Alaina Wilson is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist based in New York City. She holds a BA in Classics and Art History from Vassar College, and an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. With a background in ballet, modern, and contemporary dance, Alaina seeks to combine movement with objects and elements of design to generate encompassing sensory environments, often working in site-specific settings. Her work has been presented at venues across New York City and the Hudson Valley including the Actors Fund Arts Center, Chez Bushwick, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and more. In addition to her ongoing artistic practice, Alaina is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

CLIMATE SOLUTION: RECYCLING

CLIMATE SOLUTION: CARBON SEQUESTRATION

“Sustainable” Poem by STEVE DALCHINSKY — Read by MINDY LEVOCOVE In loving memory of STEVE DALACHINSKY (1946-2019)
CLIMATE SOLUTION: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Steve Dalachinsky was a Poet & Collagist. He wrote poetry, haiku, music criticism, CD liner notes, travelogues & had a long running column: Outtakes in The Brooklyn Rail. His publications include The Final Nite: A Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006 (Ugly Duckling Presse); Superintendent’s Eyes (Autonomedia); Reaching Into The Unknown (RogueArt); Flying Home (Paris-Lit-Up); Fool’s Gold (Feral Press); Black Magic (New Feral Press); Where Night and Day become One (great weather for MEDIA) & others along w/ many collaboration CDs w/ musicians such as Matthew Shipp, Joëlle Léandres & The Snobs. He received the PEN Oakland National Book Award; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres; Acker Award; Kafka Award & Benjamin Franklin Award.
Mindy Levokove is an old friend of Steve and Yuko’s and honored to be reading Steve’s poem today. A multi-media performance poet, this year, Mindy has been awarded a Creative Engagement Grant in music from LMCC, for EXPANDING TABLE – A POP – (APART) – OPERA!  A member of writing groups Brevitas and HERStories, Mindy also teaches qigong, Tai Chi, Writing and Math. For more than 20 years, Mindy’s been a member of the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden, where she often curates Poetry and Prose.

Belu Olisa is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in folk music and training in opera and electronic music. Her music represents her desire to raise the vibration of the planet, emphasizing the relationship and mirror between the natural world and humans. Her debut single, Conversation with the Sun tells the tale of the divine aspect in everything existing.

Eve Orenstein is a versatile mezzo soprano and inventive opera producer. She is a member of the National Chorale, the resident professional choir of New York’s Lincoln Center. Eve founded the Colorado chapter of Opera on Tap and directed the group for 10 years. She was profiled in Westword as one of the 100 Colorado Creatives. Eve and her husband Sean mix classical voice and synthesizers in the space opera duo Orbiting Olympia. Instagram: @evelovelee. 
Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, RSMT is a co-founder of Global Water Dances, which uses body consciousness to enhance our capacity to protect water and the planet. This organization sponsors a biennial worldwide environmental dance event that brings together over 180 sites on 6 continents. Martha also created Moving For Life Dance-Exercise for Health, first in NYC, which offers free movement and wellness classes in libraries, centers and hospitals in all five boroughs and throughout the world. Currently online, MFL seminars and classes attract older adults, and people of all ages in treatment or recovery from cancer. It is open to others dealing with chronic pain or illnesses. Martha leads movement choirs for conferences and brings Global Water Dances to environmental justice actions that focus on local or global issues. She is the author of Mindful Movement and Dynamic Embodiment of the Sun Salutation.

8th St btw. Aves B & C
“A Song for Bioswale”  – HEAD PEDDLERS (ELIZABETH RUF and KARL BATEMAN)
CLIMATE SOLUTION: BIOSWALE
Elizabeth Ruf Maldonado is a director, actor, writer, educator, and maker of socially engaged performances across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. With Karl Bateman she is a co-founder of the rock band The Head Peddlers. Their first album, BIG MOHAIR SWEATER, will be released in a few weeks. Elizabeth’s theater work has most recently been seen at Theater for the New City (TNC), at the Lee Strasberg Institute, and in NYC Community Gardens. She will direct and act in ROOM WITH STARS, a new play by Nina Howes that will open at TNC in June. She acted as music director and choreographer of “Live Free or Die” from Michael Shenker’s masterwork, A SQUATTER’S OPERA, performed at TNC. She is a professor at Boricua College and holds a Ph.D. in Theater from Columbia University. Her dissertation centers on the theater of Cuba, where she lived for a year. A member of the former ABC Garden and Co-Founder of De Colores Community Yard on East 8th Street, she has been collaborating with Earth Celebrations as the Community Spirit, Iris the Rainbow, and other roles since the early 1990s and is the mother of one of the Butterfly Children. She is a musician/songwriter Karl Bateman formed the rock band, the Head Peddlers, named for Queequeg in Moby Dick. Their first LP and EP came out last summer and can be heard at TheHeadPeddlers.BandCamp.com and most online streaming services.

Ave C btw. 8th & 7th St.
“Garden Ceremony” – CAROLYN RATCLIFFE, Gardener
CLIMATE SOLUTION: PERMEABLE PATHS
Carmen Pabon Del Amencer garden was named after Carmen Pabon who was known as the Little Mother Theresa of the Lower East Side for feeding the homeless. Her daughter Ines Pabon is President of the garden and Carolyn Ratcliffe is the treasurer. 

8th Street btw. Aves C & D
“The floral super highway, electrical spire of the Bee queendom. The date Palm dance” – BETTY T. KAO, 8TH OCEAN BODY
CLIMATE SOLUTION: POLLINATOR/RAIN GARDEN
Betty T. Kao is an artist and writer, with a background in environmental sciences, integrating these mediums as tools for storytelling. 8th Ocean Body is her collaboration, exploring the integration of science, heritage, mysticism, anthropomorphic objects, and social change. Kao’s work reflects the collective subconscious and the mythos we create. Her art installations and performances have been featured in spaces including La Mama, Catharsis DC, BAX, Bowery Poetry Club, World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science, and The Museum of Art and Design. She has a BA in environmental studies and visual arts. Kao is an alumni of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics.Instagram @Be8th_Ocean

4th St btw. Aves C & D
“Lifeword at El Jardin del Paraiso” –  NICOLE PEYRAFITTE
“Song for Earth Healing” – STEPHAN SAID
CLIMATE SOLUTION: HEALING & WELLNESS
A performance action celebrating the spirit of the moment at Jardin del Paraiso. Guided by the landscape, weather, attendance and her intuition Peyrafitte investigates this point in time as a phenomenon— from Greek phainomenon “that which appears or is seen.” Her sense of body movement & body position are the meeting points between painting, poetry, voice & improvised music. Nicole Peyrafitte is a pluridisciplinary artist. Recent exhibitions: Antediluvian Sympoiesis —Sapar Contemporary Gallery (2022), NYC; Karstic Actions/ Works with Pierre Joris —Gallery Simoncini, Luxembourg (2021);  The 11 Women of Spirit — Salon Zürcher, NYC (2020).
Stephan Said is an internationally acclaimed musician, writer and activist, and the host/cofounder of borderless, a global movement, docuseries and platform promoting a pop-culture revolution for a better world. His songs have helped build movements for social justice across the world prompting Billboard Magazine Said to call him “this generation’s Woody Guthrie.” He is currently on a global tour for unity to the heart of a world in crisis, singing songs, bridging divides and lifting voices at the frontlines of climate change, war, inequality, racism, natural disasters and the refugee crisis. He has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, NPR and RFI, Deutsche Welle, TIME, NBC, and more.

4th St btw. Aves C & D
“Griot Spoken-Word Historian” Poem – PAPOLETO MELÉNDEZ
CLIMATE SOLUTION: TREES- AIR FILTRATION
Jesús Papoleto Melendez is an award-winning Puerto-Rican poet and playwright born and raised in NYC. He is one of the original founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement, a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are of Puerto Rican descent and who were brought up in New York City during the late 40’s and 50’s, as a means to validate the Puerto Rican identity and experience in the United States. He is also a teacher and an activist.

Lee Taylor is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter. She has a monthly residency at the Django in Tribeca, Freddy’s Bar in Brooklyn, and Jack Jones Gastropub in Astoria. She also performs regularly at Bar Bayeux and Barbes in Brooklyn. Her debut album, “Wild Woman”, is available on all platforms.
Mindy Levocove is multi-media performance poet, this year, Mindy has been awarded a Creative Engagement Grant in music from LMCC, for EXPANDING TABLE – A POP – (APART) – OPERA!  A member of writing groups Brevitas and HERStories, Mindy also teaches qigong, Tai Chi, Writing and Math. For more than 20 years, Mindy’s been a member of the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden, where she often curates Poetry and Prose.

6th Street btw. Aves B & C SE cor.
“Green Roof Ceremony”- AMY FALDER, New York Green Roofs LLC (Founding Partner)
KALUNGA NEG MAWON BAND (2:40-5pm)
CLIMATE SOLUTION: GREEN ROOF
Earth School was founded in 1992 by teachers in Manhattan’s East Village on a dream: to create a peaceful, nurturing place to stimulate learning in all realms of child development, intellectual, social, emotional and physical. Visit the Earth School today and see how that dream has flourished. Today it is a thriving community of over 300 children in pre-kindergarten through grade 5 with a teaching staff dedicated to the founding values of hands-on exploration, an arts-rich curriculum, responsible stewardship of the Earth’s resources, harmonious resolution of conflict, and parent-teacher partnership.
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.

Jenny Amanda Hurwitz writes, sings and strums her “subversive pop” songs – some of which can be heard and viewed on her YouTube Channel and that of The People’s Music Network. Her songs are tuneful – many with lyrics reflecting progressive causes or issues, coupled with unexpected chord changes. She sometimes performs with Talbot “Top” Katz and their daughter SamiRose Katz.

Sixth Street Community Center (SSCC), founded in 1978, is a community-based not-for-profit organization based in the heart of the Lower East Side. Having formed out of the historical sweat equity and homesteading movement, SSCC empowers the local community through grassroots organizing and power building. SSCC is committed to advancing social, environmental, housing, economic and racial justice– offering a number of community-based programs: a youth program, teen climate justice program, community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, emergency food distribution program, and a mutual aid kitchen project. Our students enrolled in the Sixth Street Youth Program will perform a play centering topics such as ocean pollution, corporations and their role in climate change, community building, and how to be caring stewards of our planet. We will be doing song and dance, dressed as different creatures of the neighborhood, and The Climate Solutions in our performance are going to be aligned with social and environmental social justice as it relates to gentrification and food insecurity in our neighborhood.

“Rose from Concrete” is a multidisciplinary performance that combines the raw energy of HIP-HOP dance with the poignant artistry of spoken word poetry to illuminate the resilience of NYCHA residents living in a climate crisis-impacted community. Through evocative movements and words, the performance explores how adversity and public health crises, such as asthma, shape the lives of individuals within marginalized communities. Despite facing environmental injustices, the residents learn to persevere, grow, and fight for climate justice. “Rose from Concrete” is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of community solidarity in the face of adversity.
Infinite Movement is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of underserved families by utilizing arts and wellness initiatives. Our mission is to foster community resilience, facilitate healing through trauma-informed practices, and ignite empowerment and activism.
GOLES(Good Old Lower East Side) is a grassroots neighborhood-based organization dedicated to keeping people in their homes and community through direct services, public education, and community organizing.

Laura Victoria Ward, BA, CMA, RSME, is an award-winning choreographer, Laban Movement Analyst, teacher, and artist. She is the artistic director of Octavia Cup Dance Theatre (founded in 1998) and the Glam Rock Cabaret (2018). She is also a member of the punk rock band the Dick Pinchers.
East River Park Coalition is a dynamic group of local artists, organizations and community members who realize the immense value of East River Park to New York City. Together, East River Park Coalition is working to raise awareness of the park as a vital link to the East River waterfront and a free multi-use public space for the densely populated Lower East Side. Working in and beyond the park, we are reaching out to local youth, the creative community and citizens groups to design enlightening activities and share knowledge about this park’s unique history and potential.

“Arbor (excerpt)”– JODY SPERLING/TIME LAPSE DANCE
Steward of the River: Green Map – Wendy Brawer & Lower East Side Ecology Center
Choreography: Jody Sperling, in collaboration with the performers; Music: Matthew Burtner; Dancers: Frances Barker, Anika Hunter, Nicole Lemelin, Maki Kitahara, Sarah Tracy
CLIMATE SOLUTION: EAST RIVER PARK HOMAGE
Jody Sperling (Choreographer), Founder/Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance, has created 50+ works. The leading exponent of performance technologist Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), she has expanded the genre into contemporary environmental forms. Sperling earned a World Choreography Award nomination for the feature film “The Dancer” and her work is featured in the Fuller documentary “Obsessed with Light.” In 2014, Sperling participated in a polar science mission and danced on Arctic sea ice. Following, her work has focused on creatively engaging with climate change and developing ecokinetics, a practice that cultivates the relationship between human movers and ecological systems. Since 2022 Sperling and company are Eco-Artists-in-Residence at the New York Society of Ethical Culture where they are advancing their mission of dancing toward a more embodied, sustainable, and equitable future.–
Green Map System is based in Manhattan on the Lower East Side. Alongside the global program, we also have a local Green Map project for our hometown. In fact, the original NYC Green Map created by Wendy Brawer and friends inspired the development of our global nonprofit. Whether we are mapping all of New York City, or creating thematic maps of our own culturally-rich, socially active neighborhood, NYC has been our testing ground for new types of Green Maps, workshops, tours and media projects for the past 25 years! In addition to helping New Yorkers become more sustainable, each of these projects was a learning experience that was shared through the engagement tools and mapping resources that have been adapted by locally-led Green Map projects in 65 countries.
Lower East Side Ecology Center has pioneered community-based models in urban sustainability since 1987. We provide unique e-waste and composting services, environmental stewardship opportunities, and educational programming to all New Yorkers who want to learn about environmental issues and take responsibility for creating solutions through action.

Solar One is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to design and deliver innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments. We empower learning that changes the way people think about energy, sustainability, and resilience by engaging and educating a diverse set of stakeholders and beneficiaries. Our programs help individuals and communities explore new ways of living and working that are more adaptive to a changing world.

Visual Artist Bios 2024

ECOLOGICAL CITY:Art & Climate Solutions Action Project is a collaborative art & environmental action project directed by Felicia Young, Founder/Director of Earth Celebrations, in collaboration with over 50 community partners, gardeners, artists, residents and youth.

EARTH CELEBRATIONS is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 on the Lower East Side of New York City to mobilize environmental action through the arts. Earth Celebrations has pioneered effective cultural strategies to build community, collaboration and action for ecological, policy and social change. https://www.earthcelebrations.com

FELICIA YOUNG, DIRECTOR
Felicia Young founded Earth Celebrations, as a non-profit organization on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1991 to engage communities to generate ecological and social change through the arts. She has developed cultural strategies to build community, collaboration and action on environmental issues: climate change, garden preservation, river restoration, water quality, and the preservation of parks, gardens and a healthy urban environment. Projects include: Save Our Gardens (1991-2005) which built a local  Lower East Side 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 the community in the restoration efforts of the Hudson River estuary and revitalization of the waterfront in downtown Manhattan. The Vaigai River Restoration Project (2014-2016) applied this model to build an international 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. Ecological City – Cultural & Climate Solutions Action Project was launched as an ongoing program from 2018 – Present. Felicia 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

LUCRECIA NOVOA, PUPPET DESIGN & WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR
Lucrecia Novoa is a visual artist and Cultural Educator. Founder and Director of Mascara Viva. She uses a combination of masks, costumes, storytelling and dance to interpret the folk traditions of many cultures. She is interested in bringing mythical and legendary beings to life. She studied sculpture and textiles at the University of Chile (1981- 1988) and sculpture and ceramics at Massachusetts College of Art (1990-1991). She later completed an apprenticeship in puppets and masks at Behind the Mask Studio in Cambridge, MA (1997-2000). She visits schools and senior centers, performing her giant puppets at the Bronx Botanical Garden, exhibiting in galleries, participating in collaborative projects and taking commissions. She is a Board Advisor for Expressiones Cultural Center Inc, New London, CT and participated as a Curator and Juror at XVIII Bienal Sculpture and Ceramic (2019). She has been the puppet director for Ecological City since 2004, using visual arts to educate around environmental problems and the need to collaborate as a community to take action for ecological and social change.

YOHANNA M. ROA, ECOLOGICAL CITY TEXTILE-COSTUME ARTIST/WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR
Yohanna M. Roa is a visual and textile artist, art historian and feminist curator. Her artistic “activist fabrics,” apply textile practices that function as devices of feminist political action. She was born in Bogota, Colombia, lived in Mexico City and is now based in New York City, studying at the Women/Gender program, CUNY Graduate Center. She has a Ph.D. in History/Critical Theories of Art at the Universidad Ibero Americana de México, Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts of Colombia. She has received the Young Creators Award from the Ministry of Culture, Colombia. She has developed exhibitions and educational art and archive projects for various institutions, including WhiteBox NY, Tertulia Museum of Modern Art in Colombia, Alameda Art Laboratory Mexico City, Banco de la República Colombia, and Autonomous University of Nuevo León México. In 2019 she had an artist residency at the NARS Foundation NYC. She has a large number of solo and group exhibitions such as Manifest Gallery Cincinnati OH, Artlatinou- Mexico City, McNay Museum in San Antonio Texas USA, Chihuahua Station Gallery among others.

KATHERINE FREYGANG, MOBILE MURAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Katherine Freygang celebrates ecological relationships with art, events, and environmental design. Formerly an educator/designer for Yale Peabody Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, New School and City College, she now focuses on Sustainability with Reed College, Hathaway Brown School and RISD. She is currently developing projects to promote sustainability and resilience with Sustainable CT, CT Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection, Cornwall’s Conservation Commission and Trust, the Southern New England UCC Environmental Ministry Team, and Earth Celebrations.

KATHY CREUTZBURG, BIOARTS WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR & BIO REMEDIATION SCULPTURE
Kathy Creutzburg is a public artist whose sculptures, mosaics, and paintings are inspired by the contemporary landscape and ongoing climate crisis. Between 2018- 2023, the collaborative team including Natalia Lesniak, Mirabai Kwan Yin and Ms. Creutzburg won numerous grants and residencies, including LMCC Creative Engagement awards, for their sculptural installations which highlights today’s most challenging environmental issues by presenting them through playful exchange. “Metacene Unleashed”, “Whispers in the Grove”, and “Ballad of Cyclic Change” are currently on display at 6BC Botanical Garden, Landon Arboretum and Rye Art Center. In 2024, the dance and movement organization Abanar named her as production designer for their current cinematic project, “Rivers of Ink”. Her involvement with Earth Celebrations spans decades.

MICHELE BRODY, ECOLOGICAL CITY VISUAL ART & COSTUMES
Michele Brody has worked with Earth Celebrations on costumes and  workshops 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.

Production Credits 2024

ELENA SOFIA COPELL – PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Elena (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer from NYC. She is devoted to the practice of communal medicine by using tools of language, collective creation, and community organizing to reanimate the senses from cultural hypnosis and embody the possibilities of a postcolonial present + future. How do we untangle and reweave the knots in our collective psyche? How do we build a creative commons rooted in anti-hierarchy, accessibility, animism, and cultural revolution? She is currently constructing azulena.world, a digital resource, care web, &  play space for intergenerational radical imagination & worldbuilding.

WORKSHOP LEADERS
Pedro Alomar, Jon Fields, Rosa Velez

EARTH CELEBRATIONS INTERN TEAM
Yutong Wei, Carine Norvez, Caakyrire Baffour, Michael Miller, Stephanie Li, Ryan Joseph, Jasmine Cheng, Cameron Martin, Chun Liu, Grace Exatti, Qianhan Xu, Eliza Patlan, Marcelle Guibert, Audrey Kim, Elizabeth Leach, Muhan Mui

EARTH CELEBRATIONS COSTUMES
Yohanna Roa, Soule Golden, Michele Brody with Rosa & Pedro and Earth Celebrations’ volunteers, Irina Kruzilina, Nikki Traino 

EARTH CELEBRATIONS PUPPETS
Lucrecia Novoa

BIO-ARTS & REMEDIATION GAIA SCULPTURE
Kathy Creutzburg

MOBILE MURAL is a collaborative community painting project led by artist-in-residence Katherine Freygang in collaboration with partners Lower East Side Ecology Center, Lungs-Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens, and Henry Street Settlement with Jacob Riis Cornerstone and Boys & Girls Republic. The murals are displayed on garden fences including La Plaza Cultural Garden (9th St. Ave C – SW cor.). Project assistants: Eliza Patlan, Chun Liu, Grace Exatti

SOUND
Jumping Entertainment (Paolo Lanna & Jon Fields)

PHOTOGRAPHERS
Rachel Elkind, Robin Michals

VIDEOGRAPHERS
Dave Fasano

IN-KIND DONORS
Revolution Rickshaws, Trader Joe’s, Two Boots Pizza, Materials for the Arts – NYC Department of Cultural Affairs & NYC Department of Sanitation

PARTNERS
Earth Celebrations in partnership with – Lungs (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens), Elizabeth Street Garden, Green Map, Loisaida Inc. Center, Lower East Side Ecology Center,Solar One, Waterfront Alliance, East River Park Coalition, East River Alliance, Goles, University Settlement, The Children’s Workshop School, Henry Street Settlement, Boys and Girls Republic, Jacob Riis Cornerstone, Chinese American Arts Council- Gallery 456, East Village Community School, The Earth School, East Side Community School, Sixth Street Community Center, White Box, Arts Loisaida, Clemente Center, Lower East Side Girls Club, East Village Community Coalition, Educational Alliance, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, Gaia Institute, Moving for Life/Studio 55C, Global Water Dances, Infinite Movement, Grace Exhibition Space, Artistic Noise, FABnyc, New York Cares, BTHS, Hunter College, BMCC (CUNY), and New York University.

SPONSORS
This program is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Howard Bayne Fund, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Con Edison, W Trust, Joseph Robert Foundation, Bluestein Family Foundation, Timon Malloy, Puffin Foundation, private foundations, and individuals.

Art Building Community, Collaboration & Climate Action

Join us in creating what is possible for a sustainable future!

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.

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Engaging Communities to Generate Ecological and Social Change through the Arts

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