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Welcome to Whole Earth Festival |
Mending
Our Web
May 9,10, 11, 2008
Friday: 12:00pm - 10:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am - 10:00pm
Sunday: 9:00am - 6:00pm
NEWS: Did you lose something during the
festival? Lost and Found is located at the UCD Experimental College
(South Silo). If you are missing something it might very well be there.
Whole Earth Festival was born when an art class
taught by Jose Arguelles had an "Art Happening" on the University of
California, Davis campus in 1969. The students used art to involve
those that attended in an educational process that dared to transcend
the typical system of standardized tests and impersonal lectures.
Following the United Nations declaration of "Earth Day" in 1970, the
second "Art Happening" (1971) was renamed "Whole Earth." Later
sponsored by the Associated Student's Experimental College, and then
becoming a self-sustaining unit, the Whole Earth Festival has evolved
over three decades into what can be seen Mother's Day weekend on the
U.C. Davis campus every year.
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The mission of the Whole Earth Festival is to envision and create a community driven festival of education, music, and art. We will ensure that as little ‘waste’ as possible is generated during this festival. We will cultivate amazing organic produce grown in the WEF garden into tasty, nutritional meals to feed volunteers, staff, & performers, while making it both yummy and educational. Frugality and ecological sustainability come hand in hand, as we educate and engage the festival goers, we are careful with the resources we create and consume. We will rely on each other more and rely on corporations and oil less, by carpooling and sharing our homes. Most importantly, we want to create a safe, educational, and inspiring environment not simply just for the three days we set up on the Quad. We want to develop a conscious community that will go out into the world after the festival and encourage the values that we hold dear. We are all equal participants in the conscious creation that is the Whole Earth Festival.
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