Keeping NYC Nightlife Alive With Mood Ring & NYC Nightlife United

In episode 21, Shannon begins to bring her experiences with the
nightlife and music community back home to NYC. With the pandemic
causing a major disruption to nightlife venues and cultural
spaces, Shannon has a chat with a few members of the community
who are looking to keep the city’s music scene alive. For the
first half of the show, we hear from Ric Leichtung and Diana Mora
who are spearheading NYC Nightlife United, which is an emergency
fund aimed at providing financial relief to venues and cultural
spaces that have been deeply devastated by the pandemic. The
organization is comprised of various nightlife figures and
cultural institutions including Ric and Diana who have both spent
years cultivating and creating events and community spaces in
NYC. Ric Leichtung is the founder of concert promotion and
publication AdHoc and Diana Mora owns Friends and Lovers in
Brooklyn. While there has been some relief efforts for businesses
and workers through The Cares Act which claims to provide fast
and direct economic assistance, the process has been rather slow
and complicated. Ric and Diana talk about some of the challenges
that nightlife venues in NYC currently face with PPP which is the
Payroll Protection Program and the difficulty of receiving
business loans to cover some of the major losses experienced
during this time.For the second half of the show Shannon chats
with Bowen Goh, who runs Mood Ring in Bushwick, Brooklyn
alongside his partner Vanessa Li. It’s a little gem tucked away
on Myrtle Ave, which has become a vital space for Brooklyn's
LGBTQ, creative and music scene. Bowen fills us in on the history
behind the venue and the struggles that lie ahead for both Mood
Ring and his newly formed sister venue Heaven Or Las Vegas which
just opened up this past February.Donate To NYC Nightlife United:
https://nycnightlifeunited.comDonate To Mood Ring: Cashapp or
Venmo- @/$MoodRingNYC. Consider ordering a gift card too which
can be used for goodies at the bar for when they do reopen -
https://squareup.com/gift/5ZJ22TS16X077/orderFollow Club
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