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Earth Celebrations is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 on the Lower East Side of New York City to engage community to generate ecological and social change through the arts. For 35 years Earth Celebrations has applied the the arts to build community, collaboration and action on climate change, river/waterfront restoration, and the preservation of community gardens, parks and a healthy urban environment.
Earth Celebrations programs engage community participation through collaborative art processes to build broad-based coalitions and cross-sector partnerships with local organizations, academic institutions, government agencies, schools, and community residents to address issues, mobilize action, develop solutions and effect ecological, policy and social change.
Our environmental arts programs include the 15-year Save Our Gardens project (1991-2005), which utilized the transformative power of the arts, creating a theatrical Procession to Save Our Gardens to mobilize a coalition effort that led to the preservation of hundreds of community gardens in New York City. The Hudson River Pageant (2009-2012) applied this creative model to engage community in restoration efforts of the Hudson River estuary and waterfront. Our current Ecological City: Cultural & Climate Solutions Action Project launched in 2018 and now in its 3rd year for 2020, engages the LES community, through the cultural strategies of arts and collaborative action on climate solution and sustainability initiatives to mitigate climate and environmental impacts flooding, carbon pollution, run-off, waste and sea-level rise throughout the gardens, neighborhood and waterfront on the LES.
Earth Celebrations has served the neighborhood of the Lower East Side of New York City for the past 35 years.
Opportunities to engage with Earth Celebrations: Internship and Art & CLimate Solutions Workshops and Events – see earthcelebrations.com
Earth Celebrations offers: Free events | Programs in multiple languages