Create Art & Grow Climate Solutions
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ECOLOGICAL CITY – Art & Climate Solutions Action project applies Earth Celebrations’ innovative cultural strategies to engage our Lower East Side community and build engagement, collaboration and action on climate challenges and solutions to mitigate impacts of flooding and sea-level rise, decrease waste, improve water quality and conservation, cultivate sustainable urban agriculture and reduce carbon and global warming.
9 months of educational research, design, planning sessions, and Art & Climate Solution Workshops, engage our community, including gardeners, residents, artists, youth, schools and organizations, to work together creatively and mobilize action on climate solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and waterfront. Community participants collaborate with Earth Celebrations’ artists-in-residence and environmental experts, to learn about local climate solution initiatives and develop visual art and performance works addressing the climate challenges and solutions embedded within these sites. The artistic works are presented in a co-created theatrical pageant, featuring a spectacular procession of visual art with 21 site performances of dance, theater, music and poetry throughout the gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City on Saturday May 11, 2024.
Ecological City provides an inspiring creative, collaborative and public platform for residents, artists and organizations, in our Lower East Side neighborhood, to address, amplify and build action on local environmental challenges and solutions.
Ecological City – Art & Climate Solutions Workshop Videos
https://earthcelebrations.com/ecological-city-workshops-2023/
NATURAL PAINT WORKSHOP @ LUNGS Gardens Harvest Arts Festival
Sunday October 8th @ 1-3pm
@ La Plaza Cultural Garden (9th St. Ave C SW Corner)
ARTISTS & CLIMATE ACTION 2024 — ARTISTS OPEN CALL
ART & CLIMATE – ECOLOGICAL CITY
ART & CLIMATE SOLUTIONS PANEL DISCUSSION Zoom
Ecological City Planning Meeting
Thursday, November 9, 2024 | Wednesday, February 7, 2024 from 6:30 – 8:00pm on Zoom
Discuss local climate challenges and solutions and share ideas for visual art, performance, dance, music, and poetry exploring local climate challenges and solutions.
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ECOLOGICAL CITY – ART & CLIMATE SOLUTIONS WORKSHOP
Collaborate creating visual art, bio-art, costumes and giant paper-cache puppets, exploring climate solution initiatives for Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions.
March 2 – May 10, 2024
Saturdays 12pm – 4pm
Artists-in-Residence
– Puppet workshops with artist Lucrecia Novoa
– Costume/Bio-Arts with Sika Foyer
@ Sixth Street Community Center (638 E. 6th St btw. Ave B & C)
SIGN UP ON EVENTBRITE (Free Limited Tickets)
SIGN UP COSTUME / BIO ARTS WORKSHOPS
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BIO ARTS WORKSHOPS
Participants learn to use natural bio materials for sculpture and costumes, growing mycelium (mushrooms root) into a structural bio-degradable material that is grown into molds in various forms. Learn how to make Kombucha (fermented mushroom tea) into a leathery textile that will be integrated into costumes for Ecological City.
SIGN UP COSTUME / BIO ARTS WORKSHOPS
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecological-city-art-climate-solutions-workshop-costume-bio-arts-tickets-794511755047
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MOBILE MURAL WORKSHOPS
Urban Climate Solutions with Earth Celebrations
Artist-in-Reside
April, 2024 (TBC)
Artist Katherine Freygang engages community on a Mobile Mural through workshops in April in collaboration with Earth Celebrations’ partners Lower East Side Ecology Center, Henry Street Settlement (JRC & BGR), University Settlement and Morus. The mural will be featured in the culminating Earth Celebrations’ Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions on Saturday, May 11, 2024, featuring spectacular visual art, giant puppets, costumes and 21 site-performances celebrating climate solution initiatives throughout the community gardens and East River Park on the Lower Side.
ART & ECOLOGY YOUTH WORKSHOPS
Earth Celebrations artists collaborate with community partner groups, schools and organizations to create arts projects exploring sustainability and climate solution initiatives. Artworks developed are presented in the culminating Ecological City: Art & Climate Solutions Pageant. To participate or engage your group to join, contact us!
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PUBLIC CULTURAL ACTION
Ecological City – Procession for Climate Solutions
Saturday, May 11, 2024 | 11am – 5pm (rain date Sunday, May 12) | Gardens to Waterfront – Lower East Side, NYC
The theatrical pageant, co-created by the Lower East Side community, artists, gardeners and residents, features a spectacular procession of visual art, giant puppet and costumes with 21 site performances exploring climate solution initiatives throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Become a #ClimateSolution | LEARN MORE – ECOLOGICAL CITY| VOLUNTEER SIGN UP to wear a spectacular climate solution costume, assist with visuals, puppets and as marshals.
VIEW PAST – EARTH CELEBRATIONS ECOLOGICAL CITY – ART & CLIMATE SOLUTIONS WORKSHOPS
The 40-foot Mobile Mural – LES Sustainable Ecosystem with Earth Celebrations’ Artist-in-Reside
The Mobile Mural with 6 sections celebrates sustainability initiatives in the gardens and neighborhood, 2 sections of East River Park, Stuyvesant Cove and East River (species on and in the river).
Workshops throughout April engaged community in various areas of the Lower East Side through our Partners including:
The Mobile Mural was featured in the culminating Earth Celebrations’ Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions on Saturday, May 11, 2019, featuring spectacular visual art, giant puppets, costumes and 20 site-performances celebrating climate resiliency and ecological sustainability initiatives throughout the community gardens and East River Park waterfront park on the Lower Side.
Mobile Mural Workshop 4/6/19 – Asser Levy Recreation Center with Solar One
Mural Workshop 4/20/19 – LUNGS Spring Festival – Ave C
Mobile Mural Workshop 4/27/19 – LES Ecology Center, East River Park
