Fertile Ground for Creativity and Caring about Our Watershed
Register for sessions and the festival below.
NOW through MAY, 2024 - FREE - Artist-led Workshops - Various Locations
Enjoy hands-on workshops and enlightening sessions with practicing artists in compelling forms of expression, including poetry and prose writing, traditional storytelling and song, contemporary music composition, engaging talks, nature field recording in riparian environments, sourcing native plants, preparing wild foods, and more.
JUNE 2, 2024 - FREE - RIPE AREA Arts & Nature Festival - Wakamatsu Farm
Experience the culminating RIPE AREA event celebrating the work of all the diverse sessions, featuring the artists, musicians, storytellers, poets, and ecology experts. Play in the nature space kids zone. Stroll the native plant garden. Enjoy the tastes of Native food and drink. Walk the nature trail to the sound art garden. Take part in fun activities and learning for all ages. Enjoy live performances of music, dance, and storytelling. Be inspired about rivers, meadows, wildlife, and ways of preserving and restoring cultural and environmental resources.
As a play on "riparian", RIPE AREA is an invitation to experience our interdependence with riparian zones and clean water that is essential for life.
Find out more about the project at Myrtle Tree Arts. Discover more about ARC at American River Conservancy.
For all inquiries, contact melissa@ARConservancy.org.
The project is funded in part by the California Arts Council as part of the Capital Region Creative Corps Program
administered by the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture, with support from the City of Sacramento.