PHOTOS: LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival shows how New York City is thriving creatively during the pandemic

By The Villager Posted on October 7, 2020

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Part of LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival —the band Source at La Plaza Cultural with a socially distanced audience. Everyone happy to be out after months of confinement.

BY TEQUILA MINSKY

Rumors that New York is dead are highly exaggerated.

Downtown, arts and music and spoken word continue the vitality of the city even amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival on the Lower East Side, video shoots, book launches, music outside of restaurants or in the park prove that New York City is not dead.

Photos by Tequila Minsky

PHOTOS: LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival shows how New York City is thriving creatively during the pandemic 2 — Clayton Patterson outside of his Outlaw Gallery at the launching his latest book.

PHOTOS: LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival shows how New York City is thriving creatively during the pandemic 3 — On Tuesdays, Kat Minogue sings country rock and roll ballads outside of Thompson Street Chemists.

PHOTOS: LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival shows how New York City is thriving creatively during the pandemic 4 — Barbara Cahn, Vice-Chair, LaGuardia Corner Garden next to the Amaranthus in her plot.Cahn attends the garden daily throughout this entire Pandemic time.

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The Villager

The Villager, founded in 1933, is an award winning weekly newspaper serving New York City’s West and East Villages, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown, and Lower East Side.

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