Upcoming Public Events
NOTE: POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER! NOW 5/11/24. SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS Rock Balancing Gathering - San Francisco - 16th Edition Sand Globe Festivity on Albany Beach for Earth Day: A Free Community Create & Play Event from Love the Bulb Sunday, April 21, 2024, 10am - 3pm (arrive anytime ) All-ages no-fee event (see free REGISTRATION link below) Albany Beach (NOTE: SOUTH END OF BEACH), CA (map) Ohlone Territory Join in this free creative community event to create & play with sand globes and each other in celebration of Earth Day! Making sand globes from moist sand and water is easy-- and it feels like magic! Someone said, "It's like making a sand castle in the air." At this event, environmental artist Zach Pine will teach everyone to make sand globes. It takes just 5 minutes for your first one! We'll use sand globes to make spontaneous, evolving, and ephemeral creations together, play cooperative sand globe games like "pass the peas," learn to catch and juggle sand globes, and aim to break the world record for largest sand globe (a bit bigger than a basketball). Sand globe creativity and playfulness are spreading over the earth through the project Sand Globes Worldwide. See more worldwide photos and follow on Instagram. Accessibility: By design, the event offers opportunities for everyone to participate and join in however they wish. Our site at the south end of the beach is paved, and our activities will be in that area and the adjacent sandy area, and we'll provide tabletop surfaces as needed. Restrooms are also wheelchair accessible. Transportation: Parking is limited, so carpooling (see link above) and biking are encouraged. Public transportation can only get you to San Pablo Avenue and Buchanan Street, 1.2 miles away. To arrange carpooling (offer or get a ride), see our carpooling page: https://groupcarpool.com/t/0j74mn . It's super easy! REGISTRATION: Please register (free) using this Eventbrite link from Love the Bulb. (If registration is full, add yourself to waitlist,) More info: event web page, Facebook event page. Rock Balancing Gathering - San Francisco - 16th Edition NOTE: NEW DATE: Saturday May 11, 2024, 1pm - 3:30pm Free, public, all-ages event Crissy Field (Just East of the Warming Hut Cafe), San Francisco, CA ( map ) Free and open to all ages. Instruction provided. Registration requested. More info: Eventbrite event page Community Ephemeral Art-making at Codornices Park – Agapanthus Project 2024 Saturday, November 16, 2024, 1:00pm - 3:00pm Free, public, all-ages event, wheelchair accessible Codornices Park Berkeley, CA ( map ) Join us for an afternoon of playful collaborative sculpture-making using dried Agapanthus flowers at Berkeley’s Codornices Park. This is the latest installment of the Agapanthus Project, begun in 2010. See the gallery. More info: event web page, Facebook event page |
Current Projects & Installations
San Francisco Children & Nature
Since 2018 I've been part of the Nature Connection Design team for San Francisco Children & Nature, a cross-sector collaborative of over 30 government agencies, non-profit institutions, and community-based organizations striving to ensure that every child has opportunities to play, learn and grow in nature. One of our projects has been to develop design criteria and collaborate in creating the eight Nature Exploration Areas shown in this interactive map and info page. Sand Globes Worldwide
Since discovering a technique for making near-perfect spheres from just sand and water in 2000, I've used sand globe making as an avenue to connect people with each other and with coastal areas. Free public beach-cleanup events combining sand globe making with environmental stewardship have been a great success. I've launched an effort to spread sand globe making worldwide using social media and a "how-to" video that has had thousands of views. Read more. Beach Propellers Worldwide
Making and moving on a beach propeller, on your own or with others, is a joyful and creative way to make ephemeral art, get a work out, meditate, play, dance, embody mathematics and physics, and connect with coastal areas and other people. I call this shape a beach propeller to describe the shape and also to evoke the feeling of propulsion that comes when you move on one. I hope you'll join in! See more. Create-with-Nature Zone at The University of California Blake Garden, Kensington, CA ( map )
Open to the public, no admission fee, Monday through Friday, 8am - 4pm Using materials provided from the 11-acre Blake Garden, visitors are invited to create with nature. Read more. Create-with-Nature Zone in Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA
Open to the public every day, 5am-10pm (click "Read more" for additional info including parking fees on some weekend days). A designated area for creating with natural materials from the park. Read more. |