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The Earthling Parade

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September 12, 2025, 5 PM

Location: Meet at Arts Quad

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This event is free and open to the public.

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A smiling Yvette Molina wears large, brown wings and flaps her arms as she leads a group of people on a parade through campus.
The Earthling Parade, Tang Teaching Museum, September 12, 2025, photo by Megan Mumford

Join us Friday, September 12, at 5 pm, for The Earthling Parade led by artist Yvette Molina. Together, we will process in a sacred and raucous celebration of being alive on this earth!

Wear colorful, celebratory costumes, capes, flower crowns, or anything that makes you feel alive, and bring wands, banners, or other items to carry. Not sure where to start? Consider dressing like your favorite creature or one of the elements, or just come as your very own self in your everyday clothes to simply be in community with your fellow earthlings!

The Earthling Parade marks the close of the two-year evolving exhibition Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves, which is foregrounded by the four elements, the cosmos, and all creatures of earth. It encourages us to consider care as entangled within circles of life—care for one another, whether human or non-human, is care for ourselves and all.

The parade departs from Skidmore’s Arts Quad and will process on paved pathways, ending at the Tang Museum at 6 pm. See the parade route map below.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Three students walk in a row in front of “THE EARTHLING PARADE” sign as people parade through a campus lush with trees in the background.
An adult plays a large drum next to two adults playing saxophones as they walk in the parade with a mass of people seen behind them.
Bright blue sheer fabric stretches across a grass field creating a wave like effect, featuring several people holding it from underneath.
Yvette, wearing her wings, stands next to a few seated individuals on a paneled stage facing a large group of people, a building, and trees.
A group of people walk outdoors holding a large black banner with silver artwork and the words “WE LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER,” draped with black sheer fabric as sunlight filters through trees.
A young girl wearing a purple dress and a green decorated cape holds a wand and smiles for the camera as she walks in line with three adults. .
An older man with small stuffed animals tacked across his body walks amongst a line of people and lines of trees and grass.
A person wearing a white bunny face mask pushes a stroller at the front of a line of people walking on a narrow sidewalk with trees scattered in the background.
A large group of people standing on a stage are divided by two students and a sign with the words “THE EARTHLING PARADE”.
One person in an orange shirt holds a large seahorse next to a woman in a white shawl and there are other people walking behind them.
Yvette leads a group of people in a line on a concrete sidewalk where a sign stating “THE EARTHLING PARADE” is held behind her.
A father in a red costume and spiked head piece carries a child in a purple and black costume with gold shoes and a star wand, resting her hand on his hat.
A woman smiles wearing a multi-colored floral dress and a grey wing-like banner across her wingspan, all in front of a crowd of people standing on a grass field.
Yvette stands next to a woman wearing a skirt that depicts a large volcano and there are other people walking around them.
One student smiles with orange and white face paint on and a gold crown next to another student, both holding mulit-colored wands and translucent scarfs and there is a crowd and trees in the background.
A baby wearing a tiger onesie sits on a concrete sidewalk next to two black combat boots, holding a red baton with a rainbow ribbon attached to the bottom of it.
A person stands on a grass field amongst other people, wearing a striped jumper, a string of orange pom-pomps around her neck, and a cheetah mask over her face.
A person stands on a grass field amongst other people, wearing a striped jumper, a string of orange pom-pomps around her neck, and a cheetah mask over her face.
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