Hello, Sharing news and a call… Unfortunately the installation series will not start this weekend due to the intense rain and a Covid risk 💧:'( The actual first installation will be a makeup date this Wednesday Oct 4, from 12-5ish at Newtown Creek Nature Walk Park. Another makeup date will be announced when the forecast is KNOWN ! All the other dates, including Oct 7th at the Kingsland wildflowers garden Greenroof with performances (eventbrite forthcoming) are still on as of now. My Instagram linked at the bottom of this email will have more in depth updates each day! !!!!Finally i would like to invite you to help me collect oral histories about and sonic events from all the rain we just received. Please reach out if you are open to being casually interviewed in person or over the phone about the intense flooding and wetness we have experienced here in New York. Did you experience flooding ? Feelings? Travel restriction? Memories? Feel free to send a recording as well. This audio could be used in this project and other nyc precipitation based sound art projects. Thank you all for reading <3 *Here’s the original email again… * *Hello friends and listeners* *Hello friends and listeners* I am writing to share information and the current* schedule for a series of installations and events I will share throughout October in North Brooklyn called *Mespaetches Creek Dynamic Listening*, an activation of sound sculpture, soft sculpture, and public space for critical play, affective information, and collaboration. [image: MCDL Schedule.jpg] This project invites you to… -Kinesthetically explore and recompose fragments of a vast sonic archive of interviews, oral histories, field recordings, events, and drones recorded from 2018-2023 that hold insight into the ecological systems, histories of environmental and social devastation and remediation, and playful sonic quality of “Newtown Creek” and NYC climate activism. -Handle these sounds in the Dynamic Listening Instrument, a sculpture/tool that allows sounds to be heard and blended across a venn-diagram of electromagnetic fields using buckets and pillows/stuffed animals outfitted with speakers and coils. -View, touch, and lounge on Pre-York River Blankets, large embroidered quilts made from up-cycled materials sewn for different communities, places, and ecologies along the “Hudson” River watershed. -Visit unique parks and a remediating waterfront concealed by industrial clamor for deep hanging out and creek education. -Be present for performances from artists like Pudding Club, Kwami Winfield, and other friends making work and living lives engaged with the waterway that will be happening across the installation schedule. I <3 Acoustemology (knowing through sound) I would love to share and experience this project with you and hope you can make it to one of the currently scheduled activations. Please share this email with people you think would be interested. Definitely feel free to reply with rsvp or questions! You can text or call me for specific directions about how to reach some of these desolate industrially hidden parks! 516-491-9983 + Please join us October 7th, (the day after my birthday ;)) at The Kingsland Wildflowers Green Roof from 4-8 for an installation and performances at Newtown Creek Alliance’s HQ where we can overlook the creek and the giant Wastewater Treatment Plant. There will be refreshments, and a native plant sale earlier in the afternoon. (Stay tuned for an eventbrite link) [image: Oct 7 Schedule.JPG] [image: Oct 7.jpg] This series of installations is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the Media Arts Assistance Fund a regrant partnership of NYSCA and Wave Farm. I am very grateful to Wave Farm for believing in and supporting this project! The Creek is one of the most historically polluted in the world. Large refineries for oil, raw materials, and chemicals have transformed the creek since the 1850s saturating the area with spills, waste, and countless large fires. Since the 1970s the creek has seen less industrial traffic and more environmental activists working to remediate the waterway and clean up amassed haunting and illusive oil, toxicity, and industrial waste. Newtown Creek is a federal superfund site. You can learn all about the history of the creek, from its glacial formation, pre-colonial inhabitants and industrial happenings through amazing interactive maps on Newtown Creek Alliance’s website… http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/exploring-newtown-creek/ My intentional engagement with the creek through art began in 2020 when I began building a sonic archive and making soft maps documenting the fight against and impact of the North Brooklyn Pipeline. This pipeline was secretly built from Newtown Creek to Flatbush during the pandemic and has been so far successfully made useless by activist collectives including No NBK Pipeline Coalition, FrackoutBK, and Sane Energy Project. National Grid, who secretly built the pipeline and is having Brooklyn residents pay for it via gas bills, had its first operation on the creek almost 100 years ago in 1925. As National Grid continues to try and fight for its illegal pipeline and expanding monopolized fossil fuel infrastructure on the creek, activist groups have declared that National Grid itself must be dissolved and shut down for a transition to clean energy and a democratized decarbonized energy economy. My matrilineal family grew up adjacent to the creek in Long Island City after immigrating to the U.S. in the early 20th century. Included in this sonic archive is an interview with my cousin Alexis who grew up in Long Island City. We visit the house she lived in until the late 60s and PS1 (now moma) where my grandfather Palatella ended school as a kid. This series is part of a larger body of work and place making project I've been building since 2018 called Pre-York River which builds interactive archives for and about communities, ecologies, and histories along the "Hudson" River watershed. Pre-York River Video Note #1 Haverstraw Newtown Creek Alliance is doing so many amazing things with this waterway. Attending the events they initiate and collaborate on has informed me and this project greatly. Wetland and waterway remediation is so exciting, important, and fun. [image: Dynamic Listening.JPG] Current activation schedule is… Sept 30 Noon-6pm – Newtown Creek Nature Walk Park Octo 1 Noon-6pm – Newtown Creek Nature Walk Park October 7 4pm-8pm Kingsland Wildflowers Greenroof *talks and performances Oct 14 10am-3:30pm – McGorlick Park Oct 15 Noon-Sunset – Plank Road Public Shoreline *dance performances Oct 21 Noon-Sunset – Penny Bridge Park Oct 22 Noon-Sunset – Under the “K” Bridge Park *sound performance Oct 28 Noon-Sunset – -WNYC Transmitter Park *performances Oct 29 9am-??? -Newtown Creek Nature Walk Park Use google maps for navigation and Check @cal._.fish on instagram for updates rain dates, and future installation dates! Thank you so much for reading! And thank you to all who have supported this project including Xander, Chloe, Wave Farm, Newtown Creek Alliance, Kim, everyone who has been interviewed and recorded for this project and many more <3 -Cal (they/them) http://calfish.land/