Tag archives: Earth Day Festival
The annual community-organized gathering to give thanks to Gaia gets going (as always) the last weekend of the month (April 26-27) at Alameda Park, marking its 55th year as one of the longest-running Earth Day celebrations in the country and largest on the West Coast. Presented by the Community Environmental Council and geared toward environmental […]
The Community Environmental Council’s Santa Barbara Earth Day festival – one of the longest-running such celebrations in the country – has become a massive two-day event full of exhibitors, speeches, music, workshops and more. The green extravaganza doesn’t arrive until the last weekend of the month, but given our history as the arguable birthplace of […]
It’s been four years since Earth Day in Santa Barbara – where the annual celebration originated nearly 50 years ago – occupied Alameda Park for a weekend festival. But, hey, in the relative timeline of the planet, that is barely more than a nanosecond in a human life. Or maybe not, given some of the […]
Imagine an artistic hub in downtown Santa Barbara brimming with materials, tools, ideas, and creativity, a curated and dynamic gathering space where community members are welcome to imagine, invent, create and collaborate, all in an ecologically friendly way. That’s the idea behind a new vision for the Art From Scrap (AFS) workshop as a permanent […]
