NEW YORK (WABC) — College students from the Excessive College of Trend Industries aren’t planning simply any promenade, they’re planning the anti-prom.
They’ll maintain it at Astor Corridor on the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.
“It is truly not about canceling promenade it is about making a promenade with a number of diversities, we are able to create our personal promenade, superb commonplace in society,” mentioned Sanya Wilson, a junior.
The New York Public Library holds an anti-prom within the Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan, to present younger individuals a substitute for the standard end-of-year dance.
It is an occasion that welcomes same-sex {couples} or college students who do not conform to conventional norms.
“I believe the anti-prom completely represents libraries how libraries are for everybody we would like everybody to have entry to them to return and have enjoyable and that is what we would like for anti-prom, too,” mentioned Caitlyn Colman-McGaw, Affiliate Director of Younger Grownup Applications and Companies, NYPL.
This 12 months’s theme is fantasy, and it begins with a style present. They’re training their stroll down the grand staircase.
Sophomore Hunter Sky designed her personal robe, and she will’t wait to put on it there.
“It feels fairly superb to do one thing massive for younger individuals on this area to specific their individuality,” Sky mentioned.
“Proms have come a good distance and they are much extra inclusive now and we’re so completely satisfied to be a praise for these, but it surely’s actually cool to be free and it is cool teenagers can include their mates everyone seems to be welcome right here,” Colman-McGaw mentioned.
“Everybody can come to this promenade, be themselves nonetheless they need to be,” mentioned Carrington Edwards, a junior.
It is an anti-prom that is pro-everyone.
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