Friday, March 26, 2010

Tucson: THIS WEEKEND- Water Festival!! See schedule here.

-----Original Message-----
From: THE WATER PROJECT- Tucson's Synergistic Water Festival
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:07 AM
Subject: THIS WEEKEND- Water Festival!! See schedule here.

Hello Fellow Water Drinker!

THE WATER PROJECT: Tucson's Synergistic Water Festival is... THIS
WEEKEND! Celebrate our most precious resource- and participate in
creative and proactive ways to address water issues!

At a glance:

. FRIDAY, MARCH 26
@ THE SCREENING ROOM (127 E. Congress)
6pm: Film Shorts by local filmmakers
8pm: Blue Gold- World Water Wars

. SATURDAY, MARCH 27
@ HIMMEL PARK w/ SOLAR ROCK (Tucson Blvd. + 1st Street)
Noon-6pm: Information tables, kids area, live music, food, speakers,
performance, and more

. SUNDAY, MARCH 28

@ SABINO CANYON (5700 N. Sabino Canyon Rd)
9:15am-Noon: Cross-cultural / Inter-faith Water Ritual

@ ARMORY PARK CENTER (220 S. 5th Ave)
1-6pm: Enviro-Vendor Fair w/ businesses, organizations, artisans
1-2pm: Movement Theatre Workshop
2:30pm: Policy Panel Discussion
4:30pm: Round Table Brainstorms on various water issues
5:30pm: Festival Performance / Festival Closing / Next Steps
6pm: After Party!

@ PEOPLE'S IMPORTS (276 S. Park Ave)
9pm-1am: After After Party!!


See website for more festival info and to make a donation to support
this project and more events that bring community together on water
issues: http://www.WaterProjectFestival.org

See below for full schedule details.


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FRIDAY, MARCH 26
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WATER PROJECT FILM FESTIVAL @ THE SCREENING ROOM
127 E. Congress Street, Downtown Tucson
$5 total for one or both programs


6pm to 7:30pm: Local Shorts- Featuring films about water by local
filmmakers

. Oasis Under Seige, directed by Sonya Angelica Diehn/Pan Left
Productions (24 mins.)
. My Liquid Self, directed by Valerie Constantino (4 mins.)
. Waterborne, directed by Ryn Shane-Armstrong (5 mins.)
. Green Green Water, directed by Dawn Mikkelson and Co-Directed by
Jamie A. Lee (14 mins.)
. River Without Words, directed by Quynn Elizabeth (3 mins.)
. The Journey of Wastewater, produced by Laura Markowitz for Arizona

Public Media (aired on Arizona Illustrated- AZPM Ch. 6 / PBS) (15 mins.)
. The Thunder Followed, directed by Erin Garber Pearson (3 mins.)
. Keep Water Knowledge Flowing, directed by Water Resources Research

Center, University of Arizona (5 mins.)
. Rain is Falling, directed by Holger Ernst, Germany, 2004 (15
mins.)
8pm to 9:30pm: Feature Documentary

. Blue Gold: World Water Wars, directed by Sam Bozzo, Narrated by
Malcolm McDowell (90 mins.)


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SATURDAY, MARCH 27
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THE WATER PROJECT FESTIVAL @ HIMMEL PARK WITH SOLAR ROCK!
Tucson Blvd. and 1st Street, Central Tucson
FREE

Noon to 6pm: Enviro-Vendor Fair . Music . Food . Entertainment
. Information booths- organizations, businesses, city/county
departments
. Water-related products
. Speaker: Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, Commercial Rainwater
Harvesting Ordinance
. Kids activities
. Food
. Live music entertainment
. Art happenings
. Water-themed costumes encouraged, though not required
Noon: Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, Commercial Rainwater Harvesting
Ordinance

12:10pm: Water Festival Performance

12:30pm @ Himmel Park Library: Film program for kids and adults
"Messages of Water"

. Presented by Sandra Barkyoumb, student representative of Dr.
Masaru
Emoto
. Dr. Emoto (featured in "What the Bleep Do We Know?!" movie) is
donating books to kids
. Water experiment

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SUNDAY, MARCH 28
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CROSS-CULTURAL & INTERFAITH WATER RITUAL @ SABINO CANYON
Sabino Canyon Visitor Center, 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Rd.
$5 parking fee per car, downtown carpools available at 8:30am or
8:45am (see below)

9:15am: Meet at Sabino Canyon Visitor Center
9:30am: Walk, or take the 9:30 shuttle, up to Mile marker 1 picnic area
(Shuttle runs every half-hour)
10am: Water Ritual with song, prayer, reflection
10:30am: Start return to Visitor Center, walk or shuttle
11am-11:15am: Leave Sabino Canyon Visitor Center
11:45am-Noon: Arrive downtown
(Water will be displayed at an installation at Armory Park Center
during the activities there)

CARPOOL:
You may arrive at Sabino Canyon on your own, or meet at one of two
locations to carpool. Carpooling not only reduces our carbon
footprint, but also people in vehicles can share the parking fee of $5
per vehicle.

8:30am: Armory Park Center
(Meet on the North side of the park on 12th Street)
Contact: Tom Mendola (520-400-4489)
8:45am: Ft. Lowell Park
(On Craycroft, North of Glenn. Go to parking area off Craycroft, meet
by the pool)
Contact: Deborah Mayaan (520-881-2534)

Wear comfortable shoes, bring layers of clothing for the coolness of
higher elevation, and bring a vessel for gathering water to take back,
and your own drinking water (creek water is not safe for drinking).

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WATER PROJECT EDUCATION, ART, ACTION WORKSHOPS @ ARMORY PARK CENTER
220 S. 5th Avenue, Downtown Tucson
FREE / After Party: $10 per person (free for Speakers, Vendors,
Volunteers, Kids-12 & under)

1pm to 6pm: Enviro-Vendor Fair with products, information, and art

. Businesses
. Organizations
. City/County Departments
. Artisans
. Art Happenings
1pm to 2pm: Movement Theatre Workshop led by Jodi Netzer

. Unique movement exercises for building body memory with water
themes and more
. Option to participate in festival closing performance
2:30pm to 4pm: Policy Panel Discussion and Q & A

. Moderated by Blake Gentry, United Nations Association of Southern
AZ
. Chris Avery, Tucson Water
. Marcelino Flores, Tucson/Pima Water/Wastewater Study
. Sharon Megdal, UA Water Resources Research Center
. Vince Vasquez, Diamond Ventures
. Rep. Daniel Patterson, State Legislature & Water and Energy
Committee (inv.)
4pm to 4:30pm: Food Break/Networking

. Meet the speakers
. Network with community members
. Eat some food
4:30pm to 5:30pm: Roundtable Brainstorms

. Cari Spring: Collective Water Savings in Tucson
. Clayton Nolte: Structured Water- What It Is and Why Is It
Important
. Dave Ewoldt: Mitigating Global Warming- Protecting Water
. David Byrnes: Halve Your Cake and Eat It Too- Energy and Water
Conservation at Home
. Diana Rhoades: 1000 Trees Please!
. Linda Ellinor: How To Take the Chlorine Out of Your Water and
Improve Your Health
. Ignacio Gomez: TCE Contamination
. Mitch Basefsky: How CAP is Ensuring Reliable Water Supplies During

Challenging Times
. Ron Proctor: The Carbon Footprint of Tucson's Tap Water
. Sandra Barkyoumb: Dr. Emoto's Teachings of "The Messages of Water"
. William Foster, PhD: The United Nations' World Water Assessment
Project (WWAP)
5:30pm to 6pm: Festival Closing

. Short theatrical performance with puppets by The Conscious
Collective
. Community water pouring of the Sabino Canyon water urn
. A few words on next steps
6pm to 9pm: After Party! Eat, drink, be merry!

. Catered food buffet
. Live music entertainment
+ One Heartbeat / Black Man Clay
+ Missing Parts
. Connect with community members
. Water-themed costumes encouraged, though not required
. Get your watery groove on...

AFTER AFTER PARTY!! @ PEOPLE'S IMPORTS / CASBAH TEAHOUSE
276 S. Park Avenue (off Broadway), Downtown Tucson
$5

9pm to 1am: Full moon celebrations!

. More live music
. More dancing
. More connecting with community
. Check out the amazing art from around the world

See website for more festival info and to make a donation to support
this project and more events that bring community together on water
issues: http://www.WaterProjectFestival.org


And see you there!

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