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Part of the not-for-profit organization Henry Street Settlement, the Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts offering performances, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies; during the COVID-19 pandemic though, its focus shifted to supporting the Lower East Side community through food relief.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eKilkuskie discusses her technical theatre background and how the pandemic resulted in her being furloughed from her job at a Jewish community center in Manhattan. Kilkuskie explains that she initially transitioned to sewing masks and volunteering for City Harvest before getting involved at Abrons Arts Center. Kilkuskie describes the logistical challenges of Abrons Arts Center's large-scale food packing, distribution, and delivery operations; she estimates that the organization delivered nearly 700 bags of food in the week prior to this interview (November 2020). 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Could you say your full name and spell it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=3.0,13.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: My name is Kaylyn Kilkuskie. It is spelled K-A-Y-L-Y-N, last name K-I-L-K-U-S-K-I-E.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=13.0,24.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Okay. What are your pronouns?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=24.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: She/her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=29.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: How old are you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=30.0,31.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I'm 30—31, I think. [laughter]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=31.0,37.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Where in Queens do you live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=37.0,37.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I live in Sunnyside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=37.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Okay. All right. So what is your professional background?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=38.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So I come from a technical theater background in at least training. I did a lot of sort of building and organizational stuff growing up. And when I got to the city, I did a lot more sort of events, theatrical and educational equipment support at a community center. And that's kind of been my New York work life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=44.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=71.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah, I did costumes and like set moving and like support for plays. So kind of stagehand work, loading and loading out, changing over sets a bunch. Occasionally someone will trust me with other aspects, but mostly it's—and a bit of lighting. So I've done sort of costume, lighting and set stuff. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=71.0,98.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: So what are the hours for that? Is it usually like evenings, like when the show is on or is it—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=98.0,105.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: It's totally erratic. 'Cause sometimes if you're prepping a show, it could be really early morning to about midday. If you're running the show, you might have a matinee and an evening. But, so yeah, it's, during builds it can be in costume shops that can be more of a 9 to 5, 10 to 6 situation. Yeah, if you're running the shows, it's split that way. For events, it's especially weird, 'cause you kind of roll in, you set everything up and you run away while the event happens and then they call you back in. And then when I was working at the community center, I had sort of a 3 PM to 11 PM schedule. So even when my schedule was sort of office consistent, it was still not really hours that supported a social life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=105.0,162.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah. [laughter]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=162.0,162.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah. So, yeah, it's weird, but it's good. And then, yeah, it's kind of either freelance or when the shops and shows are open.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=162.0,175.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=175.0,175.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: But even then, week to week it can be different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=175.0,179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=179.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=180.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: And you were doing that for how many years before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=180.0,185.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So, I mean, I worked in theater starting in 2011, essentially.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=185.0,194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: So nine years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=194.0,194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So nine years. Yeah, I'm also surprised. Yeah, so it's been a lot of weird sporadic work, even if I was working for a specific—I was living in Oregon for a long time and I worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Company for, I guess, three to four years. And they asked the same thing. I had three different jobs within that one company and they were open, I think, about 10 months out of the year. So then we had six weeks of seasonal layoff where they were like, goodbye, good luck. Hope you come back next season. I hope you saved your money. We want to see you back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=194.0,236.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So it was—theater's kind of weird in that way where you get to do this really kind of amazing, very stressful thing. But that's why a lot of people choose to participate in the union, but I'm too multi-disciplinary, I'm too distracted by different shiny, that unionizing was not in the cards for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=236.0,261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Got it. Okay. Cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=261.0,262.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=262.0,263.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Okay. So that's like a conflict, it's a more complicated job than many people have, but how did it change when COVID started?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=263.0,273.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Well, so even though I was freelancing doing theater stuff, the community center was pretty consistent-ish. And it was funny 'cause we were preparing for a renovation. And so actually when things were starting to get shut down my hours doubled immediately because we needed to clear out the entire place. It's like having to pack up your apartment and move within a week or two because you're not sure what's going to happen next. So, and I worked for—oh, I forgot—I worked for facilities. My journey's very erratic. [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=273.0,318.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: But I was working for facilities. So we were also starting to install all the hand sanitizing things. We were trying to source even supplies, which were going really fast. So the switch to like prepare for a community for COVID-19 in kind of these three different ways of like, we're not sure we're going to be able to come back in and do the work, but we have to be prepared for when these other contractors are coming in, and also for the safety of large groups of people coming in and out. 'Cause there was a nursery school, a fitness center and—oh, and there was a teen theater piece, they were doing Frozen Junior, and one of the kids was from Westchester and actually had COVID and brought it down and it was on the like two days I wasn't working.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=318.0,378.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So they had to shut down that production midway, and I remember not being super worried somehow because that environment was already sort of chaotic. So I was like, look, we're all just going to like sit down and we're all going to take care of it and we're all just going to like band together and it'll be fine. We're just going to be a little bit more cautious.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=378.0,404.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=404.0,406.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: But simultaneously I'm not surprised that we're still all over the place with how the COVID-19 sort of reaction is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=406.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah. Wait, so can you walk me through, like, so there was like a lot of prep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=420.0,427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: [laughs] So much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=427.0,428.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: [laughs] I know. There's so much happening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=428.0,430.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I know, kids. Yeah, I mean also, I just—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=430.0,434.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah, there's a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=434.0,435.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: —I had like four different stories in the same week.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=435.0,437.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah, I know, I'm kind of curious about all of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=437.0,440.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=440.0,440.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: We have time, take your time. Say whatever you feel like sharing. So I'm curious about if you could like talk about from—maybe just like tell the story from your perspective from March and April and then if you can kind of say the different phases, like, so like how you got to now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=440.0,460.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=460.0,460.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Like from the work perspective.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=460.0,462.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah. I feel like I should go back and talk—in late 2015, one of my baseline job was at a Jewish Community Center. So I freelanced theater events on the side, but my Jewish Community Center job was in the AV department. And so that's often equipment support for a theater space that was convertible to like a movie theater as well as live musical events, and then just classrooms that needed a computer and people not knowing how to find Firefox. And then over my time at the JCC, I think before COVID-19 I joined the facilities department. So it's kind of like being a super[intendent], but it's a ten floor building on the Upper West Side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=462.0,525.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=525.0,526.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So I had this job and then I was also taking freelance work when it was available to me. So starting in March was when I was looking at my main summer gig, which is working Celebrate Brooklyn, an outdoor music event, a free music event. And then also my JCC responsibilities. At the JCC we were doing a big theater renovation and we were renovating the entire seventh floor. So it was a lot of dealing with contractors, classes getting minimized, preparing for a film festival. So there are all these events that kind of—in the spring, we really rev up. We have a bunch of stuff, and then summer is normally really dead and quiet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=526.0,587.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So in March as the city was starting to get shut down, one of my bosses essentially said, \"Hey, we have to taper back because we need to have less people here and we can't have overlapping in schedules.\" Well, my other boss said, \"Great, you can work more hours, because we need to clear up this entire space.\" So it was hundreds of pounds of cables that were just super dusty and disgusting and lighting equipment and just kind of all the bits that go in there. And they had all these pieces from Frozen Junior, which had just been inside the theater space, that got cut short because the child had tested positive for COVID, and it was before testing positive was kind of a bigger 'don't do anything' deal. It was just kind of like, okay everybody, we're just gonna stay home and test the people who were in direct contact. But it didn't shut down a facility.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=587.0,662.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: It just shut down—yeah, it was kind of before any directives were clear. So I went from four to five days at the JCC to like five or six days that were a lot longer and a lot more labor intensive. And as the facilities part, we were putting in hand sanitizers. It was when New York City started making its own hand sanitizer for public spaces and things like that. So I was in the office where my boss was calling like essentially government offices to source things because Clorox wipes were not available. I remember my boss like handing me gloves and being like, \"Take these home.\" And I was still riding the train actually a fair amount. So yeah, I worked for, I think, the first two, maybe three weeks of lockdown. And then I had one to two weeks where I was out of work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=662.0,742.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Our building was officially shut down. I got furloughed from both of my positions at the JCC. And I remember at home sort of discussing whether or not we were staying in the city. Oh, my sister was also in town. My sister is a touring musician and she was in town right before we closed, which, March 13th-ish. I remember 'cause I was like, oh, it was my birthday gift. My birthday is on the 15th. So I was like—I forgot that we shut down around then. So we were trying to figure out whether or not she needed to leave the city or if she was gonna stay with us and how long it was gonna last, and whether or not we should leave and go to family, and where we could go if we did go, and kind of stocking up on food.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=742.0,796.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And I have one friend who, she kind of knows people, and I'm not even sure what that means. [laughter] But we were in lower Manhattan with my sister near where she was staying with her band and my friend comes through and she's just walking down the street and it felt like I was getting like secret government information. And she was like, \"They're going to try to close down the city and have no one come in or out, like if they can legally do it, it's going to happen.\" So she's like, \"Get your food or get out now.\" And I remember going back inside and being like, \"So I just saw my friend randomly on the street and—what are we doing?\" So that was really surreal. And it definitely felt like—feeling that transition and like commuting when the trains were really empty was really weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=796.0,862.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I had sewn a handful of masks and I was also looking into, because I have a sewing background and I do have fabric and a machine in my apartment, I was trying to figure out whether or not I should make masks. Or even they were trying to figure out also making scrubs and things like that. The hospitals, there was kind of a shortage, and on a lot of costume groups on the internet there was this like outcry for this labor. And it's kind of a weird, complicated thing because sewing generally isn't really respected anyway as a physical thing. It's always like, \"Oh, you sew, so can you hem my jeans?\" And you're like, \"Cool, are you going to pay for that?\" And people will be like, \"Why would I pay for that?\" So it was—at the beginning, of course, everyone wanted to help, and then it became this thing where people were investing all their personal money to donate this thing to do this thing, and it sort of devalued work that already didn't have a social value.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=862.0,928.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So there was a lot of like grappling with that, but also just, I didn't want to give people masks that weren't going to be effective. There wasn't enough research. I was like trying to kind of—I spent a week or two collecting all this resource information to be like, okay, how many layers of cotton? What fabric is the best? Do I actually have that fabric? Prewashing it, what's the most comfortable? So while I was working at the JCC, I was also kind of trying to figure out what masks best suited if I was gonna—and how many I could make and how many I could distribute. I have a friend on the West Coast and I joked with her. I was like, \"Do you want my masterclass on masks?\" I've made like six different styles and this is what I found is comfortable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=928.0,983.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: This is my research that says this thing. And just trying to like—'cause there just became this like [unclear] information of what to do and how to do it. So yeah, I ended up sort of making peace with making masks for friends and family and any sort of small groups that I participated in. I would just kind of offer and I said, \"Hey, for the cost of shipping, I will labor and gift these masks to you.\" I was like carrying them around in a little pouch and things like that. When I got furloughed from work, I was doing the masks, so I was kind of figuring out my next step, and I started volunteering for City Harvest. I grew up really enjoying volunteering, and then I kind of lost my ability to find groups to go—not ability, but I hadn't done it for a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=983.0,1055.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And I was really—when I got to New York and having kind of my mornings free, but my evenings full, so I was like, oh, volunteer, this is perfect. But a lot of groups want a really high level of commitment and don't allow a lot of flexibility. And as a freelancer, you kind of, in some ways you have a lot of time, but commitment is really weird. So I couldn't say, yeah, absolutely, every Thursday I can do this for the next six months. And like orientations would always fill up before I could get to them for anything that was more flexible because orientations are offered so much less. And so City Harvest, because they so desperately needed people—and their waiver at the time was saying they wouldn't take anyone over 55 for a concern of risk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1055.0,1120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And they really needed people because they were splitting their sorting into shifts. And City Harvest is a short bike ride away. So at that point it was kind of like the only places I would go were bikeable. And so, yeah, and because City Harvest waived its kind of intro class, I was finally able to volunteer. [laughter] And at City Harvest, I was like, oh, I really need to find a way to incorporate this more into my life. This is really satisfying. Coming from production background, kind of that organizational, how to optimize, how you move within the space to get this job done to do this thing was really kind of fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1120.0,1178.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And a kind of fun twist is I met a woman there and she kind of side-eyed me one day and she was like, \"Do you work in production in the city?\" And I was like, \"Yeah.\" And we kind of had this moment of, she knew my boss from working in the city a long time ago and they did all this theater stuff. And that's actually Janet Clancy who mostly works at the 334 of the Henry Street food pantry. So she ended up working with us—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1178.0,1207.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Got it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1207.0,1208.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: —which was fun. But yeah, a couple of weeks into City Harvest, they stopped putting out volunteer things because people were getting sick and the workforce wasn't reliable enough [unclear]—or to my understanding, they had to clean up the space and they didn't have enough time or labor, so they just hired people for the position. And that's when Henry Street reached out to me to participate in their food pantry that they were opening up. So I'm not sure actually what John Hartford's official job is, but the Abrons Arts Center is a longstanding performance institute as part of the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1208.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And I was on their over-hire list and they were taking the actual over-hire people. And really, it was just three of us plus John, our Director, and then Tyler Diaz, who is sort of a front desk person and does a bunch of other tasks unbeknownst to me. So it was the five of us running out of one of the Henry Street Settlement locations that was shut down because of COVID and we started delivering bags of food. And yeah, we started with 116 bags and the small group of us and just kind of figuring out what our needs are. We partnered with a local food pantry because so many people were opening new food pantries. So this is April. Sorry, I haven't gotten very far. I'm about like a month in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1260.0,1321.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah, we're good. [laughter]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1321.0,1326.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And so we would pick up our pallets of cans of food, thousands of pounds of food from this one food pantry. We'd hand-load each of the trays into UPS trucks with people from UPS because Henry Street has a partnership with UPS already. And so UPS helped us out so much in the beginning. We would have one to two UPS trucks. They would help us deliver to BGR [Boys and Girls Republic, a Henry Street Settlement youth community center] and later on to 301, which is another school as part of the Henry Street Settlement. And then we slowly kind of, as we realized that we had enough food and we were taking on, as more people learned about our food delivery, we ended up with a waitlist, which I think we still have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1326.0,1390.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And we're still adding people from the waitlist as we sort of get more donations of food. But there would definitely be weeks where we almost didn't have enough or like didn't have a variety 'cause we wouldn't receive any new food, and lucky we had enough of a backstock, so we've never had to cancel. We've delivered every Tuesday since mid-to-late April, I would think. Last week our delivery numbers were almost 700 bags, or a little short of 700.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1390.0,1435.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: We've added, for the month of October, we added an extra day where we handed out boxes of food to people, and that was a whole learning curve of just the people who wait in the lines and how kind of the dynamics are of that. So that was a really big learning curve for us. We started using an app called Plentiful, which is super cool. A lot of food pantries use it so people can make appointments via their phone and you just send like a text message thing and you say 'food' to this number and it just generates a menu, and it's available in a bunch of different languages. So we did that every Thursday and now we do it on Mondays for like 200 people. So in addition to our deliveries, we have these boxes that we directly hand out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1435.0,1499.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And we got a community fridge out in front of the Abrons Arts Center, which was another partnership. So as Abrons has been stepping up to do kind of community support in new ways—'cause they've been around for over a hundred years, I think. Their history is not, I'm not entirely clear, but yeah, and they're about to open up like a free store up front, which is cool. At some point in all of this Janet asked if we could possibly get a compost option at the food pantry, because sometimes we'd get food and it would be a little bit bad or damaged in transit or something like that, and it was really tough to throw away. And so now we work with the Lower East Side Ecology Center and they come by and they pick up compost every week from us. And we were actually—we just signed some paperwork to expand that and we're opening that up to a community pickup of compost.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1499.0,1585.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So there's all these things. I guess, yeah, when we started the pantry initially, because we all didn't necessarily know what we were doing, but we needed to figure out what we were doing pretty fast. Our leader was spending a lot of time doing so many logistical emails and organizational things, and I kinda looked around the room and was like, \"So guys, I'll decide what we're going to pack.\" And so I kind of put myself in a position of management of the onsite situation. It happened naturally-ish. I definitely checked in. I was like, don't want to step on any toes. Does anyone know? Does anyone care? And so at this point, I sort of manage the overall bag packing, what goes out, what sort of gets saved per week. We've expanded to three different sites and making sure each site sort of has what it needs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1585.0,1664.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: What are the sites?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1664.0,1666.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So the sites are 334 Madison, which is a senior center. They're all part of Henry Street BGR, which is the Boys and Girls Republic, it's on East Sixth and Avenue D. And then the Abrons Arts Center, which I think is 466 Grand Street, maybe. So we pack all the food at Abrons. We deliver the bags and refrigeration added items to each site. And then Tuesday morning we get volunteers, stipend people, and people from the CCRT, which is the COVID Community Response Team, I believe. And so Abrons hired a bunch of people who are 18 to 24 to help support the pantry, but also to help seniors with technology of like figuring out Zoom in a Zoom world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1666.0,1734.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And so they do a lot of things that I am not sure—I only know them through pantry things, which they totally allow us to do more deliveries. We can reach out to more people because CCRT has come around. We've had a lot of really amazing volunteers, but as people have been going back to work or doing a variety of things, some of our volunteers have, they've just had to attend to other responsibilities, or they've started their own community outreach projects that are sort of closer to home. I've had a couple friends come and volunteer and then they're like, \"This is amazing. I found something in my neighborhood.\" But that's also cool. There's a need everywhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1734.0,1793.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: We had extra baby formula, which isn't something that, wasn't something that we particularly use. We got it, and so Kia, she is the head of 334, she was like, \"Oh, Mosaic in Sunnyside.\" So she actually lives around here too. And she's actually how I got into all of this. Also, I had, in the making of the masks, I biked a mask over to her and her roommate, and I'm pretty sure that when they were trying to figure out who to pick for the team, John, our head, had a car, so our deal was that we would be sort of a pod that would travel in John's car—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1793.0,1845.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yup.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1845.0,1846.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: —from Queens. So we're sort of the Queens crew that would go and do that. So, because I was on the over-hire list and probably because I was in Queens and John and Kia were picking the team, that's sort of how I believe I got sort of chosen out of a group of people. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1846.0,1870.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Maybe I can ask another question. [laughter] What are the primary challenges in the work?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1870.0,1884.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: In the work? I think I really struggle a lot with fairness. I try to make it nutritional, I try to make it—and that all depends. It depends on what we get. So we don't choose, we don't get to shop. Really, food shows up at our door and we try our best. I think that now that we're split between sites, we also have to make sure that they're not too heavy for the volunteers. So it's not just about fairness to the people we're delivering to, but it's also fair to the people who are participating in helping us get it there in the timeframe that we have available to us. So there's all like figuring out the logistical pieces and figuring them out sort of in a timely manner. And every Monday, there tends to be like a grit that gets thrown in the wheels of the sort of plan and having to address around that can be a real struggle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1884.0,1963.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I think we've started taking a 20 foot truck, or we rent a truck every week to help us pick up the food from Essex, to help us deliver to each of the sites. And so we couldn't get the right size truck that would fit into our dock, or at least when we were calling the rental company. So we've tried to like reserve a truck every week to be like, \"Hi, can we get the exact size truck that we need?\" 'Cause if the truck is the wrong size, it then doubles our time. And it's also about space. Like we don't have enough space to have everybody's stuff in at once. So it's about packing and getting it out in a timely manner so that every site can have its needs met. So just like logistics tend to be pretty tough. And, yeah, that's mostly the challenge from my point of view.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=1963.0,2030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I'm not as client-facing like Tyler. Tyler does a lot more of the client phone calls where people are like, \"Hey, you know, I didn't get my food this week,\" and kind of following up with that of like, \"Well, why is that?\" 'Cause we have lists, and you've delivered with us, so like people call the number, or like leaving it outside, and we try to make sure that people do get their items. But sometimes there is occasionally some harassment on the side. Some people don't really believe in what we're doing. Like we try to put things out to the community fridge also, if we have extra that we can't use in a later week. People will tackle you to get things in the community fridge or they'll take what seems like more than their personal fill and it takes away from others.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2030.0,2101.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And that can be really trying on a certain day is if people kind of show up and they're like, \"This good thing that you're doing is actually really terrible.\" Or, \"Why don't you do this?\" Or, \"You know these people just take this food and sell it down the street.\" And there's kind of a helplessness that comes with that. And same thing of like, wishing I could do more. Like there are some days where I do have a ton of food, but I can't get it out. You know, I can't make the bags 40 pounds. I try to make them 30, you know? So there is that like emotional side of just helplessness, which gets a little rough. And so to kind of time when to put the blinders on and when to take them off, to like check back in and be like, okay, this was true last week. Is it true this week? And just keeping myself in check.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2101.0,2165.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Okay. I think—are there any like images of like the pandemic that you can share of like sights, smells, sounds of the pandemic that you witnessed in your role, or between Queens and your role at Abrons that you could share that kind of, vignettes of the pandemic for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2165.0,2198.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah. I mean, definitely the empty trains or like the empty streets was really intense. Because my work has happened at so many different hours, I've seen parts of the city that are normally full empty just because of when I'm out in the world. And I think what was really shocking is to be like, this is an area I have seen empty before, but it feels empty now, like to realize that my understanding of what an empty place was shifting was a little ominous. I remember I had been doing most of my shopping for food stuff in like a bodega or kind of in smaller grocery stores. But I remember going into like the Key Food and seeing people shop, and I remember simultaneously being really freaked out and really upset. And like that was just sort of a shocking, jarring thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2198.0,2274.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And I think that comes from the juxtaposition of like working at the pantry, being like we're trying so hard to do the right thing and we're doing all this, and I would get to the grocery store and I'd be like, \"No one cares.\" And like, but not only that, [unclear] sort of grabbing quality where the outside world was so much quieter and seemed to have so much more of a flow and kind of this—you walked down the street and someone avoids you a lot more and you feel like when someone avoids you during this time, that is out of respect. Whereas if someone avoided you before, you were like, \"Oh, what's that about?\" You know? And kind of like the shift of perspective of certain interactions. And so I mean the grocery store one is more of a snapshot. It was definitely like, I wasn't even sure I really needed what I came there for. I was just like, I don't want to do this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2274.0,2344.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Yeah. I had that feeling too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2344.0,2354.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah. I think also sitting and watching TV and being like, \"Where's their mask?\" Like inevitably it happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2354.0,2367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Okay. I feel like you have so many stories, but let's ask just one more question.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2367.0,2372.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Go for it. I can talk way too long about very little.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2372.0,2378.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: No, it's interesting. But this is the last question, will be, how is Abrons preparing or how are you helping Abrons prepare for winter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2378.0,2384.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Okay. So Abrons, they're continuing trying to negotiate funding to go beyond the winter, or go beyond December. I am not high enough up to know what that looks like. I know that we just got official donations of more produce, which we feel is actually, really the access to produce is going to get harder and going back out. And with schools just closing down again, there's going to be a lot more people at home. Abrons is opening up a free store. Someone called them up and said, \"Hi, can we do a free store?\" And they're like, \"If you kind of keep an eye on it.\" Because much like the community fridge, people's perception of need or their communal versus non-communal interaction, true to New York City, you get a snapshot of every possible reaction to what free stuff is in the spectrum.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2384.0,2468.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And you get it in 10 minutes. I was at the fridge today, and that was very much like people were really gracious or interactive or not at all. And you go to put something in and someone reaches over you to grab it or not. And so there's this image of the way you think that community services are going to go and the way they're not. But Abrons is kind of continuing to be what I feel an open-armed thing. Oh, another issue that came up [unclear] we didn't have enough refrigeration. Refrigeration was actually a really big battle for us for a long time. So, and purchasing a walk-in refrigerator is about $10,000. And finding one used is not really—to find one for less is not really possible. So John researched how to make a refrigerator and we built a giant refrigerator. It's 10 by 20 feet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2468.0,2530.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: It's larger than my apartment for sure, or, you know, it's a big—but we built the refrigerator so we can have more flexibility with giving. And so like carrots, where carrots can last multiple months. So I spend a small chunk of my free time just looking at the longevity of certain items so that they won't rot in people's fridges, or they won't rot anywhere, but just so we can kind of continue to give at a decent pace and to once again have a cycle of variety of nutrition. And also as different places are opening up, there's a nurse at our senior center, or senior services, and if we have things that are too much in bulk, I'll kind of call up to him and I'll be like, \"Hey, I have six pound jars of peanut butter. Do you want 20 of them?\" And he's like, \"Let's see if we can find a recipe for the seniors.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2530.0,2603.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: So although that's not really preparation for the winter, we're just kind of going to keep going along is really all we've ever been sort of told. And all our expectations are, is like, we're going to go until the day they say, \"Hey we no longer have funding for you. So you got to clear out of the space.\" Or \"Hey, we're opening up to be a theater again. You can't have thousands of pounds of food on our theater stage because it's going to be back for the arts.\" Like some of the education center folks, we would have these flyers in the bags of food that we handed out to encourage people to have an artistic outlet, which is cool. If you do talk to Millie, she organized a bunch of that and was like, \"Okay, doing a self portrait.\" Or I asked my sister if she could design coloring pages and she took like a Lower East Side building and people like waving out the windows for people to color in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2603.0,2678.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: That's one thing we didn't really cover too much. Like what do you think is the relationship between the arts and the former art nature of the art center—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2678.0,2689.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2689.0,2690.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: —and how is it used as a food pantry now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2690.0,2695.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: I think, I mean, how it is specifically related to the arts, I'm not sure. I think people with a production background are sort of made to be creative. I can't say we're designed, but we are trained to be creative problem solvers. So if an issue comes up like the refrigeration, if your first thought is, \"Oh, well, if we can't buy it, oh well. Maybe we'll see if someone will donate it to us.\" Whereas I feel production people are like, \"Can we build that?\" If there's a problem, can we build a thing to make it better?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2695.0,2736.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: Like the fridge door, we were opening it by hand, and in the theatrical format we went, \"Oh, can we rig it to the pipes in the theater space so we can lift it via ropes?\" So we joke, I mean, we make jokes that it's our big art installation, that it's our performance art piece. You know, if we have to gather the paper bags together, they look like a sculpture. We jokingly started playing dress-up one week and now we have dress-up themes every week. Mostly on Monday. Sometimes I'll bring it into Tuesday. And so there's a few of us who were pretty consistent with playing dress-up, and some of us, and other people join in kind of as they want to. But yeah, we're like, \"Oh, what will be the dance piece?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2736.0,2792.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And so I think we can't help but be creative thinkers and to try to find an outlet in that manner. We have a little make-your-own-postcard station in the theater and we got some of our CCRT—or mostly Millie, that was great, I offered Millie postcards from a little kit that I carry around most of the time to just write posts to family. And she's like, \"We should have everyone write postcards.\" So she kind of took that experience and then tried to apply it more outward. So I think a lot of the theater community and sort of artists community, it's already often questioned, \"What is the point? What is the purpose? Can you make a living off of being an artist and what does that mean and what's that look like?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2792.0,2868.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: And to take away an audience to a group that it is about interacting in the live setting with a large group of people. I think that can be pretty difficult. But a lot of us are also backstage people, so our need and our interpretation and interaction with that is quite different. But I think we're still asking what relevance looks like for ourselves and for the outside world and its interaction with. And, you know, we've looked at—there's a handful of theater spaces that are trying to figure out how they can participate. Because theater comes from, or at least I think it comes from community at heart. I entered theater because I liked helping. I more or less accidentally ended up in my theater program because I was like, I hear you guys need help and you always need help. I like helping. And that was it. That's how—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2868.0,2955.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Child: See you!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2955.0,2960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kaylyn Kilkuskie: [to child] See you. [to Maggie] And just making stuff and making stuff happen. So in some ways I feel like we're still doing it. It's just different. We're reaching out to individuals on a more direct level. You know, in a lot of ways, it's not as creative or imaginative as it used to be. But also, people enter the space. For a while, all our cardboard storage was in the audience seats of our theater. Oh yeah, we pack bags and our pallets on the stage of the theater, and then we look out into an audience full of seats and there's even a balcony with seats. So every day that we're at the pantry, we're on a stage. So it has that metaphorical quality if we're sending the brainpower on it. It's kind of a really, you know, the theater of life is our life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=2960.0,3029.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215/transcript/70628/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maggie Jack: Awesome. [laughs] Well, this is great. I'm going to stop this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/135992/file/252215#t=3029.0,3032.964"}]}]}]}