An urban ecological pilgrimage featuring a spectacular procession with 21 sustainability site performances celebrating climate solution initiatives throughout the community gardens, neighborhood, and waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
GARDENS TO WATERFRONT – Lower East Side NYC
visual art – costumes – giant puppets – performance – music – dance – poetry
BECOME A CLIMATE SOLUTION
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 of dance music, theater and poetry, exploring climate solution initiatives throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Earth Celebrations applies the arts to build community, collaboration and action for ecological and social change
Earth Celebrations was founded in 1991 on the Lower East Side of New York City, to apply the arts to mobilize action on environmental issues impacting the neighborhood. The organization grew out of its Save Our Gardens project, that applied innovative cultural strategies to build a coalition effort to preserve the magnificent network of community gardens, threatened with destruction by proposed development plans. For 30 years we have applied the arts to build community, collaboration and action on climate change, water quality, river restoration, waste management, and the preservation of species, habitats, nature, gardens, parks, and a healthy urban environment. Our innovative cultural and environmental action projects provide a vital creative and collaborative platform for residents, artists, and organizations to address and amplify issues, and develop solutions to environmental and climate challenges. Earth Celebrations builds broad-based coalitions and diverse sector partnerships with local organizations, academic institutions, government agencies, schools and community residents, to work together to achieve common goals and ecological, policy and social change.
Creative Placemaking | Climate Art | Environmental Action | Community Engagement | Climate Solutions | Artistic Activism | Cultural Organizing | Collaborative Arts | Environmental Justice | Ecological Art | Sustainability | Climate Action