queens Name Explorer initiative, featuring an interactive map with the biographical details of individuals whose names grace Queens’ streets, schools, buildings, parks, monuments, and other public places. Enormous thanks to our technology partners, Urban Archive and to the Mellon Foundation whose funding made this project possible.
Sharon Florin Oral History
Sharon Florin describes her volunteer work with SHARE and also expresses women artists’ struggle to gain recognition in the 1970s.
Upcoming Events
December 2022
January 2023
Jan 12 2023
Queens Memory Cookbook with Life Story Club: Ridgewood
Jan 13 2023
Organize It Or Lose It: Tips on Saving the Memories You Make on Your Phone
Queens Memory Facebook page
Jan 26 2023
Queens Memory Cookbook with Life Story Club: St. Albans & Addisleigh Park
February 2023
Feb 09 2023
Queens Memory Cookbook with Life Story Club: Ridgewood
Feb 23 2023
Queens Memory Cookbook with Life Story Club: St. Albans & Addisleigh Park
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Listen to the Queens Memory Podcast
Season Three of the Queens Memory Podcast is coming soon! In this season, “Our Major Minor Voices,” we feature stories from our neighbors of Asian descent in Queens, New York. New episodes will air each Monday, starting April 11th 2022. Click Here to listen to the trailer for the season, and to hear to new episodes, as they are released. To hear Season One of the Queens Memory Podcast, Memories of Migration, Click Here. Season One features Queens residents who moved from all over the world over the past century to settle in the “World’s Borough”. To hear Season Two of the Queens Memory Podcast, The Borough We Became: Queens Residents on Life during COVID-19, Click Here. Season Two features interviews with Queens residents and highlighted sound and video contributions to our COVID-19 Project as the pandemic unfolded.
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