Venice Eco-Fest
Program and Schedule
Come experience the future NOW
With Lots of Eco-Exhibits, Performances, and FUN!
Click Here
for Flyer (PDF) with Directions, Parade Info and Stage Performers
Schedule.
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to Download Press Release.
On June 27, 2009 Venice
Beach will be transformed!
FREE to the Public!!! (10 am-6 pm)
At the Venice Beach Recreation Area
Windward Ave and Ocean Front Walk (north of Venice Blvd)
- Over 150 exciting Eco-Exhibitors with
important planet preservation tips.
- Solar-powered Sound Stage - All day
music, dance, entertainment (1 pm Welcoming Ceremony).
- Fat Tire Beer Garden and Bicycle Valet
- on Windward Ave. Next to Danny's Deli. Enjoy a brew!
Park your bike and enjoy the festival - FREE!
- Kid's and Family Court -with exotic
animals, and interactive art and music shenanigans.
- The One Planet Parade - Join the parade
down Ocean Front Walk from Rose Ave to Windward (Meet in the
Beach Lot at the end of Rose at noon!). A wild wacky and wonderful
extravaganza!
- Delicious Vegetarian Food Court
- Venice Cooperative Art Exhibit
- Recycling for SMALL e-waste: Cell Phones
& Accessories, Cell Phone Batteries, Laptop Batteries
- Filtered Water Stations - BYO reusable
water bottle or cup!
- Green Outposts for recycling/waste/and
compost.
Public Parking and Bus Service:
- Park on Venice Bl. or the beach lot
at end of Venice Bl. (fills up early!) $6 before 9 am, $12 after
- Westminster Elementary School parking
lot, on Main St. between Brooks and Westminster Ave, for $10.
Walk two blocks west to Ocean Front Walk, then head approximately
4 blocks south to the festival site.
- Leave the car at home and take bus!
Metro Bus route #333 ($1.25) leaves every 15 minutes all day
Sat. from Union Station (or #33 from Downtown) to Windward and
Pacific (only 1 block from the festival)!
- Big Blue Bus #2 (only 75¢) leaves
every 20 minutes all day Saturday from downtown Santa Monica
to Windward and Pacific and back.
Solar-Powered Stage Performance
Schedule:
(Hosted by MC, Stephen L. Fiske)
10:00 am: Ritual: Blessing of the Festival.
10:30 am: Sivananda Yoga Demonstration.
11:00 am: Tung Academy of Tai Chi Chaun.
11:20 am: California Dance Institute.
11:50 am: Bhajan Band.
12:20 pm: Crystal Davis and the Family Love.
1:00 pm: Welcoming Ceremony with Super Broke Brass and Tin and
String Marching Ensemble, MC and EcoFest Producer Stephen Longfellow
Fiske, Councilman Bill Rosendahl (Honorary Chair), Singer Miyuke,
Assemblyman Ted Lieu. Ceremony includes giving the Art of Humanity
Award to Sculptor Robert Graham, accepted by Anjelica Houston
and Robert's son Steven.
1:30 pm: Super Broke Band continues to play.
2:00 pm: The Backboners.
2:30 pm: The Vegan Vixens.
3:00 pm: Amaya Yaharissa Bellydance Theatre
3:30 pm: Alfred Johnson
3:50 pm: Stefani Valadez
4:20 pm: The Luminaries
5:05 pm: Lisa Haley and the Zydecats
5:50 pm: Laughing Yogi
6:00 pm: Soundstage closes
GO GREEN!
This festival is carbon neutral. You
can be too: Bonneville Environmental Foundation, www.b-e-f.org
Festival Powered by the Sun and Biodiesel!!
Volunteers call 866-220-2370
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This festival will feature:
- Solar Powered Sound Stage with a full
program of performers, dignitaries, celebrities, and environmental
speakers that will both attract and educate people. (The program
will be posted here in June.)
- Booths representing green businesses,
environmental organizations, and various environmentally and
globally oriented non-profit and educational groups.
- Food Court featuring organic and healthy
foods.
- Artists from the Venice and LA area.
- Interactive Art Zone/Creative Play
Area where people of all ages, focused especially for children,
will spontaneously create, play, and interact in artistic and
environmentally aware ways.
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Location:
The festival will be held at the Venice
Beach Recreation Area, at the intersection of Windward Avenue
and Ocean Front Walk. You can enter from Windward Avenue and
Pacific Avenue, Venice. Parking is available at the Venice Beach
lot at the end of Venice Blvd, and various lots in the area.
Driving directions:
Google or MapQuest: 1 Windward Avenue, Los Angeles,
CA 90291
Please be ecological and bike or take
the bus:
Go to www.metro.net and type in your starting address
and your ending point as: Venice Beach
Buses leave downtown LA and Santa Monica
every 15 minutes all day Saturday!
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