A Greener Indiana Presents The Little Turtle Music and Arts Festival

What exactly will be going on here?

Who: 5,000 to 15,000 or so of our closest friends, lovers of music and the arts, those who are environmentally conscious and those who support a grass roots approach to bettering our community, our state and our country.

What: A two day music, camping and art festival featuring a wide range of professional musical entertainment on two stages along with a focus to providing a platform for education, demonstrations, and presentations on an array of pressing environmental issues from alternative power and fuel sources, to watershed management, green legislation, the importance of reducing waste, and our ecological footprint. We would like to see a weekend long effort to reduce landfill waste through zero waste concepts like recycling and composting while providing a large platform for nonprofits, grassroots groups, education organizations, and green businesses to reach the masses and parlay the benefits of such a large gathering.

Where: Porter County, IN Fair Grounds

When: Labor Day Weekend 2009

A Greener Indiana Presents Little Turtle Music and Arts Festival

• Brings revenue to the area

• Helps local businesses and merchants by bringing business awareness, and an opportunity to vend at the festival

• Makes the community an attractive place to live, stay, and visit

• Works as an educational tool and supports education (environment, arts, music, community importance)

• Provides a platform for Professional/Diverse Arts

• Provides a platform for nonprofits working in sustainability, environment, and conservation.

• Provides a platform for green businesses to present and solicit their products and programs.

• Provides exposure to the arts and environmental stewardship for young and old

• Provides social influence

• Provides employment opportunity locally for the week of the event

• Provides funding to sustain A Greener Indiana as an organization

• Provides funding and gift donations for charitable environmental programs and projects

Main Goals of Little Turtle Music and Arts Festival\A Greener Indiana

• Present the premier environmental entertainment/education event for Indiana

• To gather together a large mass of citizens.

• Leave No Footprint

• Present the first Zero Waste Music Festival in Indiana

• Builds towards being able to present an “Off-The-Grid” Indiana Festival.

• Raise environmental awareness through art, education, speakers, information booths, and demonstrations of green BMPs, products, and programs.

• Fund raise money to put back into local communities and the Indiana green movement.

Other Community Interactions

• Farmers Market

• Shakedown Street of Vendors

• Provide an Eco-Village area made up of environmental nonprofits, educational groups, and grassroots initiatives.

• Local Flea Market

• Get unsustainable businesses involved and retrofit them to become more environmentally conscious and sustainable.

• Give local artists, farmers, nonprofits, and business owners access to large numbers of new patrons to purchase their goods and services

• Give participants the ability to garner new membership, supporters, and stakeholders

Direct Marketing

• Space available for over 100 vendors and educators.

• Over 16 slots available for demonstrations/seminars/presenters/speakers

• Sponsorship tags available on banners/promo spots/merch/etc

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