Crestone Energy Fair 2018 is an arts & music celebration

CRESTONE — Come celebrate the 29th Annual Crestone Energy Fair September 7-9 in the Town of Crestone’s Little Pearl Park.

With free admission this year’s theme “Seven Generations – 7G Creating Our Energy Future” recognizes the ancient Iroquois philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable and regenerative world seven generations into the future.  This philosophy formed the political, ceremonial and social fabric which helped make decisions in regards to our energy, water and natural resources as well as relationships within communities.

While the Crestone Music Festival is taking a gap year this fall, we hope to fill the void by bringing to life an attractive collaboration of our community’s diverse talents, sustainability demonstrations, arts and music, restorative practices, as well as home tours, food and other presentations that community members wish to showcase.

The event will open Friday evening with an intentional ceremony to honor past Energy Fair coordinators and volunteers for their contributions to building our healthy future. This evening reception will lead into music, dancing and a movement arts performance. 

Saturday will be filled with our traditional smorgasbord of alternative energy and building demonstrations, youth & family activities along with a potluck style home cooked celebration for community and family fun. Activities will move into the Cloud Station on Saturday evening for a hemp and bio design presentation and our music headliners. Camping is available for $10.

Sunday will close the event with the educational and inspirational Home Tour throughout Crestone and the Baca. At some point there will be an Energy Efficiency Guidelines interactive talk for all and the Baca Grande POA.

Preparations are well underway for this community-wide initiative and there are many ways to get involved from event production, teaching workshops, offering demonstrations, vending, sponsoring to performing. 

To get in contact with coordinators, please visit our Facebook page called Crestone Energy Fair. Contacts, progress and needs will be updated there or you may also connect with Nathan Good 719-588-1067, or Lisa Bodey 719-480-5925, for more information.

VOLUNTEER for one of our committees: Sponsorship, PR, Safety, Community Activities, Sanitation/Recycling/Composting, Community Potluck, Vendors/Booths, Music & Entertainment

• SPONSOR the Energy Fair

• Set-up up as a VENDOR/BOOTH: vendor, information, non-profit, healing or food booth

• Offer a workshop, presentation, class, art or music

• Donations – make a monetary donation to help us support the event

• Food Donations – we need food donations for the Friday Opening Reception & Saturday’s Community Potluck

Friday night Headliners: Valley Cats, MetaMyth, and Elf Arrow at the Cloud Station.

Saturday’s music lineup so far...includes:  Jack and Kemba, Barry Monroe, Chronic Joy, CB Jazz, Waverly Road, The Audience, and Headliners Jah Kings and YashAkasha. 

Saturday is also filled with, vendors and a community potluck from 5-7 p.m.  

Enjoy local & regional craft & food vendors, goat husbandry and milking, Amazonian Breathwork w/ Ceremonial Cacao with WorldChangers*, Tai Chi & Qi-Gong,Cholkij-Sacred Calendar Workshop, youth art activities, Living Outdoors Survival Skills workshop, building with cordwood, Energy Efficiency Guidelines booth, Perma-compost solar toilet demonstration, composting workshop, solar cooking demonstration, Building Old World Greenhouse style using permaculture principles, straw bale construction, hemp in the San Luis Valley presentation, Human Biome Design and the Solar Village, Ecstatic Dance…and much more!

 WorldChangers Organization is one of the major hosts for this year’s event-  a 501(c)3 public charity that is developing a Transformational School for spiritual growth and self-actualization. Their mission is to share Inner Peace with the people of Planet Earth at this key point in time.  They have an off-grid retreat center called the Dream House here in Crestone that is dedicated to sustainable living and cultivating practices for positive transformation.  More information can be found at https://worldchangers.us/.

 Paul Shippee will be leading Sunday’s Home Tour starting at 10 a.m. which includes 5-7 completed and under-construction homes.  This is a “Solar & Alternative Building Home Tour,” which covers all things solar, as well as Alternative Building methods such as straw bale, rammed earth, adobe plasters, radiant floor heating, attached greenhouse for food growing & heating, climate battery, thermal mass and other nonconventional features. Other workshops and discussions are being considered for Sunday in town.

Thanks to large sponsors: ScSEED, Town of Crestone, Crestone Creative District, Orient Land Trust, Joyful Journey hot springs, the Cloud Station, Crestone Eagle and the Saguache County Tourism Board.

Limited camping is available for out of town guests and presenters who would like inexpensive accommodations close to town for $10 per tent site!

Please visit our Facebook Event page under Crestone Energy Fair at https://www.facebook.com/events/929097523917987/ to see a list of all Committee Leads and areas where you can plug in.  For more information about this year’s event, please contact:

Nathan Good, 719-588-1067 – [email protected] or

Lisa Bodey, 719-480-5925 – [email protected]