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Entertainment will include:
- Banana Slug String Band
Science, Song, and Celebration!
The Banana Slug String Band is committed
to educational entertainment for children and families through
interactive music and performance. We are dedicated to fostering
positive attitudes about the environment, providing accurate
information about natural history and science, promoting music
appreciation, building self esteem in children, honoring creativity,
supporting the arts in education and sparking in people a joyful
sense of wonder. Through the production of tapes, CD's, videos,
songbooks, picture books, curriculum, activity guides, teacher
workshops and concerts, we hope to make these values accessible
to an increasingly wider audience. We endorse and support collaboration
with other individuals and organizations that promote the well
being of children, family and the environment. We believe that
music is a powerful instrument for honoring diversity while
uniting people for the common good.
Banana Slug String Band awards:
2003 California Arts Council (CAC). Selected
for the 2004-06 Touring Artists Directories/Performing Arts
Roster
1996 Howard Bell Award for Outstanding Contributions
in Outdoor Education
For "Goin' Wild"
2000 AFIM Indie Award, Children's Album of
the Year
2000 National Park Service Audio Interpretive
Excellence Awards
Amazon.com 5 Star Rating! Entertainment Weekly 4 Star Rating!
For "Penguin Parade"
1996 National Association of Parenting Publications
Honor Award
1996 Parent's Choice Audio Approval
1997 American Library Association's Notable
Children's Recording
For "Slugs At Sea"
1991 N.A.I.R.D. Children's Album of the Year
(Nominee)
- Caterpillar Puppets ("Watershed
Workout")
Joe and Ronna Leon of Caterpillar
Puppets have been delighting Bay Area audiences for over twenty
years. Their educational and entertaining shows are guaranteed
to delight. The San Francisco Chronicle called them "devastatingly
funny". In recent years they have focused their shows on
helping to make kids more sensitive to environmental issues.
They have created shows for the Don Edward's Bay Area Wildlife
Preserve, The Youth Science Institute, The California Academy
of Science, The Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program, among
others.
WATERSHED WORKOUT follows the adventures
of Froggy Frog Frog and Doggy Dog Dog as they work to form
a CLEAN-UP CLUB to keep the watershed clean.
Audience members will help the puppets explain the water cycle
in the story of LITTLE FISH. They will learn about the effects
of pollutants on the animals and ecology of the creeks, streams
and bay and what they can do to help CLEAN UP and keep our
watershed healthy.
- Eden Aoba Taiko Drummers
Japanese-inspired drumming.
Eden Aoba Taiko was formed in 1997 to promote
the Japanese music art of Taiko drumming to community members
in the area under the direction of Masa. The group started
with 6 people and members increased to 50 by the end of '97.
Members' ages range from 6 years old to 70 and up. It is our
philosophy that Taiko is for everyone, no matter how old you
are. Our Taiko is folk music. The main purpose is to have
fun drumming and enhance self-expression, self-esteem, and
self-confidence. It is also our goal to enrich disciplines
such as respect, harmony, and unity through drumming with
others.
Learning taiko takes a time. There is no
short cuts or simply ways. It is like a life; up and down,
bents and straights. It requires a patience. Taiko is a mental
training with physical strength. As long as you practice,
you will get better and then comes fun.
Our equipments (Taikos, big and small and
accessories) are made by ourselves. So far we have made 20
taikos including small taikos. Our largest taiko is 32"
diameter made out of a 80 gallon wine barrel. Also, we have
purchased 4 shime taikos, 5 Okedo taikos, 3 Uchiwa taikos,
2 Atariganes, and 1 Chappa from Japan.
-
Castro
Valley High School Jazz All-Stars
Jazz All-stars is the preeminent jazz performing
ensemble in Castro Valley schools. Composed largely of high
school juniors and seniors, this versatile group performs
a wide variety of big band styles from pop and rock to swing
and contemporary jazz. Many of the students have studied jazz
with Director Cynthia Meyer for as long as six years and bring
a wealth of experience and talent to their performance today
for Project EARTH 2006.
- Circus Center
Smarty, Tammy Kaye, Smiler
and Uncle Moldy are four comic custodians who have been promoting
the practice of the 4 R’s (Reducing, Reusing, Recycling,
& Rotting) in school assemblies sponsored by Stopwaste.org
for the past 3 years. These assemblies empower students to do
their part to help the environment. The Custodians are delighted
to deliver their powerful message through Clowning, Circus Skills
and Song at Earth Project 2006. The Custodians are part of an
on going collaboration between Alameda County’s Irecycle@School
program and San Francisco’s Circus Center (home of the
Pickle Circus). Jamie Coventry, Jeni Johnson, Natasha Kalusa
and Laura Ricci (the Custodians) are all graduates of the Clown
Conservatory at Circus
Center, the only comprehensive professional training program
for clowns in North America.
- Plan B
Plan B, a popular local band gaining recognition throughout
California and beyond, plays a truly unique style of music,
combining Folk, Rock, Country and Blues. The trio, Jackie Loken,
T.Bone Walter and Ron Heimbuecher, feature beautiful three part
harmonies, stellar guitar solos and rich stand up bass tones.
Their repertoire ranges from smooth mellow numbers to up tempo
songs you can't help but tap your feet to. The band treats their
audiences to some favorite familiar covers as well as their
wonderful original tunes that are fast becoming favorites of
those who come again and again to catch this trio.
- Castro Valley High School dance
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