Sand Globes in Motion at Crissy Field
Free Public Collaborative Public Art Event

Friday, March 28, 2014
12:00noon - 1:30pm (arrive anytime)
Crissy Field East Beach, San Francisco California
See below for parking info

A Samavesha Community Program Event

I invented my technique for making sand globes in 2000, and have taught over a thousand people how to make them. 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 kinetic and tactile process of making them feels great. Find more information about sand globes, and a link to a gallery of sand globe pictures here.

Presented as part of Dance Anywhere, a simultaneous worldwide public art performance.

Arrive anytime; free; all ages welcome; rain cancels.

Here is the exact location on East Beach at Crissy Field: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zJNhkpMzQGus.knklEg1GAqy0

Note that parking will be difficult, due to the major Biodiversity Festival taking place that day. Thankfully, the PresidoGo free shuttle service will be running on an extra-frequent basis for the event, so you can park anywhere in the Presidio and shuttle to East Beach at Crissy Field.

PS: before or after the sand globe event, come create with nature at the Biodiversity Festival presented at Crissy Field East Beach by National Geographic, the National Park Service, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the Presidio Trust. I'll be hosting a Create-With-Nature Zone there with Children in Nature Collaborative from 9am-11:30am and 2:00pm-5:00pm Friday (and all day Saturday).

CLICK HERE TO SEE A SAND GLOBE PHOTO GALLERY

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

Stay tuned for my new sand globe project, Earth in Your Hands, coming soon.