100 Rivers: Signals of Repair
100 Rivers: Signals of Repair is an 18-month public art project that launched in Coastal Louisiana and is traveling upstream through communities along the Mississippi River as part of a watershed-wide initiative inviting reflection on our relationship to water. Installed across parks, Main Streets, and cultural sites, the project places 100 semaphore signal flags within the landscape, creating a distributed network of communication carried between body, place, and collective experience. The work involves a semaphore-inspired movement vocabulary performed according to a coded archive of accumulated messages reflecting with the River.
The September 12 iteration of 100 Rivers will be presented as part of Silverwood Park’s annual Field Trip Arts and Nature Festival. The installation will occupy the island at Silverwood, with performances taking place from 12:00–12:30 p.m. and 2:00–2:30 p.m. Field Trip is a daylong celebration of art, nature, food, and music running from 12:00–4:00 p.m.
100 Rivers: Signals of Repair is presented in conjunction with Sacred Waters, Shared Future and MR100, two centennial initiatives examining how the Mississippi River’s waters, ecology, management, and use have changed over the last century. Looking ahead to the next 100 years, the project asks a simple question: What is the River saying to us today?
The Sacred Water Shared Future campaign is powered by you! The heart of this centennial celebration is the incredible variety of events planned and hosted by our partners — community groups, nonprofits, businesses, schools, and individuals who feel a connection to the Mississippi River.
We do not host events ourselves; instead, we serve as a central hub for river-focused activities happening across the Twin Cities throughout 2026.