Earth to Warwick: Celebrate Treecycle 2025

Wickham Works is gearing up for Treecycle 2025, a free Earth Day arts festival in Stanley Deming Park in the Village of Warwick on Saturday, April 26, 1 to 5 p.m. (rain date April 27).

Treecyle features creative reuse installations, art activities, live performances and information booths on local sustainability initiatives in the Warwick Valley. The festival is suitable for all ages.

2025 special features

Special features this year include the following:

• Arm of the Sea Puppet Theater’s “Riparian Rhapsody” (3 p.m.). The show dives into the region’s ecology to reveal the intricate interactions between forest and stream and lyrically advocates for protecting streamside buffer zones, with stunning visuals, live music, and a singing bear. Sponsorship is provided by Glenn P. and Susan D. Dickes and the Albert Wisner Public Library.

• Performance by Moving Company Modern Dance (2:30 p.m.).

• A visit from Mother Nature puppet.

• Unveiling of a new sculpture from Village of Warwick Artist-in-Residence Nicole Hixon.

• Live painting of a community-inspired mural in the park.

• Hands-on craft activities.

Teaming up

In preparation for Treecycle, Wickham Works teams up with local schools and community centers. Together, they transform the park with art exhibits created by commissioned artists in community workshops.

This year, artists Lisa Cullen (“Tube Snake Boogie”) and Christina LeBar (“Community Garden”) created their work with the help of people of all ages and abilities at the Warwick Valley Community Center and Albert Wisner Public Library.

Jenny Torino (“Felting for the Future”) and Rachel Berg (“Tree of Life”) produced their installations in workshops with teens and pre-teens from the Alamo Sunriver Health Community Center’s after-school program run by the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization.

Elizabeth Laule reached out to local students to help make a piece of community art — “Warwick In/Community/In Warwick” — that will be turned into a new mural for the park.

Artist Karen Decher will introduce a new processional puppet, “Mother Earth.”

Nicole Hixon, in her role as this year’s Warwick Village Artist-in-Residence, will unveil a temporary large-scale organic sculpture, “The Divine Feminine, Feeding Nature.”

Art as a catalyst

Treecycle uses the arts to bring the community together to educate, support sustainability initiatives and raise awareness of threats facing our environment. The festival is also a showcase for local environmental groups such as Sustainable Warwick, Orange County Land Trust and Orange Environment.

Treecycle is produced by Wickham Works with sponsorship from the Village of Warwick and is supported by a grant from the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.