CELEBRATE NATURE

This Earth Day, naturalists and neighbors of San Francisco's McLaren Park invite you to celebrate nature where you live. This FREE celebration will transform McLaren Park into an outdoor ecological classroom for people of all ages. Join us at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater for:

hands-on restoration
bird and butterfly walks
native plant nursery
artwork
activities for kids
live performances
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Read more about McLaren Park, one of the largest and most treasured parks in San Francisco. And get directions to the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater.




STAGE PROGRAM

11:00 a.m. Bread Me Out Family (Hip Hop Dub)
11:45 a.m. Welcome
12:00 p.m. Big Tadoo Puppet Crew
12:20 p.m. Curt Yagi (Singer/ Songwriter)
1:00 p.m. Play a Poem for the Earth (Amber performs her poem/dance score, Play a Poem For the Earth, with sound by Kristin MIltner. The poem, read aloud at McLaren Park's amphitheatre, invites a large group of participants to actively engage their bodies, play in relation to other people and explore the natural McLaren Park environment.)
1:15 p.m. Rick Hardin (Singer/ Songwriter)
1:55 p.m. Mokai (Singer/ Songwriter)
2:30 p.m. Roots International Academy (Youth global warming presentation)
2:45 p.m. Quixote (Latin Jazz Quartet)
3:30 p.m. Play a Poem for the Earth (Interactive poem, dance & sound score)
3:40 p.m. Gale Mead (Singer/ Songwriter)
4:15 p.m. Rennea (Afro Cuban Venezuelan- Salsa)
5:00 p.m. Steven Gary (Guitarist/Singer/ Songwriter)
5:30 p.m. Interface Oblivion (Live Psychedelic Electro Dub)
6:15 p.m. Blue Swamis (Blues)




NATURE WALKS and HABITAT RESTORATION

TBD Frog walk with Jim McKissock
10 - 12 a.m. Habitat Restoration of McLaren's natural area with One Brick volunteers
11:00 a.m. Bird walk with Dominic Moser
11:30 a.m. Green dog walk with Rachel Kessel
12 - 1:30 p.m.Gray Fox Creek native planting and restoration talk with Licia Demeo of NAP
12:00 p.m. Butterfly walk with Liam O'brien (Liam is a member of the Lepidopterists' Society and the leader of the annual SF Butterfly Count. Come comb the parks hidden areas and open, wildflower slopes. Learn about different species and their host plants.)
1:00 p.m. McLaren Park History walk with Franco Mancini (Friends of McLaren Park)
1:00 p.m. Bike tour of McLaren Park area neighborhoods with Matt Householder
2 - 3:30 p.m.Emerging Oak Woodland Restoration - Removing the Blackberry Understory
2:00 p.m. Wildflower/Native plant walk with Jake Sigg
3:00 p.m. Bike tour of McLaren Park area neighborhoods with Matt Householder


INSTALLATIONS & ARTWORKS

Earth Day Library by Prelinger Library (The Prelinger Library installs an Earth Day reading table for browsing. The installation concentrates on the State of California as a contested site of nature preservation, with historic literature about San Francisco, the San Francisco Bay, and California History. The installation will also present an assembly of paperback ecology titles that are clustered around the development of the first Earth Day in 1970.)

Environmental Sustainability Through Love by Lori Gordon (At McLaren Park, passers-by receive a green rubber stamp inked onto anything they choose: scrap paper, notebooks, arms and legs. The stamped message includes a link to access the online project: Environmental Sustainability Through Love (lorigordon.com/earthday). This is a collaboration with artist Melissa Chevalier, who interviewed Lori Gordon, conceptual artist, and her husband Max Auffhammer -- an environmental economist, teaching at UC Berkeley. The piece is a discussion about the intersections between their works and their dynamic collaboration in marriage as it relates to environmental sustainability. The piece communicates ideas about environmental concerns, art and love. Anyone interested is invited to go online to read, download and print the interview at his or her leisure.)

Historical Photos of Natural San Francisco by Greg Gaar

Rock Labyrinth by Eduardo Aguliera

A Dance for Contemplation with a Black Bird by Patricia Bulitt (An improvisational dance performed near Gray Fox Creek with music, white butcher paper and birdseed.)

The Black Factory and Other Good Works by William Pope.L (On exhibit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from Mar 17 - Jul 8, 2007. 141 Demands, one of Pope.L's Other Good Works, will be at McLaren Park for Earth Day from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. The 141 Demands for a Better World are designed for moving into community sites and inciting activism. During McLaren Park Earth Day, teams made up of 2-3 people engage with passersby and the public in a performative and lively way, sparking conversation that asks people to state their demands for a better world, region, community or neighborhood. The 141 Demands team puts the passersby in touch with organizations that do what they say they would like to see done, so that they can either draw on them as a resource or give their own time/money to support them. All the conversations are broadcast on Neighborhood Public Radio.)


ACTIVITIES

Kids in Parks (Nature journals)

Tree Frog Treks (live reptiles and zany science games for kids)

Renewable Energy Carnival Game (A product of the Sustainable Living Roadshow)

Nicole Krauch Storyteller (Nicole reads two or three stories aloud for children.)

Urban Literacy Initiative

2007 Poster Art: Jack Laws, Deirdre Elmansoumi, Liam O'Brien. 2007 Poster Design: Amber Hasselbring