This Sun-Breathing Earth: Chamber Music Concert, followed by a Solarpunk Workshop
⏰ Schedule
1:45 - 3:00 PM: Chamber Music with Glass Clouds Ensemble (concert)
3:30 - 5:30 PM: How to Solarpunk for Hope & Resilience (workshop)
🎻 This Sun-Breathing Earth: Chamber Music with Glass Clouds Ensemble
1:45 PM: 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.
Doors open at 1:45 PM and the music will begin at 2:00 PM. Come early and stay after the music 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!
Join us for an afternoon of beautiful chamber music at the Climate Imaginarium!
☁️ About the Glass Clouds Ensemble
The Glass Clouds Ensemble is a chamber music collective that performs imaginative concerts centered on environmental themes and community partnerships. Founded in 2021 by graduate students at Juilliard, GCE performs chamber music concerts of varying instrumentation built around strings and voice. They perform a mix of experimental contemporary music, standard classical chamber music, and improvisatory music with electronics. Since 2023, they have partnered with Earth Matter NY, a compost center and garden on Governors Island, and the Anita Rogers Gallery in lower Manhattan.
Performers: Marisa Karchin (soprano), Raina Arnett (violin), Adam Young (cello & viola da gamba), and Alex Vourtsanis (guitar & theorbo).
☀️ How to Solarpunk for Hope & Resilience
3:30 PM: 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.
BrightFlame (she/they) writes, teaches, and makes magic towards a just, regenerative world. In her debut novel, The Working, a modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright futures we need. She's a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and SFWA, and her short fiction is featured in Bright Green Futures, Solarpunk Creatures, Bioluminescent, and Solarpunk Magazine. She’s known for her teaching in the worldwide pagan community and co-founded the Center for Sustainable Futures at Columbia University that features her workshops and nonfiction. She lives on Lenape territory (Turtle Island/US) with a human, a forest, a labyrinth, the Fae, bees, turtles, fungi, and many other nonhumans. Visit brightflame.com for musings, doodles, workshops, and more.
⛵ Getting to the Climate Imaginarium
For the weekend ferry schedule to Governors Island, please check here. Ferries run every 30 minutes. Take the ferry that’s most convenient for you from either Lower Manhattan (10 South Street), Brooklyn Bridge Park (Pier 6), or Red Hook/Atlantic Basin. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your ferry departure time with your ticket ready to display.
For this event, we recommend catching the 1:00 PM or 1:30 PM ferry from Manhattan, or 1:15 PM from Brooklyn Bridge Park. Or arrive earlier to check out our exhibitions!
Ferry tickets must be purchased at the ferry terminal or online. Fares from Lower Manhattan are $5 for a round trip and free for adults over 65, children 12 and under, Climate Imaginarium summer volunteers, and others. All passengers ride free before 11am on weekends. Cars are not permitted.
Governors Island is also accessible by the South Brooklyn NYC Ferry route. Brooklyn ferry tickets must be purchased in advance of boarding and are $4.50 each way. You can find the NYC Ferry Schedule for the South Brooklyn route here.
Once you get to Governors Island, you will either get out at Soissons Landing (from 10 South Street) or Yankee Pier (from Brooklyn). You can use this map of Governors Island to locate Colonels Row. The Climate Imaginarium is in Building 406A, in the middle of Colonels Row, and will have a visible sign outside the doorway. Our address is 406A Comfort Road.
Note: All entry donations made through Luma directly support the Climate Imaginarium’s operations, helping us keep the space running for all participating groups and facilitators. If you would like to donate to a specific group or facilitator, please contact them directly.