Earth Celebrations

NEW! Kids Costume Workshop Series for Earth Celebrations’ 2012 Hudson River Pageant

Felicia — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:47:12 +0000

Spread the word! Bring your kids! Bring their friends!

Earth Celebrations’ 4th Annual Hudson River Pageant is coordinating a new workshop series JUST FOR CHILDREN that will take place April 15th, 22nd and 29th from 2-4pm on the historic LILAC steamship on the Hudson River to build costume pieces for the 2012 Hudson River Pageant on Saturday, May 12th 1-5pm (rain date May 13th).

The workshops will be exclusively for kids ages 7-12. We will provide art materials and skilled workshop leaders to make fun and colorful fish hats to be worn in the ecological parade portion of the pageant. Suggested donation of $20. Limit of 15 children per workshop. Email eli@earthcelebrations.com to sign up!

THE HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT – SATURDAY MAY 12

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.

SEE: Mini Documentary on the Hudson River Pageant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROJCUVpuk7g

EARTH CELEBRATIONS is a non-profit environmental arts organization in New York City and since its founding in 1991 created the theatrical pageants and creative advocacy programs for 15 years that led to the preservation of hundreds of community gardens of the Lower East Side and throughout New York City. In 2009, Earth Celebrations launched the Hudson River Pageant Project to raise awareness for the waterfront of downtown Manhattan and highlight the restoration of the Hudson River’s native species and habitats.

SEE: http://www.earthcelebrations.com

LILAC is a 1933 former lighthouse tender that brought supplies to lighthouses and maintained buoys for the U.S. Lighthouse Service and the U.S. Coast Guard. Decommissioned in 1972, she is now owned by the non-profit Lilac Preservation Project. She is the oldest lighthouse tender in America and the only steam-powered tender to survive with her steam engines intact. LILAC is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

See the LILAC Preservation Project for information on the historic steamship where the workshops will take place @ http://lilacpreservationproject.org/directions.html.

Lilac is berthed at Hudson River Park’s Pier 25

at West Street and N. Moore Street

Nearest subway stations are the Franklin Street stop on the 1
or Canal Street on the A/C/E (exit at Walker Street)
N. Moore Street is one block north of Franklin Street
or a block south of Walker Street
Walk west on N. Moore to the pier

HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT- PARTICIPATING PARTNERS
(2009-2012): The Hudson River Park Trust (Sponsor), Friends of Hudson River Park (Sponsor), Church Street School for Music & Art, Brookfield Properties/arts> World Financial Center (Sponsor- which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Bank of America), Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center, (Sponsor) The River Project, , Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, Village Community Boathouse, New York Harbor School, New York Kayak Company, Floating the Apple, Lilac Preservation Project, Solar One, Lower East Side Ecology Center,Salsberg Group, Gaia Institute, ACA Galleries, Difrent, We, theWorld, Henry Street Settlement, Asphalt Green, Boys and Girls Republic, Panda Scouts, Poets House, Mercy Corps Action Center, Clean Air NY, Greenpeace, One Brick, BuildOn, NY Cares, Project Ore, CB1, PS89, PS234, PS397, PS276/Green School, School at Columbia, St. Vincent Ferrer High School, Stuyvesant High School, New York University, New School, Hunter College, Association of Yale Alumni, Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, and Clearwater.

Please call 212-777-7969 with any inquiries or concerns. See you there!

All my best,

Felicia Young, Founder/Executive Director

Eli Walker

Program Coordinator

Earth Celebrations

(212) 777-7969

eli@earthcelebrations.com

http://www.earthcelebrations.com

Get Ready For Hudson River Pageant 2012!

Felicia — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:53:29 +0000

Dear friends of Earth Celebrations:

We are gearing up for Earth Celebrations’ 4th Annual Hudson River Pageant – 2012, an ecological art project and performance art event engaging youth & community to restore the Hudson River’s native species & habitats & address climate change In New York City. We hope that you will join in and participate in our puppet & costume workshops March – May, and culminating theatrical pageant along the downtown Hudson River Park on Saturday May 12, 2012.

We just posted the video clips from the 2010 Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant, so please see them on our web-site. Also it would be great to have you join our community of participants and friends on-line and notify you of our events and join us on Earth Celebrations Facebook page. Please join us.

Join & Participate – Volunteers, Artists, Musicians,
Dancers, Organizations, Youth, Schools, Community

Earth Celebrations
4th Annual Hudson River Pageant – 2012
An ecological art project and performance art event engaging youth & community to restore the Hudson River’s native species & habitats & address climate change In New York City

Create River Species Puppets and Costumes
Volunteers invited to participate in Earth Celebrations’ workshops to create the spectacular puppet and costumes for the parade inspired by the native species and habitats of the Hudson River.

Please join us, support our program and donate
to Earth Celebrations this holiday season!

Puppet & Costume Workshops
In partnership with the Church Street School for Music and Art

March – May

Costume Workshops: WEDNESDAY, 6-9pm
Puppet Workshops: SATURDAY, 12-4pm
Location TBA

Earth Celebrations
Hudson River Pageant
An ecological parade with 13-site specific performances
along downtown Hudson River Park

SATURDAY MAY 12th, 1-5PM
(Rain Date Sunday, May 13th)

The Parade of spectacular costumes, giant puppets, and live musical bands, includes performance, dance, poetry, and music along the piers and significant sites, celebrating the history, current issues, and future restoration of the river. Featuring: Oyster Planting, River Cleansing, Live Fish Release & Boat Dance

Videos

See 2010 Hudson River Pageant Video Clips

PAGEANT SATURDAY, MAY 12

julie — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:07:40 +0000

EARTH CELEBRATIONS: HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT

ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE ART EVENT TO RESTORE THE HUDSON RIVER & ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE.

MORE INFORMATION

FEATURING: PARADE OF GIANT PUPPETS & SPECTACULAR COSTUMES AND 13 SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING: OYSTER PLANTING, DANCE OF RIVER GRASS, LIVE FISH RELEASE, RIVER CLEANSING, BOAT DANCE & HARMONIC CHANT CONCERT

DOWNTOWN SECTION OF THE HUDSON RIVER PARK
NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012, 1-5PM
- THE PAGEANT IS FREE –

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

julie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:48:37 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OFFICIAL PRESS_RELEASE: HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT 2010 (CLICK)

PRESS CONTACT: PAVLA UPPAL: (212) 777-7969

EARTH CELEBRATIONS: HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT

DOWNTOWN SECTION OF THE HUDSON RIVER PARK- NEW YORK CITYÂ Â 1-6PM

TO RESTORE THE HUDSON RIVER & ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE

SHORT DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

julie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:17:30 +0000

The short documentary “Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant” by Fredrik Lassenius & Karen Brücker, has been selected for the official programme of theBig Apple Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas : Nov. 3-7, 2009.

The “Hudson River Pageant” film is scheduled on opening night Nov. 3- (advance tickets sold on-line)
(program 3, Theater 1) at 8.45.

Here is the link to the programme: http://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com/program_guide.html.

Big Apple Film Festival was named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s “25 Coolest
Film Festivals” in July 2009.

Let us know if you can join us this evening for the film screening