LoKo Arts Festival

The Potsdam Legacy Project

SUNY Potsdam student-original theatrical works curated and presented by the Potsdam Legacy Ensemble, an affiliate of the SUNY Potsdam Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management, as part of the closing season.

• Session 1: Friday, February 29 – Sunday, March 1, 2025
• Session 2: Friday, April 11 – Sunday April 13, 2025
  
  Black Box Theatre, SUNY Potsdam Performing Arts Center
  Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Musical Theatre Showcase: Fearless! Songs of Empowerment and Determination

• Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4,  2025 
  7:30 p.m.
  Proscenium Theatre, Performing Arts Center

Join over 50 student from across the SUNY Potsdam campus for the 2025 LoKo Arts Festival Musical Theatre Showcase! This year’s theme, “Fearless!”, shines a spotlight on songs of empowerment and determination, featuring performances of “Fearless” from Mean Girls, “I Have Confidence” from The Sound of Music, “Bend and Snap” from Legally Blonde, “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago, “Who I’d Be” from Shrek, and more! Experience an unforgettable evening of music, community, and celebration. This is a night to be fearless!

WISER Greenhouse Workshop (open to the public) 

• Thursday, April 3, 2025 
  3:30 – 4:40 p.m. 
  WISER Greenhouse, Stowell Hall 

An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer (open to the public) 

“Moving Beyond Gratitude: Our Responsibility to Develop a New Narrative for our World”

• Thursday, April 3, 2025 
  6 p.m. 
  Snell Theater 

Book signing and refreshments to follow, with a limited supply of books available for purchase. Planned in partnership with the Potsdam Native American Initiative.

To help us plan for our expected audience size, please register (free) HERE.  

About Robin Wall Kimmerer 

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. 

Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. 

 As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.