Event Date: Saturday, August 9 · 10am - 12pm CDT

Chicago Park District Night Out in the Parks & Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape present

Art of Being: Move with Waterways @ Ping Tom Park

Dance/Movement Workshop with Ayako Kato & Guest Instructors!

Saturday, August 9 (rain date August 16), 10 am - 12 pm: Windflow Dance + Foraging with Billie Warren @ Ping Tom Park (meet at the Pagoda)* FREE ADMISSION: Register through this page

(Registration is highly recommended to receive more info about weather and other communication.)

EVENT DESCRIPTION: We dance/move along with nature and water! Through three sessions, experience integrated holistic movement /dance practice as the art of being related to water and waterways. Instructors are: Ayako Kato (all sessions), dance artist; Billie Warren (August 9), an environmental educator who is an enrolled citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi; Jennifer O’Hara (August 23), an Eastern Medicine therapist and Qi Gong teacher; JeeYeun Lee (September 6), an interdisciplinary socially engaged artist whose research includes historic and social perspectives on waterways. Check more details and RSVP (highly recommended) via Eventbrite.com.

*MEETING SPOTS: Here is the Google Map for MEETING SPOTS for three parks.

In case of rain, the registered participants will be informed by 8 am on the day of the workshop and it will be postponed to the following Saturdays, August 16, August 30, and September 13 respectively.

Participants 14 and younger need to be with a parent or guardian.

For other accessibility requests/questions, please email furyuayajp(at)gmail.com

Thank you.

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Location:

Ping Tom Memorial Park (1700 South Wentworth Avenue Chicago, IL 60616)

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July 19, 2025
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