so exciting! The 5th annual Tacoma Ocean Fest, with bells on! All the details for the Lantern Paddle, Beach Cleanup, Festival, Film Fest and more! | | | | View this email in your browser | | | | | | | | | | | OCEAN FEST THIS WEEKEND! | | | | | | | | | | | Planned your festival weekend? Tacoma Ocean Fest is this weekend! Here's your complete guide to planning out the festivities, from lanterns to murals to plastic cleanup and more. - June 8-11: Sean Yoro paints a water mural at Foss Waterway Seaport - June 10: Lantern Paddle for Species, 7-10pm at Foss Waterway Seaport - June 11: Beach Cleanup, 9:30am-12pm at Chambers Bay Park Beach - June 12: OCEAN FEST, 10am-5pm at Foss Waterway Seaport - June 15-17: Tacoma Ocean Film Fest, 7-9pm at The Grand Cinema Note: Parking is limited, so carpool, ride, paddle or take transit if you can! Directions here. Remember your water bottle and dress for the weather. | | | | Festival info | | | | | | | | | | | | | A mural in the water Sean Yoro has started painting his water mural! Working from a paddleboard, the Hawaiian artist creates "Malalo" (Beneath), panel by panel, on themes of endangered species and how we're all connected. Watch Sean paint June 8-11 on the water below the Foss Waterway Seaport esplanade, and meet him at Ocean Fest! | | | | | Malalo | | | | | | | | | | | Lanterns for species Bring a lamp, lantern or luminaria and come down to the Lantern Paddle for Species this Friday!  6-10pm: Free museum entry with sneak-peek ocean art 7-8pm: PLU Steel Pan ensemble, food trucks 8-9pm: Vuelta la Luna aerial and LED circus 9-10pm: Paddle (watch from land or launch from the dock) with flute music by Paul Chiyokten Wagner. ALL FREE. Need a paddle? Sign up now for the Metro Parks kayak trip! | | | | | Lantern Paddle info | | | | | | | | | | | Beach Cleanup with art + music Come vibe with a Hawaiian band, make a trash art whale and clean up Chambers Bay Park beach this Saturday with us and South Sound Surfrider! Meet at the lower parking lot. Details on our webpage. | | | | | Beach Cleanup info | | | | | | | | | | | FESTIVAL TIME!!! There's just too much to say in one email: exciting art, music, dance, speakers, poetry, film, kayaking, food trucks, science, eco-booths and SO. MUCH. MORE. 10am-5pm Sunday June 12. Free.  Parking limited - carpool/ride if you can. | | | | | Festival Schedule + Info | | | | | | | | | | | Film Fest next week! Don't miss out onyour tickets for the Tacoma Ocean Film Fest! Three amazing nights of local and global ocean film, from orcas to octopi and filmmaker Q&As. $12/$10/free for Tacoma students. | | | | | Film Fest info & tix | | | | | | | | | | SEE YOU AT OCEAN FEST JUNE 10-12!!! | | | | | | | | Tacoma Ocean Fest is a free festival held on World Ocean Day weekend on Tacoma's waterfront.  We lift up diverse voices and bring our community together with arts, sciences and water fun to celebrate the ocean, learn about its threats and get inspired to protect it. CELEBRATE | LEARN | PROTECT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Copyright © 2022 Tacoma Ocean Fest, All rights reserved. You're on this list because you gave your email at an Ocean Fest event. You'll get sneak peeks and fun details about the festival. We promise not to spam you! If you do want to unsubscribe, just let us know. But we'll miss you. Our mailing address is: Tacoma Ocean Fest705 Dock StTacoma, WA 98402 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. | | | | -- Rosemary Ponnekanti, director(she/her/hers) Tacoma Ocean FestLantern Paddle: June 10, 2022Beach Cleanup: June 11, 2022Ocean Fest: June 12, 2022plus a whole month of ocean love and events...tacomaoceanfest.org Facebook Twitter Instagram Celebrate | Learn | ProtectI acknowledge the land I sit and occupy today as the  traditional home of the Puyallup, Duwamish, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, and Suquamish tribal nations.  Without them I would not have access to this working, teaching, and learning environment.  I take the opportunity to thank the original caretakers of this land who are still here.