2022 Earthshot Boston Host Committee: City Activations

Want to learn more about urban green spaces and growing food in East Boston? Join Climable for their first ever Eastie Farm Field Trip on Thursday, November 17 at 1 pm! Eastie Farm is about "creating a food system where everyone can afford and access fresh, healthy, locally grown food." Their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), composting, and Climate NATURE program is all about giving back to the community while caring for the planet. We can't wait to tour this facility and learn more about the project from the people who make it all happen.

ALRIGHT, led by Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and creative and curator Cierra Peters, is an interactive arts experience and show that engages a conversation around the Black Diaspora and climate change. Inspired by Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, “We gone be alright”, this art experience uses an Afro-futurist pedagogy to frame the role Black individuals have in writing and claiming a future we want to and can live in by their own design. The event will feature music from DJ Real P, dance vignettes choreographed by KiKi at 4 Star Dance Studio, poetry from Crystal Valentine, a live performance from Fanta Vibez, and more. Audience members will be spirited through the evening via host/forest goddess Dzidzor Azaglo of Black Cotton Club. The ALRIGHT event is free and open to all, and attendees are encouraged to dress in the theme of “enchanted garden”.

As the globe becomes increasingly urban—more than 70 percent of the earth’s population will live in a city by 2050—it is especially important that we find innovative ways to reduce carbon emissions, fund sustainable development and transportation, and create new urban green spaces to reduce food, heat and flooding threats and protect our most vulnerable populations. The Trustees of Reservation’s response to the opportunities and challenges is our Boston Waterfront Initiative, which advances a bold vision for iconic, public open space on the Boston waterfront.

The classical music group Eureka Ensemble and the University of Massachusetts Boston School for the Environment partnered to create a program called “Rising Tides.” The goal was to work with third through eighth graders in three different communities within Boston, including Chelsea, to illustrate the connections between climate change and music. The culmination was a performance of songs that the students wrote and composed about our changing planet, including both factual and emotional elements.