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1pm River Spirits Initiation Parade Start
World Financial Center Plaza-outside Winter Garden-North Cove Harbor
15-foot giant river species puppets and spectacular costumed gardens spirits kick off parade.
1:20pm River Aria
Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City Park at Vesey Street
Abby Fisher- opera singer & Mercy Corps Action Center presentation.
1:30pm Hudson River Poem & Movement of the Estuary
Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City Park at Murray St.
Poets House-river poem & Noyes Dance performance
2pm Dance of the River Grass
Grass Mounds-in the Hudson River Park (bet. Laight & Vestry St.)
Dance of the River Grass on grass mounds with living grass costumes by Michele Brody
2:15pm Choir River Song
Pier 32 Pile Field @Watts St (in the Hudson River Park)
Performed by Church Street School of Music & Art Choir
2:25pm Sounds of the Earth
Canal St. in the Hudson River Park
Marta V & Judy Sky
2:35pm-Boat House Dance with paddle boarder & windsurfers
@South Side Pier 40 (below Houston St.)
Amanda Selwyn Pier Dance & Alice Farley Paddle Boarder and Wind Surfer Dance
2:50pm Hudson-Fulton Theatrical Vignette
@ Queen of Hearts Boat @ Leroy St in the Hudson River Park (just below Christopher St.)
Theatrical vignette presented by Drew Vanderburg, staged on the bow of the Queen of Heats
River Boat-performance viewed from the promenade.
3pm Oyster Planting Ceremony
@ Christopher Street Pier in the Hudson River Park.
A performance/ceremony with the River Project planting live oysters into the river
featuring Dance Entropy & Black Sea Hotel -Balkan Singers
3:15pm Taming of the Trash Tricksters & River Cleansing
@ Bow Notch-semi circle bridge-10th St in the Hudson River Park.
Dance Performance choreographed by Inge Ray and River Cleansing with Hudson River
Park Trust
3:30pm Live Fish Release!
@ Charles Street Pier in The Hudson River Park
With Hudson River Park Trust & Friends of Hudson River Park. Children invited to participate in live fish release with music by Jules Cazedessus and Paul Pinto. NOTE: For children to participate please arrive 3:30pm-to check in table. Children can show up in their own costumes as mermaids & sea/river creatures.
3:45pm Honoring of the Lenape Indians
@ Pier 49 Semi-Circle Bridge Over Water @Bank St.
Featuring Silver Cloud Singers- Native American performance & Stewards of the River
Ceremony
4pm Water Dance of Boats, River Cleansing, & Harmonic Chant Concert
@ Horatio St. (bet. Water Playground at Jane St. & Gansevoort St. Pier.)
The spectacular closing ceremony combines on-the-river boat choreography by the Bessie award-winning Alice Farley, and the over-the-river concert of River to Ocean by renowned composer-singer David Hykes with The Harmonic Choir. The choreography includes 30-foot rowboats festooned with spectacular marine-life sculptures and costumed kayaks performing a dance movement on the water. Boat participants include: Village Community Boathouse, Downtown Boathouse & The Harbor School.
PARTICIPATING PARTNERS: The Hudson River Park Trust (Sponsor), Brookfield Properties/arts> World Financial Center (Sponsor- which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Bank of America.), Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center, The River Project, Friends of Hudson River Park, Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, Village Community Boathouse, Downtown Boathouse, New York Harbor School, New York Kayak Company, Solar One, LES Ecology Center, NYC & Company, ACA Galleries, We, The World, Henry Street Settlement/ Abrons Arts Center, Boys and Girls Republic, Poets House, Mercy Corps Action Center, Church Street School for Music & Art, Clean Air NY, Greenpeace, Bronx River Arts Center, One Brick, BuildOn, NY Cares, CB1, PS234, PS150, PS89, School at Columbia, Stuyvesant High School, NYU, Riverkeeper, and Clearwater.
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