The Festival
Race for the Rivers Festival is on Saturday September 4, 2010
Be on hand at Frontier Park when the paddlers arrive Saturday afternoon for the Race for the Rivers Festival. All are welcome to come out and enjoy live music, great food and family-friendly, hands-on environmental educational displays and activities - including a custom canoe & kayak show! The festival serves as the perfect place to keep tabs on the leader boards as you mingle among the racers and peruse outdoor gear from local vendors – not to mention, it’s a prime spot to watch the racers cross the flying finish line at day’s end!
Want to get involved? Have more money than time? VOLUNTEER! The Race for the Rivers Festival needs you. Contact info@racefortherivers.org or check out the volunteering page.
To become a vendor please download our official vendor packet,
Festival booths and Participants:
Don's Kool Kups Cafe Yum! Don provides the best festival food anywhere.
Kona Ice. A refreshing snack for a day on the river front. Shaved ice snow cones where the customers get to pick and pour their own flavors!!!
Greenway Beer Tent. Yes. Once again, Greenway Network volunteers will be pouring refreshing Schlafly Beer for your drinking pleasure. All proceeds go directly to support Greenway Network's clean water education, research, restoration and recreation projects.
Greenway Network Information Booth. Racers can check in here and pick up their goody bags. Everyone can stop by and learn what Greenway Network is all about. Become a member, make a pledge, buy a fabulous Race for the Rivers t-shirt or water bottle, sign up for one of our Fall tree planting or restoration work days or just hang out and get to know the sort of folks who think arranging for 100 people to plant 1,000 trees in 3 hours or getting 700 volunteers to pick up 25 tons of trash in about the same amount of time is a BLAST!
Stream Trash ART. See what our amazing and talented artists (Joe Farmer, Joey Los, Max Mulholland, and Cee Kay's Dave Teason and Heath Wells) have created from a pile of stream trash in this educational project created by Ralph Rollins.
Walmart. Visit with Janette and the gang to learn about all the ways you can go green with Walmart.
MDC Mobile Stream Table: Watch how rivers form the landscape!
US Soil and Water Conservation District: ENVIROSCAPE MODEL-Kids have fun and learn about storm-water runoff and ways to protect the environment.
RIVER DES PERES COALITION: RAINBARREL DEMO
Riverside Viewing. Bring your chair or just relax on grass overlooking the river as you watch your favorite racers cross the finish line.
Thought Process Interactive Leader Board. Once again, the creative minds at TPI will be providing us with a fabulous electronic leader board giving you up to the minute race results and even pictures from the race course!
Far Creek Forge. Watch this blacksmith create functional and art objects from steel and iron including scraps pulled from the creeks during Mission: Clean Stream. Max will be happy to answer your questions about this traditional craft.
The Bridge. Be sure to stop by and peruse the collection of Fair Trade jewelry, toys and decorative objects. Proceeds support The Bridge and fair trade workers throughout the world.
Not Your Mother's Tie Dye. A great selection of upcycled clothing and goods creatively sunpainted for years of additional use.
The Confluence. Stop by and learn what new and exciting things are happeing throughout the confluence region.
Sunpaint Quilt. See BOTH quilts produced this year as part of our ongoing effort to educate people about invasive species. The quilts were designed and produced by the Crossroads Quilters and Quilted by Feathertouch Quilting. They are being raffled to raise funds to support invasive species removal and education projects.
Greenway Network Sunpaiting Come learn how to sunpaint. Make a fabric square for yourself or to donate to the Sunpaint quilt project.
Children's Activity Area. Bring your kids to visit this mostly free area where they can play and learn. Activities in this area have been created and assembled by professional educators to be age appropriate and fun.
Rain gutter races. You can still compete even if you can't be out on the river. Come on over to the kids area and test you skill with our boats in the raingutter race.
Environmental Education activities. Be sure to check out the hands-on environmental demonstrations and activities going on throughout the festival area. They are not only educational but fun and sometimes even a bit splash-worthy!
Comfort Station. As always, a comfort station will be available.
