California Coastal Cleanup Day and Sand Globes on Stinson Beach

Saturday, September 15, 2018
Beach Cleanup: 9am-12noon
Sand globe instruction, play, and creations: 12noon-3pm
Stinson Beach, California

Join in California Coastal Cleanup Day, and show your love and care for Stinson Beach.

Everything you need for the cleanup will be provided, but if possible you're encouraged to bring your own gardening gloves and waste containers, as part of the effort to reduce waste.

Save time by downloading, printing, filling out, and bringing the required Volunteer Services Agreement form:
Volunteer Agreement Form in English.
Volunteer Agreement Form in Spanish.
Volunteer Agreement Form in Chinese.

Data collection on supplied forms or using the Cleanswell smartphone app is part of the cleanup. Info about Cleanswell and a link to download it are here.

Bring a lunch and stay for sand globe making after the cleanup!

Making sand globes feels like magic. Someone said, "It's like making a sand castle in the air." Creating sand art and playing with sand globes brings happiness, and connects us with the coast and each other. See this sand globe photo gallery.

At this event, environmental artist Zach Pine will teach everyone to make sand globes (and encourage them to teach others!) Then, as in all his collaborative create-with-nature events, we'll make a spontaneously evolving art installation on the beach. Non-globe creativity involving sand and people is also encouraged of course! We'll also play cooperative sand globe games like "pass the peas" and "large sand globe collider," and invent new ones.

Pine has been refining his technique for making sand globes since 2000, and has taught over a thousand people how to make them. Learning to make your first sand globe takes about 5 minutes; it usually takes beginners about ten minutes to make a grapefruit-sized globe.

Sand globe making is spreading over the earth through the project Earth in Your Hands - Sand Globes Worldwide .

By design, the event offers opportunities for everyone to participate and join in however they wish. See the GGNRA Accessibility Guide for more info including free beach wheelchair reservations and ASL interpretation.

California Coastal Cleanup Day and Sand Globes on Stinson Beach
Free all-ages public event
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Beach Cleanup: 9am-12noon
Sand globe instruction, play, and creations: 12noon-3pm
Stinson Beach Park, 10 Marine Way, Stinson Beach, CA 94970
Cleanup registration in the central parking lot near the entrance path to the beach
Sorry, no pets allowed on this part of the beach
Event is on, fog or shine!
Consider carpooling or public transport (Marin Transit)