Sand Globe Gathering
Free Public Instructional Workshop and Collaborative Art Event

Sunday September 30, 2012
2pm - 3:30pm (arrive anytime)
Albany Beach, Albany California

A Samavesha Community Program Event

An RSVP on the Facebook event page would be a big help!
(but no worries if you're not on facebook).

I've refined my technique for making globes of sand over the past 13 years, and have taught hundreds of people how to make globes. In five minutes I can teach the basic technique; it usually takes beginners about ten minutes to make a grapefruit-sized globe. The globes have an evocative "planetary" quality, and the process of making them feels great.

At this event, I'll teach everyone in sight to make sand globes (and encourage them to teach others!) Then, as in all my collaborative art-with-nature events, we'll create a spontaneously evolving art installation on the beach. Some of us will make moving creations with people and globes. Non-globe creativity involving sand and people is also encouraged of course!

Arrive anytime and join in!

NOTE: this is an off-leash dog beach.

CLICK HERE TO SEE A SAND GLOBE PHOTO GALLERY

The intermolecular force that attracts water molecules to each other and to the grains of sand is the "glue" that holds the globe together. (See this video of water in outer space to get an idea of the strength of attraction that water has to itself.)