Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Childhood Playground Is Now a Performance Space for Kids | Playbill | July 30, 2019
We, the Young People
Being an immigrant in the United States, I experience most feelings, images and comments around me with a little bit of delay. This is not because I am slow, but because my brain takes time to process the new, the different. It was a day that I was doing a site visit at one of […]
Harbor Heights Middle School x People’s Theatre Project
Harbor Heights Middle School has a special place in my heart, as it does in the heart of our entire Washington Heights community. Harbor Heights is a beautiful school serving new immigrant students from Dominican Republic and other Spanish speaking countries right here in our uptown community. Founded in 2006 by the inspiring principal Monica Klehr, (whom […]
Teatro Inmigrante Comunitario 2018
With help from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), we have been able to give local youth, from Washington Heights/Inwood, and Kingsbridge in the Bronx, an opportunity to create interactive theater reflecting their own lives. With all the participants, teacher, and apprentice being immigrants, and some affected […]
Street Strut: Car Free Day returns
Story and photos by Gregg McQueen Manhattan Times | April 18, 2018 “Our young people are excited to perform,” said PTP’s Mino Lora. Expect jammed streets – but not a car in sight. A nine-block stretch of St. Nicholas Avenue will be closed off to vehicular traffic on April 21, as Car Free Day makes […]