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    • About
    • Events and Gatherings
      • Why and How We Gather
      • Mutual Aid Mondays
    • Artistic Projects
      • Our Artistic Vision
      • Climate Change Theatre
      • Global Water Dances
      • Queer Climate Cabaret
      • House Calls
    • Education
      • Learning is Vital
      • The Vital Body
      • Vital Matters for KIDS!
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      • TPW and Rasaboxes
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  • Home
  • About
  • Events and Gatherings
    • Why and How We Gather
    • Mutual Aid Mondays
  • Artistic Projects
    • Our Artistic Vision
    • Climate Change Theatre
    • Global Water Dances
    • Queer Climate Cabaret
    • House Calls
  • Education
    • Learning is Vital
    • The Vital Body
    • Vital Matters for KIDS!
    • Residencies and Workshops
    • Books for the Future
    • TPW and Rasaboxes
  • Resources
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global water dances: clean water for all!

Global Water Dances Baltimore 2023

Vital Matters joined with Environmental Partner Blue Water Baltimore, activist Sister Stream Catcher, Puppeteer Valeska Populoh, dancers, musicians, and activists in dancing and processing. Ours was one of 148 events across six continents, part of a biannual movement celebrating and fighting for clean water. See www.globalwaterdances.org for more information.


Looking towards Global Water Dances 2025: A Public Art Across Maryland Project!

We have been awarded a Public Art Across Maryland Planning Grant, and will integrate the planning for that project with our efforts for Global Water Dances 2025. This means working with a specific Baltimore community, a public artist, and a public art consultant to design a permanent or semi-permanent interactive structure, which will be activated collaboratively by the local community and Baltimore performing artists through dance, puppetry, theatre and other performance forms. 


Stay tuned for more about this project, and for workshops and other opportunities to engge the artistic, activist, and educatonal components of Global Water Dances for June 2025.

Global WATER DANCES 2025

Join us!

Global Water Dances

Saturday June 7: 10am - 1pm

Saturday June 14: 9:30am - 12pm

Location: Herring Run Park

Sign up below for exact location details!

We continue to flow through our year of Water, Community and Care with this global event. Global Water Dances invites us to engage with our local watersheds, and the water-related issues that are crucial to the health of our ecosystems and the humans who are a part of them. 

Water connects us to our dreaming.

Water is a force to be reckoned with.

Water is the first medicine, the source of our vitality, and a source of creativity. Tap in!


Join Valeska Populoh, Sanahara Ama Chandra, Sister Stream Catcher and Vital Matters founder Michele Minnick for gatherings along Herring Run that celebrate water through ritual, poetry, dance, and somatic movement.


There are various levels of participation possible in this event. You can:

  • Rehearse (June 7, June 11) and perform in the Global Water Dance on June 14.
  • Join us for the June 7 Gathering only. We will walk, explore, sound, move, prepare.
  • Just show up on June 14 to participate in the Ritual and Participatory Dance.
  • Support the organizers of the event!

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