2010 Santa Monica Festival May 8, 2010

Presented by The City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division &
The City of Santa Monica Office of Sustainability and the Environment
Free admission, free bike valet and free parking http://arts.santa-monica.org/

The Santa Monica Festival highlights the dynamic connection between the City’s communities, culture, business, environment and art. Now in its nineteenth year, celebrate Mother Earth and all moms this Mother’s Day weekend while indulging in guilt-free shopping from vendors featuring earth-friendly artistic wares. Eat fresh foods from an assortment of local eateries and participate in art workshops using recycled and repurposed materials. The festival, a near zero-waste event, goes to great lengths to reduce its impact on the environment and the community. Learn from an array of environmental organizations and experience an eclectic mix of music and dance that celebrates Santa Monica’s vibrant spirit.

This year, the festival offers myriad opportunities to create your own experience through one-on-one encounters that allows you to explore and learn in a dynamic, interactive and thoroughly engaging way. It’s real 3-D!

Festival Components Performances Enjoy two stages of energetic music and colorful dance. Workshops Get crafty at hands-on art workshops for all ages. Eco Zone Paint the town green as you learn about earth-friendly organizations that create positive and sustainable change locally, nationally, and internationally. Town Square Meet the individuals and organizations who are committed to making Santa Monica shine. Global Café Think global. Eat local. Fare from cultures near and far. The Marketplace Shop from colorful arts and crafts vendors from around the block and around the planet. Human Library – check out a “living book” from the Santa Monica Public Library’s innovative project.

Festival Marketing and Demographics Annual average attendance of 10,000 – 15,000 Marketing efforts reach millions of Southern Californians Target audience includes at least 50% families with young children and young adults under the age of 35 Advertising and media outlets including radio, the blogosphere, television and
print

Santa Monica Festival 2010

MAIN STAGE
11:05 – 11:15
Intro: Emcee Boise Thomas
Boise Thomas is the fresh face of Adrian Grenier’s Alter Eco, an environmentally-focused lifestyle show on Discover Communications’ new eco-focused channel Planet Green. Learn tips on how to be smart with your time, money & resources.
http://www.boisethomas.com/Boise_Thomas/Home.html
11:15 – 11:30
Elemental Strings: SMMUSD Elementary School Youth Orchestra
Elemental Strings is a youth orchestra for fourth and fifth grade string students in the Santa Monica community. Elemental Strings provides students with a solid foundation in ensemble playing, helping prepare them for further musical. It is open to all qualified students, regardless of financial means.


11:30 – 11:40
City of SM Welcome - TBD
12:10 – 12:40
Santa Monica High School Jazz Combo
The jazz combo is comprised of piano, bass, guitar, drums and saxophone. They will be performing a mix of swing, latin and funk jazz standards.
http://www.samohiband.org/newhomepage/jazzband.html

1:10 – 1:40
A Gaelic Gathering: Traditional Irish Dance and Music
Kick up your heels with this interactive east of reels, jigs and hornpipes.
http://www.maireclerkin.com/gaelic_gathering.html
2:15 – 3:00
The Living Sisters
Feeling deep desire for more harmony in the world, the Living Sisters formed to meet this need. The sisters describe their experience together as "ecstatic" and hope that all people of the world will sing and find strength in harmony.
http://publicity.vanguardrecords.com.php5-6.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/?page_id=90

3:30 – 4:15
Clarita and the Arte Flamenco Dance Theatre
Le by “La Clara,” this renown touring dance company erforms rarely seen and reconstructed historical Spanish classical and regional folk dances, and of course, the fiery, passionate Flamenco. The performance is filled with castanets and beautiful authentic costumes that are representative of the many regions of Spain.
www.clarita-arteflamenco.com

5:00 – 6:00
Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca Afro Cuban
A Southern California synthesis of Latin American and African musical styles that forges new links in the age-old chain of the Afro-Caribbean musical tradition.
http://www.makinaloca.com/

YOUTH/INTERACTIVE STAGE

11:40
Intro: Emcee Joe Hernandez KolskI
Two time HBO Def Jam poet, Joe is also an actor/writer and the Emmy winning host of Santa Monica’s Downbeat 720 and Downbeat Showdown.
http://www.pochojoe.com/home.html

11:45 – 12:05
A Performance of Sound, Science, Music & Art with John Zeretsky & Students
Find sound, explore music and the magic of science and vibration in performance with master artist educator and award-winning composer John Zeretzke and local elementary school students from SmART Schools West in SMMUSD. On stage, John will build a sculpture of sound right before your eyes...and have audience members performing and composing music by the end of the show. Come hear what you can create with pots and pans, coat hangers, 2x4's, garden rocks and imagination!
http://www.zworldmusic.com/educational_frame.html

12:45 -1:05
A Performance of Movement & Nature with Ana Maria Alvarez & Students
Create movement as a means to express and build understanding of the cycles of nature with master teaching artist, Ana Maria Alvarez and local elementary school students from SmARTS Schools West in SMMUSD. Ana Maria Alvarez is also the founder and director of CONTRA-TIEMPO – an Urban Latin Dance Theater company.
http://www.contra-tiempo.org/aboutus.html

1:45 - 2:15
Rising Phoenix Morris Tradition dance from the Cotswold region of England
Time travel to 19th Century England as this local Santa Monica group performs the traditional, exuberant and colorful Morris dance. Join in the stepping and bell ringing. http://www.risingphoenixmorris.org/
(possibly strolling – time tbd)

3:00 – 3:30
Ballroom Madness – Watch and learn swing, tango and polka with Santa Monica school students and Danny Ponickly of Ballroom Madness. Danny implements a dynamic dance program at local schools developing teamwork, respect and a sense of accomplishment through ballroom dance instruction.
http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=11513
4:15 – 5:00
Zumba – Join the dance party with top Zumba trainer Wil-son Williams. Zumba fuses Latin rhythms and hip hop into easy routines that are a total blast.
http://www.myspace.com/clubzumba

WORKSHOPS

12:00 – 4:00
Santa Monica Public Library presents the Human Library
A Human Library works like a traditional library, but instead of books, patrons can “check out” real people who answer questions, share personal viewpoints, or debate and discuss controversial issues. Choose from 12 human books and check them out for a 30 minute conversation in a private yet structures environment.
http://human-library.org/

11:00 – 5:30
Santa Monica Public Library Workshop - TBD

11:00 – 5:30
Green Cordel with SmART Schools
SmART Schools is a comprehensive, standards-based, arts centered, whole-school redesign program that provides ongoing opportunities for all students to appreciate, develop, and demonstrate skills, knowledge, and understanding in and through the arts.
On display at the festival will be the Green Cordel. A cordel is a 17th century Portuguese tradition of hanging personal or political poems or illustrations on a piece of string in public places. The Green Cordel showcases work created in response to environmental issues by students from SmART Schools: Edison Language Academy, John Muir Elementary, McKinley Elementary and Will Rogers Learning Community. Come create your own work to add to the cordel. Festival goers are encouraged to interact with the works by posting reflections, compliments or questions.
http://www.smartschoolsnetwork.org/

11:00 – 5:30
Santa Monica Museum of Art Workshop
Fundred Dollar Bill project by artist Mel Chin
Participate in this workshop that aims to remediate the environmental problem of lead soil content in New Orleans and other major cities in the U.S. Participants will color templates of 100-dollar bills, which will in turn be collected and submitted to the Smithsonian in the hopes that they will be presented to the steps of Congress.
www.fundred.org

11:00 – 5:30
18th Street Art Center
TBD
http://www.18thstreet.org/

11:00 – 5:30
Reusable Bag Design Workshop with the West LA Veterans and Rosie’s Girls
Replace your single use bags with a reusable tote made by West Los Angeles Veterans which you can pick up at the Office of Sustainability and the Environment Booth. Then decorate your tote at a special workshop staffed by Rosie’s Girls.

Official Website: http://arts.smgov.net/events/SantaMonicaFestival.html