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Conservation Value Institute & The Meadowlands Entertainment Group Presents

BAND SHELL MUSIC SUMMIT
A Historic Partnership to Advance Sustainability

What: Band Shell Music Summit
When: October 18th, 2008. Gates 10am, Show 11am-6pm

Where: Band Shell Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA The San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department's most recognized music amphitheatre. Sitting between the California Academy of Sciences and the De Young Museum. Serving as a public park you can visit the historic landmark year round.

The current contours of the Music Concourse and Big Rec. were carved out for the Worlds Fair in 1896. Big Rec. served as the parade ground for the almost daily parades, the Concourse was ringed with Exhibition Halls, and King Drive served as a midway. As fairs have always been a primary opportunity to show new technology, the Mid-Winter Fair had on site generators for both kinds of electricity, AC and DC. The centerpiece was a tower in the Concourse with a single beacon that shone a light powerful enough it was claimed, to read the paper at a distance of 8 miles. One assumes it would have been the Chronicle.

Why: The Band Shell Music Summit in 2008 is a one-day celebration of music, art, and culture, centered around non profit organizations dedicated to sustainable living, while showcasing national talent to the public.

To engage and educate the diverse constituencies of diverse communities of San Francisco art and culture sustainable programs including the re-opening of the California Academy of Sciences & the De Young Museum, as well as our Department of Recreation and parks .

Museum: California Academy Of Sciences
• Nestled into the fog and forest of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the California Academy of Sciences aims to be the world's largest eco-friendly public building when it reopens in 2008. (It's bucking for a platinum LEED green-building certification!)
• Architect Renzo Piano used a textbook's worth of enviro-engineering tricks for the seven-year effort, an almost total teardown and rebuild.
• At $484 million, it's one of the most expensive museum projects in a century. But if it all works as planned, the city will boast a natural history museum that enhances nature instead of just stockpiling it.