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Creative Climate Awards Closing Party

Join us as we close this inspiring month-long exhibit in true October style – with a Halloween themed celebration! Show up in your best costume and see the submissions one last time, along with interactive and performance art works presented by participating artists Amy Youngs, Rachel Frank, and Alicia Escott.

A Night of Shorts and Live Music

Join us for an incredible lineup of short films and live music that will make you stop and think about your impacts in mysterious, beautiful ways.

“MR. MYSTERY” A Climate Jazz Opera

Join us for a dance-in-your-seats night of music with “Mr. Mystery”, a one-of-a-kind jazz opera, in which the legendary composer/bandleader/thinker is summoned back to life to save the earth from the apocalypse brought on by global warming. Stay for networking and Q&A with the performers.

Creative Climate Awards Opening

The Opening will feature interactive and performance art pieces done by submitting artists Vangeline Dance Theater, Mechthild Schmidt Feist, and Danielle Boudrand.

Experience Creative Climate Awards

Join us for our sixth Creative Climate Awards, an annual series of events that showcase artists creating climate-inspired, public works. Our Creative Climate Awards program uses creativity to share knowledge, broaden the climate conversation, educate, and incite action.

Neversink Reservoir Paddle

Come paddle on the Neversink Reservoir. The Neversink Reservoir is the highest in elevation in NYC’s water system with it’s spillway at 1,440 feet in elevation. Put in service in 1955, it helps supply NYC with roughly half of its daily water intake along with its 3 sister Delaware system reservoirs.

Book Launch: Ecological & Social Healing – Multicultural Women’s Voices

Join us for the launch of “Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices,” with a panel discussion moderated by Milano Dean Michelle De Pass, featuring editor Jeanine M. Canty and contributors Prof. Ana Baptista, Prof. Nina S. Roberts and Prof. Ju-Pong Lin.

Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water

Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city’s people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.

Become an EcoVolunteer !

In 2012, NY/NJ Baykeepeer established the EcoVolunteer program, designed to introduce adult volunteers to the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary through education, hands-on research and restoration experiences. Currently, our EcoVolunteers assist with monitoring oysters in the Bronx River at Soundview Park and also with salt marsh restoration and living shorelines in Freshkills Park on Staten Island.

Harlem Creek Tour – Part I

Join urban explorer Steve Duncan in finding Harlem Creek’s buried path through Central Park to the Harlem Muir as Steve explains how the waterway functions today.