Join us for a free, community-centered animation workshop led by animators, educators, and musicians, Mark Minnig and Dominika Ksel. Rockaway residents are invited to imagine future possibilities for the peninsula’s coastline and translate their visions into collaborative, hand-made animation. Rooted in environmental justice and community storytelling, the project uses animation as an accessible medium for ecological reflection, upcycling materials, and collective imagination.
The workshop begins with a brief story-sharing circle and guided sensory walk on Rockaway Beach, where participants consider memories of storms, shifting shorelines, and their hopes for the future. These reflections become the foundation for creating short hand-drawn and stop-motion animation sequences using found materials and simple tools. Participants will visualize “micro-futures” informed by lived experience, coastal resilience, multispecies relationships, and community care. During the process, field recordings of waves, wind, and sand will be collected to support a locally grounded soundscape.
2 PM - 5 PM
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We are proud to be sponsored by Istic Illic Pictures, Stellar Bookkeepers and NYC Ferry. Rockaway Film Festival made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Rockaway Film Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Support provided by FRANC and the Fund for the City of New York.
