Come engage with fellow citizens, nonprofits, businesses, and municipal agencies in workshops and hands-on demonstrations of ways we can create beautiful communi-ties in the Bay Area. We will explore

Enjoy this free, 100% non-commercial, family-friendly, zero-waste event

Bring picnic food and drink to share in San Francisco’s largest potluck ever!

AM – 7 PM

next to the Children’s Playground and Carousel

How we can locally grow organic food and a green economy to respond collaboratively to climate change and

environmental damage

and wellness

Beautiful Communities invites you to

convergenceA community gathering for change

as a community will be expressed, embodied, and shared. The world is changing faster than anyone thought possible, and we quickly need to find new pathways of communication and collaboration to transform our cities and neighborhoods. Please come celebrate and create the vanguard of a liveable and humane future with people you will want to know all your life.” —Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming

Engaged Organizations include Wiser Earth, Global Exchange, Bay Localize, Cafe Gratitude, SF Dept. of the Environ-ment, Gabriel Cousens & Tree of Life, Alemany Farm, Urban Alliance for Sustainability, Global Oneness Project, Ahuma Insti-tute, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, SF Peak Oil Task Force, People’s Grocery, Regenerative Design Institute, Dig Co-Operative, Communities of Opportunity, Ecology Center of San Francisco, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, SF Parks Trust, Veritable Vegetable, Permaculture Guild, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Green Music Network, Slow Food Nation, Literacy for Environmental Justice, Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, Hillary Rubin Yoga, Farm Fresh Choice, Off the Mat into the World, Quesada Gardens, Oakland Based Urban Gardens, Pacific Edge Institute, Roots of Change, Peace Every Day, Bayview/Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement, Sunrise Center, Community Alliance for Family Farms, SF Bike Coalition, Sunset Green, 350.org, National Holistic Institute, CUESA, World Savvy, SF Food Systems, Green Gulch Farm, Earth Charter Community Alliance, SF Dept. of Public Health, Buy Local Buy Fresh, Bayview Farmers Market, Network for Good, Conscious Change Collective, Ultimate Prosperity, Core Values, Culture Change, Center for Safe Energy, Open World, SF Green Schoolyard Alliance, Other Avenues Cooperative, Arizmendi Bakery, JK Sound, local storytellers, and many more

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“Gatherings such as this one are a necessary part of building a culture of resistance that will stop this cul-ture from killing the planet.” —Derrick Jensen, author of The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame, A Language Older Than Words

Eclectic live music by Bhajan Band, and more printed on recycled paper