Tamar Ettun and Lizzie Presser, 2025
Published with support from RECESS
Printed by Calipso Press
Design by Shahar Kramer
Kid Zone is a part of Hall Street Mutual Aid Collective's weekly distribution for asylum seeking families. Volunteers offer art activities, sports games, language practice and essential supplies in a special zone where kids can be kids. We believe that art and play are essential to childhood development and expression, especially for children who have recently moved to the U.S. and don't yet know English. So is the opportunity to form bonds with neighbors. Even in very cold or very hot weather, the kids want to focus onusing their hands, enjoying some time away from their parents to create. Everyone deserves the opportunity to develop a visual language, another way to connect with new neighbors in a new country.
Kid Zone aims to be an abundant space - in art supplies, toys, essentials and connection - to create an experience of possibility for the most vulnerable kids in our neighborhood. We check in with the kids to see what they want or need and we do our best to accommodate them: warm coats, hats and gloves, socks, underwear, backpacks. We give out toys and art supplies, too!
