MinerAlert
MinerAlert
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Experiencing the Bosque (ETB) 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 public workshops, performances and other events that use the creative process as a vehicle to bring together university faculty and students from The Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), public schools, non-profit organizations, independent artists, and members of the public to support a meaningful reintegration of our species into our local ecosystem.
Led by UTEP faculty and performance activist Sandra Paola López Ramírez, ETB has grown out of a collaboration between the Center for Environmental Resource Management (CERM) and the Community Engaged Practices in the Arts initiative at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts.
At the heart of every step in Experiencing the Bosque is meaningful student engagement. Since its beginning, UTEP students have been involved in doing research and creative activities at the park, participating in community workshops and reflecting on their environmental impact and their relationship to water and land in this region. The completion of the first phase alone involved over 140 students in Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Chicano/a Studies and Women and Gender Studies, who participated in developing, curating, and shaping the site-specific performance, the art exhibit and the immersive theater experience.
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