Staten Island
Greens
Eco-Fest
2003
for a sane and sustainable future
BECOME A PRESENTER:
If you have an interest in taking part in any of the following aspects of the S.I. Green Festival 2003, either participating in a forum as a presenter, teaching a workshop, exhibiting your product, service or information in the exposition, or showing your artwork or performing in the evening cultural activities, please get in touch with the relevant contact, listed on our contacts page.
Forums:
(Thursday, April 24 and Friday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Wagner College)
Format: A panel of four to six presenters who are knowledgeable about a specific area of interest. Each panelist gives a brief talk, about 15 to 20 minutes in length, with question-and-answer discussion to follow.
Topic for Thursday's forum: "Sustainability, BioRegionalism, and Economics"
Topic for Friday's forum: "Active Environmentalism: Grassroots Action and Sustainable Living"
Workshops:
(Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Martini Red, 372 Van Duzer Street)(Spillover times, if needed: Thursday, April 24, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Friday, April 25, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Wagner College)
Format: Interactive presentations and discussion.
Topic: Environmentally responsible living, alternative economies and technologies. We seek speakers on any of the following: green home building techniques; new energy technologies; transportation alternatives; practical financing of new technologies, economic philosophy; community, from local political governance to cooperative and collective self-management; backyard habitat, sharing land with and supporting wild animals in suburbia; art, music, poetry; and children's activities.
Exhibits:
(Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., The Muddy Cup, 388 Van Duzer Street)
Format: Exposition of sustainable products and information, plus demonstrations by exhibitors. Tables will be set up for exibitors in the rear room of The Muddy Cup coffee house.
An outdoor parking lot will be set up across the street for exhibits which require an oudoor space, such as vehicles.
Prices for tables are as follows:
$100.00 - Full Table, For-Profit Business
$50.00 - Full Table, Non-Profit or Individuals
$30.00 - Half Table, Non-Profit or Individuals
Art Show and Performances:
(Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m., Winter Palace, 151 Winter Ave.)
"My Green Home" is the name of the first public exhibition at the Winter Palace, timed to coincide with the Staten Island Greens' Eco-Fair for a Sane and Sustainable Future. The exhibition will continue on weekends in May. The question is, how do we live in this world? How do we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of creation, and how is this relation expressed in works of art? The show will combine the global and the local -- prescriptive conceptual art* and work, mostly by regional artists, on the theme of a domestic relation with nature.
For more information, please check the Art & Performance page.
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