to join
as models-wear spectacular Earth Celebrations costumes for
"Procession of the Urban Gardens & Estuary"
at the
NEW MUSEUM -IDEAS CITY Festival.
Earth Celebrations has been invited to join along with
Manhattan Rickshaw for IDEAS CITY
Festival at the NEW MUSEUM on Bowery
with an
ecological "Procession of the Urban Gardens and Estuary"
featuring giants puppets and spectacular costumes
highlighting the
importance of the community gardens, river estuary, nature
within the urban environment, and the efforts to restore and
preserve these
oases and habitats as integral part of city life.
SATURDAY MAY 4th
Costume Dressing/Make-up: Meet 9am
Location:
Sara D. Roosevelt Park bet Stanton and Rivington at Manhattan
Rickshaw Booth #136 on Festival Map
Procession/Performance & Festival 11am-5pm
Thanks,
Felicia
Felicia Young
Founder/ Executive Director
Earth Celebrations
More information on
Earth Celebrations:
Earth Celebrations,
is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 dedicated to
fostering ecological awareness through the arts. Earth
Celebrations ecological arts projects and theatrical
pageants, engage people in a community-building and art-making
process, and provide a ceremonial and social action context
for artists to work within, to raise awareness, and effect
change on environmental issues in New York City. For 15 years, Earth Celebrations worked to
preserve the community gardens on the Lower East Side and
throughout New York City, through theatrical pageants and
creative community organizing projects. Our creative
community organizing directly led to the preservation of
hundreds of community gardens, when Mayor Bloomberg
transferred many gardens that would have been destroyed by
development plans, to the New York City Parks Department to
preserve them. With the success of preserving many community
gardens, we decided to take this approach to community
building through art to address other crucial issues such as
climate change and its' effects on the river and shoreline
in New York City. In 2009, Earth Celebrations launched the
first Hudson River Pageant to restore the native species and
habitats of the Hudson River and address climate change, now
produced and enacted by local community participants and
river organizations for the past four years, along the
downtown section of the Hudson River estuary in New York
City.