Touching Hearts, not Hands: A Call to Collect Creative Responses to Coronavirus through Poems, Songs, Stories, and Videos! In a human response to the frightening and sometimes deadly virus, City Lore is collecting and archiving creative responses to the pandemic. We have started a group poem – It Takes a Pandemic. Poet Bob Holman (United States of Poetry, Language Matters) has joined forces with City Lore to curate and organize the material with us. Send your lines to jake@citylore.org with the heading It Takes a Pandemic. By submitting lines, you agree to let us share them. Click here to read the full ongoing poem. Please send other poems, videos, images or screen shots created by you or others with the heading Touching Hearts, Not Hands to jake@citylore.org. If you send materials by others let us know whom you received it from if possible, and let us know if you have permission to share. THE CITY LORE GALLERY “What We Bring: New Immigrant Gifts” Spotlighting the Contributions of Artists from

New York City’s Immigrant Communities December 6th – Spring 2020 What We Bring: New Immigrant Gifts celebrates the rich layers of creativity, tradition, and increased cultural diversity that the law set in motion, especially in New York City, where 6-in-10 residents are first generation or the children of immigrants. Gallery Hours: TEMPORARILY CLOSED Fri 2 – 6pm Sat – Sun 12 – 6pm And by appointment Free and open to the public. To schedule a visit outside of regular hours, please email Colleen at colleen@citylore.org

CITY LORE’S BLACK LIVES MATTER STATEMENT WHO ARE WE? Founded in 1986, City Lore is New York City’s center for urban folk culture. Our mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of cultural equity and social justice. City Lore encompasses a Lower East Side gallery space, performances, lectures, the People’s Hall of Fame, a POEMobile that projects poems onto walls and buildings, and programs throughout the five boroughs. We document, present, and advocate for New York City’s grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories, places and traditions. We work in four cultural domains: urban folklore and history; preservation; arts education; and grassroots poetry traditions. In each, we seek to further cultural equity and model a better world with projects as dynamic and diverse as New York City itself. LATEST BLOG POSTS Sense and the City MULTISENSORY: Luxury Escapism: a virtual reality spa Poetry of Everyday Life Masked Angels: A Riveting Tale of Nurses on the Front Lines “We write our names across our face shields so we’ll recognize each other and know we’re family.”