EARTH CELEBRATIONS PROGRAMS | FALL 2023 – SPRING 2024
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 sustainability 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)
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BIO ARTS WORKSHOP
Wednesdays in March, 6 – 9pm (TBC)
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.
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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.
PAST PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
ECOLOGICAL CITY PROCESSION FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
SATURDAY, MAY, 2018-2023
A spectacular procession with 20 site-specific performances celebrating climate resiliency and ecological sustainability initiatives through the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront in the Lower East Side.
PAINT 40-FOOT MOBILE MURAL ESCR COMMUNITY VISION – LES SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM
April, 6th, 14th, 20th, and 27th
Help paint the 40-foot mural celebrating the community’s vision for its sustainable future and a new East River Park waterfront plan.
ECOLOGICAL CITY – CLIMATE ACTION ART BUILD WORKSHOPS
MARCH – MAY 2019
@ Two Bridges Neighborhood Council (Community Room) – 82 Rutgers Slip (Btwn FDR & Cherry St.)
– Wednesdays 6-9 PM (Costume Workshops with Ecological artist Yelaine Rodriguez)
– Saturdays 12-4 PM (Puppet Workshops with Puppet/Mask artist Lucrecia Novoa)
ECOLOGICAL CITY PROCESSION FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018
A spectacular procession with 20 site-specific performances celebrating climate resiliency and ecological sustainability initiatives through the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront in the Lower East Side.
GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION
#CLIMATESTRIKE with EARTH CELEBRATIONS
Earth Celebrations for Climate Strike @ Foley Square (111 Worth St.). Across from court house near statues with our giant puppets:
1 pm march to Battery Park for Rally at 3pm with speakers including Greta Thunberg.
CREATIVE ADVOCACY
SAVE EAST RIVER PARK MARCH
Saturday September 21st
#SaveEastRiverPark March & Rally affirming community vision for #EastRiverPark #ESCR (East Side Coastal Resiliency)#wate
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT – PUBLIC PLANNING
CREATIVE TESTIMONY
October 3, 2019 – City Hall
PAST PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 2017
WOMEN’S MARCH | WASHINGTON, DC
Saturday, January 22
Earth Celebrations in collaboration with We Make America, artists, and volunteers.
SAVE THE EPA | NYC CITY HALL
Sunday, February 14
MARCH FOR SCIENCE | NYC
Saturday, April 22
PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH | WASHINGTON, D.C.
Saturday, April 29
TRUMP PULLING OUT OF PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT PROTEST | NYC CITY HALL
June
GREEN FESTIVAL EXPO | JACOB JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, NYC
Saturday, June 10
PAST PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 2016
ART, ECOLOGY & COMMUNITY – COURSE & PAGEANT
Founder/Director of Earth Celebrations Felicia Young develops course for Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts.
Project Partners:
Princeton Atelier at Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
Princeton Environmental Institute
Arts Council of Princeton
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
Climate Change Resiliency – Preserving Our Neighborhoods & Beyond RALLY TO SAVE ELIZABETH STREET GARDEN
PAST PROGRAMS 2014-2015
VAIGAI RIVER RESTORATION PAGEANT – Earth Celebrations launches its innovative strategies applying community-based arts to effecting ecological change, now in India. The Vaigai River Restoration Pageant Project is an international collaboration and social action art project to raise awareness and restore the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, South India, that is in a severe crisis due to pollution, waste dumping, and the drying effects of climate change.
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STAND BY ME – Changing the Dialogue with Acts of Conscience
In Honor of Pete Seeger
Thursday April 17th 6:30-9:30pm @ Quaker Meeting House
15 Rutherford Place (15th St. bet. bet. 2nd and 3rd Ave)
Panelists: Felicia Young, Executive Director of Earth Celebrations
Amy Gottlieb, Director of AFSC Immigrant Rights program
Walter Naegel, surviving partner of Bayard Rustin
Visual Artists: Rossa Cole and Cannon Hersey
PAST PROGRAMS 2013
Earth celebrations’ Exchange of Ideas Procession: new Museum Ideas City Festival
Earth Celebrations’ at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Direct Action Fashion Show
PAST PROGRAMS 2009-2012
Hudson River Restoration Pageant (2009-2012) engaged residents, youth, students, schools and local river, environmental, cultural and community organizations in a creative collaboration and culminating performance action to connect community with restoration and revitalization efforts of the Hudson River Estuary and waterfront in Lower Manhattan. LEARN MORE – HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT
PAST PROGRAMS 1991-2005
SAVE OUR GARDENS – Procession and Preservation Project
Save our Gardens Social Action Art & Preservation Project (1991-2005) engaged broad-based participation of community gardeners, artists, residents, youth, community, cultural and environmental organizations, schools, churches, colleges, city officials, activists, celebrities, academics, attorneys, and inspired individuals, mobilizing a grass-roots coalition and effort which led to the preservation of hundreds of community gardens on the Lower East Side and throughout New York City.