Portland’s Fifth Annual Muddy Boot Organic Festival This Weekend + Win Tickets
September 7, 2010 — PDXPIPELINE————————-
2011 Update –> Win Tickets ($30+): SE Portland Muddy Boot Festival | Promote Sustainable Living
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Pipeline has a pair of tickets to:
- Muddy Boot Organic Festival Keynote Address by Curt Ellis & Ian Cheney (Peabody Award-winning filmmakers and environmental advocates)on Friday, September 10 at 7pm
- & a pair of admissions to the Outdoor Festival, which takes place Saturday, September 11 and Sunday, September 12.
To Win: Comment on this post why you'd like to attend (Important: keynote or festival). Winner will be drawn Friday, Sept. 10 at 3PM.
Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.
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From our sponsors at Muddy Boots Organic Festival:
The Fifth Annual Muddy Boot Organic Festival Features ¬Å“KING CORN¬Â Filmmakers Ian Cheney & Curt Ellis, plus family-friendly activities and entertainment, with live music, food, exhibitors, workshops on urban farming and more, September 10 - 12
Edible gardens, backyard livestock and community farming bring a down-home focus to this year's Muddy Boot Organic Festival, returning to Southeast Portland for its fifth annual ¬Å“Soulful Celebration of Sustainable Living,¬Â September 10-12, 2010.
This bustling regional festival kicks off Friday, September 10, at 7pm, with a multimedia Keynote Address by widely respected filmmakers and food and environmental policy advocates Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, the creative forces behind such films as King Corn, Big River, The Greening of Southie and the upcoming Truck Farm. Mark Edlen of Gerding Edlen Development Company will give the opening remarks
Tickets:$15/$20 in advance; $25 at the door, available at www.muddyboot.org
Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney's multimedia Keynote Address will offer an inspiring, humorous perspective on how we can all bring nature and the environment back into our everyday lives. Titled ¬Å“Back to Back-to-the-Land,¬Â the speech will take us on a journey through Curt and Ian's experiences as farmers while making the film King Corn, delving into food advocacy, starting a farm in the back of a pickup truck in Brooklyn, New York, and starting an AmeriCorps food program that will make it easier for more young people to connect with the land. And they'll show us the ways in which ordinary people are taking bold steps to get in touch with nature despite their lack of green space, growing gardens in the most unusual places.
The festivities will continue Saturday, September 11, Noon to 9pm, and Sunday, September 12, Noon to 6pm, in a colorful sustainability-themed outdoor festival ($5 admission; kids under 12 are free), with:
- Live music by many of Portland's favorite bands, including Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, Soul Vaccination, The Dimes, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Cardboard Songsters, Jackstraw, Freak Mountain Ramblers, Chicamarimba, and members of the St. Philip Neri choir.
- Sustainably produced food, Hopworks organic beer and Klickitat Canyon organic wine
- Exhibitors and vendors selling green goods and services
- Workshops on urban farming, including how to raise backyard chickens, geese and ducks, how to build an environmentally friendly chicken coop, how to keep backyard goats and bees, worm composting, rainwater harvesting and more. Come meet the goats, chickens, geese and ducks at these workshops!
- Discussion panels on food justice and Portland's food system in response to climate change featuring Portland's experts and leaders in the field
- Eco-friendly activities for children, including a puppet workshop and puppet show by Mudeye Puppet Company, and the traditional Muddy Boot veggie derby
The Muddy Boot Organic Festival Keynote Address and outdoor festival take place on the grounds of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, 2408 SE 16th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. Tickets to the Keynote Address, and information about the festival, are available at www.muddyboot.org, or by calling (503) 231-4955.
September 7, 2010 at 10:53
I’d love to attend the Muddy Boots Organic Festival on September 12. It looks like a great way to bring musicians, farmers, environmentalists and others together in celebrating united efforts for sustainability and community-based food systems. Count me in.
September 7, 2010 at 10:53
I would love to go to the festival! I have an out of town guest and this would be the best way to show her one of the diverse and fun things to do in PDX! Great musicians too :)
September 7, 2010 at 13:41
I would love to go to the festival ( not the keynote) got a friend in from out of town this weekend and want to show off portland at its finest!
September 8, 2010 at 08:30
I would love to go to the festival cause these vegan/earth friendly places are just full of hot chicks…..I mean the good eastside living ten in a house, hairy legs and hairy armpits, hot chicks.
Plus some good grub would be awesome too.
September 9, 2010 at 09:33
wow I would adore going to this
September 9, 2010 at 13:54
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September 9, 2010 at 14:54
I would love tickets to attend and take my daughters and/or my BFF and her daughters too! Thank you.
September 9, 2010 at 15:33
Can’t wait to check out the Muddy Boots Festival. There are great bands playing and a host of interesting presentations on sustainability. Right in my back yard!
September 9, 2010 at 16:43
I would love to take my mom to this event since she’s a sustainability freak and has been begging me to watch King Corn for months. Have never been to this Festival but would like to. Sounds like fun!
September 9, 2010 at 16:56
I really want these tickets because i loved the documentary King Corn and would love to meet the guys who made it. PLUS i really want to meet some real Oregonian goats & chickens. I’m only a few weeks new to Portland and excited to find out about all these incredible orgs, activities and hear great portland music!
September 9, 2010 at 17:52
(Festival) We eat as much organic food as we can afford, but do believe in getting items that are organically grown or raised. We would love to come to the Festival.
September 9, 2010 at 18:10
My family would love to attend the festival. We’ve missed it before and could use some family fun before baby 3 enters the world. Also a great way to get new ideas for our own backyard farming :)
September 9, 2010 at 18:49
My mother is visiting from Israel and she would really enjoy the festival. We could also use some family fun after a hectic, downer of a summer…
September 9, 2010 at 23:26
I would love to attend–back to school shopping left us poor–would love to get to attend for free!
September 10, 2010 at 09:24
Simple. Last year I stood in the rain outside the Muddy Boot festival holding the chain fence with out cash to get in, hoping someone would throw me the sympathy card.
September 10, 2010 at 11:56
I’ve been waiting for the perfect venue to kick up my hills in my spectacular new-to-me (recycled) mud boots!
September 10, 2010 at 12:30
I would love to attend the Muddy Boot festival. I’m an organic gardener, so this would be really useful to me. Unfortunately, I’m also low income, so I haven’t been able to attend.
September 10, 2010 at 12:39
I’d love to win tickets because my folks are visiting from CHINA this week for my wedding and I think this would be a perfect introduction to Portland!
September 10, 2010 at 12:53
My family would have so much fun going to the Muddy Boot Festival!
September 10, 2010 at 20:41
I’d like to attend the festival!
September 10, 2010 at 21:52
I’d love to attend with my son and girlfriend. Thanks!
September 11, 2010 at 10:18
yeah!
September 11, 2010 at 13:03
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