[ActionGreens] VOLUNTEERS NEEDED -Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant-restore river species & address climate change
Felicia Young
THE HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT is a community based ecological art and performance project to restore the native species and habitats of the Hudson River and address climate change. The project engages the participation of artists, youth, local residents, schools, community centers, and organizations to participate in the project and our three month educational environmental art workshop series from March –May. Participants work with our resident artists to create the spectacular puppets and costumes for the parade. The culminating parade and theatrical pageant follows a route from Battery Park North to Gansevoort Street, in the downtown portion of the Hudson River Park, on Saturday May 12, 2012 (rain date Sunday May 13), from 1-5pm. The parade of spectacular costumes, giant puppets, mobile sculptures, and live musical bands, features 13 site-specific performances at the piers and significant sites along the route. Featured presentations of performance, poems, songs, and dance, celebrate the history, current issues, and future restoration of the river including: Dance of the River Grass, Oyster Planting, Live Fish Release, and Boat Dance.
PAST SPONSORS: Hudson River Foundation, Friends of Hudson River Park, Manhattan Youth, arts>World Financial Center (which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Bank of America), The Fund For Creative Communities supported by New York State Council on the Arts and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Fund for the City of New York, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Con Edison, Eileen Fisher, Colgate-Palmolive, and individual support.
