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 BLUE BEAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC
www.bluebearmusic.org
Want to be a rock star and feel what it’s like
to play at a world class music festival? Then
come rock out with Blue Bear School of Music
at Outside Lands! The Blue Bear booth will be
outfitted with a full band set up of instruments
for festival goers to join rocking jam sessions
led by talented Blue Bear teachers and staff.
Blue Bear School of Music's nonprofit mission
since 1971 is to provide superior quality and
affordable popular music education in the genres
of rock, blues, jazz and folk to aspiring musicians
of all ages and skill levels within a supportive
and encouraging community.
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 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
www.calacademy.org
The California Academy of Sciences is a multifaceted
scientific institution committed to leading-edge
research, to ducational outreach, and to finding
new and innovative ways to engage and inspire
the public. The Academy's mission - to explore,
explain and protect the natural world - extends
to all corners of the institution; from a research
expedition in the highlands of Papua New Guinea,
to a teacher training program in a California
classroom, to an interactive game on the museum
exhibit floor.
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 FRIENDS
OF THE URBAN FOREST
www.fuf.net
FUF will be providing 15 nursery trees, creating
a “mini urban forest” around our booth. A projector
will alternate between displaying photos of
recent events, and a LIVE INTERACTIVE “urban
forest map.” Users will be able to input information
about trees at their property!
To promote a larger, healthier
urban forest as part of the urban ecosystem,
through community planting, maintenance, education
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 GARDEN
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
www.gardenfortheenvironment.org
Garden for the Environment will be hosting
gardening workshops at Outside Lands! Each
mini-workshop will be held once on Saturday
and once on Sunday and will take place in Eco
Lands:
1. Home Composting with Worms
Jump-start your garden with some homemade compost!
Aside from giving veggies and flowers a healthy
start, composting encourages beneficial organisms
in the soil and can help break the life cycle
of pests and disease as well as keep valuable
waste out of the landfill. Join Garden For
the Environment for this mini-workshop where
you will learn the easy steps involved in setting
up and maintaining your own worm composting
system at home. Rot On!
2. Be a Victory Gardener: Grow Your Own Food
Reduce your ecological footprint, decrease
your dependence on oil and increase your health
and wellness all by starting a vegetable garden
in your home or neighborhood! Join Garden
For the Environment for this mini-workshop
and walk away with ideas of will what to plant,
when to plant it and how to care for your vegetables
organically!
Learn to Garden! Garden for the Environment
teaches Organic Gardening, Sustainable Landscaping
and Urban Composting through hands-on workshops
to adults and youth in San Francisco.
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 HAYES
VALLEY FARM
www.hayesvalleyfarm.com
Hayes Valley Farm will be hosting Food Workshops
in Eco Lands on the following topics:
- Pesto from Wild Herbs and Plants: fennel,
nasturtium, stinging nettle (depending on seasonality
and availability)
- Fermented Cucumbers in pickles, Fermented
Plums: taking green plums and making them umeboshi
- Nasturtiums Seeds into Capers: fermentation
demo
- Making Mushrooms: spores transform straw
and household materials into edible fungi
Hayes Valley Farm's mission is to serve as a community and agricultural hub empowering San Francisco residents to connect with one another, grow their own food, and learn about sustainable ecological systems. |
 HEADCOUNT
www.headcount.org
At the HeadCount booth you can register to
vote or write a letter to Congress. You can
also pledge to vote and choose an artist like
Bob Weir or Jim James to call you before Election
Day reminding you to vote. HeadCount registers
voters at concerts and works with musicians
to promote participation in democracy. Through
our ties to artists and concert promoters,
we have registered over 150,000 voters and
inspired millions of young people to be more
active citizens.
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 MUSIC
IN SCHOOLS TODAY
www.mustcreate.org
MUST is the Bay Area's answer to the crisis
in music education. Despite extensive research
indicating that music instruction supplies
intellectual, emotional and physical components
critical to children's development, music and
arts programs are often the first victims of
budget cuts. MUST combats this trend with
a comprehensive set of programs that are resistant
to budget slashing. MUST serves over 21,000
children and youth annually in schools and
community centers, conducts research and development
and advocates to restore music as an essential
principle of pre-K through 12 education.
A San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organization
with national impact, Music in Schools Today
(MUST) advocates for, supports and develops
integrated, accessible, sustainable and measurable
music-in-education programs that improve student
achievement.
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 OXFAM
www.oxfam.org
We'll be reaching out to music fans with our petition
asking Congress to consider poor people, both here
and around the world, when creating legislation
regarding climate change. We’ll also be asking
folks to participate in our photo petition, in
which they’d pose with a sign demanding that BP
be held accountable for the spill in the Gulf.
We’ll have a selection of materials at our booth
for takeaway, including buttons, CD's and information
on our campaigns and programs.
Oxfam America is an international relief and development
organization that creates lasting solutions to
poverty, hunger, and injustice. Forty percent
of the people on our planet--more than 2.5 billion--now
live in poverty, struggling to survive on less
than $2 a day. Oxfam America is an international
relief and development organization working to
change that. Together with individuals and local
groups in more than 120 countries, Oxfam saves
lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights
for social justice.
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 SAVE
THE WAVES
www.savethewaves.org
This year STW plan to have a fun photo opportunity
for people that visit our booth. A picture
will be sent with the individual, and all pictures
will be put together as a photo petition.
Save The Waves Coalition is a global nonprofit
organization dedicated to protecting and preserving
the coastal environment, with an emphasis on
the surf zone, and educating the public about
its value.
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 SF
ENVIRONMENT
www.sfenvironment.org
Our Home. Our City. Our Planet.
SF Environment -- San Francisco's Environment
Department -- is a collection of visionary
environmental professionals who are dedicated
to helping all San Francisco residents and
businesses take an active role in protecting
and enhancing their urban environment. We
do this by developing innovative, practical
and wide-ranging environmental programs, fostering
ground-breaking legislation, and educating
the public by providing comprehensive and easily
accessible information on a wide range of sustainable
practices. SF Environment makes it easy for
everyone in San Francisco to take care of their
environment, and ultimately, the planet.
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 SF
SURFRIDER
www.sfsurfrider.org
We will be educating concert goers on the reality
of one of our ocean's biggest threats: plastic!
We will have the plastic wave - a life size
barreling wave that anyone can get into and
ride (short board in wave can hold 2 adults
for great photos). The wave was made out of
plastic beverage containers collected by about
25 local surfers over the course of 6 weeks.
It is an eye opening example of how much plastic
(in the form of beverage containers alone)
a regular, environmentally conscience SF resident
consumes in their everyday life. We have examples
of plastic found on beaches all over the world
for the "Name what beach this plastic was
found on" game (big hit last year). As well
as info and photos on some of our members expedition
to The Pacific Geyer. We will also be conducting
The Blinded Water Taste Test. Concert goers
will be asked to taste and rate tap water versus
a few select bottled waters. We will also
have the S to give to those If you stop by
and take our water test or ride the wave you
will get a complimentary SF Surfrider & OL
co-branded Chico bag!
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