NY Loves Mountains 2009! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

The New York Loves Mountains Festival is coming up this weekend, kicking off with the reading of the new play Light Comes this Friday. It’s an awesome event focusing on solidarity between the lights of Broadway burning up MTR coal as well as new and unchecked destruction from drilling for gas in the Catskills.

Amazing cast includes accomplished author/performer Jeff Biggers and Headwaters Founder Steph Pistello and lightning rod activist & Kentuckian, Teri Blanton. The concert at Brooklyn’s Bell House Sunday night features Kentuckian Ben Sollee and Kentucky author/musician Silas House. Saturday there’s a Fossil Fools scavenger hunt in Union Square with bike powered smoothies.

Full schedule below.

Friday, May 29th

Playreading of Light Comes and Reception @ Philip Coltoff Center, 219 Sullivan St.
7:00 p.m. Reception
8:00 p.m. Reading

New play by Sarah Moon on mountain top removal and the history of electricity.
A reception with live music by Ben Sollee and refreshments will precede and follow the reading.

Saturday May 30th

Demonstration Scavenger Hunt starting @ South End of Union Square

1:00-3:00 p.m.

Starting at the South end of the square with “What’s wrong with fossil fuels?” and

proceeding counter-clockwise around the park, four stations pose questions and provide

information about the circumstances surrounding humanity’s critical need to stop fossil

   fuel extraction and burning and restore a harmonious balance with the natural world. To
    fortify yourself for the “hunt”, Rock the Bike (http://www.rockthebike.com/about) will be
    present, making bike-powered smoothies!

Sunday May 31st

Concert featuring Ben Sollee, Silas House and Demolition String Band @ The Bell House

149 7th St., Gowanus, Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $17 in advance (http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action? venueId=31254) and $20 at the door

BLOG:
http://nylovesmountains2009.blogspot.com/

WEBSITE:
http://www.nylovesmountains.com/_NY_Loves_Mountains/Events.html

Jeff Biggers: NY is Burning
http://www.indypendent.org/2009/05/14/new-york-burning/

Jeff Biggers: Taking Off-Broadway Off Coal
http://www.grist.org/article/green-theatre-taking-off-broadway-off-coal

Katrin Redfern: Moving Mountains with Theatre
http://www.indypendent.org/2009/05/18/moving-mountains/

Concert venue:
http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php

About

Dana works on the national council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition in Charleston, WV Visit www.seac.org. She likes to make papier mache stuff with five year olds. She likes mountains that haven't been blown all to hell. She likes communities that fight back when their mountains have been blown all to hell. She doesn't like coal, or blowing up mountains. She especially doesn't like (not so) Clean Coal (no such thing) and thinks Carbon Sequestration is a bad deal for communities and kids. And really, who else matters?