Upcoming Public Events
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Sand Globe Festivity on Albany Beach:
A Free Community Create & Play Event from Love the Bulb
Sunday, May 31, 2026, 11am - 2:30pm (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."

REGISTRATION: please us this Eventbrite registration link from Love the Bulb---> FREE REGISTRATION LINK.

NOTE: Event is at the SOUTH END of the beach, near the parking lot, not near the water.

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.

More info: Eventbrite event page from Love the Bulb
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Sand Globes and More at Crab Cove, Alameda:
Accessible creativity with sand and natural materials from the beach, as part of All Abilities Day produced by East Bay Regional Park District
Saturday, June 13, 2026, 11am - 2:00pm (arrive anytime )
All-ages no-fee event
Crab Cove, Alameda (map)
Ohlone Territory
Enjoy a beautiful day at Crab Cove's All Abilities Day. Enjoy the shoreline of Crown Beach and activities designed for all visitors' abilities. Hands-on booths, nature activities, and food trucks are part of the event.
NatureTrack and BORP Adaptive Sports & Recreation will provide individuals with wheelchairs the opportunity to traverse the beach on the sand independently using a Freedom Trax Device (no fee). Reservations are recommended for 1-hour Freedom Trax time slots: 11am, 12pm, 1pm.

Parking: Crown Beach parking lot is highly recommended and just a 1/5 mile walk on a paved path. Event shuttle service will be provided. Parking fees will be waived for this special event.
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Rock Balancing Gathering - San Francisco - 19th Edition
Sunday May 2, 2027
1pm - 3:30pm (arrive anytime)
Free, public, all-ages event
Crissy Field (Just East of the Warming Hut Cafe),
San Francisco, CA ( map )
Free and open to all ages. Instruction provided. Registration requested.
More info: Eventbrite event page
Current Projects & Installations
Logo showing golden gate bridge, tree, flower , and bird surrounding two people holding hands. Text reads
San Francisco Children & Nature
Since 2018 I've been part of the Nature Connection Design team for San Francisco Children & Nature, a cross-sector collaborative of over 30 government agencies, non-profit institutions, and community-based organizations striving to ensure that every child has opportunities to play, learn and grow in nature. We are guided by the SF Environmental Justice communities map. One of our projects has been to develop design criteria and collaborate in creating the ten Nature Exploration Areas shown in this interactive map and info page.
Nine sand globes, each balanced on a different rock near the shore the San Francisco Bay, with Golden Gate Bridge in background
Sand Globes Worldwide
Since discovering a technique for making near-perfect spheres from just sand and water in 2000, I've used sand globe making as an avenue to connect people with each other and with coastal areas. Free public beach-cleanup events combining sand globe making with environmental stewardship have been a great success. I've launched an effort to spread sand globe making worldwide using social media and a "how-to" video that has had thousands of views. Read more.
Nine sand globes, each balanced on a different rock near the shore the San Francisco Bay, with Golden Gate Bridge in background
Beach Propellers Worldwide
Making and moving on a beach propeller, on your own or with others, is a joyful and creative way to make ephemeral art, get a work out, meditate, play, dance, embody mathematics and physics, and connect with coastal areas and other people. I call this shape a beach propeller to describe the shape and also to evoke the feeling of propulsion that comes when you move on one. I hope you'll join in! See more.
A group of 7 children and 3 adults making ephemeral sculptures with leaves, sticks, rocks and branches in a garden-based Create-with-Nature Zone
Create-with-Nature Zone at The University of California Blake Garden, Kensington, CA ( map )
Open to the public, no admission fee, Tuesday through Friday, 9am - 4pm (except UC Berkeley Holidays)

Using materials provided from the 11-acre Blake Garden, visitors are invited to create with nature. Read more.
Two photos, side by side. On the left, a woman kneels and creates patterens with sticks along the pathway; on the right, 4 adults and a child point out creations inside the pathway border
Create-with-Nature Zone in Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA
Open to the public every day, 5am-10pm (click "Read more" for additional info including parking fees on some weekend days).
A designated area for creating with natural materials from the park. Read more.