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FRIDAY, AUGUST 28: WATERPOD™ AS A PART OF CENYC PROGRAMMING
Become a Champion Recycler aboard Waterpod™. Join us after work on Friday, August 28 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm for a recycling workshop aboard Waterpod™ while it is docked in Staten Island. Don’t miss the opportunity to experience this floating sculpture, mobile art exhibition and living space that demonstrates sustainable technology. Waterpod™ is docked in Staten Island at Richmond Terrace and Lafayette Avenue from August 20th to August 31st. Visit CENYC’s Recycling Events page for more information >>

FRIDAY AUGUST 21: WATERPOD Q & A
Q is Canada's liveliest arts, culture and entertainment National radio program, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio 1. On Friday Aug 21, Q will be checking in with Eve K. Tremblay, a Quebecois artist involved in creating Waterpod™, a floating, utopian, artistic community in New York City's waterways. And, from the Q vault, guest host Jonathan Torrens talks to punk icon Iggy Pop. Jian has conducted feature interviews with an array of Canadian and international guests on Q. Among them are artists, politicians, celebrities, and cultural figures, including Woody Allen, Ornette Coleman, Shirley MacLaine, David Cronenberg, Phil Collins, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, Chick Corea, Sarah Polley, Naomi Klein, Paul Anka, and William Shatner. Subscribe to Q as a iTunes podcast >>

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Nicholas Fevelo and community artists create an affordable “art market” out of found materials. Fish and veggie sculptures will be made available for “sale” in the evening to benefit COAHSI and the Waterpod™.

6:00 PM Reception, including functioning “art market” and viewing of Day de Dada video highlighting their Art Recycle Project on August 1st at Van Duzer Summer Streets in Staten Island and Lucero music video by DB Lampman and Joseph White about children who build a boat out of recycled materials and launch it off to sea.

7:00 PM Musical performance by Bob Wright, accompanied by Bill Doerge and Chris Miner.

8:00 PM Screening of “Memory Loop” by Paul Moakley, with live musical accompaniment by Painting Soldiers >>

Marc Dulude will be in residence on Waterpod™. He will be doing multiple art performances with a remote controlled Dazzling Ship, the Razzle Dazzle, on different water surfaces in various neighborhoods of New York City.

This artist residency was organized in collaboration with Montreal’s Occurrence Gallery who also invited 9 other artists on the Waterpod™ from June to September: Rodney Latourelle, Lynne Marsh, Diane Borsato, Sylvie Cotton, Isabelle Hayeur, Jean-Pierre Bourgault (in co-production with Avatar), Frederique Saïa, Kate Greenslade and BGL. These artists were curated by Ève K. Tremblay, Mary Mattingly and Jean-Michel Ross with the participation of Canada Council for the Arts and Délégations du Québec in NYC >>

Most people have heard of the sea, but only a small portion of the world has experienced the sea. To many people sailing is something exotic that exists in maritime literature, and, indeed, many great authors have made their careers on writing about the sea. What makes being at sea so different from being on land is that being at sea is like going on a space voyage; once you are on, you cannot get off. Surviving at sea changes the way that people behave and often provides interesting insights into the human condition. This presentation will examine the effect of the sea on humans and will use this examination to provide further insights on Waterpod™ and sustainability in general >>

AUGUST 12, 2009: WATERPOD™ IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Life, Art and Chickens, Afloat in the Harbor By Melena Ryzik

-An event on the Waterpod, photo by Michael Nagle for The New York Times.

Public enthusiasm for the project has been voracious. Situated at the intersection of recession escapism, do-it-yourself culture and ecomania, the Pod neatly sums up many current lifestyle trends — the compost container gets a lot of “this is how we should do it at home” comments from visitors.

“It’s navigating our relationship with the environment in a capacity that doesn’t occur when you live in the city,” said Matthew Aaron Goodman, 34, a novelist from Brooklyn who visited the Waterpod when it was docked at Governors Island in July. “The advancement of technology has limited our ability to know what we can do with our own capacity. Something like this reminds us.” READ MORE>>

SLIDESHOW OF IMAGES OF WATERPOD™ TAKEN FOR THE NY TIMES>>

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