Insectageddon Site Partners

For this year’s International Coastal Cleanup Day at Soundview Park, join the Bronx River Alliance to celebrate insects. Enjoy activities, join a cleanup team, and learn how you can help save our insects! The BRA works in partnership to protect, improve, and restore the Bronx River corridor so it can be a healthy ecological, recreational, educational, and economic resource for the surrounding communities.

James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center Garden Community celebrates insects with science, activism, and art. JBOLC is partnering with Van Cortlandt Park Alliance and artist Alex Byrne to raise awareness of the interdependence of humans and insects. JBOLC strives for inquiry and project-based solutions at the juncture of food, environmental, and social justice.

Join Brighter Choice Community School to explore the primary rules of what an insect is and what some of their adaptations are. Students will put their knowledge into play by “creating” an insect that is adapted to live in their assigned environment. The mission of Brighter Choice is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that nurtures, motivates, and challenges students.

Come celebrate the insects and flowers thriving together in a community garden, and discover how the beauty and aromas of plants make for happy pollinators, delicious food, and healing medicine. Friends of Flowers at Farmers Garden is an all-ages event celebrating the web of life. In addition to workshops and family-friendly activities, there will be art, music, free food, and a plant swap.

Join us for site-specific performances inspired by the Monarch migration. A Monarch’s Journey is an immersive site-specific dance and music performance among the wildflowers of industrial Greenpoint. This is a moving event but it will begin and end at Kingsland Wildflowers. The Newtown Creek Alliance is a community-based organization dedicated to restoring and revitalizing Newtown Creek. This program is presented in collaboration with NOoSPHEREArts and CreateART.

Join Pioneer Works and Red Hook Farms to explore ecosystems on sidewalks in Street Tree Ecosystems. You will plant and cultivate pollinator habitats by caring for the urban forest. Bring gloves if you have them; tools are provided. Pioneer Works builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world. Red Hook Farms is a youth-centered urban agriculture and food justice program operating one of Brooklyn’s largest farms.

Join Hunters Point Parks Conservancy (HPPC) and Newtown Creek Alliance (NCA) for a planting project at our pollinator meadow in Long Island City. The HPPC’s mission is to enhance and advocate for the green spaces and waterfront of Long Island City, Queens, and to ensure the parks remain an indispensable asset to the community. Presented in collaboration with The Newtown Creek Alliance, a community-based organization dedicated to restoring, revealing, and revitalizing Newtown Creek.

Bees and butterflies—who are they and what do they eat? Join gardeners of Smiling Hogshead Ranch for an info session and garden walk highlighting different types of bees and butterflies who live there. What is the difference between a native bee and a honey bee anyway? Smiling Hogshead Ranch is an urban farm collective whose mission is to create a culture that empowers and connects our communities through ecology, education, and collaboration.

Join The Voelker Orth Museum (VOM) as we explore bees through storytelling and artmaking. The VOM’s garden is home to a thriving bee colony. Visitors will learn about bees, their ecosystem, and how they support our community through storytelling and an art activity. The Voelker Orth Museum Bird Sanctuary & Victorian Garden preserves and interprets the cultural and horticultural heritage of Flushing, Queens and adjacent communities to engage their ever-changing populations.

Come take an all-ages insect walk and explore mothing—finding and recording moths—with Freshkills Park. This program is presented by Freshkills Park Alliance in partnership with Staten Island Museum, and artist Ash Ferlito.

Insect Walk: Freshkills Park (meeting location given at registration, 10am –noon)
Mothing: 2240 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314, 6:30pm –9:30pm

Jennifer Angus, the artist behind the exhibition Magicicada creates an immersive environment of imaginative vignettes made with insects. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate meaningful shared experiences through natural science, art, and history to deepen understanding of our environment, ourselves, and each other.

BridgePark is working with Partners in the Arts, Richmond Parks & Rec, and Richmond Public Schools to develop arts-integrated content focused on bees. Students, artists, and teachers will develop art content that will demonstrate the importance of pollinators to our environmental health. A family-oriented event, the Insectageddon scavenger hunt will allow you to find clues at your own pace.

Join Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) for bug-inspired activities, music, plant giveaways, and Brandon Ballengée’s Love Motel for Insects sculpture during Bugstock at Buffalo Bend Nature Park. BBP is the non-profit transforming and revitalizing Houston’s Buffalo Bayou. This program is presented in collaboration with The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and artist Brandon Ballengée. Image: Brandon Ballengée’s Love Motel for Insects, in collaboration with Buffalo Bayou Partnership.

Join Harbor District and the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center for an afternoon full of Insect exploration! Participants will get the chance to be explorers and researchers, catch crazy insects using, and then learn to identify. Learn about the importance of insects in our environment and how they impact our own lives. Plus, you’ll get a chance to get dirty and take a goodie home with you.

Join the Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP) for an afternoon around the riverfront parks while stopping to take photographs of local insect life. Learn how insects impact plant life and how they help to make the parks a wonderful natural space for everyone. The MRPP is a nonprofit organization that stewards the riverfront on behalf of the people of Memphis. The partnership works to create a connected, catalytic, and fun riverfront for all.

The Conservancy’s Insectapalooza Guide will curate activities and resources that cultivate appreciation of the many species of insects of North Texas that rely on the Trinity River and its surrounding habitats. Trinity Park Conservancy is a nonprofit dedicated to the stewardship of Dallas’ largest public green space, the 10,000 acres of the Trinity River.

Why are insects important? What role do they play on a healthy planet? Insectageddon-Buffalo will celebrate insects and raise awareness about the critical role they play on our planet. This program is presented by The Buffalo Museum of Science in collaboration with Just Buffalo Literary Center and Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farm.