Looking to get plugged in and learn more about XRNYC? Then Rebel Fest is where you want to be!
Join us for a Rebel Fest community event at Central Park (Maine Monument - near Columbus Circle and South Western end of Central Park). We invite all rebels to come together to be in XRNYC community with arts, food and music for our call to action coming up in September!
Learn more about our Day of Action 9/17 and how YOU can take action with us. If you've been wanting to reconnect or get connected with XR, come hang out with us and hear about our plans to tell our government and corporations that ENOUGH is ENOUGH and we must ACT NOW to prevent even more climate destruction than we've already seen this summer.
Please bring blankets or towels to sit on in the park.
Activities include:
1:00PM: Climate Emergency and How to Respond + Intro to XR
1:40PM: 9/17 Call 2 Action/Sign up opportunity
2:00PM:Climate Cafe
3:15PM: Live Music
3:30PM: Intro to XR Session
3:50PM: Performance by our Arts Working Group presentation of “Cantastoria: Citizens Assembly”
4:25PM: 9/17 Call 2 Action/Sign up opportunity
4:30PM: Live Music by The Resistance Company
Ongoing throughout the day:
-Art Build: Speak up! Reach out! Paint Blocks of fires with us to distribute through your neighborhood to light a fire under people’s butts about the current climate crisis
-Other activities:
*Seed bombing
*Chalking
*NYC Compost brown bin sign ups
*Bank.green initiative, and more!
More info:
Climate Emergency and How to Respond: This will give you an overview of our current climate and ecological emergency and Extinction Rebellion’s analysis of why society has failed to successfully address it and what we can do now. Then you’ll get background on Extinction Rebellion’s strategy for succeeding, based in part on past successful mass civil disobedience movements. You’ll find out all the ways you can get involved and be part of the action.
Cantastoria: comes from Italian for "story-singer" and is known by many other names around the world. It is a theatrical form where a performer tells or sings a story while gesturing to a series of images. These images can be painted, printed or drawn on any sort of material.
*LOCATION: We will be just inside the Park through one of the southern most entrances