This October & November, 135 branches across the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library systems competed in the first-ever citywide book display contest, creating colorful and dynamic displays around the theme of Arts & Culture to help re-introduce New Yorkers to Culture Pass.
More than 4,300 patrons cast votes for their favorite branches, and the 12 favorites from each system were then sent to a jury of artists, authors, and cultural leaders, who convened virtually on Friday, November 19th to select a winner and runner-up from each system. One grand prize citywide winner was then selected from the three systemwide winners.
Below are the winners and finalists from all three library systems. Congratulations to all who competed!
Citywide Grand Prize Winner: Hudson Park, NYPL
Hudson Park Library - Culture Pass allows New Yorkers to peek inside all that NYC has to offer! Look through the window of our display to see a rotating diorama featuring miniature scenes from MoMA, the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, and Kings Theatre. The display highlights books that feature the hidden treasures of NYC.
Culture Pass allows New Yorkers to peek inside all that NYC has to offer! Look through the window of our display to see a rotating diorama featuring miniature scenes from MoMA, the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, and Kings Theatre. The display highlights books that feature the hidden treasures of NYC.
Hudson Park Library - Culture Pass allows New Yorkers to peek inside all that NYC has to offer! Look through the window of our display to see a rotating diorama featuring miniature scenes from MoMA, the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, and Kings Theatre. The display highlights books that feature the hidden treasures of NYC.Hudson Park Library - Culture Pass allows New Yorkers to peek inside all that NYC has to offer! Look through the window of our display to see a rotating diorama featuring miniature scenes from MoMA, the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, and Kings Theatre. The display highlights books that feature the hidden treasures of NYC.
Brooklyn Public Library First Place
Crown Heights Library - In our display, we have tried to recreate the different art and cultural centers of Brooklyn that you can experience with your Culture Pass. Start off at your local library to get your library card so you can sign up for your Culture Passes. Hop onto the train and travel through the borough where you can use your Culture Pass to experience the Brooklyn Museum, The Children’s Museum, The Botanical Garden, the Transit Museum, and many more cultural institutions throughout Brooklyn and New York City!
Crown Heights Library
Crown Heights Library - In our display, we have tried to recreate the different art and cultural centers of Brooklyn that you can experience with your Culture Pass. Start off at your local library to get your library card so you can sign up for your Culture Passes. Hop onto the train and travel through the borough where you can use your Culture Pass to experience the Brooklyn Museum, The Children’s Museum, The Botanical Garden, the Transit Museum, and many more cultural institutions throughout Brooklyn and New York City!Crown Heights Library - In our display, we have tried to recreate the different art and cultural centers of Brooklyn that you can experience with your Culture Pass. Start off at your local library to get your library card so you can sign up for your Culture Passes. Hop onto the train and travel through the borough where you can use your Culture Pass to experience the Brooklyn Museum, The Children’s Museum, The Botanical Garden, the Transit Museum, and many more cultural institutions throughout Brooklyn and New York City!
Queens Public Library First Place (Tie)
Bayside - Our theme is 'Autumn in New York' and that is exactly what it is! Bayside staff have taken some of our favorite Culture Pass destinations and miniaturized them so you can see all the beauty New York has to offer this time of year. From enjoying the foliage while taking a stroll through Queens Botanical Gardens to going on a date night at the MET, autumn truly is the kick-off to a beautiful holiday season in the best city in the world. What better way to enjoy the big apple than utilizing all the benefits the Culture Pass gives us?
Bayside
Bayside - Our theme is 'Autumn in New York' and that is exactly what it is! Bayside staff have taken some of our favorite Culture Pass destinations and miniaturized them so you can see all the beauty New York has to offer this time of year. From enjoying the foliage while taking a stroll through Queens Botanical Gardens to going on a date night at the MET, autumn truly is the kick-off to a beautiful holiday season in the best city in the world. What better way to enjoy the big apple than utilizing all the benefits the Culture Pass gives us?Bayside - Our theme is 'Autumn in New York' and that is exactly what it is! Bayside staff have taken some of our favorite Culture Pass destinations and miniaturized them so you can see all the beauty New York has to offer this time of year. From enjoying the foliage while taking a stroll through Queens Botanical Gardens to going on a date night at the MET, autumn truly is the kick-off to a beautiful holiday season in the best city in the world. What better way to enjoy the big apple than utilizing all the benefits the Culture Pass gives us?
Queens Public Library First Place (Tie)
Hillcrest - With Culture Pass, NYC's public libraries are just the start of an epic adventure! Everyone can get a free library card and access institutions that highlight our shared culture. Our display, like NYC, has many different elements: books include suggestions for Culture Pass institutions to visit, 'Libflix' highlights digital resources (and the value of your library card!) using embedded QR codes, and our interactive window display game shows how the subway reaches most Culture Pass institutions making them accessible to so many New Yorkers. Whatever page you're up to, let the library be part of the next chapter!
Hillcrest
Hillcrest - With Culture Pass, NYC's public libraries are just the start of an epic adventure! Everyone can get a free library card and access institutions that highlight our shared culture. Our display, like NYC, has many different elements: books include suggestions for Culture Pass institutions to visit, 'Libflix' highlights digital resources (and the value of your library card!) using embedded QR codes, and our interactive window display game shows how the subway reaches most Culture Pass institutions making them accessible to so many New Yorkers. Whatever page you're up to, let the library be part of the next chapter!Hillcrest - With Culture Pass, NYC's public libraries are just the start of an epic adventure! Everyone can get a free library card and access institutions that highlight our shared culture. Our display, like NYC, has many different elements: books include suggestions for Culture Pass institutions to visit, 'Libflix' highlights digital resources (and the value of your library card!) using embedded QR codes, and our interactive window display game shows how the subway reaches most Culture Pass institutions making them accessible to so many New Yorkers. Whatever page you're up to, let the library be part of the next chapter!
Brooklyn Public Library First Runner-Up
Clinton Hill Library - To exemplify Clinton Hill's rich history of arts and culture, we made a model of the most iconic of Brooklyn buildings, the brownstone. Notable residents of Clinton Hill, both past and present, are visible in the building's windows, and range from hip hop and Hollywood legends to contemporary politicians and canonical poets. A short bio of each of figure is provided along with a QR code linking to material about them in the library’s catalogue and elsewhere, making the display interactive.
Clinton Hill Library
Clinton Hill Library - To exemplify Clinton Hill's rich history of arts and culture, we made a model of the most iconic of Brooklyn buildings, the brownstone. Notable residents of Clinton Hill, both past and present, are visible in the building's windows, and range from hip hop and Hollywood legends to contemporary politicians and canonical poets. A short bio of each of figure is provided along with a QR code linking to material about them in the library’s catalogue and elsewhere, making the display interactive.Clinton Hill Library - To exemplify Clinton Hill's rich history of arts and culture, we made a model of the most iconic of Brooklyn buildings, the brownstone. Notable residents of Clinton Hill, both past and present, are visible in the building's windows, and range from hip hop and Hollywood legends to contemporary politicians and canonical poets. A short bio of each of figure is provided along with a QR code linking to material about them in the library’s catalogue and elsewhere, making the display interactive.
New York Public Library First Runner-Up
West Farms Library - NYC is famously the center of arts and culture, but the Bronx is often overlooked. Bronxites, however, know that this is the city’s true hidden treasure. Start your day at the West Farms' Public Library and see all we can offer to the community. After saying your goodbyes, visit The New York Botanical Gardens. Explore our diverse cultural and artistic history like the Bronx Opera House and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Listen to the world’s best music at the Bronx Music Heritage Center. But hurry back, there is much more. You will have the best time ever!
West Farms Library
West Farms Library - NYC is famously the center of arts and culture, but the Bronx is often overlooked. Bronxites, however, know that this is the city’s true hidden treasure. Start your day at the West Farms' Public Library and see all we can offer to the community. After saying your goodbyes, visit The New York Botanical Gardens. Explore our diverse cultural and artistic history like the Bronx Opera House and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Listen to the world’s best music at the Bronx Music Heritage Center. But hurry back, there is much more. You will have the best time ever!West Farms Library - NYC is famously the center of arts and culture, but the Bronx is often overlooked. Bronxites, however, know that this is the city’s true hidden treasure. Start your day at the West Farms' Public Library and see all we can offer to the community. After saying your goodbyes, visit The New York Botanical Gardens. Explore our diverse cultural and artistic history like the Bronx Opera House and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Listen to the world’s best music at the Bronx Music Heritage Center. But hurry back, there is much more. You will have the best time ever!
Honorable Mentions
Brooklyn Public Library
Eastern Parkway Library - The mosaic communities of New Yorkers have always been culture makers and one does not have to look far to enjoy the arts. Our display highlights the cultural institutions that can be found all around along Brooklyn's tree-lined Eastern Parkway (see if you can spot the library's Bookmobile). The trees are made of clay and tissue paper. Lift the flaps below to learn 3 facts about The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This display, which includes the One Hanson Place clocktower and brownstones made from cardboard, was handmade & hand painted with love.
Eastern Parkway Library Eastern Parkway Library - The mosaic communities of New Yorkers have always been culture makers and one does not have to look far to enjoy the arts. Our display highlights the cultural institutions that can be found all around along Brooklyn's tree-lined Eastern Parkway (see if you can spot the library's Bookmobile). The trees are made of clay and tissue paper. Lift the flaps below to learn 3 facts about The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This display, which includes the One Hanson Place clocktower and brownstones made from cardboard, was handmade & hand painted with love.Eastern Parkway Library - The mosaic communities of New Yorkers have always been culture makers and one does not have to look far to enjoy the arts. Our display highlights the cultural institutions that can be found all around along Brooklyn's tree-lined Eastern Parkway (see if you can spot the library's Bookmobile). The trees are made of clay and tissue paper. Lift the flaps below to learn 3 facts about The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This display, which includes the One Hanson Place clocktower and brownstones made from cardboard, was handmade & hand painted with love.
Williamsburgh Library - By day and by night, the Williamsburg Bridge stretches its long arms across the East River, connecting where we have been to where we are going, and leading back home again.
For our display, the Williamsburgh Branch team wrapped our front entrance in paper to depict our local bridge. On it you see saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who found new creative inspiration after he turned to practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge in 1959. We then created cityscapes at each end of the bridge, daytime and nighttime, using collage and other media to capture the variety and vibrancy of living in NYC.
Williamsburgh Library
Williamsburgh Library - By day and by night, the Williamsburg Bridge stretches its long arms across the East River, connecting where we have been to where we are going, and leading back home again.
For our display, the Williamsburgh Branch team wrapped our front entrance in paper to depict our local bridge. On it you see saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who found new creative inspiration after he turned to practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge in 1959. We then created cityscapes at each end of the bridge, daytime and nighttime, using collage and other media to capture the variety and vibrancy of living in NYC.Williamsburgh Library - By day and by night, the Williamsburg Bridge stretches its long arms across the East River, connecting where we have been to where we are going, and leading back home again.
For our display, the Williamsburgh Branch team wrapped our front entrance in paper to depict our local bridge. On it you see saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who found new creative inspiration after he turned to practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge in 1959. We then created cityscapes at each end of the bridge, daytime and nighttime, using collage and other media to capture the variety and vibrancy of living in NYC.
New York Public Library
Clason's Point Library - We live in a cultural Garden of Eden. You walk down & in one block you hear five languages, you have visuals & sounds of all these cultures. It’s educational & inspiring to live in & experience NYC—that’s what keeps me here.” Patricia Field
Clason’s Point agrees! NYC is the melting pot in which diversity is unmatched. Where else do library cards offer lifelong learning & the opportunity to visit dozens of cultural institutions for free? Only in the Big Apple! We brought to life - Planetarium, Transit Museum, Botanical, BX Music Heritage Center, Museum of Natural History, Intrepid, Drawing Center
Clason's Point Library Clason's Point Library - We live in a cultural Garden of Eden. You walk down & in one block you hear five languages, you have visuals & sounds of all these cultures. It’s educational & inspiring to live in & experience NYC—that’s what keeps me here.” Patricia Field
Clason’s Point agrees! NYC is the melting pot in which diversity is unmatched. Where else do library cards offer lifelong learning & the opportunity to visit dozens of cultural institutions for free? Only in the Big Apple! We brought to life - Planetarium, Transit Museum, Botanical, BX Music Heritage Center, Museum of Natural History, Intrepid, Drawing CenterClason's Point Library - We live in a cultural Garden of Eden. You walk down & in one block you hear five languages, you have visuals & sounds of all these cultures. It’s educational & inspiring to live in & experience NYC—that’s what keeps me here.” Patricia Field
Clason’s Point agrees! NYC is the melting pot in which diversity is unmatched. Where else do library cards offer lifelong learning & the opportunity to visit dozens of cultural institutions for free? Only in the Big Apple! We brought to life - Planetarium, Transit Museum, Botanical, BX Music Heritage Center, Museum of Natural History, Intrepid, Drawing Center
South Beach Library - The South Beach Library created a Cultural thread to represent our common creative roots. The tree holds leaves with prints of textiles from diverse cultures and the flags of country of origin. With our Cultural tree we are inviting patrons to discover world art through books and museums with their library card and Culture Pass.
South Beach Library
South Beach Library - The South Beach Library created a Cultural thread to represent our common creative roots. The tree holds leaves with prints of textiles from diverse cultures and the flags of country of origin. With our Cultural tree we are inviting patrons to discover world art through books and museums with their library card and Culture Pass.South Beach Library - The South Beach Library created a Cultural thread to represent our common creative roots. The tree holds leaves with prints of textiles from diverse cultures and the flags of country of origin. With our Cultural tree we are inviting patrons to discover world art through books and museums with their library card and Culture Pass.
Queens Public Library
Richmond Hill - The background of the book display along with the cultural book marks on the sides represent arts and cultures of different countries and continents in relation to books. The airplanes coming out of the books indicate that reading a culture book can take the readers on a trip around the world without leaving their seats. The sun of Arts and Culture is sending its golden beams to shine, enlighten, and radiate people’s lives around the world. The book display reflects the knowledge, the diversity and the unity of our community.
Richmond Hill Richmond Hill - The background of the book display along with the cultural book marks on the sides represent arts and cultures of different countries and continents in relation to books. The airplanes coming out of the books indicate that reading a culture book can take the readers on a trip around the world without leaving their seats. The sun of Arts and Culture is sending its golden beams to shine, enlighten, and radiate people’s lives around the world. The book display reflects the knowledge, the diversity and the unity of our community.Richmond Hill - The background of the book display along with the cultural book marks on the sides represent arts and cultures of different countries and continents in relation to books. The airplanes coming out of the books indicate that reading a culture book can take the readers on a trip around the world without leaving their seats. The sun of Arts and Culture is sending its golden beams to shine, enlighten, and radiate people’s lives around the world. The book display reflects the knowledge, the diversity and the unity of our community.
Rochdale Village - Rochdale Village Museum of Culture is an interactive library display designed to offer patrons a bite-sized sample of experiences similar to New York City’s cultural institutions accessible through Culture Pass. The display features “Culture Passes,” a map at the entrance and footprints on the floor to guide patrons throughout the mini-museum. Five main displays explore, Cuisine, Music and Movement, Literary Arts, Culture Garden and Visual Arts. Rochdale Village Museum of Culture samples the cultural tapestry of past, present and future. Patrons experience New York City through Culture Pass; our display features all that the Culture Pass offers.
Rochdale Village Rochdale Village - Rochdale Village Museum of Culture is an interactive library display designed to offer patrons a bite-sized sample of experiences similar to New York City’s cultural institutions accessible through Culture Pass. The display features “Culture Passes,” a map at the entrance and footprints on the floor to guide patrons throughout the mini-museum. Five main displays explore, Cuisine, Music and Movement, Literary Arts, Culture Garden and Visual Arts. Rochdale Village Museum of Culture samples the cultural tapestry of past, present and future. Patrons experience New York City through Culture Pass; our display features all that the Culture Pass offers.Rochdale Village - Rochdale Village Museum of Culture is an interactive library display designed to offer patrons a bite-sized sample of experiences similar to New York City’s cultural institutions accessible through Culture Pass. The display features “Culture Passes,” a map at the entrance and footprints on the floor to guide patrons throughout the mini-museum. Five main displays explore, Cuisine, Music and Movement, Literary Arts, Culture Garden and Visual Arts. Rochdale Village Museum of Culture samples the cultural tapestry of past, present and future. Patrons experience New York City through Culture Pass; our display features all that the Culture Pass offers.
Finalists
Brooklyn Public Library
Bay Ridge Library - One of the most frequented spots in the neighborhood is our local Alpine Theatre, where you can watch and keep up with the latest movies. So welcome to Bay Ridge Library's mini-theatre! Come and discover local arts and culture found all around the area through the short presentation, complete with mini seats and popcorn. Also, don't forget to grab a 'ticket' ( culture pass brochure ) and check out other cultural hotspots.
Bay Ridge Library
Dyker Library - We show Western style watercolor paintings by Brooklynite Nigel Morgan, traditional Chinese painting by Jade Lam and Xiuyi Guo, and painting by Yuanwei Yang who synthesized Asian and Western traditions to paint global landscapes such as the Brooklyn Bridge on Xuan paper. Three umbrellas represent the tri-lib enabling anyone to experience diverse cultures through our rich virtual programming. The Dyker Library has hosted many Asian brush painting courses by Henry Li which has participants from as far away as Australia via Zoom. We promote the Culture Pass program displaying photographs of participating institutions in NYC highlighting the variety of attractions.
Dyker Library
East Flatbush Library - In partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library's Bookmobile you will find a display of the original East Flatbush Library branch which opened in October of 1952. As of September 2018 the branch has been closed for renovations, and the Bookmobile has played an integral part in helping the library remain connected to the community. This display pays homage to the original East Flatbush library in addition to the Haitian residents of East Flatbush as we all excitedly await the libraries re-opening.
East Flatbush Library
Macon Library - New York maintains its ethnic enclaves unlike the other areas. The city is known for their diversity and celebrated for their cultural heritage. In this display, you see a few cultures in the New York community represented, like marriage. Marriage is a sacred practice in most cultures. There are a wide range of marriage customs from around the world that individuals may not think about. Culture Pass gives our patrons the ability to see these diverse materials and cultures firsthand. This representation of sacred a union commemorates the union between our libraries and amazing culture institutions throughout New York.
Macon Library
New Lots Library - This book display, 'Now Playing: Culture Pass,' is dedicated to the reopening and revival of NYC and its culture. This display is constructed in an art deco style incorporating a marquee in lights promoting the Culture Pass. The New Lots Library staff is highlighted in miniature photographs while holding culture pass brochures and showing their excitement about the revival of the Culture Pass as they look at the marquee. The books selected for this display are both fiction and non-fiction for children and adults about museums, NYC (especially Brooklyn) and art.
New Lots Library
New Utrecht Library - Fall In Love with Brooklyn is our theme for the season and a reminder to all that Brooklyn has a lot to offer. It has a smorgasbord of fiction, nonfiction and poetry writers as is showcased in our display. A melting pot of almost 2.6 million people living, working, and playing together. The diverse and ever-changing borough known as Brooklyn continues to embrace its motto Een Draght Mackt Maght - In Unity There Is Strength.
New Utrecht Library
Pacific Library - The Pacific Branch did our display all about Broadway musicals and plays! Staff brought in their own Playbills from home, and we created a Playbill themed photo booth that is popular with patrons of all ages. To make sure everyone in the library remembers to be safe, we portrayed our Phantom of the Opera wearing a mask on top of his normal mask. We also made sure to spotlight the Second Stage Theater, which offers free tickets on Culture Pass!
Pacific Library
Sunset Park Library - Our library is an important community educational, recreational, and cultural center (the tree trunk), providing programming and services to Sunset Park and beyond. The branches highlight languages, foods, and celebrations representative of our multicultural community of largely Hispanic, Chinese, and Arabic residents. The “Windows into My Brooklyn” (credit: Katie Yamasaki) buildings feature children’s depictions of the Sunset Park community and families. Above the right-side buildings, a video displays snapshots of different neighborhood art, cultures, and celebrations. We also showcase some of the many programs and celebrations we’ve held at the library, sharing the customs and traditions of our vibrant community.
Sunset Park Library
New York Public Library
Bronx Library Center - The Bronx Library Center team created a storytime-inspired display that celebrates the Bronx Culture Pass organizations and the amazing things that are offered in the Bronx. Display Story - Stan Lee is a Bronx Library Center Librarian and a Culture Pass Tour Guide. In the display Stan Lee is reading a pop-up book story to children about the Culture Pass Bronx organizations in the park and after he will take the children on a field trip to explore some of the organizations in the Bronx, such as the New York Botanical Garden and Wave Hill.
Bronx Library Center
Columbus Library - New York is the red carpet of culture, the most ethnically diverse city in the world. No other city has contributed more to the collective consciousness with art, fashion and music. From the roaring 20's until now, the culture of NYC is unmatched by any other place.
Columbus Library
Correctional Services - The Correctional Services display is built on a custom-made book cart, designed and fabricated by students at Parsons School of Design, specifically for use during library service on Rikers Island. The cart is displayed at a hotel shelter run by Exodus Transitional Services for people coming home from prison & jail. This dynamic display features books about arts & culture in NYC, reentry resources, art made by incarcerated people, quotes from incarcerated artists, origami, and a handcrafted paper mache replica of Fortitude the lion. Every element of the cart is for residents at the hotel to interact with, read, and enjoy.
Correctional Services
Harlem Library - Our display is a street scene in Harlem. Harlem is rich in culture and we wanted to highlight some of its historic cultural centers, such as - The Apollo, the Schomburg Center and the National Black Theater.
Harlem Library
Jerome Park Library - Jerome Park Library chose to highlight particular places of interest while informing our patrons that tickets to these exciting and informative cultural experiences are available for free with a library card. The images of transportation tell the story of travel within our city. Each child who checks out a book about a country will receive a “passport” with an immigration sticker to commemorate “visiting” that country.
Jerome Park Library
Parkchester Library - Our display exhibits ethnically diverse communities in the BEST city ever, New York!! There is so much cultural diversity within New York City that we are a family as a whole! Everyone’s culture connects New Yorkers through various communication portals such as murals, music, artwork, food, and technology. Culture IS New York City’s foundation and forms an alliance that unites ALL through happiness, values, and traditions. The culture pass has and will continue to be innovative and broaden resources for those that live and visit our GREAT city!
Parkchester Library
St. Agnes Library - We created an interactive 15 by 3.5 foot display with colorful silhouette representations of the experiences people would share while visiting some of the Culture Pass partner institutions. Using hand drawn stencils and cardstock paper we pulled inspiration from exhibits at the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Moving Image, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We invite library patrons to interact with the display by guessing which cultural institutions are featured to win a small prize. Books were selected to inspire patrons to explore further and contextualize their visits.
St. Agnes Library
Tompkins Square Library - Our location in the East Village means that we are surrounded by rich arts culture and history. Our display takes inspiration from the downtown nightlife creative scene, made famous by clubs like the Pyramid Club, right across Tompkins Square Park, which held early drag shows for famous names, including RuPaul. We tried to create the feeling and energy of the East Village, while also letting new visitors know about Culture Pass, and our rich selection of books on the arts.
Tompkins Square Library
Queens Public Library
Broadway - Art and Culture In Our Neighborhoods. Open Your Heart and Mind to Experience It. 2-part display: Display 1 - Our neighborhood - We transformed bookshelves to look like apartment buildings in NYC. Each bookshelf becomes an apartment that shows cultural richness of our community. We merchandised books about famous people from Queens; also books in foreign languages - Italian, Greek, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic-representing people in Astoria. Display 2 - Block party. - Sharing a meal brings us together. We set up festive table that exhibits the art of cooking from different cultures.
Broadway
East Elmhurst - The East Elmhurst Library's community is an intersection of ethnicities. With a wide-range of ethnic groups in the community, there is a commonality that connects and creates unity. The commonality is aligned with community and cultural events that involve food, music, dance and high energy.
East Elmhurst
Fresh Meadows - At Fresh Meadows we focused on the idea that NYC offers quality cultural experiences all year round, not just during busy seasons. The flowing river allowed us to thematically connect several endcaps, our only display space in a physically small but busy branch. Life-sustaining water springs from a Culture Pass booklet, runs past a tree of knowledge, and wends its way through the seasons towards the meadows. Regular people create art alongside the professionals of displayed materials. A scavenger hunt featuring Queens-based institutions interactively highlights ways customers can use different parts of our collection to enhance their Culture Pass experience.
Fresh Meadows
Long Island City - Discover our city with a miniature version of some of our most recognized institutions along 21st Street and Vernon Blvd; the main arteries that run through the heart of Long Island City. Scanning the QR code inside each building takes you to their respective websites to explore further. These cultural institutions, MoMA PS1, Queens Public Library at Long Island City, and The Noguchi Museum bring the neighborhood closer together just as the Culture Pass brings people closer to arts and culture.
Long Island City
Peninsula - Our Culture Pass NYC book display represents the Arts and Culture of Rockaway, New York. We collected over 200 photographs from our community. They range from cultural festivals and art installations to landmarks and more! Our book display provides materials on local history, local authors and Culture Pass NYC materials. As you enter the branch, you will notice the submitted photographs and an activity involving Rockaway and Culture Pass NYC themed prompts. Later you can view our slideshow, showcasing “Our Rockaway” photo project and book display. To view, “Our Rockaway” please click the link: youtu.be/s4v5_dYp0W8
Peninsula
Seaside - Important and timeless. That's how Seaside Library and its community view arts and culture. In our Culture Pass Book Display we encourage everyone to sit down, relax and enjoy the arts and culture books we offer and also engage them to be part of the book display by expressing their thoughts or answering ready-made questions about arts and culture. After writing on multicolor papers in the shape of butterflies, Seaside Library visitors post these butterflies to the letters 'A' & 'C' structures and also around the Culture Pass Book Display area.
Seaside
Whitestone - At Whitestone branch the Culture Pass Display centers on the interests of a vibrant community dedicated to reading, arts, and striving. The center painting was done by one of the librarians during 2020 Covid pandemic. The same librarian had initiated a drawing program at the branch (in 2019) that attracted adults from the local community and from some other boroughs (Brooklyn). Since the Culture Pass program started in 2018 our patrons showed great enthusiasm in using it and exploring the vibrant New York City.
Whitestone
Woodhaven - We, at the Woodhaven Library, decided to depict the cultural life of our corner of New York and encourage people to reach out to explore the rest of New York City. Although a small, residential neighborhood, we have a rich culture as we all gather at our public library and our vibrant Forest Park. We gather at the George Seuffort Bandshell for all kinds of events and music. And informally, every day, the neighborhood brings their own cultures to the park through music and dance.
