The Martinez Beaver Festival is celebrating its 16th year and like all sweet sixteens it deserves special attention. This year will be greeted with a host of your favorite bands, exhibits and projects. Children can earn beaver pond trading cards and paint their own tail. Adults can visit the many wildlife booths and get insight into beavers and the urban wildlife around them. Our silent auction has one of a kind treasures and great deals on adventures for the whole family. Once again the amazing chalk artist Amy Gallaher Hall will be creating a beaver mural for all to see.
And don’t miss the first of its kind debut of the hit game show
“BEAVERS OF FORTUNE!”
Spin the wheel to answer the question and win the adorable stuffed beaver of your choice! Made possible by a generous donor “Missy”.
2023 Press Release
If you’ve never been to a beaver festival these reports from past years will give you an idea of what to expect:
Beaver Festival Returns to downtown Martinez
Martinez News Gazette: Beaver Festival Returns to Susana Park
Mercury News: Martinez Beaver Fest, born from a furry standoff, returns
It’s official! Our next festival will be held on June 29th, 2019 in Susana Park in Martinez. (The historic tree filled park on Estudillo and Susana, (8 blocks up form our original location). In addition to being a nicer venue, with actual resident beavers in the neighboring creek, it will feature the amazing talents of artist Amy Gallaher Hall of Napa, who happens to love beavers and the role they play in creek restoration.
This is what she’ll be working on for two days for this year’s festival, showing the beaver and the many species for which its habitat creates homes.
She will be demonstrating her artistry in action on the central plaza drawing how beavers help wildlife. Children will be encouraged to chalk their creations as well. We are planning lots of special additions to brighten the day. Including the newly designed “walk of fame” showing off beavers’ many benefits and why they matter.
Be sure to check out our silent auction!
If you’ve never been to a beaver festival here’s an idea of what to expect from a previous festival at the old venue:
This years many exhibits include:
| Marine Mammal Rescue Center |
| National Marine Fisheries Servie NOAA |
| Worth A Dam membership |
| Worth A Dam Silent Auction |
| International Bird Rescue |
| Salamander Feltworks |
| River Otter Ecology Project |
| Face Painting by Robin |
| Parents for Safer Environment |
| Lindsey Wildlife Experience |
| The Best Lady Bug House |
| Sierra Wildlife Coalition |
| Mt Diablo Bee Keepers Association |
| John Muir Historic Site NPS |
| Map Making Station |
| OAEC Water Institute |
| Mobile Ranger Station USFS |
| Native Bird Connections |
| Coyote Brush Studios |
Martinez Gazette:
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Benicia Herald:
Bohemian: