Season's Greetings Allies!  UAS has been working diligently to put together this AMAZING 1st Annual event for you.  The time is ripe for an ECONOMIC EVOLUTION - a shift towards conscious commerce and the local economy - and for Joyous Celebration!

EcoHoliday SF
A Local Shopping Experience
www.ecoholidaysf.com

Sunday December 14th, 2008
11:11am - 8:08pm
Galleria SF Design Center
$5 admission / $3 if you ride your bike

FEATURING

• 100 local green exhibitors inside a spectacular 4-story atrium!
• Eco-Friendly, Local & Fair trade GIFTS, ART, CRAFTS & lots of FUN
• Live Music, Performances, DJS, Costumed Characters and Random Revelry
• Creative Do-it-Yourself Workshops
• Childrens Activity Area
• Yummy Healthy Food and Drinks, and full Cocktail Bar
• Healing Space, Bodywork
• Bio-Shuttle to/from Union Square/BART
• Valet Bike parking, Plenty of Street Parking
• Portion of the profits donated to Green For All, an Ella Baker Center initiative

SHOPPING HAPPENS

We all know that shopping happens.  You shop, I shop, we all shop for somebody at this time of the year.  We shudder at the sight of the hordes clenching toxic sweatshoppy bundles from corporate big box stores.  Smaller, unique, green and local businesses usually get drowned out in the frenzied cha-chinging of the season.... until now.

Please keep the date open - Sunday December 14th - before spending one single dollar at chain stores and cross-country online stores.

Bring your friends and share quality time with us, celebrate our local commonalities, and help nurture the local Green economy.  Make a personal connection with local designers and entrepreneurs who are making a positive shift towards sustainable commerce.  Keep your hard-earned dollars circulating in our local economy - that merchant may become YOUR next customer or best friend!

We add that special San Francisco flavor to your shopping by making it an experience you won't soon forget.  It's going to be a lot of FUN guaranteed!  Spontaneous revelry may erupt upstairs 'n downstairs due to the strolling Clowns, Elves, Magicians, Jugglers, and YOU.  That's right, put on your funnest holiday outfit and become part of the joyous scenery.  Best costume wins a sweet surprise!

Join us as a guest, a participant, a volunteer, an exhibitor, or as a partner in making this a very happy Eco-Holiday season!  Pass this along to friends, co-workers and family.

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:

Brass Menažeri Balkan Brass Band
www.brassmenazeri.com
Bay Area's Award winning Balkan Rom ("Gypsy") style brass band, performing hard driving music of Serbia, Macedonia & Greece.

Beats Antique
www.myspace.com/beatsantique
BEATS ANTIQUE forges a curious alliance between middle eastern traditions and potent west coast circus, underground hip hop, breakbeat brass band, downtempo, glitch and dubstep.

Irina Mikhailova featuring d'Yara
www.irinamikhailova.com/events
Rich of the multi-ethnic sounds that surrounded her childhood, and the depth of her soul, Irina Mikhailova blends her warm and otherworldly vocals with trance-inducing music of an amazing cast of musicians. At the event Irina is presenting female group D'Yara, " Daughters of the Sun", the afro-slavic blend of West-African meters and Balkan melodies singing the songs of empowerment and wisdom.

DolRhythms
www.dholrhythms.com
An organization dedicated to promoting the arts and culture of India by teaching, performing the harvest folk dance from Punjab, called Bhangra.

Shamanic Cheerleaders
Multidimensional Entertainment and Divine Pep!
www.shamaniccheerleaders.com

AcroYoga®
www.AcroYoga.org
AcroYoga® is a unique blend of partner yoga, acrobatics and thai massage. AcroYoga teachers will be offering interactive flying sessions free to the public as well as doing demos of more advanced material.

Avy K Productions - Ad Lib.
Visual artist Vadim Puyandaev, dancers Erika Tsimbrovsky, Suzanne Lappas, and Andrew Ward, and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Sean Feit come together for this boundary-pushing improvised performance.

Leila Sadeghi
www.leilasadeghi.ws
Classical Persian and Central Asian dance, as well as Arabic and Turkish (belly dance) styles. Leila is a member of the Persian Classical and Central Asian dance company Ballet Afsaneh in Berkeley, CA.

Mystic Marlow
www.mysticmarlow.com
Professional themed strolling close-up and stage magic! Several types of themes - as a pirate, a western gambler or on-call santa - hours of performance!

CelloJoe
www.cellojoe.com
the wildest beatboxin' cellist in the west

DJs:

Neptune (spiritual technologies, beat church)
Alex Theory : www.mysticvibration.com
Michael Gosney : www.cyberset.com

GET INVOLVED!

info@EcoHolidaySF.com
exhibit@EcoHolidaySF.com
perform@EcoHolidaySF.com
volunteer@EcoHolidaySF.com
sponsor@EcoHolidaySF.com
media@EcoHolidaySF.com

For this event to be a success, we need your help!  Just 3 hours of your day will going a long way in making this event possible.  Volunteer shifts range from event set up to greeting shoppers and vendors when they arrive.  All volunteers will receive free organic veggie meal, plus free entrance for you + 2 friends, not to mention our eternal thanks!

We need over 70 volunteers for the following shifts:

7-10am
8-11am
10am-1pm
1-4pm
4-7pm
6-9pm
7-10pm

If you are interested in volunteering for this very special event, please contact: Ishara Casellas-Katz via e-mail at volunteer@ecoholidaysf.com.  Include the shifts you would be available to volunteer.  Please feel free to forward this along to others.  Nothing like volunteering with friends for the holidays!