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SOON IS NOW is festival of climate change and eco themed live performance and art in Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, a former industrial site and brownfield transformed into an ecologically sustainable park on the Hudson River in Beacon, NY. The performances are curated throughout the park where audiences experience them on a walking tour.

Based on the belief that art can reach the hearts and minds of audiences on this most urgent and overwhelming challenge of our time, SOON IS NOW invites the public into this space of evocative live performance and art to inspire deeper awareness of climate change and its impacts. Local environmental groups will provide education and outreach. There will be creative activities to engage adults and children. Local artists on the program include Edwin Torres, Elizabeth Castagna, Andrew Brehm, Martin Fowler, Alex Waterman, Lori Merhige, Twinkle Burke and Jojo Gonzalez.

Schedule:

1:30/4pm  – Join us for workshops: a drawing exercise for children and a Mugwort walk and tea service.

2pm  – Visit our visual arts exhibition and environmental groups who are tabling.

2:30/2:50/3:10 – sign up to go on one of 3 walking tours of all of the short performances in Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park. Experience theater, experimental performance, art, music in the landscape of the park. Walking tours are approximately 45 minutes long.

Parking is free in the park and also in the Beacon Metro North train station, a short walk to the park.

Free outdoor event, RSVP not required. Learn more at soonisnow.org