Hey! Here's that other bus tour!

It's Kathy Westwater's PARK!

Fresh Kills Park
Staten Island
Saturday, June 26 (9am-1pm)

"...about worlds we create and worlds that disappear." 

choreography: Kathy Westwater
poetry: Jennifer Scappetone
visual design: Seung Jae Lee
performance: Maggie Bennett, Rebecca Brooks, Rebecca Davis, Ursula Eagly, Melissa Guerrero, Belinda He, Kazu Nakamura, Jeremy Pheiffer and Enrico Wey

Park explores how nature consumes itself to regenerate-and how humans construct and consume it through the creation of parks. This site-specific performance/installation is the culmination of a rarely-awarded artist residency at the site of Fresh Kills Park, a 2,200 acre emergent park being developed by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation over the next 30 years. 

The park's site is the Fresh Kills Landfill, formerly the world's largest landfill which was operated by the NYC Department of Sanitation for 50 years and closed in 2001. A short bus tour of the Freshkills Park site, with explanation of the site's engineering, infrastructure, and ecology, precedes this performance.

All attendees must board the tour bus at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island at 9:30am. Attendees coming from Manhattan must take the 9am ferry from Manhattan in order to make this bus. Buses will provide transportation from the ferry terminal on Staten Island to the park site and return attendees to the ferry terminal by 1pm.

FREE. Space is limited, and reservations are required. For reservations, please email doug.elliot@parks.nyc.gov or call 212/788-8277.