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Ecological City 2018 Route Schedule–Procession for Climate Solutions
DATE Saturday, May 12 (Rain Date May 13)
TIME 11am – 6pm, See Route and Schedule Below
START 11am at Loisaida Inc. Center ➤
710 East 9th Street between Aves. C & D Lower East Side, New York City
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11:00 AM – PARADE START – OPENING CEREMONY
@ Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street (between Aves C & D), Lower East Side, NYC
The Loisaida Inc. Center – loisaida.org
11:50 AM – 11th STREET EAST SIDE OUTSIDE GARDEN
@ 11th Street NE Corner Between 1st And Ave A
Compost Ceremony with Song for the Earth by Stephan Said, stephansaid.com
Compost bike sponsored by commongroundcompost.com
12:15 AM – EL SOL BRILLANTE GARDEN
@ 12th Street between Aves A & B
Upcycling Dance – Artichoke Dance Company
Choreography: Lynn Neuman – Artichoke Dance Company
Dancer Credits: Aidan Feldman and Maya Orchin.
LYNN NEUMAN – ARTICHOKE DANCE COMPANY Lynn Nuemanis the Artistic Director of Artichoke Dance Company founded in 1995. Artichoke has held seventeen New York seasons and toured nationally and internationally. Since 2005, the company has been presented at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, PS122, 92nd Street Y, Dixon Place, American Theatre of Actors, University Settlement and Symphony Space, as well as at festivals including Fringe NYC, Dance/Now NYC, DUMBO Arts Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Since 2010 their work has focused on environmental issues and included large scale upcycling projects rooted in community involvement and education. artichokedance.org
12:25 PM – CAMPOS GARDEN
@ 12TH Street between Aves B & C
Poem For Sustainable Urban Agriculture by Steve Dalachinsky
https://www.facebook.com/steve.dalachinsky
12:35 PM – VILLAGE EAST TOWERS
@ 170 Ave C at 10th Street
Community Solar Spectacular with WiFi New York wifiny.org
12:45 PM – 9TH & C GARDEN
@ 9th Street & Ave C (NE corne)
Song for Solar by Lower East Side Girls Club Choir
The Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC) is a non-profit organization on the Lower East Side connecting girls and young women to healthy and successful futures. With a stateof- the- art center, it offers a safe haven with programs in the arts, sciences, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness for Middle and High School girls and their families. Programs are offered at no cost to all. Our mission is to break the cycle of local poverty by training the next generation of ethical, entrepreneurial and environmental leaders. girlsclub.org
1:00 PM – LA PLAZA CULTURAL GARDEN
@ 9th & C Ave (SW corner)
Gardens/Rivers and the Ecological City – Mythic Drama
Pollution Pirates – Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space with Time’s Up
Pollution-Pick-Up – Jim Simopoulos
Music: Rude Mechanical Orchestra / Deixe Fofocar – directed by Yasu Okkutsu and Glenn Healy
Utopia Dance – Valerie Green – Dance Entropy
Battle of Pollution Pirates & Climate Consequences with Climate Solutions Spirits – Choreography by Martha Eddy – Global Water Dances with Earth Celebrations volunteers and Climate Refugees by Rolando Politi – Recycle and Pray and Lynn Neuman – Recycle/Upcycle Dancers.
VALERIE GREEN – DANCE ENTROPY: Dance Entropy is a professional not-for-profit modern dance company founded in 1998. The company supports the vision of Artistic Director, Valerie Green to use creation, performance, and teaching to link dance and the people of a particular community. In the company’s newest evening length work, Utopia, Ms. Green explores notions of safety and an internal perfect place. The company’s work has been performed at various venues and cultural institutions throughout New York City, domestically, and abroad. Dance Entropy will be performing Utopia – Choreography and costuming by Valerie Green. Performance by Emily Aiken, Caitlyn Casson, Erin Giordano, and Kristin Licata. danceentropy.org
MARTHA EDDY – GLOBAL WATER DANCES: Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT uses body consciousness to enter the realm of water protection. She helped to found the worldwide event www.GlobalWaterDances.org that brought 60 countries together in June 2011 (and steadily growing for June 15, 2013). She directs Moving On Center in NYC and teaches somatic (body-mind dancing and awareness) through www.DynamicEmbodiment.org . She leads movement choirs for conferences and events with a focus on the global environmental crises, avidly joining the ‘what the frack?’ movement. She’ll be speaking on the role of dance in water issues at the 92ndStY on May 11th as part of Movement Talks. Keep an eye out for other projects of hers like HydrationDaze onKickstarter.com She is also well known for her work with cancer recovery – MovingforLife.org
1:45 PM – DE COLORES GARDEN
@ 8th Street between Aves B & C
Bio-Swale Serenade by Elizabeth Ruf
https://www.facebook.com/elizabethlesnyc
2:00 PM – GREEN OASIS GARDEN
@ 8th Street between Aves C & D
Pollinators and the Five-spotted Lady Bug
Music by Charles Waters – Children’s Tambourine Quartet
2:15 PM – ORCHARD ALLEY GARDEN
@ 4th Street between Aves C & D
Song for Clean Air and Water by Ayo Harrington
https://www.facebook.com/ayo.harrington
2:25 PM – EL JARDIN DEL PARAISO
@ 4th Street between Aves C & D
Wellness Healing Ceremony by gardeners & MOS Collective with Dee Dee Maucher & Marta Vi – Song for the Healing of the Earth
MARTA VI: Marta Vi has been creating and recreating music and choreography in the community since the late 80’s. She began performing at The Living Theater, ABC No Rio, and Gargoyle Mechanique in 1989. In 1993, she participated in Organism, a group show with hundreds of artists at the Mustard Factory in Brooklyn. She has a band called the Martonias. Marta Vi stands for the water and the earth. www.facebook.com/marta.vi.92
2:35 PM – PARQUE DE TRANQUILIDAD
@ 4th Street between Aves C & D
Garden Aria for Climate Solutions
Pianist, educator, cultural worker Trudy Silver’s composition – Lady Jane
performed by Loisaida’s darling Kathryn ‘Kat’ Hall – mezzo soprano –
trudysilver.com
3:00 PM – 6TH STREET AVENUE B COMMUNITY GARDEN
@ 6th Street between Aves A & B SW corner
Ballad of the Water Pond by Liah Alonso – Gypsy Cowgirl
BIO: Liah Alonso is a Mexican-American singer-songwriter from New York City. Her music combines political activism with personal storytelling in cleverly crafted and catchy folk rock songs. Since her early years as a professional busker in the NYC subways, through a 5-year run with folk-rock duo Left On Red, to her current solo performances, Liah has performed in notable venues throughout the USA, Mexico and South America. Most recently Liah has been invited to share her songs among the supercharged political climate of New York City’s resistance movement, offering a joyful vehicle for people to participate and express themselves in a peaceful manner. liahalonso.com
3:10 PM – EARTH SCHOOL (PS364)
@ 6th Street Between Aves B & C Ave B Se Corner
Green Roof Ceremony
Designed by Felicia Young, Choreography by Simone Coonrod and performed by Earth School students. Costumes created in after-school workshop program with Michele Brody & Lucrecia Novoa.
After-School Workshops provided by Earth Celebrations supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
BIO: Simone uniquely combines athletic training, music education and a natural gift for musical movement to create a studio “where artistry meets fun”. A competitive gymnast throughout university, Simone was voted most valuable team gymnast for her champion status and performance panache. With a BA in Music Education and a Masters in Performance, she is a freelance harpist in the metropolitan area. Simone is one of the pioneers of the resurgence of swing dance in Manhattan in the 90’s and has won numerous competitions. Her mentor has been Frankie Manning, Legendary Lindy Hop Master. Performance groups she has been a member of include The Big Apple Lindy Hoppers, where she was known for her aerials, Hop, Swing & a Jump, and Swing Time. swingingwithsimone.com
The Earth School PS (364) https://sites.google.com/a/theearthschool.org/theearthschool/
3:15 PM – 6 BC BOTANICAL GARDEN
@ 6th Street btw Aves B & C
3:20 PM – 6TH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER
@ 6th St btw Aves B & C
Children’s Bee Roof Farm & CSA Ceremony
Sixth Street Community Center is located in a restored former synagogue in the heart of the Lower East Side and has been working to empower the community through grassroots organizing since 1978. They offer a variety of programs and events including free arts, writing and gardening after school and summer programs for local youth; affordable adult workshops, donation-based yoga, zumba, and dance classes; a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA); poetry and open mic nights. Earth Celebrations was based at the center from 1994 through 2005. sixthstreetcenter.org
4:00 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 1
@ Waterfront Near 6th Street Bridge Area
Pollution-Runoff – Butoh Dance By Vangeline Theater with Sindy Butz
VANGELINE THEATER Butoh Dance Theater Director to develop a performance work for a waterfront site exploring water pollution, sea-level rise and climate impacts on the waterfront. Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh. She is the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century and the founder of the New York Butoh Institute. Vangeline’s socially conscious performances tie together butoh and activism. Her performances have dealt with subjects as varied as feminism, climate change, war and perceptions of gender. Her works have been presented in New York at Joyce SoHo, White Wave, the New Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, and PS122 with awards from Puffin Foundation, Japan Foundation, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Council on the Arts, and Asian American Arts Alliance. She is the founder of the 10-year running, award-winning program “Dream a Dream Project”, which brings Butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York City. vangeline.com
Sindy Butz-Dancer: sindybutz.com
4:15 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 2
@ Circular Maze – Labyrinth Pavement Painting Near Houston Street
Sea Level Rise – Not Fog by Lemon Guo – Director/Composer
Jing Li (costume design), Mengtai Zhang (visual projection) Vocal and movement ensemble: Anna Lublina, Anna Slate, Amélie Gaulier, Leigh Akin
Maze Pavement Painting by Diana Carulli.
East River Park Coalition: www.facebook.com/erpcoalition
NOT FOG is an interdisciplinary project that brings together musicians, dancers, actors, designers, visual artists, and programmers, and creates collaborative work that addresses issues of air pollution and highlights individual characteristics of the performers, building an intimate yet distant, comforting yet suffocating environment for the audience.
lemonguomusic.com
4:30 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 3
@ Waterfront Under the Williamsburg Bridge
Drama of Coastal Resiliency – Directed by Drew Vanderberg with GOLES, LES Ready! and New York City Street Players vbergindustries.com
GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. Its mission is dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization. Recent programs address issues of sustainability and resilience projects including the East Side Coastal Resiliency plan for Lower Manhattan. The Ecological City has been integrated as the Creative Community-Engagement Phase 2 integrating data gathered by GOLES in phase 1. The culminating pageant will develop and bring together a cohesive resiliency plan and solutions for the neighborhood. Photo and video documentation along with live excerpts will be presented as part of deliverables GOLES has been mandated to provide on the East Side Coastal Resiliency plan and will provide creative testimony through the city planning process.goles.org
NEW YORK CITY STREET PLAYERS is a groups of humans who play in the streets of New York City. We are performance artist, musicians, activists, actors, bards, dances, writers, poets, clowns, breathers, lovers, magicians, urbanists, thinkers, singers, buskers, laughers, and leaders. We exist to publicly claim the right to the city and constitute a collective commons through fun! thepoemroom.com/The-NYC-Street-Players
LES Ready! The Lower East Side Long Term Recovery Group (the LES LTRG) is a coalition of community groups and institutions that will cooperatively coordinate our response, resources, preparedness planning and training in response to Hurricane Sandy and in the event of future disasters affecting the neighborhood. lesready.org
4:45 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 4
@ Seal Park near Grand St
Water Dance – Jody Sperling with University Settlement Youth, Laneska Rosario and Lower East Side Ecology Center
JODY SPERLING – TIMELAPSE DANCE Choreographer/Dancer will develop a visual performance work exploring the river, waterfront redevelopment and their green infrastructure projects addressing water quality, water-filtration, oyster planting, wetlands and grey-water recycling. Jody Sperling is a dancer/choreographer and Founder/Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance. She has created more than 40 works and has performed and taught in the US, Bahrain, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Scotland and north of the Arctic Circle. In 2014, Sperling participated in a polar science mission to the Arctic as the first-ever choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. During the expedition, she danced on the polar ice cap and made the award-winning dance film Ice Flow. She holds an MA in Performance Studies (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) and a BA in Dance and Italian (Wesleyan University). timelapsedance.com
THE LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER is a non-profit organization working toward a more sustainable New York City by providing community-based recycling and composting programs, developing local stewardship of green space, and increasing community awareness, involvement and youth development through environmental education programs. Also known as Outstanding Renewal Enterprises, Inc., we were founded in 1987. The Ecology Center offers services and education for a range of environmental subjects: organics collection/composting, electronic waste recycling, and stewardship of public green spaces. lesecologycenter.org
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT was established in 1886 on the Lower East Side to serve the needs of the diverse immigrant population, which developed the Settlement House movement across the country. Now University Settlement has grown into an organization with over 500 staff providing youth services and community programming, including partnerships with The Door and YMCA. universitysettlement.org
5:00 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 5
@ WATERFRONT – Near amphitheater at Cherry Street
RIVER CLEANSING & CLOSING CEREMONY
Shakti – Dance by Lynn Needle – Art of Motion
Bio Remediation Sculpture Offering by Dee Maucher, Marta Vi , Tessa Grundon, with Paul Mankeiwicz – The Gaia Institute.
Song for Ecological City by Theater for The New City Chorus
SHAKTI has been performed at the GLOBAL TEDMED Conference at the Kennedy Center and toured throughout the country. Costuming by Annie HIckman, performed by Lynn Needle, Patricia McTigue and Janette Dishuk. Score by the percussionist from the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart.
LYNN NEEDLE – ART OF MOTION ENSEMBLE Founder/Artistic Director of Art of Motion is a former Soloist in the Nikolais Dance Theatre. A recipient of the Dance Magazine ACDFA National Award for choreography, Lynn has performed and taught internationally, worked in documentary film and enjoys teaching dance, yoga and collaborating with artists. Her work with dance partner, Kent Lindemer has resulted in a recent sold out evening of modern dance and theatre. Also performing is Kent Lindemer, M.F.A. is an Emmy Award winning performer and former principal dancer and collaborative choreographer with Pilobolus Dance Theatre,1989-2000. He founded Integrative Somatics in 2000, providing therapeutic Bodywork, Yoga and Dance training nationally and internationally. His collaborations with Lynn Needle explore the complex worlds of relationship, nature and myth. Dance “Shakti” Performed by Art of Motion Ensemble, www.artofmotion.org
THE GAIA INSTITUTE is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Our work couples ecological engineering and restoration with the integration of human communities in natural systems. While much environmental engineering has the worthy aim of minimizing harm, the Gaia Institute explores, through research and development, design and construction, how human activities and waste products can be treated to increase ecological productivity, biodiversity, environmental quality, and economic well-being. The purpose of The Gaia Institute is to test through demonstration the means by which the ecological components of backyards, communities, towns and cities, as well as watersheds and estuaries, can be enhanced through integrated wastes-into-resources technologies. thegaiainstitute.org
DEE DEE MAUCHER- MOS COLLECTIVE: Artist/Environmental Educator with El Jardin del Paraiso Garden to convene with gardeners to design and develop a sculptural work incorporating the gardens’ natural materials and bio-remediation techniques of dirt fermented with effective microorganisms. The sculpture could dissolve in the river and serve to revitalize the polluted waterway. She has developed bio-remediation art projects and educational workshops engaging participants in the creation of “mudball” and “bio-spheres” made of dirt fermented with microorganisms that improve health of soil and water. Her workshops have been presented through artist Mary Mattingly’s SWALE, New Museum, Waterfront Alliance, LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival and Harbor Lab and events throughout New York City. moscollective.net
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor’s Stop The Violence award. theaterforthenewcity.net
BAND BIOS 2018
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
START-LOISAIDA CENTER- 710 East 9th St (btw. Aves C & D) to GREEN OASIS GARDEN @ 8th Street between Aves C & D
DEIXE FOFOCAR is a music and dance collective based in Western Japan, trained and directed by Yasu Okkutsu and Glenn Healy of the East Village. Yasu is a master guitarist, percussionist, and recording engineer/producer. Glenn is a drummer, percussionist, and tri-lingual educator, working in 15 countries in the last two decades.
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
GREEN OASIS GARDEN @ 8th Street between Aves C & D to EARTH SCHOOL @ 6th Street AVE B (SE corner)
RUDE MECHANICAL ORCHESTRA The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is a New York City-based radical marching band. We exist in order to serve the efforts of progressive and radical groups and causes, including: feminism and women’s rights, immigrant rights, queer rights, labor, the environment, peace, community self-determination, and racial, social, and economic justice. We pledge to fight racism, sexism, homophobia, war and violence in all its forms. Through our music, we strive to bring joy and inspiration to these communities and to bring new people into radical causes. Internally, we work towards being a safe, welcoming place for all genders and gender identities, ages, races, backgrounds, sexual orientations, disabilities and musical skill levels. Through our musical selections, we pay tribute to the world’s cultures and the revolutionary role music has played throughout history. rudemechanicalorchestra.org
3:15 PM – 6:00 PM
EARTH SCHOOL @ 6th Street AVE B (SE corner)
to EAST RIVER PARK SITE 5 @ East River Park waterfront near amphitheater at Cherry Street
KALUNGA NEG MAWON: Kalunga Neg Mawon is a musical ensemble whose mission is to preserve the African tradition and identity existing in Kisqueya Ayiti, known today as the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti. We use the name, Kalunga, to highlight the Congolese cultural aspects retained in Dominican/Haitian culture and throughout the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. Kalunga is a goddess of the Congolese nation known also as the Muntu-Bantu or Bakongo, she is the universal cosmos, the Big Bang from which all life comes from, including the depths of the seas and oceans.www.facebook.com/KalungaNegMawon
She has produced projects for Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, Arts>World Financial Center, The Alternative Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Hudson River Park Trust and engaged numerous organizations, schools and community service centers to collaborate on these efforts. These projects have received awards and grants including: LMCC-Fund for Creative Community / Manhattan Community Art Fund, DCA-Public Service Award, Threshold Foundation- Arts & Social Change, Puffin Foundation, Hudson River Foundation and International Women’s Caucus on the Arts to the UN-Artistic Activism Award 2017. She has also developed a course, Art, Ecology and Community for Princeton University. Felicia has a BA in Art History from Skidmore College and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. http://earthcelebrations.com/about-felicia-young/earthcelebrations.com
Visual Art & Production Credits
ECOLOGICAL CITY – Procession for Climate Solutions
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS COSTUMES 2018. Gaia, Water Harvesting, Bio-Swale, Renewable Energy & Climate Consequences by Michele Brody
MICHELE BRODY- ECOLOGICAL CITY VISUAL ART/COSUME WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR works and engages community participants in her ecological scultural costumes made from natural and organic materials including seed, grass, bamboo, hand-made paper, and fiber. Michele has had one-person shows at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chashama 461 Gallery, Arts>World Financial Center-Winter Garden and internationally in Germany, Costa Rica and France. She received grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council-MCAF, Pollack Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, 2015 Community Arts and Arts Fund Grants, Bronx, NY. Her public art installations include Bamboo Teahouse for the Bronx, Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx and MTA Arts for Transit Program and through the Public Arts for Public Schools Program. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College 1989 and an MFA from the Arts Institute of Chicago in 1994. www.michelebrody.com
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS PUPPETS 2018 EARTH CELEBRATIONS PUPPETS. Renewable Energy, Bio-Swale, Gaia-Climate Solutions, Pollution Spirit by Lucrecia Novoa
LUCRECIA NOVOA-ECOLOGICAL CITY PUPPET/SCULPTURE WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR engages community participants through workshops building paper-mache puppets and masks. She is an experienced mask-maker, puppet builder, performer and arts instructor who has received numerous awards and residencies in New York City, Boston and Chile. She as an MA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1983-1988, and a BA in Fine Arts from University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. She conducts mask-/puppet workshops through Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Bronx Zoo and Studio in a School, New York City; Edison School, Portchester, NY; Carver Center, RAIN and SEBCO Senior Centers. Exhibitions of her work include: NY Botanical Garden, Clemente Soto Velez Center, Latin Views Exhibit, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Ct and Material Culture Exhibit, Longwood Art Gallery, Hostos College, Bronx, NY. www.mascaraviva.com
CEREMONIAL RAIN BARREL – Designed by Felicia Young in collaboration with Earth School students through after-school workshop programs.
After-School Workshops provided by Earth Celebrations supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The Earth School PS (364) https://sites.google.com/a/theearthschool.org/theearthschool/
CLIMATE SOLUTION STAFFS – Project Designed by Felicia Young with Painting by David McGreevy, Thomas Harris, Christian Tandazo and Earth Celebrations volunteers
BIO-REMEDIATION GAIA SCULPTURE – by Dee Maucher of MOS Collective with Marta Vi, Tessa Grundon and Paul Mankeiwicz of the Gaia Institute
DEE DEE MAUCHER- MOS COLLECTIVE: Artist/Environmental Educator with El Jardin del Paraiso Garden to convene with gardeners to design and develop a sculptural work incorporating the gardens’ natural materials and bio-remediation techniques of dirt fermented with effective microorganisms. The sculpture could dissolve in the river and serve to revitalize the polluted waterway. She has developed bio-remediation art projects and educational workshops engaging participants in the creation of “mudball” and “bio-spheres” made of dirt fermented with microorganisms that improve health of soil and water. Her workshops have been presented through artist Mary Mattingly’s SWALE, New Museum, Waterfront Alliance, LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival and Harbor Lab and events throughout New York City. moscollective.net
MARTA VI: Marta Vi has been creating and recreating music and choreography in the community since the late 80’s. She began performing at The Living Theater, ABC No Rio, and Gargoyle Mechanique in 1989. In 1993, she participated in Organism, a group show with hundreds of artists at the Mustard Factory in Brooklyn. She has a band called the Martonias. Marta Vi stands for the water and the earth. www.facebook.com/marta.vi.92
TESSA GRUNDON: Tessa Grundon grew up in the Middle East, UK and the United States. She now divides her time between the UK, her home in lower Manhattan and studio in DUMBO. She has studied at The Arts Students League, New Academy of Fine Art and Parsons while working as a decorative artist and muralist both in the U.S. and Europe before focusing on her own projects. She has been a visiting artist and environmental advocate in New York City schools. Her upcoming projects include environmental and sound studies of rivers on both sides of the Atlantic, initially focusing on the Hudson River. Her work is in several private collections both in the U.S. and abroad www.tessagrundon.com
THE GAIA INSTITUTE is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Our work couples ecological engineering and restoration with the integration of human communities in natural systems. While much environmental engineering has the worthy aim of minimizing harm, the Gaia Institute explores, through research and development, design and construction, how human activities and waste products can be treated to increase ecological productivity, biodiversity, environmental quality, and economic well-being. The purpose of The Gaia Institute is to test through demonstration the means by which the ecological components of backyards, communities, towns and cities, as well as watersheds and estuaries, can be enhanced through integrated wastes-into-resources technologies. thegaiainstitute.org
RENEWABLE ENERGY-SOLAR-POLLINATOR BIKES by LES GIRLS CLUB
The Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC) is a non-profit organization on the Lower East Side connecting girls and young women to healthy and successful futures. With a stateof- the- art center, it offers a safe haven with programs in the arts, sciences, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness for Middle and High School girls and their families. Programs are offered at no cost to all. Our mission is to break the cycle of local poverty by training the next generation of ethical, entrepreneurial and environmental leaders. girlsclub.org
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS GARDEN BANNERS for Garden Gates by artist Katherine Freygang in collaboration with Lower East Side Community Gardeners
KATHERINE FREYGANG: Artist-in-Residence /Banners-Visuals: Katherine Freygang studies and celebrates ecological relationships in art, events, exhibition design, architecture, and poetry. She works as an activist/educator in Connecticut and an artist/designer in New York; and is currently developing projects with Connecticut Innovations, Clean Water Action, Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Connecticut’s UCC Congregational Environmental Ministry Team, Cornwall Energy Task Force, and Earth Celebrations.http://katherinefreygang.com
SPECIAL THANKS
Ecological City-Procession for Climate Solutions is produced and directed by Felicia Young- Founder/ Director of Earth Celebrations in collaboration with over 50 community partner organizations, artists, gardeners and volunteers.
Earth Celebrations – Ecological City Coordinator: Christian Tandazo
INTERNS: Nicole Spitzer, Emily Yacina, Peter Yoon, Yidan Zeng, Zhiyuan Hu, Luqi Jiang, Jossue Velasquez, Raliek Gholson, Christina Nunez, Latyah Campbell, Cindy Kwok. Through Internship programs from New York University – Gallatin, Wasserman & Tisch School of the Arts, New School and Hunter School of Community Organizing.
COSTUME PERFORMERS: Stephanie Gate, Sonia Pena, Jenna Witxleben, Barbara Augsburger, Owen Prum, Zoe Katz, Masha Ramdask, Mereditch Carver, Nancy Bommer, Judy Sky, Addie Guidry, Erick Dhal, Gina Bari, Luqi Jiang, Jessica Klein, Elisa Jimenez, Iva Kaufman, Carol Sterling, Kelsey Simmons, Yanna Paradise, Jayanthi Moorthy, Glenn Cueto, Katherine Freygang, Andy Beck, Fabiola Goris, Kimberly Windbiel, Anna Cuffari, Claire Sersun, Samantha Raffelini, Michele Cetera, LJ Leach, Blakelee Harmon, Liana Kleinman, Mindy Levoke, Nancy Zedora, Daniela Fabrizi, Maria Popson, Blanca Lotus, Leah Salmorin, Gigi Mead, Rosa Velez, River Allen, Brandon Schreck, Ben Kalish, Raliek Gholson, Christina Nunez.
MARSHALS: Christian Tandazo, Nicole Spritzer, Emily Yacina, Carol Diamond, Mark Weber, Jossue Velasquez, Pedro Alomar, Michael Mangieri, Blaze Jones-Yellin, Rohan Sharma, Thomas Harris, Jo Macellaro, Rick Vazquez, Louis Kleinman, Amy Francis, Koshek Swaminathan, John Fields, Paolo Jumpin Entertainment.com, Lauren Vargas, Joseph Reiver, Michael Joseiwicz
MAKEUP ARTISTS: Lynn Walsh, Michele Diyids, Kian Stave, Jeeniyad, Eliana Drescher, Eleanor Maples, Danielle Whyte, Eleanor Maples, Jayanthi Moorthy,
PHOTO: William Bourassa Jr, Andrew Kaen, Maria Bates, Emma Wedmore, Lwien Zhou, Kristin Reimer, Steven Yen, Erik McGregor, Roland Marconi, Carlin Canfield.
VIDEO: Peter Yoon, Alfred Cervantes, Kurt Ritta, Julian DeOliveira, Luis Sollivan.
VOLUNTEER GROUPS:
One Brick – Vince Fuentes and Leeanne Root – https://www.onebrick.org/.
Brooklyn Manhattan Community College – Keith Carter – www.bmcc.cuny.edu/.
Bard High School – Sheilli Vodovozov – bhsec.bard.edu/manhattan/
SOUND Paolo Lanna – www.jumpinenternainment.com.
RICKSHAWS George Bliss Bikes – P.O.N.Y. Pedicabs of New York – http://www.ponycab.com/
PARTNERS
Earth Celebrations’ ECOLOGICAL CITY in partnership with
Loisaida Center Inc., LUNGS-Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens
and over 50 partner organizations and groups including NYC Community Garden District, Green Map, GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side), LES Ready!, Lower East Side Girls Club, Lower East Side Ecology, East Village Community Coalition, East River Park Coalition, Solar One, Waterfront Alliance, University Settlement, Earth School (PS364), Sixth Street Community Center, Arts Loisaida, MOS Collective, Gaia Institute, East 4th Street Block Association, Times Up, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, FAB (Fourth Street Arts Block Association), Theatre for the New City, Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation (East Village), The Lowline, Lycée Francais de New York, New School, Hunter College-School of Community Organizing and New York University. Numerous groups and residents throughout the neighborhood are invited to join. http://earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-project/ecological-city-partners-2018/
SPONSORS
This program is made possible with support from Fund for the City of New York, New York Community Trust, Con Edison, Howard Bayne Fund, W Trust, private foundations, individuals and Creative Engagement supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. http://earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-sponsors-2018/
FOOD DONORS Agape Food Rescue – https://www.facebook.com/agapefoodrescue/.