90% Waste Free Topanga Earth Day Festival Celebrates Mother Earth

The 11th annual Topanga Earth Day festival will celebrate and promote ecological awareness, cultural respect and music on Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2010. Set in Topanga Canyon, the festival will give attendees the unique opportunity to learn about a variety of sustainable and holistic-living solutions through guest speakers and workshops, a healing village and ecological vendors who are “living by example” including Klean Kanteen founder Robert Seals.

The annual tradition of local habitat preservation continues on Saturday when volunteers take part in the Topanga creek and berm clean-up, led by leading biologist Rosi Dagit of Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains. All volunteers receive a free day pass to the event. Like every year, festival-goers may catch a ride up to the Topanga Community House Fair Grounds on the Topanga Canyon Boulevard via biodiesel-powered shuttles by Bio Beetle.

The “Opening Ceremony” featuring world flags in the “May Peace Prevail on Earth Ceremony.” He will be joined by authentic Lakota Nation Chief Marvin Swallow and Japanese Shinto Priestess First Lady Hiroko Matsuda Swallow. Colorful Caribbean skirt dancers and West African drummers and dancers will perform pieces by choreographer Cari Ann Shim Sham. Performances during the opening ceremony will include peace and meditation band Gaia Mama, virtuoso percussionist and oud player Hani Naser and very special guests.

MAIN STAGE SCHEDULE

Saturday April 17th 2010

Master Ceremonies
Edwin Lemus, Truth I

10am to11:30am
Yoga
with Govindas & Radha

11:30am to 12:45pm
Opening Ceremony
with Edwin Lemus, Prayer for Peace Flags, Gaia Mama, John Densmore,
Hani Naser, Cari Ann Shim Sham Carribean Skirt Dancers, African Drummers & Dancers

12:45pm to 1:30pm
The Chiefs

1:40pm to 2:10pm
Dana Wood & Dina

2:20pm to 2:50
Griffith Frank

3pm to 3:35pm
Arlan & Kara

3:50pm to 5:20pm
Moonalice

5:35pm to 6:05pm
HunnyBunch

6:05 to 6:15
Victor Bisetti & Danny Frankel

6:30pm to 8pm
Buffy Sainte-Marie

8:15pm to 9:30pm
Cubensis

Sunday, April 18, 2010

10am to11:45am
Yoga

12pm to 12:45pm
Custom

1pm to 1:30pm
I,Star

1:40pm to 2:10pm
Rowan Storm

2:20pm to 3:20pm
Donna Delory

3:35pm to 4:20pm
Luis Conte

4:20pm to 4:50pm
Melanie Kareem
Belly Dancers

5pm to 6:30pm
Leon Mobley & Da Lion

6:30pm
Drumming
& Closing Ceremony with Everybody!

11th annual Topanga Earth Day festival

Topanga Community House Fair Grounds
1440 North Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, 90290
Saturday, April 17, 2010
10 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Ages: All
Cost: FREE
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Park and Ride! Free BioDiesel Shuttle to the festival
from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., through Sunday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.