DreamYard
nat rosasco • April 7, 2020
What does a community arts center do when, under the threat of a growing world-wide pandemic, it’s forced to suspend the in-person art and education services it had been providing for the past 25 years? In the case of DreamYard, located in the Morrisania district of the South Bronx, you find other ways to meet the community’s needs. DreamYard is keeping its front doors open a few hours each weekday, by acting as a distribution point for free lunches provided by World Central Kitchen (founded by chef José Andrés) between 1:30 and 3pm. In other words, its volunteers and employees have not suspended their commitment to serving their communities, but instead have pivoted to find other ways to fulfill their mission while all our social and economic systems contract under the pressure of the coronavirus outbreak.
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