Marina 'heron' Tsaplina

Marina 'heron' Tsaplina (she/she+) is a Russian-born, Lenapehoking (NYC) based interdisciplinary eco-puppetry artist, writer and disability culture activist who forms participatory poetic enchantments through puppetry performance, site-specific installations and writing. Her work has been supported and presented by Duke Arts, Orion Magazine, The Poetry Foundation, The Urban Soils Institute, and many more. She was awarded the 2024 Nancy Staub Award by UNIMA-USA for her decade of work on puppetry in medicine. Her current work, SOILS AND SPIRIT, aims to bring people closer to the memory, spirit and communication of brutalized, ancient, endangered and disabled living soils. More at www.soilspiritforest.com. On Sunday May 4, join hundreds of artists, activists, neighbors, ecologists, dancers, healers and dreamers for LIVING SOILS RISING, four creative acts to seed the future for climate justice and healing at Under the K Bridge Park, Brooklyn.