PROGRAMMING PARTNERS
Venue and Organizational Outreach
Are you a Queens Arts/Cultural Venue? Are you a local business interested in hosting arts and cultural events? Are you an organization that plans or produces events, shows, or other activities in Queens?
Queens Rising is excited to offer opportunities throughout the year, with our signature highlights focused on June 2025. As a multi-disciplinary arts celebration, Queens Rising showcases the borough’s cultural and creative diversity by amplifying and promoting Queens’ arts and culture.
In a community that has faced racial and economic challenges amid a global health crisis, Queens Rising serves as a platform to celebrate our resilience, unity, and vibrant future. Together, we highlight Queens as a hub for arts and culture, sharing our borough’s incredible offerings with NYC and beyond.
We are seeking partners to join us in making 2025 an unforgettable year for arts in Queens. Let’s collaborate to amplify the voices and talents that make our borough extraordinary!
What We Will Offer
Connect artists, venues, and businesses to provide as many opportunities as possible for arts and culture to be seen in Queens.
Amplify venues, performance companies, cultural centers, institutions, and small businesses by promoting events around the borough.
Outreach to less visible and often overlooked institutions and organizations interested in reaching new audiences.
UNIFY neighborhoods by providing audiences with easy-to-find event and calendar listings featuring artistic, cultural offerings, and other sites of interest within specific communities.
FUNDRAISE from both public and private sources, without pursuing or affecting any partners’ current or ongoing funding channels.
What We Ask Of You
JOIN our roster of Queens organizations that want to participate in Queens Rising 2025 by filling out our interest form at the end of this document. There is no charge or financial obligation to join Queens Rising.
SPREAD THE WORD about Queens Rising to friends, associates, and other institutions to help us grow our contact list and reach around the borough.
COMMUNICATE with us about your plans for June 2025 so we can help promote your work, and Queens as a whole!
CONSIDER opening your space to Queens artists or hosting a Queens Rising event, show, performance, workshop, or class.
About the Survey
The following survey is meant to gauge the various interests and capacities of arts & cultural organizations who run or own spaces in Queens, and that may be interested in participating in Queens Rising in June of 2024. We also want to survey other organizations or businesses with spaces that may not typically host arts & culture events but may be interested in doing so during Queens Rising.
Spaces can be theaters, museums, galleries, dance studios, small businesses or restaurants, temporarily empty real estate, places of worship, hotels, and outdoor properties.
If your organization or business has a space and is interested in being a part of Queens Rising, please fill out the brief survey below.
Thank you and don’t hesitate to reach out to info@queensrising.nyc with any questions!