Community Partnership Initiative

LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM BLOCK PARTY AND BEAUTIFICATION DAY

May 05, 2010
Do you want to get to know Queens and its history? Do you want to see your community united? We urge you to come out and participate in the Beautification Day & Block Party on June 5th 2010! The event will take place at the block of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located at 34-56 107th Street between 34th and 35th avenue in Corona, Queens. Art, music, and food will be a part of this great day. We look forward to celebrating the community participation and the beautification of our neighborhood.

Partnering organizations invite you and your neighbors to be part of this great initiative and volunteer in a beautification day on the Louis Armstrong House Museum block, an important historic landmark of Queens.
This community celebration is part of the annual nationwide initiative of Neighbor Works America: “Neighbor Works Week” in collaboration with Neighborhood Housing Services of Northern Queens, Rebuilding Together NYC and Queens Museum of Art.

Our collaborative program will focus on beautification activities and we need your hands!
Learn about Louis Armstrong heritage, music, and his love for Corona, come out and participate, meet your neighbors learn from their stories and beautify the block. Volunteers will have a day of sharing skills, community service and organizing, art, health, environmentalism and housing services scam prevention. Join us and learn more about your neighbors, Louis Armstrong heritage and the history of Queens!

We need volunteers to help and you and your organization could be one of them!  We will carry out general beautification activities of home facades, paint fences and gardening and have art making activities for the family to celebrate the summer. Hours of volunteering will be from 11 am to 2pm and then the party will start! 

We hope that you and your organization will join us in our efforts to conduct neighborhood-wide beautification and improvements. Please contact us with any questions.

Alexandra García
Queens Museum of Art
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