This NYC artist will help you with anything (except sex) for free
For the past month, Bianca Giaever, an artist and filmmaker, has been roaming New York City, wearing a firetruck red jumpsuit and an enormous sandwich board that reads “FREE HELP.”Her business card, which she hands out freely, often to people who approach her or strike up a conversation, lists her contact information, along with examples of her services: child care, emotional support, physical labor, relationship advice, organization, cleaning.
Giaever often starts her day in Union Square. Her art has taken her to every borough except Staten Island and at least one project in New Jersey, where she helped an 81-year-old man deal with a storage unit he could no longer afford. “The hardest thing is when people need help with housing, or something so overwhelming that I would maybe need a social work degree to know how to do that,” she continued. “I’m not a professional. But I think just listening to people’s problems has been a little bit helpful, or trying to figure out how I can make someone’s day a little better.”
She said she’s been surprised by the number of people who want help making content on social media. Along with the dancing teenagers, she helped a woman film herself performing a seance for TikTok get her psychic tarot sorceress business off the ground.
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