Climate Week 2024

Cli­mate Week NYC 2024 events on Gov­er­nors Island are orga­nized by the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island, the Island’s com­mu­ni­ty of part­ners and ten­ants, and The New York Cli­mate Exchange and its core part­ners. Events will take place across Gov­er­nors Island, includ­ing at a new com­mu­ni­ty con­ven­ing space inside Build­ing 309 (the for­mer Our Lady Star of the Sea) — a decon­se­crat­ed for­mer mil­i­tary chapel locat­ed in the Island’s His­toric Dis­trict that fea­tures Church, Shantell Martin’s pop­u­lar pub­lic art­work com­mis­sioned through Gov­er­nors Island Arts, on its façade. This his­toric build­ing has recent­ly under­gone upgrades to cre­ate an acces­si­ble indoor space for com­mu­ni­ty events on Gov­er­nors Island. Events will take place in Build­ing 309 unless oth­er­wise noted.

Sched­ule of Events

ONGO­ING: Oth­er of Pearl, Jen­ny Kendler Gov­er­nors Island Arts and NRDC (Nat­ur­al Resources Defense Coun­cil) Open Fri­day-Sun­day through Novem­ber 3 in Fort Jay — Pub­lic art instal­la­tion that tells the sto­ry of the extrac­tive his­to­ries that form the ori­gin sto­ries of the cli­mate and envi­ron­men­tal cri­sis, while con­sid­er­ing the oys­ter and whale as cen­tral play­ers in an eco­log­i­cal entan­gle­ment between human and non­hu­man beings, water­ways, and flows of cap­i­tal. Through sev­en del­i­cate works, the artist con­fronts con­tem­po­rary envi­ron­men­tal issues — cli­mate change, ocean noise, chem­i­cal pol­lu­tion, bio­di­ver­si­ty loss, and sea lev­el rise — while point­ing towards the cul­tur­al struc­tures that have allowed these cat­a­stro­phes to occur.

ONGO­ING: Sari Carel: A More Per­fect Cir­cle, KODA Open Fri­day-Sun­day through Octo­ber 31 in Colonels Row Build­ing 407B — Artist and activist Sari Carel presents a series of ceram­ic sculp­tures inspired by the sin­gle-use cof­fee cup, uncov­er­ing a sense of pow­er­less­ness and con­flict about a choice at the cen­ter of a dai­ly rou­tine. This pub­lic art instal­la­tion explores what hap­pens to this item when tossed into the trash can, and why we take it for granted.

ONGO­ING: [SUN] Flower Waves, Har­vest­works Open Fri­day-Sun­day through Octo­ber 31 in Nolan Park Build­ing 10A — This dig­i­tal media instal­la­tion by Vic­to­ria Ves­na in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Wal­ter Gekel­man explores the har­mo­nious inter­ac­tion between sun­flow­ers and Alfvén waves, demon­strat­ing how art and sci­ence con­verge to reveal deep­er understandings.

ONGO­ING: Gov­er­nors Island Arts Pub­lic Art­works — Gov­er­nors Island Arts, the arts and cul­tur­al pro­gram pre­sent­ed by the Trust, boasts a diverse col­lec­tion of pub­lic art pieces, sev­er­al of which engage direct­ly with issues of cli­mate and the envi­ron­ment, includ­ing Sam Van Aken’s The Open Orchard, Mark Dion’s The Field Sta­tion of the Melan­choly Marine Biol­o­gist, and Duke Riley’s Not for Nut­ten.

Sep­tem­ber 21, 1 – 4PM: Play is Pow­er: Design Your Own Cli­mate Game, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — In this series of con­sec­u­tive, hour-long work­shops, par­tic­i­pants will be guid­ed step-by-step through the process of design­ing their very own Cli­mate Game: a table­top, role-play­ing, or out­door game that explores a cli­mate issue of their choos­ing. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 21, 11AM‑3:30PM: Envi­ron­men­tal Walk­shop with Melt­ing Metrop­o­lis & CUNY Com­mu­ni­ty Sen­sor Lab, Well­come Trust & The New York Cli­mate Exchange Depart­ing from Sois­sons Land­ing Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 21, 2 – 3:30PM: Gov­er­nors Island Birds & Bees Tour, The Bee Con­ser­van­cy and NYC Bird Alliance Colonels Row Build­ing 405B - Join NYC Bird Alliance (for­mer­ly NYC Audubon) and The Bee Con­ser­van­cy for a spe­cial tour high­light­ing the birds and bees around Gov­er­nors Island, includ­ing the Urban Farm. Since 2018, The Bee Con­ser­van­cy has estab­lished a Bee San­tu­ary on Gov­er­nors Island, com­plete with native flower beds, hon­ey bee hives, and native bee homes. In addi­tion to bees, near­ly 240 bird species have been spot­ted on Gov­er­nors Island, which pro­vides excel­lent habi­tat all year round. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 21, 2PM: Nature in Absen­tia: Monarch Migra­tions Artist Talk, Art­Crawl Harlem Colonels Row Build­ing 403 — Art­Crawl Harlem res­i­dent artist Michele Brody will delve into her cap­ti­vat­ing instal­la­tion that explores the themes of envi­ron­men­tal change and the del­i­cate jour­ney of monarch butterflies.

Sep­tem­ber 22, 1 – 3PM: Earth, Wind, and Water demon­stra­tion, Earth Mat­ter NY Urban Farm — Dis­cov­er the role organ­ic mat­ter plays in water reten­tion, ero­sion con­trol, and car­bon sequestration.

Sep­tem­ber 22, 1 – 4PM: Cli­mate Week NYU Kick­off, NYU & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 22, all day: NYU Cli­mate Week BioBlitz, NYU Learn more & down­load iNaturalist

Sep­tem­ber 22, 2 – 2:30PM: Cli­mate Week Seed Col­lect­ing, The Bee Con­ser­van­cy Urban Farm — Col­lect seeds with the Bee Con­ser­van­cy at their Bee Sanc­tu­ary on Gov­er­nors Island’s Urban Farm — par­tic­i­pants will get seed col­lect­ing tips, learn about seed strat­i­fi­ca­tion and ger­mi­na­tion, and hear how cli­mate and its changes impact the bee and plant species on Gov­er­nors Island and beyond.

Sep­tem­ber 22 – 25, 5 – 7PM: Cli­mate Week Walk­ing Tours, Bil­lion Oys­ter Project Nolan Park Build­ing 16 — Join a Cli­mate Week walk­ing tour to explore Bil­lion Oys­ter Project’s vibrant efforts in restor­ing New York Har­bor’s oys­ter reefs and their impact on com­bat­ing cli­mate change. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 23, 9 – 11AM: Cities and Cli­mate Change: Glob­al Insights and Urban Solu­tions Emerg­ing from the Assess­ment Process Urban Cli­mate Change Research Net­work & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 23, 12 – 3PM: Extreme Heat Sur­vival Through a Pub­lic Health Lens: Intro­duc­ing Project HEAT­WAVE (Part1), NYU & The New York Cli­mate Exchange (by invi­ta­tion only)

Sep­tem­ber 23, 3 – 4:30PM: Ready Set Act! An Eth­i­cal Frame­work for a Rapid­ly Chang­ing Cli­mate Com­mu­ni­ty, Amer­i­can Geo­phys­i­cal Union & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 23, 5 – 7PM: Urban@UW’s Research to Action Col­lab­o­ra­to­ry, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton & The New York Cli­mate Exchange (by invi­ta­tion only)

Sep­tem­ber 24, 10AM-1PM: Solu­tions to the Ener­gy Tran­si­tion Chal­lenges in the NYC Region, Stony Brook Uni­ver­si­ty & New York Cli­mate Exchange (by invi­ta­tion only)

Sep­tem­ber 24, 11AM-5PM: Wast­ed Tex­tiles: A Sto­ry About Slow Fash­ion in Film & Art, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um Colonels Row Build­ing 406A - Enjoy short films and art exhib­it by film­mak­er and slow fash­ion design­er Clementi­na ​“The Sus­tain­able Lati­na” Martinez-Masarweh.

Sep­tem­ber 24, 12 – 2PM: A Jour­ney into the Mind of a Trash Talk­er: Fash­ion, Film, & Art, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um Colonels Row Build­ing 406A - Is tex­tile talk a waste? A not so demure, Clementi­na ​“The Sus­tain­able Lati­na” Mar­tinez-Masar­weh shares her art, her short films and talks about dump­ster div­ing, thrift­ing, and upcy­cling for her run­way shows, and art exhibits.

Sep­tem­ber 24, 12 – 2PM: Adaptation(s) 2.0 Guid­ed Tours, Pratt Insti­tute Cen­ter for Cli­mate Adap­ta­tion Nolan Park Build­ing 14 — Guid­ed tour of exhi­bi­tions that spot­light dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives on cli­mate adap­ta­tion and strate­gies in arch­i­pel­a­gos — com­mu­ni­ties at the great­est risk and in need of find­ing liv­able solu­tions for future cli­mate change. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 24, 3 – 7:30PM: Charg­ing Ahead: Glob­al Strate­gies for Bus Elec­tri­fi­ca­tion, Crux Alliance & The New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 24, 4 – 6PM: IA Island(ing) Adap­ta­tions Dis­cus­sion, Pratt Insti­tute Cen­ter for Cli­mate Adap­ta­tion Admiral’s House — Pan­el dis­cus­sion bring­ing togeth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tion from high lev­el gov­ern­ment offi­cials, inno­v­a­tive design­ers, finan­cial lead­ers, and pol­i­cy mak­ers. Par­tic­i­pants will share their per­spec­tives and engage one anoth­er and the audi­ence in dis­cus­sion through a mod­er­at­ed dis­cus­sion and a Q&A. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 25, 8:30AM: Milk­weed Morn­ing Vol­un­teer Oppor­tu­ni­ty, Gov­er­nors Island Nature - Join the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island’s hor­ti­cul­ture team dur­ing to help wrap up the Year of Milk­weed ini­tia­tive. This is a unique Par­tic­i­pants will be col­lect­ing and clean­ing milk­weed seeds, a native plant essen­tial for mon­archs and oth­er pol­li­na­tors. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 25, 9AM-6PM: Cli­mate Tech Show­case, The New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 26, 10 – 11:30 AM: Imag­in­ing Cli­mate Resilient and Thriv­ing Com­mu­ni­ties through Youth Edu­ca­tion Pro­grams, Geor­gia Tech & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 26, 12 – 3PM: Grow­ing the Green Col­lar Work­force The New York Cli­mate Exchange & NYCETC Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 26, 3 – 4:30PM: Liv­ing Build­ings are Resilient Build­ings: Cli­mate Mit­i­ga­tion AND Adap­ta­tion, Geor­gia Tech & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 26, 6:30 – 8:30PM: Film Screen­ing and Pan­el: ​“Out­side the Cli­mate Bub­ble,” Well­come Trust & The New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 27, 9:30AM-12:30PM: THE OCEAN COUNT­DOWN: Dine, Design, Do, The New York Cli­mate Exchange, Okhta­pus, and The Under­tow Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 27, 11AM-1PM: Sus­tain­able Sto­ry­telling: On and Off Cam­era, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um and the ​“Micro-Plas­ti­na­tion” film crew Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — Learn what makes an impact­ful sto­ry that inspires change both on and off cam­era. This pan­el will include a mix­er with oth­er media-mak­ers and a pre­view of an upcom­ing short film: ​“Micro-Plas­ti­na­tion.” Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 27, 1 – 3PM: Healthy Choic­es, Healthy Plan­et: Cli­mate Aware­ness in Health Edu­ca­tion, Pace Uni­ver­si­ty & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 27, 1 – 4PM: Sus­tain­able Sto­ries: Cli­mate, Food, and Cul­ture through Diverse Voic­es, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um and The Uproot Project Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — A keynote on the inter­sec­tion of diver­si­ty, cul­ture, and food as cli­mate solu­tions, fol­lowed by a pan­el dis­cus­sion and work­shop offer­ing sto­ry­telling tech­niques for envi­ron­men­tal jour­nal­ism and insights into high­light­ing these cru­cial inter­sec­tions. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 27, 1 – 4PM: Cli­mate Edu­ca­tion for Sus­tain­able Cities: Solu­tions That Inspire, UNESCO, GrowNYC, the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island Build­ing 309 - Join us for a unique event com­bin­ing pan­el dis­cus­sions with a tour of some of NYC’s more inno­v­a­tive cli­mate solu­tions and recep­tion at GrowNY­C’s urban farm. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 27, 2 – 3:30PM: Cli­mate Week Nature Walk, The Trust for Gov­er­nors Island Depart­ing from Liggett Ter­race — Led by the Gov­er­nors Island Nature pro­gram along with insect ecol­o­gist Amy Berkov, this tour will take par­tic­i­pants on a jour­ney through Gov­er­nors Island’s diverse nat­ur­al areas, dis­cussing the impacts of cli­mate change on insect pop­u­la­tions. You’ll get to learn about these resilient, built land­scapes direct­ly from the peo­ple who know them best, and get the chance to par­tic­i­pate in dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ty sci­ence projects. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 28, 10AM-5PM: Imag­i­nary Acoustic Visions of Cas­tle Williams, Har­vest­works & New York Cli­mate Exchange

Sep­tem­ber 28, 11AM-1PM: Solarpunk & Hopepunk: Imag­ine a Bet­ter Future, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um & NYC Cli­mate Writ­ers Col­lec­tive Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — Learn about hopepunk and solarpunk writ­ing and har­ness your imag­i­na­tion to build a green­er and more just world. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 28, 11AM-5PM: Flower Plas­ma by Vic­to­ria Ves­na in col­lab­o­ra­tion with plas­ma physi­cist Wal­ter Gekel­man and bio­med­ical engi­neer Haley Marks, Har­vest­works Nolan Park Build­ing 10A — Spe­cial instal­la­tion fea­tur­ing sound and images from UCLA’s Large Plas­ma Device, solar wind data from NASA’s Park­er Solar Probe, and nat­ur­al record­ings — offer­ing an immer­sive med­i­ta­tion on solar ener­gy and the cycle of cre­ation and destruction.

Sep­tem­ber 28, 1 – 3PM: Cli­mate Café- ​“Red: A Mark Rothko Sto­ry,” ​“Imag­ined Futures: Grief & Seeds,” Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — An uplift­ing after­noon of refresh­ments, med­i­ta­tion, and a mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tion on cli­mate emo­tions. Par­tic­i­pants can enjoy cof­fee and snacks with oth­ers in the cli­mate com­mu­ni­ty as they share their feel­ings and get to know oth­ers in the move­ment. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 28, 2 – 2:30PM: Gar­den­ing for Cli­mate Change, GrowNYC Urban Farm - This guid­ed tour will focus on how cli­mate change will impact gar­den­ing, what GrowNYC’s Teach­ing Gar­den on Gov­er­nors Island does to mit­i­gate its impact on cli­mate change, and how gar­dens can adapt to a chang­ing climate.

Sep­tem­ber 28, 2 – 3:30PM: Gov­er­nors Island Bird Tour, NYC Bird Alliance and the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island Colonels Row Build­ing 405B — Whether you’re an expert bird­er or a begin­ner, this guid­ed tour — led by an NYC Bird Alliance edu­ca­tor along with the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island’s arborist — will help you dis­cov­er all of the birdlife the Island has to offer, and how the Island’s trees pro­vide vital habi­tat. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 28, 2 – 3:30PM: Cli­mate Week Pol­li­na­tor Walk, The Bee Con­ser­van­cy Urban Farm — Learn about New York City’s pol­li­na­tors (and the habi­tats that sup­port them) and explore nature through a pollinator’s lens with an expe­ri­enced guide from the Bee Con­ser­van­cy. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 28, 3 – 6PM: Remem­ber Ida: A 3^rd Anniver­sary Pod­cast Lis­ten­ing Ses­sion and Reflec­tion Cir­cle, Queens Mem­o­ry Project & New York Cli­mate Exchange Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 28, 3 – 5PM: The Chase (EP) Release Par­ty: A Cli­mate Week Jam, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um and Cre­dle Enter­tain­ment Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — Cel­e­brate the close of Cli­mate Week with the release of CREDLE’s 5^th stu­dio project, The Chase (EP), an Afropop, R&B, and House genre-focused music project. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 29, 1 – 3PM: Solarpunk & Hopepunk: Imag­ine a Bet­ter Future, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um & NYC Cli­mate Writ­ers Col­lec­tive Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — Learn about hopepunk and solarpunk writ­ing and har­ness your imag­i­na­tion to build a green­er and more just world. Reg­is­ter

Sep­tem­ber 29, 3 – 5PM: Grief & Seeds: Hon­or­ing the Past, Cre­at­ing the Future, Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um, Holes in the Wall Col­lec­tive, Amer­i­can Indi­an Com­mu­ni­ty House Colonels Row Build­ing 406A — Close out Cli­mate Week with inten­tion at this gath­er­ing to hon­or place and pos­si­bil­i­ty. Fea­tur­ing elder and activist Jk Canepa, youth orga­niz­er Anna Tso­mo with youth from 6^th St. Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Action group, a pop­up seed gath­er­ing with Next Epoch Seed Library, and a clos­ing rit­u­al led by Noelle Ghous­sai­ni of Sacred Space.