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DESCRIPTION:On Saturday January 24th, 2026, join the IAS for a participatory walk led 
 by artist A. Laurie Palmer, in collaboration with Cid Pearlman and Ilia 
 Dolgov. Presented alongside Weather and the Whale, this event will start at 
 the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Natural Bridges Drive, two blocks 
 west of the IAS Galleries.\n\nWater is always in contact, always touching, 
 something – air, earth, rock, plant, fur, skin, sand – this is part of 
 its chemistry, its solvency, and its ability for modeling deep relation. 
 Water is both collective and molecular, moving in synchrony and composed of 
 individual parts eager to bond with the world and with each 
 other.\n\nInspired by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Bruce Lee, and the Hong 
 Kong protestors in 2011, we will practice moving together as a body of 
 water through this particular stretch of land, as a way to enter deep 
 relation with its human and more-than-human histories, and to consider its 
 potential futures in the context of human-caused climate change. We will 
 experiment in feeling the power of fluid forms of collective action and the 
 intimacy of thoughtful listening and observation as tools for countering 
 the brutality and militancy of the current moment.\n\nHow might a 
 collective experiment in moving “like water” help us to discover 
 surprising ways to relate with a place, a social and environmental context, 
 and a particular historical moment? As one friend said, there is nothing 
 “like” water, but as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has so beautifully 
 described, so much to learn from and with it.\n\nParticipants are urged to 
 come at the beginning and to stay for the entire walk, but also welcome to 
 join or leave at different points.  \n\n2:00 pm. Meet at Natural Bridges 
 Road and Delaware Avenue \n\n2:45 pm. Antonelli pond walkway entrance on 
 Delaware \n\n3:15 pm. Homeless Garden Project, Shaffer Road\n\n3:45 pm. 
 Parking lot at entrance to Coastal Campus\n\n4:15 pm Younger Lagoon 
 overlook\n\n4:30 pm Beach at Younger Lagoon\n\nYou are invited to bring a 
 stone to carry with you to return to the sea.\n\nThis walk will be fully 
 accessible except for one short unpaved section at the east end of 
 Antonelli Pond for which we will provide an alternate paved route. At the 
 end of the walk, a technically accessible, but possibly slippery, trail 
 (depending on the weather) meanders down hill to the beach at Younger 
 Lagoon. Participants are welcome to stay at the Lagoon overlook, or go down 
 to the water’s level in the company of a guide.\n\nA. Laurie Palmer is an 
 artist, writer, and teacher. Her place-based, research-oriented 
 artworks\ntake form as sculpture, public projects, and artist books, and 
 she collaborates on strategic actions that employ imagination and art in 
 the context of social and environmental justice. Her most recent book, The 
 Lichen Museum (2023) explores lichens’ role as an anti-capitalist 
 companion and climate change survivor. She taught in the Sculpture 
 Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 20 years, and 
 10 years in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 
 where she helped her colleagues build the Environmental Art and Social 
 Practice MFA program.\n\nCid Pearlman is a choreographer working in the 
 field of visual art and contemporary performance. For many years Pearlman 
 presented her work primarily in theaters, including ODC Theater, Joyce 
 SoHo, Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Estonia), the Getty Center, Stockholm City Hall, 
 Theatre Artaud and the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego. Her recent 
 projects are more likely to take place outside, or in galleries and public 
 art spaces, as a way to directly address issues of access, community, 
 audience experience. Inspired by the resilience, fragility, and 
 resourcefulness of the human body, Pearlman makes dances about how we 
 negotiate being together in a complex world. Among other honors she is the 
 recipient of the 2021 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Award from 
 the US Department of State, and has been twice awarded a Djerassi Resident 
 Artist Fellowship. \n\nIlia Dolgov is a plant-grower, artist, and writer. 
 Born in 1984 in Voronezh, Russia, he left the country in 2022 in response 
 to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and now lives in Santa Cruz, 
 California, on the unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe.\n\nIlia 
 holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Environmental Art and Social Practice 
 from University of California Santa Cruz, a B.A. and M.A. in Psychology 
 from Voronezh State University, and a New Artistic Strategies certificate 
 from the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art.\n\nThis event is presented 
 as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience, a collaborative research initiative 
 of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC 
 Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists, artists, humanists, and 
 activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the 
 face of climate change and is supported by a University of California 
 Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant, with 
 additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/13/18882837.php
SUMMARY:Like Water: A Participatory Walk from the Edge of the City to the Sea
LOCATION:Natural Bridges Road and Delaware Avenue, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/13/18882837.php
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