OCTOBER 26
Don't miss the culminating event of our Ghost Bike Fellowship!
Sunday, October 26
JACK, 20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn
Free Entry, Free Food
RSVP HERE
The Ghost Bike Fellowship is a four-month paid creative residency for Brooklyn-based cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers to process the crisis of traffic violence in our borough. Fellows participate in workshops with local leaders in transportation justice, help maintain existing Ghost Bike memorials, and collaborate on an interactive public event that envisions a joyful future of safe streets in NYC.
BIG NEWS
After 18 years as Superhero Clubhouse, we are excited to announce that we are transitioning to become FUTURE RIVER, an organization still dedicated to theater for climate and environmental justice.
Our new name means both:
1) A river of the future (envisioning and mapping a just, thriving future with local communities)
2) The future of the river (helping to steward the ecological future of the Hudson River estuary, the ancestral, unceded territory of the Lenape and Haudenosaunee people).
Beyond the name change, we are also in the process of rewriting our mission, rebranding, and refocusing our work to serve the Mahicantuck / Ka’nón:no (Hudson River) estuary bioregion. The cities, towns, and ecosystems stretching from New York City to Albany are connected by the great river that flows both ways, by the Catskills and Taconic mountains that give us drinking water, and by the web of local economies, cultures, and policies that shape our daily lives. As Future River, we intend to be a creative resource for strengthening these relationships and investing in an empowered and liberated future for all inhabitants of this remarkable place.
Why are we making these changes? How will our programming evolve? Stay tuned on Instagram @future.river as we post about this transition in real time: who we’ve been, who we’re becoming, and how you can join us.
And to our dear Superhero Clubhouse: We are so grateful for you, sweet name, and all the joy and direction you have brought us over nearly two decades. You helped us understand ourselves as an inclusive gathering place for serious play, as a home for empowering artists as environmental advocates and environmental professionals as creative collaborators. What better moment than this week, the autumn equinox and climate week, to honor you, as we send you off into the night sky.
SUPPORT OUR 2025 SEASON
SUPPORT OUR 2025 SEASON
Get ready for a very fishy 15th annual BIG GREEN THEATER climate justice playwriting program for public school students. This spring we’re partnering with the NY Harbor School as well as legendary environmental advocates Riverkeeper to celebrate the magical migratory fish species of the Hudson River. Students will learn about the body-altering journeys of local diadromous fish like sturgeon, eels, and shad, the threats they face, and proposed strategies to protect them. Our young collaborators will bring these fishy adventures to life through word, song, and puppets, and their creations will contribute to a Fish Migration Festival that Riverkeeper is piloting in June.
We offer the Big Green Theater program to schools free of charge, which means we need your support to keep it going!
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Applications are open for the GHOST BIKE FELLOWSHIP, a six-month paid residency in which community members who have been impacted by traffic violence are invited to compost their grief and grow their activism through creative processing. Through workshops with local leaders in transportation justice and hands-on service and design projects, the fellows will collaborate on a public performance that activates existing Ghost Bike Memorials and envisions a future of safe streets for NYC.
We pay fellows to participate so that their creative labor is valued and money is not a barrier for those who might not otherwise be able to apply. Help us invest in arts work and transportation justice by making a donation!
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We’re in the midst of bookings for another year of our signature WORKSHOPS, Eco-Performance Lab and Science Storytelling, offering tools and frameworks for creative response, collaboration, and communication surrounding climate science and environmental justice. Accessible to a wide range of participants, our workshops can be run virtually or in person, and are adaptable to meet a variety of curricula, participants, and time frames.
We subsidize our workshops via a sliding scale in order to keep them affordable for all.
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Look out for more opportunities in 2025 to play THERE WILL BE MONSTERS, a theatrical game experience for a hopeful climate future. Travel through a magical version of the Hudson River bioregion, meeting a colorful cast of multi-species inhabitants along the way. Use your characters’ unique abilities to grow a movement against the monsters. Gain tools and allies by helping communities with adaptation projects. Discover root causes and hone your strategy. Can you increase the health of the bioregion before new monsters arrive? The future depends on your collective decisions, and time is of the essence…
It takes a village to develop and produce such an ambitious project, and we are dedicated to ensuring that everyone who works with us is paid equitably. Your support is paramount to meeting our production budget– we truly can’t do it with you!
We rely on the support of our community to create our work and keep it accessible. Consider making a tax-deductible donation and joining us in modeling a better world through innovative, creative programming for all. Every contribution, big or small, makes a significant impact.