Festival Celebrated Earth, the Arts and … Beer

Hundreds gathered to celebrate the Earth and the Arts in Old Pasadena on Saturday as Pasadena’s Annual Earth and Arts Festival marked its tenth anniversary as one of the biggest Earth Day events in the Southland. New this year: a beer garden featuring sustainable suds.

Radio personality, performer, and author Sandra Tsing Loh, a big fan of the event, emceed the day’s events.

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Outdoor stage line up included the Sue B. Dance Company, gospel singer Betty Griffin-Keller and the PCC Gospel choir, John Lacques Drumtime, Danza Yankuikuitl, George Sarah Ensemble, Vanish Valley, and El Haru Kuroi, while inside the Armory Center parents and children enjoyed be Ham Jam, Earthworm Ensemble, Nearly Beloved, Kan Zaman.

In addition to the numerous free art workshops, the Armory Center for the Arts hosted world-renowned artist collaborative Fallen Fruit to this year’s festival for a Public Fruit Jam.

Over at the sustainable beer garden, Pasadena’s own Craftsman Brewing Company and Los Angeles’s Eagle Rock Brewers poured fourteen-ounce beers for $5 in fully compostable, corn-based cups.

To counter the negative environmental effect of industrial brewing, opt for small hand-craft local brews produced in a more ecologically sustainable fashion. To reduce waste, many brewers – like Eagle Rock Brewery’s Jeremy Raub and Craftsman’s Mark Jilg – reduce their carbon footprint by donating spent grains to local livestock farmers and composters.