Deep Time and Future Feasts! Explore Newtown Creek

Choose your own adventure in Newtown Creek… Join us for a guided place-based scavenger hunt featuring audio recordings from Newtown Creek Alliance’s Gus Perry, Newtown Creek whisperer Lisa Bloodgood, artist Liz Ensnz and a special AR installation from Everything Good Studio. We’ll begin at the start of the nature walk and hear meditations of glacial time as we walk down the ship hull’s path to the creek, where you’ll be invited to listen to various voices on the creek, learn past stories and present stewardship from Newtown Creek Alliance, find your own haiku along the word bridge, and find a virtual feast from the future, constructed in augmented reality by Everything Good Studio. Location: meet at the corner of Paidge Avenue & Provost Street in Brooklyn. Here we will walk down the Newtown Creek Nature Walk. If you arrive late, find us en route. Or… Head over to lesser known Penny Bridge for SOIL:Field of Awareness, a collaboration of many of our friends doing deep time work and rituals of care at the origin point of the largest underground oil spill in the nation. Join an immersive performance at this glimmering ecological fragment named Penny Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Become the voice, movement and witness of the soils and waters of the Newtown Creek through Butoh-puppetry, sound vibration, live drumming and music. Slow down to meet the ecological rhythms of soil, tree, water, stone and bone. SOIL:FIELD of Awareness is presented by the New York Butoh Institute, with support from community partners Urban Soils Institute, Noo Arts, North Brooklyn Parks Alliance, Newtown Creek Alliance, Holes in the Wall Collective and grouphug magazine. You must REGISTER FOR SOIL/ Field of Awareness at https://luma.com/soilfield >>> Location: Penny Bridge the end of Meeker and Gardner avenues Or... Join the Mycelium Choral Project for a One-Day Choir to learn an original arrangement of Joni Mitchell’s, “Big Yellow Taxi”. All experience levels, ages, and identities are welcome. May it spark joy, connection, and a deeper connection to the importance of climate justice work. We’ll sing at the Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof & Community Engagement Center, concluding our time singing on the rooftop amidst the beautiful flowers growing there. 🌱 Registration coming soon! check instagram.com/myceliumchoralproject for details. >>> Location: 520 Kingsland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof & Community Engagement Center Then... We'll all gather on the Kingsland Wildflowers rooftops for a closing Celebration of Climate Week! Come join in singing the Big Yellow Taxi with often hundreds of people with the Mycelium Choral Project who've been learning the song, experience the virtual AR Banquet from Everything Good Studio, exploring what used to be, and could be again, eaten from MESPAETCHES/Newtown Creek, dance on the rooftops to the sunset with a DJ set and live Mycelial projections, experience a sensory exhibition by artist Shahira Hammad, working with distributed and often imperceptible living systems within altered ecologies. >>> Location: 520 Kingsland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 *** This is part of Imagined Futures: This Must be the Place scavenger hunt, connecting you deeper to 7 waterways across the city. More info at holesinthewallcollective/imaginedfutures *** Made possible with support from NYC Cultural Affairs and NYC Tourism Foundation.