Under the Moon: "Ecoustics" & Earthships
We’re excited to welcome you on Friday, Dec 5th for our December Under the Moon — a gathering of climate art, science & action every full moon, open to anyone 🌕
This moon, we are hosting artist Dylan Gauthier and educator Paola Garcia, whose talks will explore alternative ways of engaging or living with the Earth through multimedia art, Earthships, green infrastructure, and more.
Dylan will share how “Earth Listening” functions as an artistic method for attuning to environmental and social ecologies through sound, place, text, and embodied presence. Drawing on projects that center acoustic ecology, "ecoustics," and deep listening to human and more-than-human worlds, in sites that include former landfills, superfund sites, urban waterways, and toxic brownfields, he explores how listening with and through landscapes can open new ways of understanding our connections to and responsibility for a changing planet.
Paola will talk about advocating for Earth and human stewardship and how her work explores the intersection of climate, culture, and disaster preparedness. She will discuss how she weaves education, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure, and Earthships to render resilient built-environments and people.
Join us on Dec 5, 6-8pm at Chan Space New York to reimagine our shared home together 🌎
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Working in a range of media including sound, performance, video, sculpture, architecture, and photography, Dylan Gauthier’s research-based and collaborative projects explore the intersections between ecology, architecture, landscape, and environmental justice. Dylan is a founder of the boat-building and publishing collective Mare Liberum, and of the Sunview Luncheonette, a co-op for art, politics, and communalism in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is co-organizer, with Mariel Villeré, of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency based at NYC's former landfill.
Paola Garcia is a bilingual climate and resilience educator, specialist & consultant. Through her company Born Carbon, she curates & supports innovative programming and curriculums that empower communities through creative pedagogy and restoration. She is an Accredited Green Roof Professional with a Masters in Urban Policy who loves biotecture, biodiversity and bioremediation.
ABOUT HERE ON EARTH
Here On Earth is an environmental arts initiative at GFLP in NYC for anyone who cares about the planet. We collaborate with artists, scientists, and activists to host interdisciplinary conversations, film screenings, exhibitions, and other public programming that reconnect urban communities with the nature around and within us.
We also partner with schools and educators to offer filmmaking fellowships and workshops for students of all ages. Our goal is to nurture youth as climate storytellers—using film as a powerful tool to drive imagination and action toward a more resilient future.
ABOUT GLOBAL FAMILY FOR LOVE AND PEACE
Global Family for Love and Peace (GFLP) is a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States dedicated to cultivating a world of mutual understanding, compassion, and nonviolence.
GFLP believes that by embracing our shared humanity and working together, we can overcome division and conflict to build a future of lasting peace and harmony. Through collective efforts, GFLP focuses on environmental education and peace programs engaging youth groups and establishing a university dedicated to sustainability and the restoration of a healthy planet. GFLP is in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).