October 2nd, 2021
The 8th MudBall Ball
A part of LUNGS NYC Harvest Arts Festival
2-7 pm
El Jardin Del Paraiso. Between 4th & 5th streets & Ave C & D
10 E 5th St, New York, NY 10009
The Masters of Succession Collective presents the culmination of a week of individual offerings to the community called The Plaza of the Wind. On Saturday Oct. 2nd we come together all in one place at the same time. We come together to share what we love and some food. We connect and grow our vibrant neighborhood.
The 8th Beneficial MudBall Beneficial Ball and Ephemeral PIazza (#mbb)
At El Jardin Del Paraiso as part of The Harvest Arts Festival
It will look like a garden celebration & a makers market with picnic blankets, a potluck of our cultural and healthy food offerings and music.
We’ve had a year of great separation. Let us come together outside and reconnect as a village.
You are invited to participate in co-creating this village center of beneficial succession, bioremediation, symbiosis, regeneration and reciprocity — an empathic village. The Mud Ball is the silent advocate of the collaborative world. The mud ball is the silent advocate of graciousness for earth, each other and ourselves.
We ❤️ Piazzas!
The question we pose:
“Who do you want to be in the place you want to see?”
Join MoS Collective as we journey toward the beneficial succession of air, water, soil and selves as a by-product of what we do. This means come with design choices that attend to healthy supply chains and resource (waste) flows. Together our choices further pathways toward healthier air, water, soil & selves. In the Loisiada, we appreciate the gardens and decades of dedication to visioning a better place with collaborations that have made this neighborhood healthier. Over previous decades this groundwork literally has been created a fertile place for growth. Let’s continue to move our visions for a better community forward, fresh and meaningful to us as our future continue to unfold.
Past years MBB village center offerings
Year before we’ve had everything from conceptual, performative, service or tangible. Anything from “I’ll be the curious person”, “I want to be a person that sits on a bench”, “I’ll be distopia”, or I want to make seed balls, mud balls, herbal sachets, build walls with Reishi, plastic with microbes.
Sat 10/2 Schedule
- 1 pm barn raising (help set up?)
- 2:30 opening circle
- 2:45 guided village tour
- 3-5pm 2 hours of ongoing happenings
- 5 pm procession to water. Bring / Make Instraments, throw mudballs & shells, launch bioremediating relief into the water, learn about the East River Park Action.
- 7 pm closing circle
- 9 pm Linger Longer
How can we leave a better trace? How can we leave a more beautiful community garden as a by-product of being there?
The bustling village piazza offerings are between 3-5pm. Everything at once— enjoy! Ongoing happenings. Share a dish, give your gifts. Imagine, arrive, acknowledge, non verbal moving through the space. Explore viscerally and cognitively. Maybe … Draw and write. You might ask yourself .. Who I want to be in the world I want to see?
Some offerings will be:
AcuMobile: Wendy Henry LAc.; Gisele Kamanou: healthy eating, Princess Princess, Daniela Fabrizi with ReMake/ReHecha, Kimberly Tate’s Sustainable Systems class, Dyan Bodhi helping with piazza medallions, Jacobie Zaretsky doing Earthen Reliefs, JK Canepa something magical, Marie Argeris joins JK, Marina Tsaplina forest protection, Christy-Ann Brown Somatics, Lisa Saunders: Immerse Italy, Harry Lichtenstein kids obstacle course, Musicians Victor & Carmon, Artist Stewart Hoyt plus many more wonderful people not yet listed.
Scheduled offerings
SpeLcast offers the interludes.
Here is that schedule:
2:00 pm. Inner and outer landscapes by Christy-Ann Brown, Project Dendrite & ChristyAnnBrown.com
2:30 pm Village Circle Cermony
2:57 pm SpeLcast
3:00 pm “How’s our Air Quality? Wendy Brawer of Green Map. There are new real-time monitors working 24/7! LES Breathe will show you how the sensors work and ways to protect your indoor air quality starting at 3pm. Check the air anytime at http://eastriverparkaction.org/sensors/“.
3:27 pm SpeLcast interlude
3:30 pm On Storytelling and Sustainable Urbanism. Readings and Stories from Benjamin Shepard’s Sustainable Urbanism. Come bring one of your own, a poem or story to the Mud Ball ball. A village plaza, a wide open spacious Plaza Efimera, a bustling village center that also creates beneficial succession of air, water, soil, and selves.
3:57 pm SpeLcast
4:00 pm Music by Victor & Carmon
4:57 pm SpeLcast
5:00 pm Procession to the East River Park for the water & land with Kimberly Tate & Parsons Design Sustainable Systems students. We will throw in beneficial mud balls and offer good intentions for the river, soil and trees the city is poised to tear it all up. The East River Action will explain.
5:30 pm MudBall ceremony at the waterfront. Return to the garden village piazza.
6:00 pm Spelcast
6:05 pm Herbal Class with Noreen kelly, ND. We will learn how to identify medicinally viable plants, determine what is a “weed”, examine the traditional uses of these plants, look at some of the current science, and then make a tea. https://www.naturopathnyc.com/
7:00 pm Closing circle
7:30 pm Linger Longer. How can we leave a better trace? If u haven’t already as a by product of your life — stay to improve the garden. How can we leave a more beautiful community garden as a by-product of being there?
Leave a better trace.
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What to Bring:
- wear your mud tux or finest garden gown or creature persona
- a healthy dish or beverage to share
– mess kit or spork or and container to save on throw-away serving items.
– 8.5 x 11 cardboard sign for your offering
– picnic blanket
– umbrella & jacket – it’s harvest weather.
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Still don’t know what you might like to do or be? More ideas to spark your participation: poetry, herbal teas, natural play dough, make cob biomaterial, make a pizza oven for pizza with garden tomatoes & basil, make or sharpen knives, a straw bale chair, a rocket stove, solar oven, biodigestor, geothermal mouse house, crush oyster shells, pigments and ink paper for the town cryer, magic carpets, bow ties, make tinctures, cut hair w sharp scissors to feel amazing then stuff the hair waste into a Mycoboom absorb and Bioremediator river oil slicks, lead a bike ride to the MudBall Ball while bioremediating brown fields, be a photojournalist, or video journalist. (All these Ideas are Up for grabs).
Collaborator Gratitude list:
The MoS Collective thanks El Jardin Del Paraiso, LUNGS, Grace Exhibition Space, Green Map, The East Village Wellness Circle, CRREW, Acumobile, Loisaida Wellness, The East River Park Action, LES Breathe, The Yak Forest, The Garbagia Project, Ann Edris, Charles Krezell, Dyan Bodhi, JC Augustin, Kimberly Tate, Jacobie Zaretsky, Rachel and Lily Kaplan, A2NL2E, Wenting Chen, Nadege Alexis, Wendy Brawer, George Hirose, Kappo Kappino, Christa Huffman, Joanne Russo, Campos Garden, Gaia Institute, Paul Mankiewicz.
We all are grateful for who came before us and continue to create the platform for future life on the LES and earth. Come weave into it all!
Together we ephemerally swirl to create lasting relationships and further collective abundance. ❤️
Thank you to all who donated to the fundraiser for “The Plaza Of The Wind!” 0n IOBY.org
To contribute click. MoS Contributions page
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