The Moving Forest @ PickleY'all

Event Details

On Friday, October 16, in the hours leading up to the opening of the PickleY’all Festival in downtown Louisville, we will temporarily reshape the 500 block of West Jefferson Street in front of Louisville Metro Hall with a street activation and community volunteerism event we call The Moving Forest. This event was conceived of and planned by the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute's Urban Design Studio and made possible by generous support from the Humana Foundation.

From 11 am to 3 pm, hundreds of volunteers from major Louisville corporations will transform the streetscape, arranging 70 garden carts filled with trees and smaller plants into new configurations. Each 25-gallon tree will move as part of a choreographed sequence designed and led by Leigh Anne Albrechta from the Louisville Ballet.

The Envirome Institute's Greenprint initiative is working with partners across Louisville to deploy nature-based solutions to make a measurable difference in improving air quality, reducing heat, encouraging physical activity and supporting community well-being. The Moving Forest will use the temporary landscape configurations on West Jefferson Street to convert a planning exercise into a performance people can experience to visualize the impact green spaces can have in our health and well-being.

After the event our partners TreesLouisville and Louisville Grows will plant the trees in Greenprint project sites across downtown.

The Moving Forest is free and open to the public. Please come by and witness to how trees could transform our downtown.