Shasta Living Streets: Redding's first "Open Street" event offers a safe, festive, and fun way to meet your neighbors, lower your carbon footprint, celebrate our trails and parks while getting to the Festival! The Shasta Wheelmen Bike Club will have a safe and secure Bike Corral at the Festival.

FREE TRANSIT DAY: RABA and the Whole Earth and Watershed Festival have partnered to provide free transit on RABA buses to the Festival on Saturday April 23rd. Routes 3, 5 and 11 will get you to City Hall. Route 3 has a stop at the Convention Center where you can join the Shasta Living Streets. Remember they have bike racks! Support our local transit by grabbing a ride on a RABA bus on Saturday April 23rd…it's FREE!

Last resort…drive your car: We are urging people to access the Festival from Parkview Ave, as it will provide the most uncongested opportunity to get to the Festival. You may enter off Cypress for the Farmers’ Market and the Festival as usual but will have to exit by way of Parkview or Grape (on the west side of the complex) as the Central Fountain traffic circle will be restricted to one-way traffic so it can be used for the Festival booths.

Being green has a broad range of definitions, as does sustainable living. Most people agree that we should not use all of our resources faster than they can be replenished. To do otherwise means we are on a trajectory that is unsustainable to ourselves and the "system" we are a part of. To the Whole Earth and Watershed Festival Executive Committee, sustainable living not only means taking care to preserve the earth's resources and care for the environment, but also taking care of your health, caring for the local community, and caring for communities around the world. How can we help?

We hope this Festival, celebrating both Earth Day (April 22) and Watershed Awareness Month (May) will encourage people to become more socially, environmentallyand community conscious. We also want to provide people with a place to collaborate with others for this common cause and hope that this Festival can serve as a launching pad for dialogue and positive change socially, economically, and environmentally making our region a much more sustainable place to live and work.

There will be many activities at the 2011 Whole Earth and Watershed Festival for children and youth of all ages, from pre-school through college, including geo-caching, face painting, salmon croquet, and informative hands-on environmental education activities found at Booths throughout the Festival.

The Watershed Passport Program is designed for K-12 students and engages students in a variety of hands-on activities at the Festival focusing on the importance of our watersheds and other natural resources. Students can pick up their Passport at the Passport Bungalow on the day of the Festival, located next to the large central fountain. Completed Passports will make them eligible to enter a drawing for a variety of prizes to be awarded at the Festival.

Shasta College is offering a fun, interactive, and exciting Sustainability Safari specifically for preschool through elementary aged children. Check it out in the Lassen Area!

Fame and "Small Fortune" Awaits Best Student-Produced Watershed Video
Want to earn up to $200 in prizes and have your name and your talent shown at events and on YouTube and other websites? It could happen! At least that much celebrity, praise, and valuable prizes will be awarded to the Upstate CA middle, high school, and/or college students who win the "2011 Whole Earth and Watershed Festival" Student Video Contest being sponsored by the Shasta Conservation Fund.

One student winner at each of the above school levels will receive a prize of $100. If your video is voted as the "People's Choice", you'll be the winner of another $100. Winning videos will be announced at the Whole Earth and Watershed Festival at the Redding City Hall's Sculpture Park on Saturday, April 23rd, 2011.

The 2011 Festival will feature a wide variety of live, local entertainment coordinated by the Traveling Bohemians! Many of these great performances will take place on the Main Stage located on the Cypress side of City Hall including the Opening and Closing of the Festival. There will also be music and performances by students from several classes at Redding School of the Arts on the Plaza Stage located on the Parkview side.

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The purpose of the annual Whole Earth and Watershed Festival is to bring the community together to celebrate Earth Day (April 22) and Watershed Awareness Month (May), raise awareness of ways we can care for our environment, and encourage the sustainable growth of our region. One unique way to illustrate this is through the eARTh Show. Be sure to check out the entries in the Art Area in front of City Hall as well as the art from several local artists around the Festival.