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Lingo Bingo
Thomas Gallagher
March 20 — June 20, 2025
A Contribution to 2024-2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) of the Korea Art Forum:A Series of Community-based Artistic Interventions in Public Space, Winter 2025
Bowne Playground (Union Street & Sanford Avenue, Flushing, Queens)
Lingo Bingo offers an opportunity to bridge language and cultural barriers, fostering understanding in a playful setting. It replaces bingo numbers with words and phrases in multiple languages, inviting participants to discover shared values. This installation features 13 languages,including five from Inwood: Spanish, Taíno, Lenape, Hebrew, and English.
Installation at Inwood Hill Park.
About Korea Art Forum (KAF)
Founded in New York City in 2013, KAF is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art. The organization supports artists' social engagement and enhances people’s quality of life and well-being. It produces commissions, presentations, forums, publications, and art workshops to bring people together to share dialogues, build an interconnected world, and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.
Thank You!
This project is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Panta Rhea Foundation, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Arts Engagement administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families. NYC Parks has been showing public art in city parks since 1967. For information on our temporary public art program please call (212) 360-8163. For general information, call 311 or visit nyc.gov/parks. Follow @nycparks on X, Facebook, and Instagram.
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