This Sun-Breathing Earth

1:45 — 3:00 PM: Cham­ber Music with Glass Clouds Ensem­ble (con­cert)

Join the Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um for a beau­ti­ful per­for­mance by Glass Clouds Ensem­ble, a cham­ber music col­lec­tive cen­ter­ing nature and envi­ron­ment. The Glass Clouds Ensem­ble presents a 45-minute con­cert of clas­si­cal & con­tem­po­rary music that reflects on our del­i­cate rela­tion­ship with nature through light and dark­ness – paired with art­work by Queens-based painter Clara Curbera. Enjoy a sum­mer after­noon respite with music that encour­ages us to lis­ten close­ly to our nat­ur­al sur­round­ings & cel­e­brate com­mu­ni­ty. Come ear­ly and stay late to chat over com­pli­men­ta­ry drinks & snacks from our part­ner, Earth Mat­ter NY.

The pro­gram will fea­ture music for voice and string instru­ments, span­ning from the 1600s to the present, from inti­mate works for baroque cham­ber ensem­ble to dra­mat­ic works of new music with spa­tial­ized electronics!

3:30 — 5:30 PM: How to Solarpunk for Hope & Resilience (work­shop)

Stick around after the con­cert for a solarpunk work­shop led by Bright­Flame! Solarpunk is a move­ment and genre to cre­ate futures where all thrive. In this inter­ac­tive work­shop, we’ll apply a 5‑point solarpunk arc to rewild our­selves in order to cre­ate and take action aligned with the Earth. Par­tic­i­pants have described the ses­sion as a great blue­print for being more effec­tive in the world — a how-to man­u­al for mak­ing choic­es so we don’t get stuck in dystopia. After run­ning through the points, we will apply it to our lives, our writ­ing, our activism.

Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um is one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Residence