Dear Urban Soils community,
We are excited to invite you to join us for a large gathering in North Brooklyn on Sunday May 4: LIVING SOILS RISING!
Living Soils Rising on the Newtown Creek
On Sunday, May 4, 2025, join hundreds of artists, activists, neighbors, ecologists, dancers, healers and dreamers for LIVING SOILS RISING: four creative acts for climate justice and healing at Under the K Bridge Park.
Join the puppet costume-drag procession, water ceremony, soil dreaming vibration, and a seeding-the-future activation at Under the K Bridge Park at Newtown Creek. Hundreds of us will gather where Indigenous land was taken for the birth of the fossil fuel industry from 1867 until today. We will witness, remember, and honor the harmed land and envision a livable energy future together. Costume: Dress as your favorite fungi, plant or animal local to Northern Brooklyn.
LIVING SOILS RISING has four creative acts:
(3:00 - 4:30 PM) Puppet-Drag Procession: Dress as your favorite fungi or plant. Gather 3 - 3:45 PM. Parade procession begins at 3:45 PM.
(4:30 - 6 PM) Opening Water Ceremony & Soils Movement Dreaming
A collective meditation, sound vibration & performance.(6 - 6:45 PM) Mini-Walking Tours
Learn about the history of this land, the fossil fuel facility right next door & the effort to close the facility and remediate the land.
(6:45 - 7:30) Seeding the Future - Closing Ritual
A participatory earth-magic closing.
Sunday, May 4 from 3:00 - 7:30 pm
Under the K Bridge Park
RSVP: bit.ly/may4soilrising