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Waterpod™ is a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides. It will depart in the summer of 2009, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, docking at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River before continuing onward. The Waterpod™ demonstrates future pathways for water -based innovations. As a sustainable, navigable living space, the Waterpod™ showcases the critical importance of the environment and art, serving as a model for new living, d.i.y. technologies, art, and dialogue. It illustrates positive interactions between communities: public and private; artistic and social; aquatic and terrestrial while exploring the cultural richness of New York's five boroughs and beyond. The Waterpod™ embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. With this project, we hope to encourage growth and progress as we visualize the future. Through its dilatory, watery peregrinations, the Waterpod intends to prepare, inform, inspire, provoke, and fortify humanity for tomorrow's exterior explorations.
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This workshop connects the dots between environmental sustainability, social justice and personal fulfillment, and asks: How did we get here? While seeing all of these crises as symptoms of a larger issue of small thinking, we can discuss the new, emerging story of what is possible for the future, grounding hope in our ability to act powerfully and authentically on behalf of our world >>
FUNCTIONAL UTOPIAN MANICURES for the URBAN SURVIVALIST!
Sunday, September 13, 3 - 5 PM 
Cassie Thornton is a conceptual artist and she has developed the Barter System Beauty Salon as a platform to explore ideas of beauty with people and experiment with a profitable, non-monetary system for exchange. At BSBS a beauty service is given in exchange for a handwritten description of beauty. The situation that develops around this exchange is a hybrid business model based on many manifestations of 'beauty' and 'salon': prolificness and staying power of the family owned beauty salon, the history of experimentation within the french salon of painting, and the salon as a gathering formed just for the discussion of the mysterious permanence of beauty. The Barter System Beauty Salon can grow and travel virally - like a pyramid scheme that will lead to enlightenment instead of wealth.
Onboard Waterpod™, BSBS will be offering a one day special: FUNCTIONAL UTOPIAN MANICURES for the URBAN SURVIVALIST!
In exchange for a tax deductible description of beauty, clients will be able to receive a functional manicure that will open up the possibilities of what they can do with their hands!
Choose from a list of services including but not limited to:
- A Sandicure: Sand your floors and your other nails with your very own abrasive fingernails!
- Aeratio-Nails: Reduce turf compaction with this oh so fun-ctional manic-cure!
- The Ruler: Let us turn your fingernails into measurement instruments! Measure distances with your very own hands.
- Spoonfed: Go to breakfast at Tiffany's, but don't waste her sterling silver. Use your spoonnail! >>
The Bronx welcomes Waterpod™ and celebrates the opening of its new urban sanctuary Concrete Plant Park, with locally programmed events including the arrival of SLO Architecture's Bronx River Crossing Watershed Raft, Mobile Gardening with artist Tattfoo Tan, Artist Katie Holten's Tree Museum and KayCee Wimbish from Awesome Farms in Tivoli will be hosting a New York City Chicken Meet Up onboard Waterpod™.
11AM - 3 PM Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Rocking the Boat and Bronx River Alliance, BRX Watershed Raft welcome Waterpod™ to Concrete Plant Park >>
1 PM - 2 PM: Artist Katie Holten presentation on the Tree Museum project >>
2 PM - 4 PM: Artist Tattfoo Tan workshop on how-to-build a Mobile Garden >>
4:30 PM - 6 PM: Chicken Meet Up with KayCee Wimbish from Awesome Farms >>
100 TREES GIVE VOICE TO 100 PERSPECTIVES
Katie Holten created the TREE MUSEUM to celebrate the communities and ecosystems along the Grand Concourse, a 100 year-old boulevard in The Bronx. Visitors will be able to listen in on local stories and the intimate lives of trees offered by current and former residents: from beekeepers to rappers, historians to gardeners, school kids to scientists >>
WATERPOD™: CONCRETE PLANT PARK IN THE BRONX
Waterpod™ arrived at its current docking location at the Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx on September 1, 2009. The park was originally an industrial concrete factory, that first started operation in 1945. The Transit Mix Concrete Corporation built the silos hoppers, and conveyors that still stand today. As part of its transformation from an industrial site to park land, salt marshes have been reestablished on a riverbank once strewn with trash and tires. When we arrived, we noticed that there are large crabs living in the brackish river, and families of green tropical parrots are nesting in vines around abandoned telephone poles at the entrance to the park. We have also seen herons, cormorants, ducks, white swans, fish jumping and rabbits hopping through the grass at night. We are so grateful for the efforts of the Parks Department, the Bronx River Alliance, the Youth Ministries of Truth and Justice and the Bronx community for creating this beautiful, natural sanctuary. 
 -Above: Looking North towards Whitlock Station, Waterpod™ docked in Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx, photograph by Nico Malvaldi. Below:
Looking South from Whitlock Station when the area was still an active concrete factory.
WATERPOD™ COMBATS THE RISING SEAS ON BBC NEWS
Heather Alexander of the BBC visits Waterpod™. The broadcast can be viewed online >>
-Photograph of Waterpod™ by Mary Mattingly.
WATERPOD™ MOBILE GARDEN EVENT: ARTIST TATTFOO TAN
Tattfoo Tan | Mobile Garden
Artist in Residence onboard Waterpod™ at Concrete Plant Park, Bronx, New York.
Saturday, September 5, 2 - 4 PM
Drop by this waterborne Mobile Garden and learn more about composting and the adopt-a-worm campaign >>
Sunday, September 6, 2 - 4 PM
Saturday, September 12, TBA
Sunday, September 13, TBA
Bring a piece of old luggage, an office chair, baby stroller or anything you can find that has wheels on it. We'll turn it into a Mobile Garden together >>
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