Programs

  • WE ARE NATURE

    The WE ARE NATURE Series was born in the summer of 2020 and aims to combine Live Arts, Environmental Activism & Community Building at and around Kingsland Wildflowers @ Broadway Stages, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC. Set in a surreally beautiful nature sanctuary sprouting on top of an ExxonMobil industrial plant on the bank of Superfund site Newtown Creek, Greenpoint the recurring WE ARE NATURE Rooftop Series offers a combination of multiple art forms – dance, music, performance, visual art, poetry and prose– addressing humanity’s place on Earth in aims of engaging a diverse audience in environmental efforts through art. NOoSPHERE Arts encourages dialogue, openness to experimentation, and inclusivity. We aim to elevate the voices of historically marginalized populations. We are driven by the desire to ignite a shift in perspective from the parts to the whole. We see life as a cooperative dance energized by creativity and the constant emergence of novelty. Our goal is to instill belief in personal agency and hope through collective action: with shared efforts towards sustainability, diversity, and equity, we can create a more united and joyful world. The Series usually includes 4-7 events running from May to October, each presenting 3-5 artist groups, and at least one site-specific commissioned work, always including at least one piece of dance. Over 3000 audience members attend our events over the full run of the season. These events are usually free or donation-based and open to everyone. Each season of our outdoor summer series WE ARE NATURE is structured around a theme referencing systems thinking. This is a comprehensive approach to environmental sustainability spearheaded by leading thinker Fritjof Capra, a longtime NOoSPHERE Arts collaborator. Systems thinking shows that all the major problems of our time—including energy, economics, climate change, and inequality—are interconnected and interdependent. For the 2022 season, we selected five crucial topics from Fritjof Capra’s Patterns of Connection (2021) around which our artists created new, site-specific works for our one-of-a-kind urban wildlife arenas. In 2023, we explored the theme of Nature’s Cycles. A cycle is an interval of time during which a characteristic event occurs, often repeated regularly or in a sequence of events. There are cycles in everything—seasons, circadian rhythms, cellular life, planetary systems, politics, and economics—and cycles in one realm affect cycles in others. Thinking about cycles can help us to discern structure, order, and patterns in the world around us, and to realize that everything in life will ebb and flow —an encouraging thought in times of darkness.
    Geographies
    520 Kingsland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222, USA
    Dates
    Not indicated
    Source
    User-generated
    Performing arts,Public arts,Visual arts
    Age groups,Ethnic and racial groups,Gender and sexual identity,Economically disadvantaged people,Immigrants and migrants,Nomadic people
    10K
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