After 12 months of public workshops with our community-engaged, interdisciplinary collective Somos Agua / We Are Water, we are excited to bring together everything our 300+ workshop participants contributed during this first phase of the project into our first big public performance on November 5th, 2022.

Growing out of a collaboration between the Center for Environmental Resource Management (CERM) and the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Experiencing the Bosque is a multigenerational project radically integrating community organizing, art-making and environmental stewardship through the activity of creating performances together. Grounded on embodied practices that reconnect us to land and what Robin Wall Kimmerer calls “more-than-human nature,” this project is a deep investigation of the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park— a 372-acre ecological restoration project of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo valley ecosystem on the U.S.-Mexico border. During this multi-year project, we are offering ongoing public workshops, performances and other events that use the creative process as a vehicle to bring together university faculty and students from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), public schools, non-profit organizations, independent artists and members of the public.

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VISIT: https://www.utep.edu/rubin/community-engaged-practices-in-the-arts1/experiencing-the-bosque.html