OCCTAC Community Art Workshop with Surfrider Foundation - Learn About Protecting The Oceans Through the Arts

Dear Friends!

We want to take the time to thank everyone who volunteered for our wonderful Ocean themed community art workshop at the Festival of Children.
Hundreds of kids got to decorate their reusable shopping bags and learned why it is important to keep plastics out of the ocean! We also created our dream islands and dream surfboards. 
Gracias to Darrell Ferguson - who missed part of the action at Trestles during the Hurley Pro (Kelly Slater won it!) and Lindy Neubauer from Surfrider's Newport Beach Chapter for their support, the wonderful bags and their friendship!
Gracias to our visual arts director and surfer girl Kathryn Forrest who also sacrificed a morning in the waves. And a Big THANK YOU to our student volunteers, Judith, Moises, Jenny and Victoria and friends whose names we unfortunately did not capture.
We look forward to creating more wonderful events with Surfrider Foundation





All Photos by Marion Renk-Rosenthal and Liss Aldana for OCCTAC.

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