Sentinels, choreographed by Elise Knudson with Ava Heller and Randy Burd. A performance on sculptor George Trakas’ Beacon Point, evoking flooding from the sea level rise of the Hudson River.
all site photos Flynn Larsen
Climate art, live performance and activism in Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park
Part reverence for the River, part cry for what is lost to climate chaos, part response to the pollution and rejuvenation of our park’s ecosystem.
SOON IS NOW places art in conversation with the landscape and brings audiences into an immersive experience with original works.
Elise Knudson & Dancers
contact: evemorgenstern@gmail.com for more details.
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“Most of us are terrified by climate change and frozen by the confusion of what we should do to address this issue. Artists transform that energy into a determined roar, urging us all to play our part in stopping climate change with what we have, no matter where we are.”
-Dekila Chungyalpa, Director, the Loka Initiative at the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Just wanted to say again how wonderful and magical the event was yesterday. We need those experiences to reach all the parts of us that are equally necessary for our activism but which sometimes get put aside in favor of the rational brain. We are all of it – heart, spirit, mind, and all of our working senses too. So necessary!”
-Susan Freiman, climate activist, Climate Reality leader
SOON IS NOW
SOON IS NOW is an annual immersive day of climate change and eco themed live performance and art in Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, a former industrial site and brownfield transformed by Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, the Scenic Hudson Land Trust, the city of Beacon, and many others, into an ecologically sustainable park on the Hudson River in Beacon, NY. This site is on the unceded land of the Wappinger, in a region with a vital history of environmentalism rooted in Scenic Hudson’s fight to save Storm King Mountain from industry and Pete Seeger’s fight for an unpolluted Hudson River.
SET ON THE HUDSON RIVER
Based on the belief that art can reach the hearts and minds of audiences on this most urgent and overwhelming challenge of our time, SOON IS NOW invites the public into this space of evocative performance and art to inspire deeper awareness of climate change and its impacts.
CREDITS
- Founder and Director: Eve Morgenstern
- Produced by Eve Morgenstern, Connie Hall and Brian Mendes
- Fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts
- This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
- additional funding provided by the Clara Lou Gould Fund for the Arts administered by BeaconArts, Stewart’s Shops Charitable giving, our generous business and individual contributors.
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