Ecological City 2019 – Procession for Climate Solutions featuring 20 site performances celebrating climate resiliency and ecological sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower east Side of New York City

Saturday, May 11 , 2019

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Ecological City Procession for Climate Solutions Video Clip 

Ecological City Procession for Climate Solutions 2019 – Slide Video

Ecological City Panel & Planning Meeting November 13, 2019

Times- Locations-Featured Performances

11 AM – PARADE START – OPENING CEREMONY
@ Sixth Street Community Center – 638 E. 6th Street (btw. Aves B & C),
Lower East Side, NYC

11:50 AM – 11th  STREET EAST SIDE OUTSIDE GARDEN
@ 11th Street NE Corner btw. 1st and Ave. A
Song for the Earth – Compost Ceremony

12 PM – EL SOL BRILLANTE GARDEN
@ 12th  Street btw. Aves A & B
Upcycling Dance by Artichoke Dance Company
Choreography: Lynn Neuman – Artichoke Dance Company
Dancer Credits: Shawn Brush and Genna Mergola

LYNN NEUMAN – ARTICHOKE DANCE COMPANY – Lynn Neuman is 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 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

12:10 PM – CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP SCHOOL
@ 610 E. 12th  Street (btw. Aves B & C)
Art & Science Sustainability Spectacular

12:15 PM – CAMPOS GARDEN
@ 12th  Street btw. Aves B & C
Poem For Sustainable Urban Agriculture by Steve Dalachinsky
https://www.facebook.com/steve.dalachinsky

12:20 PM – 9TH STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN PARK
@ 9th  Street & Ave. C (NE corner)
‘Song for Solar’ by Lower East Side Girls Club Choir

THE LOWER EAST SIDE 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 state of- 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

12:30 PM – LA PLAZA CULTURAL GARDEN
@ 9th  Street & Ave. C (SW corner)
Hurricane Sandy and Birth of Climate Solutions – Gardens, Rivers, and the
Ecological City – Mythic Drama
Pollution Pick-Up – Jim Simopoulos
Pollution Pirates – Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space with Time’s Up
Birth of a Garden Dance – Maira Duarte – Dance to the People
Battle of Pollution Pirates & Climate Consequences with Climate Solutions Spirits
– Choreography by Martha Eddy – 55C Studio & Global Water Dances with Earth
Celebrations volunteers and Climate Refugees by Rolando Politi
Rehearsal Director: Emily Forche
Music: Deixe Fofocar – directed by Glenn Healy

DANCE TO THE PEOPLE is an open collective working in non-hierarchical
forms of art making. It was formed in 2014 in NYC by Mexican dancer and
choreographer, Maira Duarte, with the goal of accessing unutilized spaces and
promoting a sustainable exchange of resources within the dance and
performance community. DTTP holds and organizes donation-based class
series, environmental dance research outings, performance parties, and forums.

MARTHA EDDY – GLOBAL WATER DANCES NY/Studio 55C – Dr. Martha
Eddy, CMA, RSMT uses body consciousness to enhance our capacity to protect
water, and in turn the planet. She is a co-founder of the biennial worldwide environmental dance event www.GlobalWaterDances.org that brought 60 countries together in June 2011 and now has 120 sites registered (and growing) on 6 continents  for June 15, 2019. She directs Moving For Life in
NYC which offers free movement and wellness class in all five boroughs for older
adults and people of all ages in  treatment or recovery from cancer.  Moving For
Life has its office and provides arts & movement programming for all ages at 55C
Studio which MFL developed to be the Lower East Side’s center for Somatic
Movement and the Arts. Martha leads movement choirs for conferences and
brings Global Water Dances to environmental justice actions that focus on local
or global issues. She is author of Mindful Movement. http://www.studio55c.org

1 PM – DE COLORES GARDEN
@ 8th Street btw. Aves B & C
Bio-Swale Serenade by Elizabeth Ruf
https://www.facebook.com/elizabethlesnyc

1:10 PM – Carmen’s Garden
@ Ave C btw. 8th & 7th St.

1:15 PM – GREEN OASIS GARDEN
@ 8th Street btw. Aves C & D
Rina Rinkewich, Rosita Roldan & Rafaella Spielberg performing “Butterfly At Heart”
Music: “Nigun Ha Lev (The Heart’s Melody)” composed and played by Shlomo Shai

RINA RINKEWICH, M.F.A. teaches dance and leads events and workshops in
New York City and internationally. She was the director of the dance company
Return of the Sun (1999-2012) which performed in Earth Celebrations, a Hudson
River Pageant in 2010 and 2012. Rina currently teaches and leads Israeli Dance
in Brooklyn, N.Y. rinarinkewich@gmail.com | Israeli Dancing with Rina Rinkewich

1:30 PM – ORCHARD ALLEY GARDEN
@ 4th Street btw. Aves C & D
Song for Clean Air and Water by Ayo Harrington
https://www.facebook.com/ayo.harrington

1:40 PM – EL JARDIN DEL PARAISO
@ 4th Street btw. Aves C & D
Wellness Ceremony – Lifestyles of Bioremediation, Symbiosis, Regenerative Culture, and Wellness
Soundscape: Tess Rose
MoS Regenerative Culture Village Center & EV Wellness Circle joined by Expressions of Regenerative Culture by Parsons Sustainable Systems students taught by Kimberly Tate and Maika’i Tubbs
Song for the Healing of the Earth by Marta Vi

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 dissolves in the river and serves 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 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

1:50 PM – PARQUE DE TRANQUILIDAD
@ 4th Street btw. Aves C & D
Trudy Silver’s Earth Celebration

TRUDY SILVER is a pianist, educator and cultural worker. She is performing with Leonid Galaganov-drums, Daniel Carter, and Lee Odom-alto saxophones. She is presenting an original composition that is site specific. www.trudysilver.com| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trudy_Silver

2:15 PM – 6TH STREET AVENUE B COMMUNITY GARDEN
@ 6th  Street btw. Aves A & B (SW corner)
“Water Songs” Singers: Lee Taylor  and Pat Lamana

Lee Taylor is a singer/songwriter based in Brooklyn. www.loveleetaylor.com | nibiwalk.org

2:30 PM – EARTH SCHOOL (PS364)
@ 6th  Street btw. Aves B & C Ave B (SE corner)
Green Roof Ceremony
featuring a wearable mural performed by Earth School PS 364 students – Costumes
created through Earth Celebrations workshops with Dee Dee Maucher
https://sites.google.com/a/theearthschool.org/theearthschool/

2:40 PM – 6BC BOTANICAL GARDEN
@ 6th Street btw. Aves B & C
Gardeners’ Water Offering

2:50 PM – 6TH  STREET COMMUNITY CENTER
@ 6th St btw. Aves B & C
Children’s Bee Roof Farm & CSA Ceremony

3:30 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 1
@ Waterfront Near 6th Street Bridge Area
Death & Rebirth of a River Park – Octavia Dance Company
Steward of the River Ceremony – Waterfront Alliance
Choreography: Laura Ward
Dancers: Cassie Roberts Rossi, Fiona Oba, Natalia Wodnicka, Eva Janiszewski Juliette Janiszewski, Laura V Ward

LAURA VICTORIA WARD, BA, CMA, RSME, is an award-winning
choreographer, Laban Movement Analyst, and teacher. She is the artistic director
of Octavia Cup Dance Theatre and the Glam Rock Cabaret.
https://octaviacup.weebly.com

3:45 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 2
@ Circular Maze (Labyrinth Pavement Painting by Diana Carulli near Houston Street)
East River Park Coalition: www.facebook.com/erpcoalition
Sea Level Rise – Not Fog by Lemon Guo – Director/Composer

Performance: “Calving”
Lemon Guo Music: “Into Silence They Appear”
Performers: Chaesong Kim, Rina Espiritu, Risha Lee, Larkin Grimm, Banyi Huang, Lemon Guo
Costume Designed by Jing Li

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 group of humans who play in the
streets of New York City. We are performance artists, 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

4:15 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 4
@ Seal Park near Grand St
Buffering Sea-Rise Water Dance – Jody Sperling with University Settlement
Youth at PS 63, Laneska Rosario, Jewell Campbell (PS63). Lower East Side
Ecology Center – visuals.

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 Floe. 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

4:30 PM – EAST RIVER PARK SITE 5
@ WATERFRONT – Near amphitheater at Cherry Street
East River Park Homage: River Cleansing and Closing Ceremony

Shakti – Dance by Lynn Needle – Art of Motion 
“Death and Rebirth of the East River Park” aria by Joule L’Adara
Bio-Remediation Sculpture Offering by Dee Maucher – MOS Collective with
Parsons Sustainable Systems students taught by Kimberly Tate and Maika’i Tubbs
Paul Mankeiwicz – The Gaia Institute    
Water Dance for Rebirth of the Waterfront – Jody Sperling

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

JOULE L’ADARA Master of Fine Arts in Multi-Focus Vocal Performance and
Integrated Media, has twenty years of experience singing and performing. Joule
has appeared as a soprano soloist in New York’s Carnegie Hall, and performed
in opera houses, theaters and festivals in Europe and America, including the
Metropolitan Opera in New York. Joule created Sounding Circles originally as
vocal warm-ups intended to take vocalists out of a place of fear and into pure self
expression. As this method developed it became clear there was also potential
for deep emotional and indeed at times physical healing to come out of this group
work, along with the promotion of community cooperation and mutual
understanding. http://www.soundingcircles.com

Band Bios 2019

11 AM – 2:30 PM
START – Sixth Street Community Center – 638 E. 6th Street (btw. Aves B &C),
Lower East Side, NYC – to Earth School @ 6th Street Ave. B (SE corner)

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. www.facebook.com/DeixaFofocar/

2:30 PM – 5 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 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

FELICIA YOUNG, PRODUCER & DIRECTOR of the ECOLOGICAL CITY: Procession for Climate Solutions, a collaborative community-based ecological arts project. She is the Founder/Executive Director of Earth Celebrations, a non-profit organization founded in 1991 on the Lower East Side of New York City to engage communities to generate ecological and social change through the arts. She has developed a successful methodology applying the arts, community engagement, partnership building and environmental action. Her projects over the past 30 years include a fifteen year collaborative community art project, Save Our Gardens (1991-2005) on the Lower East Side which built a local and then citywide grassroots coalition effort and led to the preservation of hundreds of community gardens in New York City. The Hudson River Pageant (2009-2012) was a collaborative art project to engage community in the restoration efforts of the Hudson River estuary and revitalization of the waterfront in downtown Manhattan. Her recent Vaigai River Restoration Project (2014-2016) applied this model to build an international and local collaborative effort in the city of Madurai, South India to restore the sacred Vaigai River, which is in a severe crisis due to pollution and the drying effects of climate change. Felicia Young 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 Artist Bios 2019

YELAINE RODRIGUEZ – ECOLOGICAL CITY COSTUME WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR: Bronx-born, Afro-Dominican-American artist, who sources syncretic religions and historical references in the African diasporic communities, to conceptualize wearable art and site-specific Installations. Their interfaith and intercountry narrative explores representations of identity and race through the lens of being the Other. Drawing connections between black culture in the Caribbean and the United States the artist creates installations of wearable art, video and photography. Rodriguez is also one of this generation’s curators making the efforts to bring artist of the African Diaspora into the forefront by curating shows like Resistance, Roots and Truth at the Caribbean Cultural Center and (under)REPRESENT(ed) Parsons Alumni Exhibit both: exhibitions that shed light on the foundational contributions of the African Diasporic communities.Graduate of Parsons the New School for Design in 2013.  Van Lier Fellowship recipient at Wave Hill 2018, and Fellow from the Caribbean Cultural Center of the African Diaspora 2017. Her work has been included at Miami Art Basel, Longwood Art Gallery, American Museum of Natural History, Wave Hill, Rush Art Gallery, El Centro Cultural de España and Centro León Biennial in D.R. Currently teaches at Parsons the New School of Design in NY.  https://yelainenyc.com/

KATHERINE FREYGANG – ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE – MOBILE MURAL and climate solution banners 2018. 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. katherinefreygang.com

DEE DEE MAUCHER- MOS COLLECTIVE -BIO REMEDIATION SCULPTURE: 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

MICHELE BRODY- ECOLOGICAL CITY VISUAL ART/COSUME WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR will engage community participants through our workshop series building costumes and mobile sculptural artworks from organic and living materials. Michele has worked with Earth Celebrations leading our costume workshops series since 2009 for the Hudson River Pageant projects, where she presented the growing of the river grass skirts for the pageant as part of an exhibition at Brookfield Properties/Arts< World Financial Center. She is a visual ecological artist creating public art, ephemeral installations and living sculptures, as well as participatory rituals and community-engaged performances. Her works are 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. michelebrody.com

Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions 2019 Credits

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Zoë Rhinehart
INTERNS: María Berroa Vega, Jemir Toussaint, Priya Subberwal, Lana Polito, Dalila Oliver, Dervla McElvaney, Diamond Leonard, Jesus Patino, Jose Cruz, Jeong Ho Bae

PROCESSION VISUALS

CEREMONIAL RAIN BARREL: Earth School (PS364) students
WAVE – ESCR COMMUNITY VISION STAFFS: David McGreevy with Thomas Harris
BIO-REMEDIATION GAIA SCULPTURE: MOS Collective and East Village Wellness Circle
40-FOOT MOBILE MURAL – LES SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM: Katherine Freygang and Earth Celebrations Volunteers in partnership with Solar One, LUNGS, Sixth Street Community Center, East River Alliance, East River Park Coalition, LES Ecology Center, Friends of Corlears Hook Park, New York City Parks Department

COSTUME PERFORMERS: Stephanie Gate, Glenn Cueto, Kristen DeGroat, Klaudia Naprawa, Michelle Fong, Karen Vellensky, Jenna Witzleben, Marsha Ramdask Silvestri, Mark Skelly, Puella Lunaris, Kathy Flores, Nancy Bommer, Judy Sky, Sonia Pena, Luchy Salcedo, Emily Sause, Barbara Augsburger, Basadi Dibeela, Iva Kaufman, Carol Sterling, Delphine Le Goff, Gabrielle Schueler, Blanca Capone, Brett Edelstein, Dervla McElvaney, Mary Grace Ponzio, Andy Beck, Steven Young, Rosa Velez, Marta La Mantia, Emily Forche. Nancy Zendora, Maria Assis Silva, Hjordis Linn-Blanford, Leah Salmorin, Chana Widowski, Lorenzo Jaldin, Jerrod Ullyses, Kevin Clinton

MARSHALS: Zoë Rhinehart, María Berroa Vega, Jemir Toussaint, Priya Subberwal, Lana Polito, Dalila Oliver, Dervla McElvaney, Diamond Leonard, Thomas Harris, David McGreevy, Wilfredo Guzman, Joseph Reiver, Carol Diamond, David Nieves, Rick Vazquez, Louis Kleinman, Pamela Pettyjohn, Andrea Clinton, Jon Fields, Paolo, Michele Brody, Nancy Bommer, Katherine Freygang, Benjamin Shepard, Kylie Ford, Stephen Zacks, Aida Sulova, Allegra Parks, Catherine Cook, DeeDee Maucher, Dani Sheehan, Melanie Sheehan, Sharone H., Amy Francis

MAKEUP ARTISTS: Michele Diyids, Kian Stave, Lorelei Reiddel, Carol Sterling, Kathy Creutzburg, Judy Chen, Shirley Chau
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Rachel Elkind, Kristin Reimer, Sigal Ben-David, Hana Clemens, Josh Moritz, Carrie Cooper Basch
VIDEOGRAPHERS: Dave Fasano, Kareem Gonsalves, Leonardo Pallenberg, Priya Subberwal
VOLUNTEER GROUPS: One Brick – Vince Fuentes. Bronx Science Key Club – William Wu. Stuyvesant High School – Pamela

SPECIAL THANKS

FOOD DONORS: Trader Joe’s, Two Boots, Super Seed Snacks
SOUND: Paolo Lanna – Jumpin Entertainment, Jon Fields
RICKSHAWS: George Bliss Bikes – P.O.N.Y. Pedicabs of New York

Ecological City 2018 – Procession for Climate Solutions featuring 20 site performances celebrating climate resiliency and ecological sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower east Side of New York City

Saturday, May 12 , 2018

Times- Locations-Featured Performances

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11:00 AM – PARADE START – OPENING CEREMONY
@ Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9^th Street (between Aves C & D), Lower East Side, NYC
The Loisaida Inc. Center – loisaida.org

11:50 AM – 11^th STREET EAST SIDE OUTSIDE GARDEN
@ 11^th Street NE Corner Between 1^st And Ave                                                                                                                Compost Ceremony for the Earth
Credits: Gardeners with special thanks: reclaimedorganics.org and commongroundcompost.com
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
@ 12^th 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
@ 12^TH 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 10^th Street
Community Solar Spectacular with WiFi New York wifiny.org

12:45 PM – 9TH & C GARDEN
@ 9^th 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
@ 9^th & 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
@ 6^th 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)
@ 6^th 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 – 6^TH 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