Climate Cafe with Eternal Forest Artist & Poet Evgenia Emets
Sat, Aug 03
|406A Comfort Rd, New York, NY 10004, USA
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
406A Comfort Rd, New York, NY 10004, USA
About the event
During this special Climate Cafe, Evgenia will share about her journey with Eternal Forest, working with various communities, works from her recent art residency with Split Rock Arts lead by artist Jean Brennan in Adirondacks, read poetry from Eternal Forest, and share a practice of connecting with a tree.
Please bring your own cup if you would like coffee or tea. We suggest a $5 donation to help us keep hosting more cafes, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Evgenia Emets is an artist and poet and Founder of Eternal Forest working with forests, ecology, biodiversity and community through visual works, poetry, installation, performance, and forest art.
Since moving to Portugal she started the ‘Eternal Forest’ project (2018), first as an attempt to understand the human drivers behind deforestation and the disappearance of biodiverse natural forests, and then with a vision to create a network of 1,000 forest sanctuaries to be protected for 1,000 years through art and community.
Eternal Forest is an invitation to reconsider our fundamental relationship with the forest. Eternal Forest invites the audience to think how we could transform the currently dominant ‘extractive’ relationship with the forest and why this is an urgent and necessary step. How can we contribute to creating a biodiverse environment, which requires decades or centuries, a time beyond our lifetime, to mature and thrive? How do we value something, which only our great grandchildren and their ancestors will be able to see fully developed? Philosophical, artistic, spiritual, religious, economic - what are various perspectives - and how can we integrate them so that we can all work together to preserve and rebuild biodiverse forest ecosystems?