RSVP here! http://www.greenlb.org/?page_id=2415

Green Long Beach is looking for dedicated community members to join their festival in making the 4th Annual Green Long Beach! Festival run smoothly and fun! If you are interested in helping in the following categories, please fill out the 2012 GreenLB Volunteer Form. The 4th Annual Festival is on Saturday, June 9th from 11am-8pm.

• Exhibitors
• Volunteer Booth/hospitality
• Artists
• Festival Marketing/Beautification
• Educational Workshop station
• GreenLB Info/festival guide
• Recycling bins & maintenance
• Fitness & Kid Zone
• Main/Acoustic Stages
• Anything else, please specify your skills.

Thank you!

• May 21, 2012- GreenLB Community Meeting (all are welcomed!) @The Green House Cafe (149 Linden Ave Long Beach, CA 90802)
• May 30, 2012- GreenLB Pre-Festival Meeting MANDATORY FOR ALL FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS (location TBA) 6pm-8pm For exhibitors, musicians, fashion show, artists, and educational workshop, and volunteer participants (all are welcomed!)
• Save the date MAY 20, 2012!- GREENLB Presents: “Sunday Garden Get-Down!” (An Off-The-Grid event) 10am-7pm. This foodie fundraiser will feature a make-your-own pizza station (baked in an Earth Oven!), live music and delicious Sunday drinks (mimosas, sangria, and beer) in a lovely permaculture-inspired setting. All proceeds will support GreenLB’s upcoming June 9th festival. Cost is $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Admission includes all you can eat pizza and one drink. (More info to come!RSVP listing will be available shortly)
• Saturday, June 1, 2012- 1st Friday’s Bixby Knolls- Nino’s Restaurant is hosting Green Long Beach! fundraiser to promote the GreenLB Festival. Nino’s will donate 20% of the proceeds to GreenLB from local art that is purchased. Come out for Italian food, drinks, music and art!
• Saturday, June 2, 2012- MANDATORY FOR FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS  @ The Marina Green (E. Shoreline Drive) @ 1pm
  
• Sunday, June 3, 2012- Art/Landscape Beautification Work Party @ Park Jam 3pm-8pm @ Cesar Chavez Park (401 Golden Avenue, Long Beach)-Bring paint & brushes and any other creative tools to make signs and art pieces for the festival!
  
• Saturday June 9, 2012- GREEN LONG BEACH! FESTIVAL! 11am-8pm
  

Come out this Saturday Morning, April 28th, with Green Long Beach! & Autism in Long Beach as we Celebrate Arbor Day and finish off Earth Week Activities and Autism Awareness with a bang…. We are Lighting it up Green!! Please come out and help us Plant Trees!!!

Details: 8:30am @ El Dorado Nature Center 7550 East Spring Street, Long Beach, CA (in the parking lot)

To learn more go to our Meetup.com page for this event.

VOTE for GreenLB! There’s only 4 days left to vote and we’re in 9th place. Let’s get Long Beach in the #1 spot! VOTE HERE: http://cleanup.maker.good.is/projects/GreenLB

Follow us on Twitter: @GreenLB and retweet us  or just post this link in your status update and send away!

“Vote for @GreenLB nonprofit to win a $500 grant! http://cleanup.maker.good.is/projects/GreenLB” #GLBfest

Thank you!!!

Overview of Idea

“Put a bird…house on it!” To bring elements of nature to the city and provide the fresh, clean feeling of being in the outdoors with the birds and the breeze. We will build “green”-roof birdhouses that will be placed at businesses and homes throughout the city as icons of support for urban nature.

idea specifics: what will the $500 fund?

The funds will go towards buying materials such as wood, nails, bailing wire, any additional tools that we don’t already have. It will also fund promotional materials such as fliers that we will use to promote the project and some community work parties where we will invite the community to participate in the building of the birdhouses. The funds would also go towards providing food and refreshments for attendees who participate in the community work parties. And of course, we need to buy bird-seed to scatter around each birdhouse when they are mounted, as an official “open for business” welcoming gesture.

There are plenty of events, workshops, farmers markets, and fun things to do during Earth Week in Long Beach. Click here for a list of them on the Long Beach Sustainability website.

Grab something to write with and pencil these dates into your calendar!

Upcoming Meetings, events and dates:

April 18, 2012, Wednesday, 6pm-8pm- Southern CA Economics Council Meeting

We’re Back!!! After a 3-month hiatus, the Southern CA Green Economic Council is thrilled to deliver our next Speaker Series Presentation:
Greening our Port…Renewable Energy, Environmental Services and Hybrid Transportation!
Southern CA Green Economic Council: April Speaker Series
(6:00-8:00pm) @ New City High School
1637 Long Beach Blvd Long Beach CA, 90813

April 22, 2012, Sunday – Albertsons Earth Day Celebration!

Activities include Recycled Drum Circle, Up-Cycling, DIY Eco-Crafting, Seed Planting, Yarn-Bombing and more! Participating organizations: MHA Village, Green Long Beach, Save Our Oceans & Seas, Pacific Wind Arts, East Village Association, Plein-Air, Ruby Jean and Long Beach Depot For Creative ReUse! 450 Long Beach Blvd. @ 5th Street, LB, CA 90802

April 23, 2012, Monday- GreenLB Community Meeting @ Kress Market (Pine Ave. & 5th)

Come join the GreenLB Festival team in discussing current festival plans. If you are looking to participate in the festival either as an artist, musician, performer, fashion designer, educational workshop, exhibitor or sponsor, please feel free to attend this meeting.

April 24, 2012, Tuesday- CSULB Ecouture Environmental Fashion Show

Come support your Environmental club and fashion design students! There will be free reusable water and other eco-give aways! The fashion show is at the Speaker’s Platform at the CSULB Campus from 12-1pm. For more info email csulbesp@gmail.com

April 30, 2012, Monday- Artist & Performer Application Deadline!

If you are interested in participating in the festival by entertaining or showing/selling art or presenting in the fashion show, please go here to fill out the application. All applications are due Apr. 30th!

Grab something to write with and pencil these dates into your calendar!

Upcoming Meetings & Events:

March 26, 2012, Monday - 6pm-8pm, Location Zephyr Vegetarian Cafe: GreenLB Festival Community Meeting, all are welcome to attend and contribute ideas and gain information about the June 9th Festival.

April 9, 2012, Monday – 7pm at The Marina Green (East Shoreline Drive, down by the volleyball courts): Calling all artists, musicians, performers, and creative educators, please attend this meeting for how to involve yourself this festival and the logistics behind it. Come view the festival area and come to share ideas for potential projects! Contact greenartfest@gmail.com for more information or questions.

Brenda Carsey is a Long Beach-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, & producer. She has a strong desire to express thoughts that most suppress & to bring a positive and sincere message to the world. Carsey’s solo project/band, she puts no limits on herself in regards to genre & what sounds she is capable of creating.

Traces of alternative rock, soul, blues, trip hop, hip hop, & rhythm & blues, just to name a few, can be heard in Carsey’s music presented in two different live experiences: acoustic, featuring Carsey on guitar & piano playing solo or along with bass & drum; & Side Show, more of an electronic performance featuring originally produced beat compositions, piano, & voice. She also plays as keyboardist and backing vocals in two bands, Feral Kizzy and Centuries. Learn more at www.brendacarseyart.com

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Natural Hi-Fi  is a 3-piece rock sensation living in Long Beach, California. You’ve never seen anything like this! Their music is a sexy, wild ride… crafted with big guitar hooks, deep grooves, pop smartness, and lyrics that move you. Founded in 2005, Natural Hi-Fi has built a loyal following by performing high energy shows featuring their genre-bending, category-crossing music.

Natural Hi-Fi is also committed to preserving our precious environment. The band is a proud member of 1% for the Planet.

Connect with them on Facebook & Twitter:@Natural HiFi

Natural Hi-Fi Productions

Member 1% for the Planet http://www.naturalhifi.com

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PAXMekanika has been DJing the best electro, tech, and face-melting House Music since 2000. While in college he hosted a weekly radio show bringing in local and nationally famous hip hop and Electronic Music Djs. After a brief break to concentrate on teaching philosophy and pursuing a Master’s Degree in English from Middlebury College, PAXMekanika is back in big way. His weekly residency at SABABA in Long Beach has reinvented how people chill on Friday Nights at The Beach. As a promoter for NyteHype Entertainment, he is able to bring the best Electronic Dance Music to the hearts and souls of people all over Southern California. PAXMekanika is currently working hard to make Long Beach an EDM destination.

Checkout some of PAXMekanika’s beats on SoundCloud! I can guarantee you will start groovin’! You can also check out his music Facebook page here.  PAXMekanika has generously donated his time and talent to GreenLB during a previous fundraiser. He is a talented DJ that is involved in his community and we support his endeavors! Thank you PAX!