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Learn more @ http://www.processionalarts.org/

Official Facebook portal for Processional Arts Workshop, Inc., a non-profit arts ensemble working with communities to design, build, and perform site-specific parades, pageants, and immersive theater works.

04/28/2025

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10/10/2024

Our theme Meow-nifesto for this year's NY NYC Village Halloween Parade.....come join us on the Catwalk!

10/04/2024

Puppetraisings start tomorrow for the NNYC Village Halloween Parade

Can you guess what our theme is this year?

09/12/2024

We're honored that Morningside Lights made the list "Must-See Public Art in NYC!" in Untapped New York.

Proud to be in amazing company, with Glenn Ligon's "America/Me" billboard, María Magdalena Campos-Pons' "Procession of Angels" and the Coexistence Consortium's "Great Elephant Migration".

Go out and see them all! Then come join us for Morningside LIghts on Sept 21!

https://untappedcities.com/2024/09/03/must-see-public-art-installations-in-nyc-september-2024/

Arts Initiative at Columbia University

09/10/2024

Who are YOUR New York art heroes?

Who has changed how you see the world and how you see yourself?

This year's Morningside Lights celebrates "In Retrospect:100 Years of NYC Art". Send us YOUR favorite images and our amazing community of lantern-makers will turn them into giant lanterns, culminating in a luminous procession on September 21.

Please post YOUR must-see images of life-changing NYC art in comments below......

Learn more about Morningside Lights, and how to get involved at www.morningside-lights.com

Morningside Lights is co-produced by....
Arts Initiative at Columbia University
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Friends of Morningside Park

09/09/2024

Morningside Lights returns on September 21 with "In Retrospect: 100 Years of NYC Art"

This year's 13th annual neighborhood procession of light looks back of epochal works by New York artists, illustrators, visionaries and movements that have changed how we see our world and ourselves. Join us during a week of free, collaborative drop-in workshops in Miller Theatre at Columbia University, where we will transform representative fragments from a century of radical inspiration and visionary culture into an ambulatory night museum of giant lanterns.

What New York artist or artwork has shaped YOUR vision, altered how you view the world around you? What work has inspired you to evolve, learn, and move forward?

Whether or not you can join us in person, we invite ALL of you to share the eye-opening NYC artworks you would like to see honored in procession – we'll add your suggestions to our Wall of Ideas for anyone to adopt and illuminate. So bring on your WPA murals and grafitti walls, your serene abstractions and subversive comics! Give us your Pop Art and Punk-zines, your Hip-Hop and Harlem Renaissance, your moody urban realists and post-modern provocateurs, prominent public installations and underground outsider arts! Though the culminating procession can never capture the totality of New York's artistic legacy, the highlights we celebrate will remind us how myriad ways of seeing can cohabit and enrich one singular space.

Post your images in the comments below, and learn more about the workshops and procession at www.morningside-lights.com

Arts Initiative at Columbia University

07/14/2024

Every hothouse flower at Planting Fields Foundation has a story to tell….

Gardenia Jasminoides sings of Billie Holiday.
Opuntia Cacti color the cochineal robes of Vatican Cardinals

What botanical backstories would YOU want to tell?

Stained-glass storytelling workshops to create our community-built performance of "Follies" start this Friday!

Learn more or sign up to participate at www.plantingfields.org

07/07/2024

On a beautiful October morning in 2010, a wide-eyed volunteer walked into our Halloween workshop, buzzing with keen observations and anticipation – and ready to get messy.

From that moment onward, over dozens of performances in many places, Mark Skelly became a spiritual and artistic cotter-pin to our close-knit ensemble of makers and performers (if you know, you know...). Now, we are now sharing the unfathomable and heartbreaking news that he has unexpectedly passed away -- too, too soon.

Those who worked and played with Mark knew that he contained multiples, a man of alchemically potent contrasts. He brought a photographer's rigorous keen eye and precision to every project, yet he could summon a wildman's unhinged sprit in performance, bringing any mask or prop to life with an infectious and transcendent joy. As a volunteer-driven ensemble, we have gotten used to the fact that commitment levels vary, and not everyone will take their role seriously. Mark was the kind of performer who could animate a ribbon on a stick as if he were Hamlet cradling the skull of Yorick. And in doing so, he inspired everyone around him to elevate their game, to remind us that in all this play there was deeply important work being done.

There is so much more we would love to share, but in the end, Mark's spirit comes through most clearly in his own words, which we saved from the very first message he sent us after that first Puppetraising for "Memento Mori" 14 years ago. Perhaps we can take solace in the fact that his love of life was so abiding that one can well imagine him taking his first steps into the unknown, not with dread, but with the same wide-eyed wonder he first brought into our lives. So we leave you with this....

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"Thank you all so very much for making my most recent Saturdays truly days worth living. I was given a chance to meet so many very wonderful people, be involved in an extraordinarily beautiful project, and be inspired beyond my wildest expectations.

If it is true that one day a year the dead can teach us how to appreciate life more, then the lesson I have learned is that during the rest of the year it's up to us who are living to do the same. You all have taught this lesson to me.

Please accept these photos as some form of window into what it felt like for me to be with you.

See you all, even better yet, on Sunday. And yes also, I do hope to continue to be in touch with you as time moves forward and beyond.

Try me, I'm good."

06/28/2024

On July 27, Processional Arts inhabits the historic landscape at Planting Fields Foundation in Oyster Bay, NY with a roving performance installation of "Follies: A Botanical Backstory"

We are honored to be named 2024 Artists-in-Residence for the Planting Fields Foundation's Catalyst Program. Each year, Planting Fields commissions a contemporary artist to create a site-specific work amidst its 409 acres of exquisite gardens, greenhouses, and architectural treasures, carrying on a legacy of artistic patronage the Coe family brought to Planting Fields over a century ago. Recent Catalyst Artists have included Mark Dion Courtney M Leonard, and Diana Al-Hadid.

Processional Arts leads a week of community workshops to unearth and illuminate the histories buried in Planting Fields' vast and varied greenhouse collection – encompassing Camellia Sinensis' tale of tea and trade, the hallucinogenic honey of Rhododendron Ponticum, the ritual roots of Theobroma cacoa's sweet elixir, the Orchidelerium that gripped Victorian fashion, and more. Drawing connections to material cultures, colonial histories, medicinal wisdom, and scientific discoveries, workshop participants will translate these botanical backstories onto mobile illustrated hothouses and translucent architectural puppets that mysteriously assemble and drift apart as they move through the gardens in performance.

Collaged in faux stained-glass panels, these ephemeral enclosures evoke the architectural "follies" of 18th and 19th century landscapes – whimsical structures, ancient temples, miniature castles, and other imaginary ruins built to imbue English country estates with simulated histories. The roving hothouses echo the folly of horticulture's historic obsession with dislocating, preserving and possessing fragile non-native specimens from across the globe – reflecting the reach of colonial power and the commodification of the exotic. At a moment when life across the planet seem as precarious as hothouse flowers, these fleeting transparent follies invite community makers and audiences alike to dig deeper into the buried botanical tales at Planting Fields and see our evolving relationship to nature through a newly-colored glass.

Learn more and join our community workshops at plantingfields.org/happenings/catalyst-2024-workshops/

Or register to attend the free final performance at
plantingfields.org/happenings/catalyst-2024-performance/

05/10/2024

The 5th Annual Hudson Mad Hatter's Parade is TOMORROW, Saturday May 11!

Anyone in wearable art can join! Or grab one of our pret-a-porter hats and join the Readymade Brigade!

Step off from Hudson Area Library, or en route, to the music of Brasskill and Djam Gong Gamelan. And gaze in awe at the nimble stilters from Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

And tip your hat to our madly magnanimous local sponsors.

Thank you to the generous individual donors and amazing Mad Hatters’ Parade sponsors who make all of this possible: FINCH Hudson Spark of Hudson The Maker Hudsontricity Friends of Hudson Youth Talbott & Arding Cheese and Provisions Susan Eley Fine Art Mel the Bakery Boutique Manifest Stewart's Shops and Bank of Greene County

More info @ www.madhattersparade.org

04/30/2024

Hey ....just saying the 5th Annual Hudson Mad Hatter's Parade was country before country was cool!

What are YOU gonna wear to the rodeo? Dust off your Setson and come join Hudson's homegrown wearable-art hoedown on May 11.

More info @ www.madhattersparade.org

And let's give a holler to our amazing local sponsors Spark of Hudson, Finch Hudson, The Maker, Talbott & Arding Cheese and Provisions Hudsontricity Susan Eley Fine Art Stewarts'Shops Boutique Manifestst, and Friends of Hudson Youth

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http://www.processionalarts.org/

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