PRESS RELEASE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 3, 2007
‘Watermark’ performance marks Seattle’s global climate change shoreline
What: A performance action to call attention to global climate change
When: Saturday, April 14, 12-2 pm and Saturday, April 21, 12-2 pm
Where: From Olympic Sculpture Park to All-City Coffee in Pioneer Square
Who: Organized by artists Vaughn Bell, Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler
For more information: www.watermarkseattle.org

Scientific research generated over the last 50 years is painting a new picture of our earth, one of devastating global climate change brought about by our seemingly innocent daily rituals of driving to work, warming our homes, and powering our modern lifestyles. We are convinced that change needs to happen immediately, it cannot wait for a slow movement to build. We cannot be patient. We must act now.

On Saturday April 14th artists Nicole Kistler, Sarah Kavage and Vaughn Bell will join the Step it Up movement, (www.stepitup2007.org) a nationwide network of demonstrations calling for immediate policy change to address global warming. Together, this group of performance artists and citizens will be walking from the Olympic Sculpture Park to All City Coffee in Pioneer Square through downtown Seattle. On our way we will be using soil to mark a line of new “terrain” – the shoreline that would be created in the case of a twenty foot rise in sea-level, as could occur with the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (most famously documented in the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’). The performance will be repeated on Earth Day, Saturday, April 21st.

Enjoying a walk is by its very nature an art form, a dance, a place to contemplate. It is something we can do every day that can make a significant difference. Walking gives us a simpler pace that allows for spontaneous stops, unplanned encounters, and little delights for all five senses. When we take a walk we become one with the world; not living in denial of it.