Green Fair LA--July 30

The event started at 10am and lasted into the evening but each intern was asked to volunteer for one 2 hour spot at some point during the day. The fair was held at the Los Angeles Technical College located near downtown. Thankfully, it was held partially indoors, under large tents because it gets extremely hot and sunny in that area. There were about 20 to 30 booths at the fair, including our own as well as live entertainment and organic/vegan food trucks set up outside of the college. I was technically in the second group of volunteers from 10am until 12pm but when I arrived the booth was still not set up and boxes were everywhere. Luckily, another graphic design intern, Catherine had arrived around 9am and we quickly began organizing and setting up the booth with our posters, informational flyers, and sign up/volunteer sheets for the website. We also organized the raffle prizes Dorit brought along such as vegan/green lifestyle books and DVDs. My favorite prizes were the two vegan necklaces that were available. They were gorgeous ivory necklaces made from an ivory tree rather than ivory from the husks of elephants

After taking around an hour to set up the booth and organize the prizes, I was able to take turns walking around the fair to explore other booths and vendors (and get free samples!). Attending an event likes this is always interesting and informative because I’m still learning a lot about what it takes to live green. There was every form of organization or business at the event such as green cleaning supplies, organic grocery delivery company, eco-friendly baby clothes and toys and organic soaps and lotions. By 12:30 my shift was over and another intern came to replace me but we had three volunteers sign up and one filmmaker who was very interested in developing green videos for the website and the next film festival we hold. The one drawback to the overall even was that they charged people to come into the event and see the booths so I believe that we lost interested people because of it.