Grief & Seeds - A Closing Gathering for Climate Week 2024

Part of Climate Week Program and City-Wide Scavenger Hunt

Join us to close out Climate Week with intention as we gather to honor place and possibility. on Governors `Island. With an optional ferry talk to get us there with elder and longtime activist Jk Canepa and youth organizer Anna Tsomo with youth from 6th St Community Climate Action group.

Governors island is full of complicated history. Once stewarded by the Lenape peoples, it was sold to the Dutch in the context of a violent colonial take-over, and housed the military for years as a place of strategic defense. For years it was a fallow as anywhere in NY until the slow artistic and cultural residencies made inroads to a future of massive development. In the layer cake of complication, there is much to honor, grieve and hold for the whole future of our city and world.

In collaboration with the American Indian Community House and Climate Imaginarium, we'll be joined by Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco of Next Epoch Seed Library and held by Noelle Ghoussaini of SacredSpace to lead us in the closing ritual.

All are welcome!

Noelle Ghoussaini (she/her) creates performance, ritual and sacred gathering with and for community. Each embodied experience aims to nurture freedom & decolonization in the very fabric of our being; cultivating connection with our inherent belonging to the world around and within us.

SacredSpace, founded in 2023 by Noelle, curates immersive rituals, workshops & live performances to nurture our collective healing, creative spark and connection with sacred aliveness.connection for all beings.

American Indian Community House is not-for-profit organization serving the needs of Native Americans residing in New York City. They work to increase the visibility of American Indian cultures in an urban setting in order to cultivate awareness, understanding and respect. They're currently composed of Native Americans from 72 different tribes.

The Next Epoch Seed Library (NESL)reimagines the conventional seedbank for an era defined by the massive ecological impacts of Capitalism and resource extraction. Rather than focusing on utility or agricultural heritage, we work with adaptable, weedy plants who have co-evolved with dense human populations. These plants are our indispensable companions as we inhabit novel ecosystems and journey through climate chaos together. NESL is the project of Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco

The Climate Imaginarium is a new consortium of climate organizations with a center for the arts on Governors Island in New York City. The Imaginarium serves as a community center for climate and culture, with galleries and spaces for exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and events that respond to the climate crisis with solutions and visions for hope and justice. Programming is offered by a range of institutions, initiatives, and organizations, coming together under one roof to reimagine a just and regenerative future.

Holes in the Wall Collective takes on the big social challenges with joy, creativity and action by directly supporting and connecting people already doing the work.

They've been reimagining how to engage with our city and world for the last10 years.

This is part of their large initiative Imagined Futures, supporting Climate work happening right now in NYC to support a joyous and sustainable future.

More info HERE.

Host or Publisher Holes in the Wall Collective