Nature is Your Birthright Workshop + PoFest Exhibit
Join us for a day of poetic exploration bridging climate imagination and collective action.
We’ll begin at the Climate Imaginarium with a generative poetry workshop and exhibit tour from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM of the NYC Climate Writers Collective exhibition, Nature is Your Birthright. Participants will engage directly with the Collective’s new interactive exhibition — an evolving archive of verse, vision, and resilience and create poetic reflections on memory, environment, and imagined futures.
In the afternoon, head to the NYC Poetry Festival in Nolan Park, where the People’s Poetry Cart will appear as an interactive installation offering spontaneous typewritten poems and climate centered activations. An informal activity at 1:00 PM will welcome those arriving from the Climate Imaginarium, and the PoFest exhibition will remain on view all weekend in Nolan Park during the festival.
Come for the creativity, stay for the community. Whether you're a seasoned writer, climate dreamer, or curious wanderer, this is a chance to witness the power of words to reimagine our future.
⛵ 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.
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, New York, NY 10004.