ECO ARTS FESTIVAL

September 20, 2026, 11am-4pm

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Activities take place at Colonels Row

Schedule of events:

Visual Arts: 11am-4pm

On view at Climate Imaginarium (406A Comfort Road)

• S Emsaki - Postcards from the Atlantic

• Traci Johnson - Remember My Compass Star

• Katie Pell - Super Fun Site

Interactive Activities: 11:00am-4pm

On the Lawn outside the Climate Imaginarium (406A Comfort Road)

• Ghost Tide to Living Waters - a participatory installation restoring endangered aquatic animals with January Yoon Cho (11am-4pm)

• Paper Making - Workshop with Rejin Leys (11am-2pm)

• Good Grub - a mock catering performance serving hors d’oeuvres featuring edible bugs with Samuel Fisch (12:30-3pm)

• Recycled Fabric Weaving - workshop with Inez Devereaux (2-4pm)

Performances: 12:45pm and 2:00pm

On the Lawn - In Order of Appearance

• Rulan Tangen: Dancing Earth - Bodies of Water/Earth/Air‍ ‍

• Artichoke Dance Company - Within the Waters‍ ‍

• Vannia Ibarguen: VIDA Dance Arts - Daughter of the Lake/Hija de la Laguna

• Kristen Klein: Inclined Dance Project - Vista The performance program occurs twice, 12:45pm and 2:00pm.In between, Rulan Tangen takes audiences on a performance journey on Colonels Row.

Rulan ( here in photo by Daniel Quat) offers a solo that explores what is beneath the surface, that connects us all - the mycellium network. In wearable art co created by fungi artist Carol Padbergh, which is removed to return to the ground to nourish, she explores the botanical growth patterns of this web of connection, interwoven with Kampampangan ancestral imagery of Mangatia - the web weaver of the skies …

She is honored to return to Lenahopeking and honors the work of elder and mentor Joe Baker , founder of Lenape Center ( https://lenape.center/)