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Where Art Meets Community to Shape a Resilient and Sustainable Future.

Connecting culture and climate awareness in creative and engaging ways, Rhythmix Rising Seas presents a free, outdoor series, May through August, transforming Alameda’s waterfront parks with live music, dance, and theater.

Enjoy the theatrics of the “Climate Detective from the Future”, directed by Jeff Raz, as he looks for climate clues to find out where things went wrong and where things are headed in a positive direction. Each location tells a unique site-specific story.

Experience KT Nelson & dancers’ audience-immersive choreography acknowledging the fragility of living on an island amidst a climate crisis. The dance is set to a soundscape of the voices of local residents and climate leaders exploring the question “Where do you draw the line?”.

Acknowledge our ancestral lands and learn an Earth Song with Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods. Listen to music and stories of different island cultures providing a global perspective about living in balance and respect for our natural surroundings.

Immerse yourself in the energy of Puerto Rican Bomba with Batey Tambó, a women-of-color-led ensemble rooted in Afro-Indigenous traditions, sharing the resilience of their island culture through rhythm and dance.

Artists and local climate organizations will offer fun hands-on activities for the community to participate in and learn about actions they can take to help mitigate climate change, inviting everyone to imagine a more connected and sustainable future.

Rhythmix Cultural Works is a proud recipient of the inaugural 2024 Arts in California Parks – Local Parks Grant in support of Rising Seas, awarded to only 31 organizations across the state of California.

Rising Seas is an anchor arts project of the Rising Tides Climate Arts Initiative supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the City of Alameda.

For full event details and artist bios, visit rhythmixrisingseas.org

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Rising Seas Live Performance Event Dates:

• May 31, 2025 at Seaplane Lagoon Promenade
• June 21, 2025 at Harbor View Park
• July 12, 2025 at Shoreline Park, Bay Farm
• August 23, 2025 at Bohol Circle Immigrant Park

Artist Bios

KT Nelson is a choreographer and dedicated advocate for emerging artists and the environment. She was a dancer, choreographer, and co-artistic director of ODC/Dance from 1976 to 2020. Nelson has been awarded the Isadora Duncan Award four times: in 1987 for Outstanding Performance, in 1996 and 2012 for Outstanding Choreography, and in 2001 for Sustained Achievement. Her collaborators have included Berkeley Symphony, Bobby McFerrin, Geoff Hoyle, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Zap Mana, and Joan Jeanrenaud. Nelson’s Dead Reckoning was presented at Jacob’s Pillow and the Joyce Theater to explore the ways our species ignores or forgets how we contribute to the climate crisis.

Ed Holmes is a veteran actor and director heralded as “a local treasure” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Ed scripted and performed as the narrator of 3 Island City Waterways productions from 2016-2022. In the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Ed wrote, directed and performed free outdoor public theater in Bay Area parks for 28 years. He is the founder of the annual Saint Stupid’s Day Parade in San Francisco and performs a solo show Subhuman: tales beneath the sea about his seven years in the navy. Ed has performed with Antenna Theater, and Fratelli Bologna, and has taught workshops in physical theater for ACT, Mills, SFMOMA, Sony, and DreamWorks.

Jeff Raz has starred in many plays and circuses, from Corteo with Cirque du Soleil to Comedy of Errors on Broadway. He is a graduate of Dell’Arte International, has written 15 plays and directed dozens of circus and theater productions. His first book, The Secret Life of Clowns, was launched nationally at the Smithsonian in 2017; The Snow Clown dropped in September 2018. Both books are fiction taken from adventures Jeff has had in his career — teaching in Eskimo villages in the middle of winter, starring in a Cirque du Soleil show for 500 performances, etc.

Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash. She is proud of her heritage and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.

Batey Tambó is an Oakland and San Francisco-based, women of color-led, cultural group grounded in the centuries-old musical tradition of Afro-Indigenous Puerto Rican Bomba. Batey Tambó’s mission is to facilitate a conversation, through teaching and sharing spaces for Bomba music and dance traditions developed by enslaved Africans and their descendants.

The Arts in California Parks Local Parks Grant Program revitalizes local parks with diverse experiences that foster creativity, community connection, and transform them into vibrant hubs of art, culture, and nature. These innovative programs will bring art and cultural programming to local parks, transforming them into dynamic spaces that celebrate California’s cultural heritage and provide memorable experiences for visitors and residents alike.

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