Arts, Culture, and Climate Justice

photos: c/o NOCD-NY

Celebrating the Like The Waters We Rise box set exhibition at City Lore Gallery, we convened on Wed, Oct 19, 2022 for an Arts, Culture, and Climate Justice learning exchange. The event explored current NYC climate justice initiatives and the various ways that artists and cultural organizers are amplifying and strengthening local organizing and imagining the future.

The discussion included climate organizers, artists, and activists from across New York City, featuring neighborhood work shared by Arif Ullah of South Bronx Unite; Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, artist in residence at THE POINT CDC; Damaris Reyes of Good Old Lower East Side; Jorge Luis Berríos, CADRE artist with El Puente; and Crystal Clarity of Medicine Walls.

Exhibition curator Raquel de Anda led participants in an overview of the exhibition.

This event was part of Reimagining New York City, a citywide series of visioning sessions and exchanges to incorporate the wisdom, imagination, and creative practices of community cultural organizations, artists, and neighborhood residents in decision making and transformative change.

Reimagining New York City is supported by The New York Community Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.