Club Management 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 Management - @club_management (Insta)Follow Shannon - @Shannon1dj (Insta & Twitter)BE APART OF THE PATREON COMMUNITY - www.patreon.com/clubmanagement1