The Ocean Park Surf Club is proud to announce the second annual Ocean Park Surf Contest on July 21-22. Saturday will be preliminaries and Sunday will be the finals and the beach party.
Panelists Cindy Miscikowski (President, Board of Harbor Commissioners, Port of L.A.), Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza (V.P., L.A. Board of Public Works, and former V.P., L.A. Board of Harbor Commissioners), and Christopher Cannon (Director of Environmental Management, Port of L.A.) discuss the conflicting roles and responsibilities of the Port of Los Angeles. You must resereve your place as space is limited.
Why aren't there more African-American surfers? White Wash explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times at sites in Santa Monica and Southern California.
Two celebrated writers deeply influenced by the riparian and other landscapes of the American West will read from their work and explore how storytelling – in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson – can give voice to natural resources.
Every summer, Kids Ocean Day brings thousands of Los Angeles area elementary school students to Dockweiler Beach for a beach clean-up and aerial art event. The Kids Ocean Day Dockweiler Beach clean-up, organized by the Malibu Foundation, nets approximately two tons of trash every year. After they clean the beach, the students participate in an aerial art piece and a photo is broadcast to media outlets. It’s the children’s chance to take a stand in the sand and send a powerful environmental message to the world.
