The Berkeley Bay Festival is back!
And the best part will be the FREE Sailboat Rides at the Cal Sailing Club, and FREE dragon boat paddling with the Berkeley Racing Canoe Center.
The Berkeley Bay Festival has been an (almost) annual event at the Berkeley Marina since 1937. In the past 31 years that environmental education programs have been taught at the Berkeley Marina, the Festival has had an environmental theme.
9-11 Shoreline clean-up- PG & E,
11:30-12 Dedication of the Berkeley meadow. EBRPD and CESP
12:30-1 Grand opening of the new Shorebird Park Nature Center
12-5 Music
Dana Smith Juggler, Lee Waterman and Jazz Caliente, The Back Pages- Rock and roll and Zum Zum. There will be great food for sale, free sailing, free dragon boat rides, Adventure Playground, Friends of Five Creeks have offered to do tours of the park. Estuary Project will be doing a workshop on safe Ant repellants. Adopt a beach will talk about the effect on plastics on the beach. Our architects will tour people through the green buildings.
There are wonderful organizations tabling: Alameda County Mosquito abatement, Aquatic Park Egret, Bay Nature Institute, Berkeley Partners for Parks , Berkeley Racing Canoe Center, Cal Sailing Club, Calif. Coastal Commission, Children in Nature Collaborative, Citizens for East shore Parks, Berkeley Clean storm water program, energy and sustainable development, Climate change education, Environmental Traveling Companions Golden Gate Audubon, Gulf of the Farallons National Marine Sanctuary, The Marine Mammal center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Renewal by Andersen, San Francisco Estuary Partnership, Save the Bay, Sunlight and Power, The Watershed Project, Waterside workshop, What’s cooking with kids.