SOON IS NOW

Edwin Torres, My Mother's Mother's Other
Elizabeth Clark, Seeds Under Nuclear Winter, An Earth Opera
The Oysters by Miranda Rose Hall, performed by Liz Zito, Eric Magnus, Andrew Brehm
What We Give Back by Madeline Sayet, performed by Twinkle Burke
Tom King
all of us were all born in crises by David Finnigan, performed by Katiana Rangel
October Hudson Cento by Tom and Chet King, read by Chet King
Bedtime Story for My (future) Daughter by Caity-Shea Violette, performed by Hudson River Playback Theatre
Hudson River Playback Theatre
Escapegoat by May Treuhaft-Ali, performed by Connie Hall & Anna Zabel

SOON IS NOW is an annual immersive day of climate theater, art and activism set in Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park, a former industrial site and brownfield transformed into an ecologically sustainable park on the Hudson River in Beacon, NY. This site was originally the territory of the Wappinger, Mohican and Munsee peoples, in a region with a vital history of environmental activism rooted in Scenic Hudson's fight to save Storm King Mountain from industry and Pete Seeger's fight for an unpolluted Hudson River.
SOON IS NOW stages artistic interventions throughout this riverfront park as a curated tour for the viewer, with nature as backdrop and collaborator. The interplay between nature and performance allows the audience to experience climate narratives in a space that reminds us of the beauty and fragility of our earth today. Based on the belief that art can reach the hearts and minds of audiences on this most devastating threat and overwhelming challenge of our time, SOON IS NOW invites the public into this space of evocative climate theater and art to inspire collective activism on climate change and its impacts in our region.

The 2021 SOON IS NOW was produced in partnership with Climate Change Theatre Action 2021.

Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park was designed by REED-HILDERBRAND landscape architects.