portfolio
1. recent events
delaware river floating concert [upper black eddy, pa]
The first Delaware River Floating Concert launched on 9/30/2023 featuring New Jersey-based cellist Dan Kassel perched atop a "catacanoe" (catamaran/ canoe) stage. Free, all-ages, and organized with volunteer power, the concert was a proof-of-concept mini scale model of a possible full-scale Delaware River Floating Music Festival. To find out about the next floating concert, sign the email list on Studio Ecotopia's homepage.
#Bikebus [hopewell, nj]
Studio Ecotopia teamed up with Hopewell Elementary School administration and volunteers in both 2023 and '24 to transform their annual "Bike, Walk, Roll to School Day" into a full blown bike parade. Studio Ecotopia created a route map, and provided ride leadership and live music on the day-of.
2. arts & culture events
Featured Event:
bicycle music festival
[San Francisco, CA]
Co-founded/co-produced by Studio Ecotopia's Gabe Dominguez (aka SHAKE YOUR PEACE!), the world's largest pedal powered music festival took place annually from 2007 -2015. Bicycle Music Festival was profiled by press outlets as diverse as Treehugger and Scientific American; heralded as "iconic" by NPR, lauded as "the best bike fest" by Outside Magazine, and awarded The City of San Francisco's "Certificate of Honor" for "redefining what a green music festival can be."
Community-powered through and through, the festival was staged by over 100 volunteers, without the help of corporate sponsors, and powered by the audience via a 30-bike pedal powered sound system. The free, all-ages event consisted of a day venue and a night venue, connected by a performance parade called "LiveOnBike" which featured live performances by bands perched atop a bicycle-drawn stage, playing for a rolling audience of hundreds. Eschewing trucks, all festival equipment was hauled by bike. An open-source idea, BMF's are now found around the world.
3. political events
Featured Event:
Youth Climate Strike
(Salt Lake City, UT)
Pedal power gets ink. The professional storytellers of our society - the media - understand that pedal power doesn't only operate on the literal level, it operates on the metaphorical and mythic levels. Simply and elegantly, pedal power communicates a new arrangement of power in society, and the news media loves spinning that in their news cycle.
4. schools
Featured Event:
head royce academy
[OAkland, CA]
Studio Ecotopia presented a sustainability assembly at Head Royce Academy in Oakland, CA bringing out a 7-person whup band, and an 8-bike pedal powered sound system. Celebrating community power, physical health, and eco-literacy, the assembly concluded when dozens of dance students joined SHAKE YOUR PEACE! for our trademark step dance routine (see video in the gallery).
