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‘Festival Lines Up Full Slate of Entertainment and Information’
The Flying Karamazov Brothers, a comedy troupe that combines music, theatrics and juggling,
will entertain participants during the first Great Peninsula Future Festival, Aug 2 and 3
in Port Gamble.
The goal of the two-day event is to help people learn to live "sustainably" with a smaller
footprint on the environment, organizers say, but they are just as determined to keep the
atmosphere light so that everybody has fun.
"We want families to come for the fun and take away ideas they can use in their own
neighborhoods and communities," said Kitsap County Commissioner Steve Bauer. "We'll have
lots of activities for kids — including clowns, magic, puppet shows, storytellers,
jugglers, mask-making, a walk-in mobile salmon and a trash art contest."
Read Complete Article (Kitsap Sun | By Christopher Dunagan | June 21, 2008)
‘The place to be seen if you’re green’
A two-day festival to showcase energy alternatives and sustainability issues
is planned for this summer in Port Gamble, with the goal of presenting a
"green" philosophy to the general public.
"We're not going to just preach to the choir with this event," said North
Kitsap Commissioner Steve Bauer. "We want to bring in the people who don't
have a lot of information about this and make it fun enough when they get
there that it becomes a learning experience."
Read Complete Article (Port Orchard Independent | By Charlie Bermant | March 29, 2008)
‘Future Festival' Planned in Port Gamble
"Sustainable living" will be the theme of the first Great Peninsula Future Festival, to be
held in Port Gamble Aug. 2-3.
The event will focus on ideas such as energy conservation, environmental preservation,
transportation, green building and recycling, according to organizers. It will include
entertainment, handmade crafts, locally produced food and environmental education.
The idea for the festival was conceived by Kitsap County Commissioner Steve Bauer, who
enlisted his sister, Sandra Bauer, to lead the organization. She was one of the original
organizers of the annual Oregon Country Fair, a three-day festival near Eugene.
Read Complete Article (Kitsap Sun | By Staff | March 19, 2008)
Great Peninsula Future Festival
We’re convinced that learning how to live a greener lifestyle can be fun. To
prove it, our nonprofit “Sustainable Kitsap” coalition is hosting an outdoor
sustainability festival in historic Port Gamble, on August 2-3. We’ll combine
green innovation and learning with nonstop family entertainment, live music,
local foods and hand-made crafts. We’ll have lots of fun stuff for the kids,
including a trash art contest. We’ll mix family fun with engaging displays
featuring the greenest concepts, technologies, products and services available.
We want families to come for the fun and leavewith a new vision for a sustainable future.
Read Complete Article (One Sky. One Washington.)
Great Peninsula Future Festival
The Great Peninsula Future Festival is well on its way to becoming the largest annual
sustainability festival in Washington State. Planners for this nonprofit festival expect
thousands of NW families to come for the world-class entertainment, live music, crafts
and food and stay to learn ways to lighten their footprints on the environment.
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