EARTH CELEBRATIONS HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT 2012
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1:00pm – PARADE STARTS – HONORING OF THE LENAPE INDIANS & STEWARDS OF THE RIVER
@ Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City at Vesey Street
15-foot giant river species puppets and spectacular costumed gardens spirits kick off parade.
1:30pm – HUDSON RIVER POEM & MOVEMENT OF THE ESTUARY
@ Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City at Murray Street
2pm – HISTORIC STEAMSHIP RIVER SONGS
@ Pier 25 between Franklin and N. Moore Street – Lilac Steamship
2:15pm – DANCE OF THE RIVER GRASS
@Hudson River Park between Laight and Vestry Street
2:30pm – TRIBUTARY RIVER DANCE
@Pier 32 Pile Field-Watts St. in Hudson River Park
2:45pm – WATER DANCE
@Canal St. in Hudson River Park
3:00pm – PADDLE BOARD DANCE
@South Side Pier 40, below Houston Street in the Hudson River Park
3:15pm – HENRY HUDSON’S SOLAR STEAMBOAT
@Queen of Hearts Boat at Leroy Street in the Hudson River Park- just below Christopher St.
3:30pm – OYSTER PLANTING CEREMONY & DANCE
@Christopher Street Pier in the Hudson River Park
3:45pm -TAMING OF THE TRASH TRICKSTERS AND RIVER CLEANSING
@Bow Notch semi-circle bridge at 10th Street in the Hudson River Park
4:00pm – LIVE FISH RELEASE!
@Charles Street Pier in the Hudson River Park
4:15pm – RIVER RAP
@Semi-circle bridge/ grass amphitheater at Bank Street in the Hudson River Park
4:30pm – BOAT DANCE AND HARMONIC CHANT CONCERT
@Horatio St. (between Water Playground at Jane St. and Gansevoort St. Pier) in the Hudson River Park
TO PARTICIPATE, VOLUNTEER, SUPPORT OUR EFFORT
The Hudson River Park Trust (Sponsor), Friends of Hudson River Park (Sponsor), Church Street School for Music & Art, Brookfield Properties/arts> World Financial Center (Sponsor- which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Bank of America), Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center, (Sponsor) The River Project, , Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, Village Community Boathouse, New York Harbor School, New York Kayak Company, Floating the Apple, Lilac Preservation Project, Solar One, Lower East Side Ecology Center,Salsberg Group, Gaia Institute, ACA Galleries, Difrent, We, theWorld, Henry Street Settlement, Asphalt Green, Boys and Girls Republic, Panda Scouts, Poets House, Mercy Corps Action Center, Clean Air NY, Greenpeace, One Brick, BuildOn, NY Cares, Project Ore, CB1, PS41, PS89, PS234, PS397, PS276/Green School, School at Columbia, St. Vincent Ferrer High School, Stuyvesant High School, New York University, New School, Hunter College, Association of Yale Alumni, Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, and Clearwater.
Hudson River Pageant Participating Partners 2012
SPONSORS (2009-2012):
Hudson River Foundation, arts>World Financial Center (which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Bank of America), The Fund For Creative Communities supported by New York State Council on the Arts and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Friends of Hudson River Park, Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center, Howard Bayne Fund, Fund for the City of New York, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Con Edison, Eileen Fisher, Colgate-Palmolive, and individual support.