 Okay, yeah, I became familiar with the Laundromat Project a couple years ago. I have an organization that's focused not only on supporting artists, but really bringing the art to places that are accessible like Laundromats, like the street corners. That was something that really fit my style as I was developing as an artist and a youth worker and really being mindful that the vision of Harlem really is held by the people who lived here and are fighting to stay here. So what Laundromat Project is doing is they're putting their values into practice and Laundromat Project is willing to do the labor to follow through on that. My name is Tamiya Arai and I started making community-based art in the 70s. When I heard about the Laundromat Project I think that what excited me was that it was an opportunity to connect to other younger activists and artists who were interested in exploring the ways that they could work with communities and really transform public spaces. My name is Clara O'Dellas Reyes and I'm working towards building a coalition of marginalized people across color lines. The project I created at the LP was called My Barrio, My Borough and it was a community-centered oral history theater project that engaged community members to co-create a community archive of oral histories in Queens, New York. I see art making as a means to further community building, cross-cultural exchange and the honoring of local culture and heritage. Yeah, okay. My name is Betty Yu and I'm committed to racial and social justice. The Laundromat Project has been so integral in helping me find my own power as an artist and what I can do and the change I can make and if it wasn't for my residency in my own Chinatown community in Sunset Park I wouldn't have taken this new direction this turn in my life and committed myself to community-based art and activism. The arts are a powerful artistic medium to tell stories, move people to care, inspire people to take action and think about themselves as agents of change. The Laundromat Project has fostered multi-generational communities of artists and activists who continue to use art to empower communities. So join me this year in supporting the Laundromat Project's People Powered Campaign. Help us raise $40,000 between October 22nd and 31st. Please give $10 or more to celebrate 10 years of creating change.