Community festivals are a vibrant, exciting part of urban life. In cities and towns across the country, spring marks the beginning of festival season, with long city blocks closed to traffic and opened for musicians, street performers, arts and crafts stands, food and exhibitions. As part of our social marketing campaigns, the Self Reliance Foundation takes advantage of these natural venues for reaching out to large numbers of people in a fun, inspiring environment. At our bilingual exhibitions, parents may learn about how to prevent cervical cancer, children may talk to a real NASA astronaut, or parents and children together may assemble a model of the human skeleton.
Often,
we conduct our festival outreach in conjunction with
mass media campaigning. For example, for our Celebra
la Ciencia (Celebrate Science) initiative, we have
developed a large series of short-format radio
shows covering topics from how the five senses work
to how parents can place their children in magnet schools.
Science education festivals for Celebra la Ciencia currently
take place in six sites across the country:
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles, California
Tri Cities, Washington
Washington, D.C.
Yakima, Washington
1201 Connecticut Ave, NW – Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202.496.6040 Fax: 202.496.6041
