Back to School Festival 2021 was a huge success!
On September 18th, VBCGQ held our annual Back to School Festival at the Astoria Clubhouse! Over 600 community members stopped by the Festival to get free school supplies, eat yummy food, dunk Costa in the dunk tank, and more!
Food was available from Chip City, Ample Hills Creamery, and San Antonio’s Wood Fired Pizza and back to school supplies were donated by Ashley Dean/Apartment 3R, NY State Senators Gianaris and Ramos, PreCog Security, Executive Digital, and Staples Store 841. Tons of local shops and organizations tabled at the event - including the The Noguchi Museum, BioBus, and the Astoria Bookshop! The Club also did a free raffle with prizes including JetBlue flight vouchers, a goodie bag from Astoria Bookshop, Amazon gift cards, free yoga classes, and more.
VBGCQ also partnered with NY State of Health to do a COVID-19 Vaccine Pop Up in our gym. Every teen who got their first show received a FREE one day pass to Governor’s Ball! This partnership was so successful that NY State of Health is going to come back to the Club in October and do another pop up!
A special thank you TD Bank, Chip City, Heroes Basketball, and NYC Health and Hospitals Elmhurst Hospital for sponsoring the event! We can’t wait to see you all next year!!
