2010 Schedule

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FRIDAY MARCH 26, 2010

Water Project Film Festival @ The Screening Room
127 E. Congress Street, Downtown Tucson
$5 total for one or both programs

FRIDAY, MARCH 26
6pm to 7:30pm: Local Shorts- Featuring films about water by local filmmakers

Oasis Under Seige, directed by Sonya Angelica Diehn/Pan Left Productions (24 mins.)
My Liquid Self, directed by Valerie Constantino (4 mins.)
Waterborne, directed by Ryn Shane-Armstrong (5 mins.)
Green Green Water, directed by Dawn Mikkelson and Co-Directed by Jamie A. Lee (14 mins.)
River Without Water, directed by Quynn Elizabeth (3 mins.)
The Journey of Wastewater, produced by Laura Markowitz for Arizona Public Media (aired on Arizona Illustrated- AZPM Ch. 6 / PBS) (15 mins.)
The Thunder Followed, directed by Erin Garber Pearson (3 mins.)
Keep Water Knowledge Flowing, directed by Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona (5 mins.)
Rain is Falling, directed by Holger Ernst, Germany, 2004 (15 mins.)

8pm to 9:30pm: Feature Documentary

Blue Gold: World Water Wars, directed by Sam Bozzo, Narrated by Malcolm McDowell (90 mins.)

SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2010

The Water Project Festival @ Himmel Park with Solar Rock!
Tucson Blvd. and 1st Street, Central Tucson
FREE

Noon to 6pm: Enviro-Vendor Fair • Music • Food • Entertainment

Information booths- organizations, businesses, city/county departments
Water-related products
Speakers
Kids activities
Food
Live music entertainment
Art happenings
Water-themed costumes encouraged, though not required

Noon: Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, Commercial Rainwater Harvesting Ordinance

12:10pm: Water Festival Performance

12:30pm @ Himmel Park Library: Film program for kids and adults "Messages of Water"

Presented by Sandra Barkyoumb, student representative of Dr. Masaru Emoto
Dr. Emoto (featured in "What the Bleep Do We Know?!" movie) is donating books to kids
Water experiment

SUNDAY MARCH 28, 2010

Cross-Cultural & Interfaith Water Ritual @ Sabino Canyon
Sabino Canyon Visitor Center, 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Rd.
$5 parking fee per car, downtown carpools available at 8:30am or 8:45am (see below)

9:15am: Meet at Sabino Canyon Visitor Center
9:30am: Walk, or take the 9:30 shuttle, up to Mile marker 1 picnic area
(Shuttle runs every half-hour)
10am: Water Ritual with song, prayer, reflection
10:30am: Start return to Visitor Center, walk or shuttle
11am-11:15am: Leave Sabino Canyon Visitor Center
11:45am-Noon: Arrive downtown
(Water will be displayed at an installation at Armory Park Center during the activities there)

CARPOOL:
You may arrive at Sabino Canyon on your own, or meet at one of two locations to carpool. Carpooling not only reduces our carbon footprint, but also people in vehicles can share the parking fee of $5 per vehicle.

8:30am: Armory Park Center
(Meet on the North side of the park on 12th Street)
Contact: Tom Mendola (520-400-4489)
8:45am: Ft. Lowell Park
(On Craycroft, North of Glenn. Go to parking area off Craycroft, meet by the pool)
Contact: Deborah Mayaan (520-881-2534)

Wear comfortable shoes, bring layers of clothing for the coolness of higher elevation, and bring a vessel for gathering water to take back, and your own drinking water (creek water is not safe for drinking).

Water Project Education, Art, Action Workshops @ Armory Park Center
220 S. 5th Avenue, Downtown Tucson
FREE

1pm to 6pm: Enviro-Vendor Fair with products, information, and art

Businesses
Organizations
City/County Departments
Artisans
Art Happenings

1pm to 2pm: Movement Theatre Workshop led by Jodi Netzer

Unique movement exercises for building body memory with water themes and more
Option to participate in festival closing performance

2:30pm to 4pm: Policy Panel Discussion and Q & A

Moderated by Blake Gentry, United Nations Association of Southern AZ
Chris Avery, Tucson Water
Marcelino Flores, Tucson/Pima Water/Wastewater Study
Sharon Megdal, UA Water Resources Research Center
Vince Vasquez, Diamond Ventures
Rep. Daniel Patterson, State Legislature & Water and Energy Committee (inv.)

4pm to 4:30pm: Food Break/Networking

Meet the speakers
Network with community members
Eat some food

4:30pm to 5:30pm: Roundtable Brainstorms

Cari Spring: Collective Water Savings in Tucson
Clayton Nolte: Structured Water- What It Is and Why Is It Important
Dave Ewoldt: Mitigating Global Warming- Protecting Water
David Byrnes: Halve Your Cake and Eat It Too- Energy and Water Conservation at Home
Diana Rhoades: 1000 Trees Please!
Linda Ellinor: How To Take the Chlorine Out of Your Water and Improve Your Health
Ignacio Gomez: TCE Contamination
Mitch Basefsky: How CAP is Ensuring Reliable Water Supplies During Challenging Times
Ron Proctor: The Carbon Footprint of Tucson's Tap Water
Sandra Barkyoumb: Dr. Emoto’s Teachings of "The Messages of Water"
William Foster, PhD: The United Nations' World Water Assessment Project (WWAP)

5:30pm to 6pm: Festival Closing

Short theatrical performance with puppets by The Conscious Collective
Community water pouring of the Sabino Canyon water urn
A few words on next steps

After Party! @ Armory Park Center
220 S. 5th Avenue, Downtown Tucson
$10 per person (free for Speakers, Vendors, Volunteers, Kids-12 & under)

6pm to 9pm: Eat, drink, be merry!

Catered food buffet
Live music entertainment
+ Maya Caballero
+ One Heartbeat / Black Man Clay
+ Green Light
Connect with community members
Water-themed costumes encouraged, though not required
Get your watery groove on...