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).
5. business
Featured Event:
autodesk Design Night
[san francisco, CA]
San Francisco tech company Autodesk hired Studio Ecotopia to create a 7-bike pedal powered DJ station for their upcoming company party. As a company that's known for dancing between the world's of technological sophistication and playful innovation, they backed up their reputation on the dance floor. Employees enthusiastically alternated between pedaling and shaking their boodies to a DJ set of international dance music spun by Studio Ecotopia's Gabe Dominguez.
