Program

This is the provisional program. Check back later for the final version

 

Festival Schedule & Entertainment

 

MAIN STAGE
8:45 Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan Drummers
9:00 Opening Ceremony with Supervisor Don Saylor, Mayor Joe Krovoza and City Council members, and Poet Laureate Eve West Bessier
9:15 Fiesta Dance n’ Fitness
10:15 Organic Improv
10:45 Ecokinesis Dance Company
11:20 SickSpits
12:15 Tha Dirt Feeling
12:45 Prize Drawing Winners!
1:00  Cal Aggie Band-uh!

HALL OF FAME STAGE
9:45 Coro de Cesar Chavez
10:00 Mehdi Reads Rumi
10:45 Davis Threshold Choir
11:05 Mariachi Puents
11:40 Brother Jimmie and the New Deal

ROTARY STAGE
11:00 Nature’s Theater presents “The Search for King Carbon”
12:15 Acme Theater Company

CAROUSEL
Rides on the Pedal-powered Carousel benefit Cesar Chavez 1st Grade

US Bicycling Hall of Fame
Free admission all day!

Demonstrations
9:00    Sustainable Sushi — Sithu Tun, Mermaid Sushi & Davis Food Co-op
10:00     Green cleaning and body care products (every 15 minutes)
11:00     Meals without Heat “Un-cooking a CSA box”: Debra Chase, Pheasant Hollow Farm
12:00     Unique dishes with seasonal produce Tony and Rhonda Gruska, Monticello Seasonal Cuisine

Cool Solutions Center
One-Stop Answer Shop with experts & practical solutions for greenhouse gas reduction.  Ask questions and get more information for your personal plan for carbon neutrality

  • Check out the Climate Science & Impacts Posters – How many lbs. of CO2 can you lose?
  • Earn Cool Davis drawing tickets by filling out the Cool Solutions Checklist – check-off the reductions you have made, and circle the actions you are planning.

The built environment—Home energy, lighting, water conservation, insulation, windows & roofing etc…
Food, waste and services—Healthy lifestyle, food choices, fitness, & ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Transportation—Active transportation, plan your commute, get the facts about your options.

Experts: Davis Energy Group, Lower Home Energy, Valley Climate Action Center, Plumbing MD, Davis Home Trends, Health Education Council, Cool Davis Veggie Bags Project, Sustainable Rentals, Davis Bicycles!, Unitrans, Amtrak, Yolo Bus and products from Ace Hardware.

Home and Solar Exhibitors
Home Energy & Solar
Brower Mechanical
CalPIRG Energy Service Corps Campaign
and Children’s Facepainting
Energy Upgrade California
REC Solar
SIEMENS
Talbott Solar

Third Street – Bikes and Electric vehicles
Third Street Closed for Bike Circus, Working Bikes & Electric Vehicle Show & Tell
City of Davis Active Transportation
Davis Bicycles! Bike Safety Course
Metro Utility Electric Tricycles
Swann Electric-Assisted Bicycles
Whymcycles
Working Bikes & Bike Creations
Chevy Volt, Ford Focus, Nissan Leaf and many other plug-ins on site
Air Resources Board Drive Clean Program
Greater Sacramento Electric Auto Association
ZipCar (on central plaza)

Gardening, Composting and Irrigation
Blue Thumb Water
Central Park Gardens
Children’s Seed Art by
Parent Inst for Brain Development
City of Davis Worm Composting,
Integrated Pest Management
Recycling and Water Conservation
Davis Farm 2 School
RISE Recycling is Simply Elementary
Tree Davis
UC Davis Arboretum
Yolo County Master Gardeners

Central Green and Central Plaza Exhibits
Aggie ReStore
Avid Reader
Citrus Circuits Robotics Team
City of Davis Commercial Food Scrap Pilot Program
City of Davis Street Smarts, Crime Prevention, Lighting
and Next Door Programs
Davis Dollars
Davis Media Access—interviews by roving film crews
Duarte Paperart
Explorit!
Food Bank of Yolo County
Girl Scout Troop
Junk 2 Genius Art Exhibit
Kaiser Permanente
Nelson ARTfriends
Partners for a Greener Davis
Patwin Elementary School Water Bottles
Peregrine School Recycled art
Tuleyome
UCD Sustainability (University Communications)
Unitarian Universalist Church Green Sanctuary
Yolo Solano Air Quality Management District

Plus
Cool Davis Drawing for Free Prizes!
T-Shirt and Poster Sales
Sign up for CoolCalifornia Challenge
Become a Cool Davis Partner!
Photos with La Gotita Bonita and Mr. Toad!