Chicago Green Festival - Fashion, Kids Activities and More at Navy Pier

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From: "Green Festival" <newsletter@greenfestivals.org>
Date: Apr 18, 2013 4:06 PM
Subject: Chicago Green Festival - Fashion, Kids Activities and More at Navy Pier
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Celebrate Spring at Chicago Green Festival, May 18-19 at Navy Pier. Green Festival is a project of Green America and Global Exchange. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Apply for for $5,000 Ford Community Green Grant Ford Motor Company and Green Festivals are teaming up to award a $5,000 Community Green Grant to a deserving non-profit organization. Four semi-finalists will be awarded $1,000 towards their good-will efforts. Previous recipients in Chicago have been the ScienceFIST Foundatin and the Acedemy for Global Citizenship. Deadline is April 26th. Submit your Non-Profit Family Fun in the Green Kids Zone DIY workshops, live cooking demos and the Green Kids Zone make a weekend for the whole family. Get crafty with The Chicago Green Parents Network and learn about the natural world with Nature's Creatures Animals. Check out the Green Festival mini eco-carnival games! Roll up your sleeves with DIY Workshops and learn easy green home improvements, soap making, bicycle repair, and urban beekeeping. Find out more and purchase your tickets! Repurposed for a Purpose: An Eco-Fashion Show Get ready for an interactive, on-site creative garment reconstruction and transformation event involving design students from Columbia College Chicago's Fashion Studies Department, and a whole lot of discarded, end-of-life garments! Students will cut, shape, drape, fold and stitch to recreate and restyle cast-offs into uniquely modern fashions that will be on display. Check out Eco-Fashion in the Preview Guide Become a Festival Fan  Support Green Festival by purchasing a Festival Fan Pass - now available for only $32! This admission option is ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE! Get two weekend passes, $10 in GF Bucks to spend with exhibitors or in the Food Court, an eco-tote bag, coffee or drink coupons for the café and Beer & Wine Garden and a special limited edition commemorative poster. Get your Fan Pass Package Test Drive an Electric or Hybrid Ford Want a chance to test drive the entire fuel-efficient vehicle line up brought to you by Ford? Come out to Chicago Green Festival to get behind the wheel! Drive Green The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. Women and Children First Bookstore Women and Children First is one of the largest feminist bookstores in the country, stocking more than 30,000 books by and about women, children's books for all ages, and the best of lesbian and gay fiction and non-fiction. CHICAGO PREVIEW GUIDE Travel Book Hotel Newsletter Signup Volunteer Exhibitors Partners   We'd love to connect with you! Find us on Facebook and use the hashtag #greenfest or @GreenFestival  to connect with us on Twitter! Volunteers Needed! Do your part by volunteering at Green Festival! Get a behind-the-scenes Green Festival experience while meeting new friends and enjoying volunteer perks, like free admission all weekend, a volunteer t-shirt and access to the Green Festival Volunteer Lounge. Sign up to volunteer The CLIF Bar Bike Valet Ride your bike to Green Festival and leave your wheels in the capable hands of the Clif Bar Bike Valet! While your'e there, sample a few tasty treats to keep your ride going strong. All cyclists who use the Clif Bar Bike Valet receive free admission!  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2013 Green Festival, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have opted in at our website, have registered at Green Festival, or have registered to exhibit at one or more Green Festivals.   Our mailing address is: Seven Star Events 191 Lyman Street, Suite 101 Asheville, NC 28801  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences