RIPE AREA Arts & Nature Festival

Name: RIPE AREA Arts & Nature Festival
Start: 2024-06-02T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-02T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Wakamatsu Farm

Schedule

Sun Jun 02 2024 at 11:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Wakamatsu Farm | Placerville, CA

RIPE AREA ARTS & NATURE FESTIVAL is a free family-friendly day long event featuring all the RIPE AREA artists and others in expressions of sound, music, poetry, story, dance, visual arts, and a celebration of local wild foods cuisine, plant and animal life, along with talks about watershed ecology. Various themes will interactively explore cultural and personal experiences related to natural cycles, access to fresh water, local food availability, and the ecological stewardship and restoration of riverbanks and meadows in the face of historical and current human impacts. Speakers will feature ARC staff and experts from organizations sharing information, projects, and avenues of support. Register for this FREE festival using the add-ons links below. Parking donations benefit stewardship at Wakamatsu Farm.
Participating Artists: Ameera Godwin & Paul Godwin, Co-Founders of Myrtle Tree Arts; Native storyteller Kimberly ShiningStar Petree; Poet Lara Gularte; spoken word performer Rina Wakefield; visual artists Margie Lopez Read & Corina del Carmel; musician, Melinda Velasco; composer, Miguel Noya; native plant specialist, Mahala Guggino, wild/native food experts, Alicia Funk & Sara Raskie; Ranko Ogura dancers; and numerous other collaborators. Musical performances by Copper Wimmin, Grayson Howard, Dogon. Click the "description" link on each event link for further information about each session.
Find out more about the project at MyrtleTreeArts.com/ripe-area Discover more about ARC at ARConservancy.org