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Earth Day Initiative’s Earth Day 2025 Festival in Union Square
April 17 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Free
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is delighted to support Kaeshi Chai, Han Luckybee, Patricia Gonzalez, and Hila the Earth’s dance theater action at Earth Day Initiative’s Earth Day 2025 Festival in Union Square on Thursday, April 17, 2025, from 1 – 2 pm and again from 4 – 5 pm.
We’re coming together to tune in, go green, and call for climate action. Join the climate conversation at a pivotal time! Let’s be present together in solidarity, standing up for sustainability, cooperation, mindfulness, connection, and peace.
Mindfulness, creativity, and nature have a synergistic relationship. As long as we regard ourselves as separate beings struggling to survive, we cannot be what we are born to be. When we allow ourselves to be present in nature, we automatically quiet our minds and connect to the endlessly creative Oneness of what is. We remember who we are. When we embrace our spiritual limitlessness, we can let go of the temptation to destructively exploit our world to try to survive.
The Festival will run from 12 – 6 pm in the north end of Union Square in Manhattan and will feature
- Exhibits by dozens of environmental non-profits, climate campaigns, green living experts, and sustainable businesses (see line-up below)
- A special Clean Energy Exhibition, in partnership with Con Edison, featuring great green groups creating a clean energy future (see details below)
- Interactive workshops
- Live performances from Hila the Earth and APO HAHA CALYPSE (see schedule below)
- Climate art
- Kids’ activities
- Sustainable foods
Check below for details!
https://www.earthdayinitiative.org/earth-day-2025-festival
Kaeshi Chai is an educator, dancer, choreographer, designer, producer, and director whose life mission is to serve our precious planet and empower others through the vehicle of art. She co-founded PURE Globe, an international community focused on healing and social change, the Bellyqueen company and school, as well as Djam NYC shows featuring live music and dance. She has taught / performed in 48 states and 39 countries and is an alumni member of the Bellydance Superstars, Bellydance Evolution, Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth) and Spector Dance. As a producer, Kaeshi has organized over 600 events (shows, tours, conferences). Kaeshi holds multiple certifications in movement (dance, fitness, pilates, yoga), created the Bellyqueen Teacher Training program and graduated with honors in a degree in Design from the University of Technology, Sydney. She meditates daily and practices NVC (Non Violent Communication).
Current projects include “Ocean Stories” integrating art and science for environmental awareness, and “Becoming – Exploring Identity”. Kaeshi contributes dance and movement meditations for events organized by Unity Earth, Purpose Earth, and the Global Peace Tribe. Kaeshi performed in “Wildfires” by Spector Dance, at the opening night of “Plantasticas” by the Exploratorium Museum, and was commissioned to create a dance piece about the root systems of forests for the Exploratorium on May 4th. She is a proud member of Evolutionary Leaders, a circle of innovative thinkers (including Deepak Chopra) who have dedicated their lives and work to human, social and planetary transformation.
Hila the Earth is an Eco-Rapper, Comedian, and Content Creator.
She performs as Planet Earth and writes songs and makes videos about ecological topics such as; trees, vegetables, compost, soil health, water, mushrooms, reducing plastic waste, and the list keeps growing. Her hope is that by making Earth science accessible, musical and super fun, more people will take action to protect their environments and help life thrive on Earth.
Graduating from The National Ballet School of Cuba in 2012, Patricia de la Caridad Gonzalez Vega had the opportunity to dance professionally with renowned companies such as The National Ballet of Cuba, the Contemporary Dance Company of Cuba, and AcostaDanza among others, where she had the opportunity to perform choreographies from classical and contemporary repertory.
At the University of the Arts in Cuba she received a deeper approach to ballet pedagogy that later developed in imparting the Cuban Ballet Method at the Cuban National Ballet School Fernando Alonso, where she worked for over four years, training future generations of ballet professionals.
She is currently a faculty member of Brooklyn Ballet School. She has also created a fusion that mixes ballet with other styles of dance as belly dance as an alternative dance training.
Han Luckybee is a New York based performer and dance instructor that is fluent in Chinese, Spanish and English. She is passionate about culture, movement and expression. Her dance journey first began when she fell in love with belly dance while training at the Bellyqueen School of Dance. Han completed the 40 hour Bellyqueen Teacher Training course in 2017 and 200 hr yoga teacher training in 2019 in India. She continues to grow her passion for dance by exploring different styles such as Traditional Chinese dance, West African, Contemporary Indian, Ballet, Street Jazz and Reggaeton.
She is featured regularly at “Casa La Femme”, an Egyptian restaurant in the west village. Other notable performances include dancing in Bellyqueen’s “Journey along the Silk Road’ in Milan, Italy, Brooklyn Ballet’s “Nutcracker”, with the band “Beats Antique” at Brooklyn Steel, and “Ravens Night” at the Birchmere in Washington DC.
She believes in the power of dance and music to connect with oneself, nature, and with others. She loves sharing the joy that dance brings her by guiding her students in her classes.