2023 Sand Globe Festivity on Albany Beach

Sand Globe Festivity on Albany Beach:
A Free Community Create & Play Event from Love the Bulb

Sunday, October 8, 2023, 2pm - 4pm (arrive anytime )
All-ages no-fee event (see free REGISTRATION link below)
Albany Beach (south end), CA (map)
Ohlone Territory

Join in to create & play with sand globes and each other! Making sand globes from moist sand and water is easy-- and it feels like magic! Someone said, "It's like making a sand castle in the air."

At this event, environmental artist Zach Pine will teach everyone to make sand globes. It takes just 5 minutes for your first one! We'll use sand globes to make spontaneous, evolving, and ephemeral creations together, play cooperative sand globe games like "pass the peas," learn to catch and juggle sand globes, and aim to break the world record for largest sand globe (a bit bigger than a basketball).

Sand globe creativity and playfulness are spreading over the earth through the project Sand Globes Worldwide. See more worldwide photos and follow on Instagram.

Accessibility:
By design, the event offers opportunities for everyone to participate and join in however they wish. Our site at the south end of the beach is paved, and our activities will be in that area and the adjacent sandy area, and we'll provide tabletop surfaces as needed. Restrooms are also wheelchair accessible.

CARPOOLING for Sunday 10/8! See our carpooling page: https://groupcarpool.com/t/0j74mn . Want to join a car, offer a ride, or say you want a ride (waitlist)? It's super easy! Parking will be tight Sunday with this weather!

Transportation:
Parking is limited, so carpooling (see link above) and biking are encouraged. Public transportation can only get you to San Pablo Avenue and Buchanan Street, 1.2 miles away.

REGISTRATION: Please register (free) using this Eventbrite link from Love the Bulb. (If registration is full, add yourself to waitlist, and come anyway!)

Love the Bulb is a community-based non-profit organization that presents workshops and events including theater, dance, music and participatory art, as well as stewardship and environmental education activities. We advocate to protect this very necessary space for the imagination and to preserve it as a uniquely Bay Area cultural zone.

Zach Pine is a Berkeley-based socially engaged environmental artist works to connect people to nature and each other, inspiring collective creativity and environmental action.

Photo of a woman doing a headstand on the beach, facing away from the camera, with a sand globe (sphere of sand) about the size of a canteloupe balanced on her feet.

Photo of 5 people who have just thrown sand globes (spheres of sand) 6 feet in the air. The sand globes are seen against a blue sky with ocean behind them.

Photo of a girl about 8 years old, smiling and pointing at a sculpture she has made with 9 sand globes (spheres of sand). They are arranged on a driftwood log, and two of them are stacked up where she is pointing.

Photo of about 20 people lined up side to side standing on the beach, each one holding a sphere of moist sand in their hands. Zach Pine stands in front of them, showing them how to make sand globes.

Photo foa man sitting crosslegged on the beach, behind a sculpture made from sand globes (spheres of sand). The sculpture has a central sand globe the size of a canteloupe, with 6 equally spaced straight lines emanating from the center, each made of 7 sand globes of slightly decreasing size.

Photo of three people tossing sand globes (spheres of sand) to each other, standing near the shore.

Photo of three sculptures made from sand globes (spheres of sand). In the foreground, and in the middle sculpture, three sand globes are stacked like a snowman. In the background, the third sculpture shows two sand globes stacked on top of a 5-foot long virtical stick. The San Francisco Bay and blue sky are in the background.

A boy poses behind a creation made from a mound of sand and a tower of four balanced sand globes, on top of a volcano-shaped sand castle.

Photo shows a man at the beach with no shirt, with a sand globe (sphere of sand) balanced on his arm stretched out horizontally to the left.

Four men posing with a large sand globe (sphere of sand) about the size of a basketball. The man in front is kneeling and holding the sand globe.