Read, Draw & Play At Avenue C Plaza’s Pop-Up Reading Room

Like a traveling circus, The Uni Project, a nonprofit that brings learning installations to public spaces, will arrive with its cart full of books, drawing materials and puzzles this Sunday for a three-Sunday run at the Avenue C Plaza.

The specially designed movable cart will arrive at Avenue C and McDonald Avenue on October 23, October 31 and November 6 from 12pm to 4pm, bringing wonder in its wake.

The Uni Project is a beloved program in New York City’s park, plaza, and playground circuit, appearing in 61 neighborhoods. Just this week it will travel to Chinatown, Manhattan; several Harlem parks and plazas, and Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side, as well as the Avenue C Plaza, in Kensington.

While no actual elephants or other animals will appear in the flesh, they can be found inside the books at Uni Project’s portable reading room, which will include photo books and books for adults in several languages, including Bengali.

Started in 2011 by husband and wife team Leslie and Sam Davol as a crowd-funded project called Street Lab, The Uni Project has since grown into an award-winning 501.(3) (C) nonprofit. The mobile reading rooms are brought to neighborhoods for free through a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, in tandem with Neighborhood Plaza Partnership, which also worked with The Kensington Stewards to develop this plaza.

The Kensington Stewards are the local group who instigated, maintains, and programs this plaza and the one in front of Walgreens, at Church and McDonald Avenues.

In the last couple of years, the Uni Project has joined forces with the Brooklyn and Queens Public libraries to erect reading rooms with book towers at Governor’s Island.

Come out with the whole family and enjoy the Uni Project pop-up installations at the Avenue C Plaza, located at the intersection of Avenue C and McDonald Avenue, on three Sundays: October 23, October 31 and November 6, from 12pm to 4pm.