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Join Forklift Danceworks and various community partners for an all-ages event kicking off the first of their three-part performance series The Way of Water—Colorado River. Entitled Source, this event at Laguna Gloria welcomes the Colorado River where it enters Austin.
Participants can guide themselves through Laguna Gloria with a digital scavenger hunt, encountering sound installations by dadaLab, as well as stories and movement from Austin Water utility personnel, river scientists, Butoh artist Rosemary Candelario, and birders from the Travis Audubon Society.
This event is free and open to the public from 11A–3P, with performances occurring from 12–2P.
For accommodation requests, please contact:
[accessibility@thecontemporaryaustin.org](mailto:accessibility@thecontemporaryaustin.org).
The Way of Water—Colorado River is a three-part, site-specific performance series celebrating the river, its stewards, and the communities it sustains. Events are from Oct 18 (Sat)–Nov 8 (Sat).
Learn more at: forkliftdanceworks.org
ABOUT FORKLIFT DANCEWORKS
Since 2001, Forklift has engaged thousands of participants—electric utility workers, sanitation employees, firefighters, urban foresters, and more—in performances that unfold in neighborhoods, city parks, public pools, and neighborhoods. By making art with and about the people whose work sustains our cities, Forklift builds connection, fosters civic dialogue, and sparks community-driven change. Forklift’s performances have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dance Magazine, BBC Radio, PBS, and NPR, and the organization is recognized internationally for its groundbreaking model of community-based artmaking. With programs that span performance, education, and civic practice, Forklift is redefining who dances, where dance happens, and why it matters.

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