NOoSPHERE Arts will current WE ARE NATURE 2022: Patterns of Connection | Earth Ethics on September 24, 2022 at 5:30pm on the NOoSPHERE Arts Stage Roof, NYC and Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Phases, Brooklyn. To hitch the free finish of season celebration on September 24, please go to eventbrite.com/e/we-are-nature-patterns-of-connection-i-earth-ethics-tickets-414431063467.
WE ARE NATURE: Patterns of Connection | Earth Ethics
Saturday, September 24, 2022 (5:30PM-8PM)
A Local weather Week-inspired occasion, this sixth and final dwell efficiency occasion of our summer time sequence will characteristic a theme introduction by famend ecoliteracy scholar Fritjof Capra; site-specific dance works curated by CreateART and a rooftop live performance below the setting solar.
Solo by Princess Lockerooo: Lotus
The Queen of Waacking presents a excessive style floral Waacking quantity stuffed with emotion, drama and a deep connection to the music.
Website-Particular Dance choreographed by Thryn Saxon
Performers: Maggie Costales and Jamie Klienschnitz; Dwell music by Bre Quick
“This piece explores the ideas of reciprocity and cooperation over competitors between human, plant, and animal life. Because the Kingsland Wildflowers provide a habitat for species to return house to, so too does this piece, bringing the performers again to their natural roots: Earth, Water, and Sky. They tread calmly in order to help the surroundings round them whereas providing their very own items of homecoming to the area.” (T.S.)
Rooftop Live performance by Duo Livia & Fred
Visiting from Brazil, Livia Nestrovski & Fred Ferreira type a dynamic duo of voice and electrical guitar that’s each refined and virtuosic, experimental and stylish: the efficiency of a minimal set in a journey by way of previous and new songs from Brazil and the World.
WE ARE NATURE: Patterns of Connection is the third iteration of our annual rooftop sequence combining Arts, Environmental Activism, and Group Constructing @ and round Kingsland Wildflowers @ Broadway Phases. Set in a surreally lovely nature sanctuary sprouting on prime of an ExxonMobil industrial plant on the financial institution of Superfund web site Newtown Creek, the recurring WE ARE NATURE summer time sequence gives a mixture of a number of artwork kinds – dance, music, efficiency, visible artwork, poetry, prose and movie – addressing humanity’s place on Earth in goals of partaking a various viewers in environmental efforts by way of artwork.
This summer time, NOoSPHERE Arts has once more collaborated with internationally famend ecoliteracy scholar, Dr. Fritjof Capra. NOoSPHERE Arts chosen 5 essential matters from Fritjof Capra’s Patterns of Connection (2021) round which their artists created new, site-specific works for one-of-a-kind city wildlife arenas. Over these 5 public occasions, the dwell artwork items have been complemented with poetically offered fact-based enter from Dr. Capra within the type of readings, digital and/or in-person appearances. NOoSPHERE Arts hopes audiences stroll away with the central message that we have already got options we all know will work. Relatively than perpetuating the prevalent sense of doom-which solely causes folks to offer up-NOoSPHERE Arts’ multidisciplinary rooftop programming instills perception in private company and hope by way of collective motion.
UPCOMING:
WE ARE NATURE 7 | Repopulations
Friday, September 30, 2022 by way of mid-October
The artwork exhibit Repopulations: New Horizons, curated by Daniela Holban.
noosphere-arts.nyc/exhibitions
WE ARE NATURE 2022 is sponsored, partly, by the Better New York Arts Growth Fund of the NYC Division of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). NOsSPHERE Arts packages are made attainable by the New York State Council on the Arts with the help of the Workplace of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Artist Bios Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., is a scientist, educator, activist, and creator of many worldwide bestsellers that join conceptual modifications in science with broader modifications in worldview and values in society. A Vienna-born physicist and methods theorist, Capra first turned popularly recognized for his ebook, The Tao of Physics, which explored the methods through which trendy physics was altering our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one. Printed in 1975, it’s nonetheless in print in additional than 40 editions worldwide and is referenced with the statue of Shiva within the courtyard of one of many world’s largest and most revered facilities for scientific analysis: CERN, the Middle for Analysis in Particle Physics in Geneva. Over the previous 30 years, Capra has been engaged in a scientific exploration of how different sciences and society are ushering in an analogous shift in worldview, or paradigms, resulting in a brand new imaginative and prescient of actuality and a brand new understanding of the social implications of this cultural transformation. His most up-to-date ebook, The Programs View of Life (Cambridge College Press, 2014), presents a grand new synthesis of this work-integrating the organic, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions of life into one unified imaginative and prescient. A number of critics have prompt that The Programs View of Life, which Capra coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi, Professor of Biology on the College of Rome, is destined to grow to be one other traditional. Capra is a founding director of the Berkeley-based Middle for Ecoliteracy, which is devoted to advancing ecology and methods considering in major and secondary schooling, and serves on the school of the Amana-Key government schooling program in São Paulo, Brazil. He’s a Fellow of Schumacher Faculty, a global heart for ecological research within the UK, and serves on the Council of the Earth Constitution Initiative. He’s the creator of The Turning Level (1982), The Internet of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002), The Science of Leonardo (2007), and Studying from Leonardo (2013). He coauthored Inexperienced Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), and EcoManagement (1993), and coedited Steering Enterprise Towards Sustainability (1995). He additionally cowrote the screenplay for Mindwalk (1990), a movie starring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, created and directed by Bernt Capra. The principle focus of Capra’s environmental schooling and activism has been to assist construct and nurture sustainable communities. He believes that to take action, we are able to study precious classes from the examine of ecosystems, that are sustainable communities of vegetation, animals, and microorganisms.
Princess Lockeroo (Samara Cohen) is a multifaceted producer, director, choreographer & educator, with a 18-year tenure within the dance and leisure industries. Her abilities additionally embody mentorship, public talking, and ladies’s empowerment. Princess Lockerooo is a fellow of the RSA, and a Bessie Nominee for sustained achievement. As an envoy of the 70’s LGBTQ dance fashion Waacking, she has unfold Waacking to over 26 nations throughout the globe, utilizing it as a device to encourage self-love and invoke confidence. Princess Lockerooo introduced Waacking again into the highlight together with her unforgettable characteristic on Season 8 of So You Suppose You Can Dance? A philanthropist and activist for LGBTQ rights, she has used her platform to boost cash for LGBTQ organizations (Broadway Cares/Fairness Fights AIDS, The Middle, GMHC.) Lockerooo has been showcased on most of the leisure trade’s main tv platforms (Harry Connick Jr., Wendy Williams, So You Suppose You Can Dance & America’s Bought Expertise) and has labored with prime pop artists (Madonna, Jody Watley, Icona Pop.) Princess Lockerooo’s productions have been featured the world over: together with Lincoln Middle, Summerstage, Ladies’s Entrepreneurship Day, HATCH, Authentic Thinkers, SAP Subsequent-Gen, NYBG & NYC Delight.
Daniela Holban is a Romanian-born curator, cultural producer, neighborhood builder, and packages director with over 14 years {of professional} expertise in artwork establishments, museums, and nonprofits. She makes a speciality of curatorial route, public programming, and artistic technique. Her curatorial apply seeks to answer and current methods of self-reflection, id, multipolarity, and sustainability. She is devoted to public engagement, artist growth, environmentally-based artwork programming, and action-driven communities. She presently holds the place of Director of Packages & Curation with NOoSPHERE Arts and is a Senior Curator at Artfare, Inc. Prior to now, she has labored with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, MANA Modern, CTS Inventive Thriftshop, William Bennet Gallery, The Ear Classical, and The Vogue and Textile Museum in London. Acknowledged for modern mission administration, curation, cultural evaluation & perception, she holds levels in Enterprise Advertising and marketing and Artwork Historical past. Initially from Bucharest, Romania, she presently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Lívia & Fred: From traditional to up to date, from in style to erudite, from Brazil and the World, and every little thing blended collectively, that is the duo shaped by Lívia Nestrovski (voice) and Fred Ferreira (electrical guitar, Brazilian folks guitar), additionally companions in life. Collectively they’ve shared the stage for 13 years, the place they create “a human work of magnificence and delicacy, however above all, they inform tales in a really private means,” says the distinguished clothier Ronaldo Fraga, who designs their costumes. The chemistry they share and the “picture they create on stage is past sound. It’s a frame of mind […], like touring, however with no ticket” After the discharge of their first album, “Duo” (2012), they’ve carried out in practically 20 nations, together with USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Estonia, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Lebanon and even Syria. With a mean of 35+ concert events per yr, they current an unexpectedly balanced, refined and welcoming sound. They’re presently getting ready their second album, the place they get nearer to the digital world and the synthesized sounds, and concurrently an EP with unique tunes.
Thryn Saxon is a contract dancer and the choreographer and director of SAXYN Dance Works. Thryn has carried out with Invoice T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Firm, Sleep No Extra, Kate Weare Firm, and is presently working with Helen Simoneau Danse. Thryn’s work has been carried out at The Perez Artwork Museum in Miami, FL, Windhover Performing Arts Middle, Arts on Website, and Dumbo Dance Pageant, amongst others. She additionally shares a choreographic mission with Brad Beakes and within the Spring of 2020, they have been chosen as 2 of 8 choreographers in residence on the Atlantic Middle for the Arts in New Smyrna, FL. Most just lately Thryn was chosen for the RADicle 22/23 Residency at The Croft in Michigan the place she and her firm will likely be returning in March of ’23 to premiere her latest work “seolh” at RADFest. Thryn teaches a weekly up to date dance class at Gibney in New York Metropolis.
CreateART is an artist-led multidisciplinary efficiency and residency platform connecting artists and audiences in numerous venues in NYC. We exist to supply visibility, help and amplification for the voices of rising artists. CreateART hosts curated and works in progress efficiency occasions, every one distinctive and eclectic. CreateART occasions activate areas, provide alternatives for thrilling inventive encounters and advance a brand new means of neighborhood engagement within the arts. Venues and collaborators embrace Ace Lodge New York, Ace Lodge Brooklyn, Venn, NOoSPHERE Arts and Arts on Website. CreateART is fiscally sponsored by Distinctive Initiatives Inc, and has obtained funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council as a neighborhood grant recipient in 2019 and 2022.
About NOoSPHERE Arts
NOoSPHERE Arts is a 501c3 group and cultural heart led by a staff of worldwide creatives whose backgrounds mix the humanities and sciences. Its freewheeling, multidisciplinary strategy engages numerous audiences and builds neighborhood by way of a spread of vibrant public occasions in its indoor-outdoor house in New York Metropolis’s Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Based in 2011 by painter Sol Kjok, NOoSPHERE Arts is run by 4 worldwide creatives whose backgrounds mix arts & sciences. Our identify refers to a sphere of thought becoming a member of humankind in a collective, planetary consciousness. We advocate and help transnational cultural mobility & collaboration, empowering artists to have interaction communities in dialogue. Resolutely embracing inclusivity and the event of a extra equitable world, we now have produced and offered 120+ multidisciplinary arts occasions to the NYC viewers. Greenpoint is house to many artists, however our neighborhood gives few arenas the place the inventive tribe can share their works with the neighborhood: NOoArts is the one multidisciplinary arts heart in our a part of city. Besides, our distinctive indoor & outside phases are an expertise on their very own: by way of our productions, guests get entry to a secluded portion of the waterfront and a rooftop wildlife sanctuary providing surprising alternatives to take pleasure in and commune with nature in an in any other case drab industrial space. NOoSPHERE Arts’ bodily headquarters performs a essential position in our mission: situated by Newton Creek, a Superfund web site, our constructing is topped with rooftop neighborhood gardens providing unobstructed views (of Greenpoint, Manhattan, and the metal Digester Eggs of NYC’s largest wastewater remedy facility) and extraordinary efficiency area. Impressed by this distinctive context and pushed by the urgency to battle local weather change, we provide outside & indoor public programming that unites music, dance, visible artwork, poetry & prose to harness the ability of artwork to drive motion round sustainability, migration, and variety. For extra data, go to noosphere-arts.nyc/we-are-nature.
