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Save the Albany Bulb

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Please help save the Albany Bulb as a place for free-range creative expression!

Support Love the Bulb and Bulbfest: RESILIENCE 2019!

The Albany Bulb is endangered habitat for a unique kind of Bay Area creativity.  At a time when artists are being driven out of the San Francisco Bay Area by high rents, this former landfill is a no-cost outdoor zone for artists to present their sculptures, art and performance to eager, non-traditional audiences.

This pile of rubble and rebar has become known around the world as home to fantastic offbeat art and wild nature.

But art at the Bulb is at risk. Official plans call for the removal of the art and stopping informal artmaking once the Bulb is incorporated into the McLaughlin Eastshore State Park.  Love the Bulb is actively advocating for park policies that will save the living artistic traditions of the Bulb. 

We believe it's worth fighting for. Since 2016 a group of artists and citizens called Love the Bulb has dedicated itself to celebrating the unique nature  of the Bulb and to preventing the erasure of what's makes it special. To highlight the value of this unfettered space by presenting more than 30 participatory art, theater, dance, environmental education and stewardship events.

Through art and dance, we can bring people together to save the Bulb. Love the Bulb is producing our second Bulbfest on May 4-5, 2019.  It’s not only a celebration of the Bulb–it’s a celebration of the creative spirit that makes our part of the world so vibrant, innovative, and inspiring.

Artists and performers are lined up to perform at Bulbfest 2019, but we need your help. Eleven amazing dance groups and more than 10 new art installations will bring people together to revel in and protect this open, joyful space. Our theme is RESILIENCE--both human and natural.

Will you chip in to support Bulbfest 2019? Every gift is appreciated, but if you give  $75 or more you get a VIP ticket to Bulbfest good for both festival entry days May 4 (art) and May 5 (dance).  Our goal is to raise $15,000 by May 4 in order to pay artists and cover costs including publicity, transportation, equipment, and stage construction.  

Please support the Bulb and your creative friends and colleagues! 

You'll be helping bring the following dancers to the Bulb:

Destiny Arts:  powerful youth hiphop dancers from  Oakland choreographed by Rashidi Omari  and Sarah Crowell 

MoTor Dance:  Evie Ladin's Body Percussion Choir

Tapper Dan:  Athletic tap with a sense of humor

Impromptu No Tutu:  Women elders in motion, choreographed by Greacian Goeke  and Kaethe Weingarten .

Andrea Spearman:  Earth-inspired contemporary dance

Hannah Young Trio:  Site-specific contemporary with  amazing views 

Sarah Bush: dancing the resilient nature of the body and notions of safety in public spaces 

Hannah Ayasse:  Modern dance quartet balancing on the flotsam

Sarah Keeney:  Magic on the rubble with a Golden Gate backdrop

Kali Futnani:  Bharatanatyam Indian dance like you've never seen it

Dance Monks:  Dances with trees by Moira Moriarty and Rodrigo Esteva

And these amazing visual artists:

Kelsi Anderson: sculpture–Willow Nest

Adrian Arias  & Mara Hernandez:  painting–Dream #8

Carrie Blanche , Michelle Echenique , Carol Newborg: installation–Tree Home

Cristina Bejarano, Ariel Resnikoff, Peter Trio, Rivka Weinstock: poetry installation: Rooted/Uprooted

Colin Christy: sculpture–Anthropocene Bench and Invasive Railrod

Santiago Insignares: sculpture–Try to Break Me I Will Bend

Liz Karosick: installation–The Giant Nest

Natalie Koski-Karell: installation–Doors of Protection

Kasey Smith: sculpture–750,000 Pounds

Claire Tompkins: audio art–Other Worlds

Tickets for Bulbfest 2019 can be purchased through Eventbrite:

Art Opening:  Saturday, May 4, 4:00-6:30pm

Dance Performances:  Sunday, May 5, 12:00-4:00pm

ABOUT LOVE THE BULB: Love the Bulb is a community organization that celebrates and protects the art and nature of the Albany Bulb, a former construction debris landfill on San Francisco Bay owned by the City of Albany. Since 2016 we have presented more than 30 art, theater, dance, environmental education and stewardship events at the Albany Bulb that celebrate its unique place in the Bay Area art and natural ecosystems.  We are part of the California Institute for Community, Art and Nature, a project of Earth Island Institute, a 501 c 3 non-profit organization.
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Fundraising team: Love the Bulb (3)

Susan Moffat
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Albany, CA
Earth Island Institute
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Christine Hikido
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Sarah McDonald
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