Dune Dreams & Peninsula Power: Climate Cafe in the Rockaways

Join us for this special edition Climate Cafe along the restoring dunes on the frontline of Hurricane Sandy Join us for this special edition Climate Cafe NYC to process your climate emotions, grief and future hopes in community and alongside the restoring dunes in post Sandy Rockaway and tying the work into the current Rights of Nature movement right here in NYC. The Climate Cafe will be hosted by Holes in the Wall Collective and Climate Cafe NYC at the Arverne Nature Preserve Welcome Center alongside the restoring dunes planted by Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity (RISE)- a community based organization created in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The Climate Cafe will be co-facilitated by Gianna Lum– the co-founder of Climate Cafe NYC, Elizabeth Opurum– writer, grief doula and board member of Edgemere Alliance and The Garden by the Bay, and Carine Gibert– founder of Grounded In Motion, an interdisciplinary educational practice working at the intersection of deep ecology, the Rights of Nature movement, and the arts. This Climate Cafe will also support us in connecting to the living world and the rights that nature inherently has and should be mirrored in our legislative bodies– with an opportunity to add testimonial for the upcoming Great Lakes and New York Waters Bill of Rights which could become the largest rights of nature legislation in the United States, following in the footsteps of Ecuador, Bolivia, New Zealand, Columbia, the US & Canada, Spain and Bangladesh– recognizing the vast indigenous leadership of these laws including the Maori, Waorani, Kichwa, Siekopai and so many more.