Ecological City Workshops 2022 · Earth Celebrations

Earth Celebrations’ ECOLOGICAL CITY: Art & Climate Solutions Project

Art & Climate Solutions Workshops
March-May 2022, Lower East Side, New York City

ECOLOGICAL CITY – Art & Climate Solutions Action project applies the arts to engage the community to learn, explore and take action on climate solution initiatives to mitigate climate change impacts of flooding, carbon pollution and the consequences of sea-level rise throughout the network of community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City. 9 months of partnership building, site/issue research and creative collaboration engage community participants to collaborate with Earth Celebrations’ artists-in-residence to create visual art, giant puppets, costumes and performances exploring local sites and their climate issues and solutions. The months to creative engagement workshops March-May culminate in the Ecological City: Art & Climate Solutions Pageant on Saturday May 14, 2022 featuring a spectacular procession of visual art and 21 sustainability site performances celebrating the inspiring urban ecosystem of grassroots climate solution initiatives and their importance to city and global climate challenges.

Artists-in-Residence:
Lucrecia Novoa – Puppet Workshops
Soule Golden – Textile/Costume Workshops
Kathy Creutzburg – Bio-Arts Workshops
Katherine Freygang – Collaborative Painting Workshops – Memory Mural-East River Park

Earth Celebrations is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 on the Lower East Side of New York City by local action artist Felicia Young on the Lower East Side of New York City, to apply the arts to build community, collaboration and action on environmental issues and solutions. For the past 30 years, Earth Celebrations’ pioneering cultural strategies have engaged the community and mobilized action on climate change, coastal resiliency, river-waterfront restoration, water quality, species and habitat conservation, waste management and the preservation of community gardens, parks, and a healthy urban environment. Through collaborative arts projects Earth Celebrations cultivates diverse sector engagement bringing together environmental organizations, academic and cultural institutions, municipalities, government agencies, schools, community centers, artists and local residents to work together, mobilize action, develop solutions and achieve common goals.

More information – https://www.earthcelebrations.com