Teen Council & Lifelong Studio: Listening With The Harlem River
TEEN COUNCIL & LIFELONG STUDIO:
LISTENING WITH THE HARLEM RIVER
Led By Artist Alethea Pace
Thursday, April 2 • 5:00 – 7:00 PM
For Bronx Museum Teen Council Members
& Older Adults Age 55+
FREE! • Registration Required:
https://bronxmuseum.wufoo.com/forms/mmwdvb01vioce3/
This workshop combines participants in The Bronx Museum’s Teen Council—a paid arts internship for NYC high school students—and Lifelong Studio—the Museum’s program offering free art-making classes to older adults age 55+.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Join us for a gentle and reflective workshop exploring our relationship with the Harlem River through memory, movement, writing, and storytelling. “Listening With” invites us to slow down and attune to the river—not just as a body of water, but as a living being with wisdom, agency, and its own story to tell.
Grounded in the principles of the Rights of Nature movement, this session invites us to consider the Harlem River not as a resource to be used, but as a relative, a witness, a neighbor, and a carrier of histories.
Together, we’ll explore what it means to listen to the river—through our bodies, our memories, and our imaginations. We’ll engage in creative activities that center embodied listening, environmental care, and personal reflection.
This intergenerational session honors the wisdom of lived experience and invites us to imagine new ways of relating to land and water—rooted in care, reciprocity, and collective responsibility.
About Alethea Pace
Alethea Pace is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary choreographer and performer committed to creating work in and with her community that is rooted in social justice. She is a 2025 Harlem River Artist in Residence, a 2024 MAP Fund Recipient, a 2023-2025 Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was a recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award. Her work has been presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, BAAD!, Works and Process at the Guggenheim, Pregones Theater, Dancing While Black, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, and the 92Y, to name a few.
Support
Lifelong Studio at the Bronx Museum is made possible, in part, by the E.A. Michelson Philanthropy. The Harlem River Artist-in-Residence program is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, administered by the Hudson River Foundation, and supported by the Bronx & Harlem Rivers Urban Waters Federal Partnership, the NY–NJ Harbor & Estuary Program, and the Bronx Council on the Arts.
