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Culture Club South Bay
Culture Club South Bay is growing its programs that connect youth with the ocean and Los Angeles County beaches, supported by a Whale Tail Grant funded by the Ocean Protection Council... [Read more]
For 28 years, youth from throughout California have taken part in Kids Ocean Day, which includes in-school presentations about our connection to the ocean and how we can protect it, a fun field trip to the coast, a beach cleanup, and joining together to form aerial art creations to send a message to the world.
Over the course of late May and early June, students from San Diego, Orange County, Kern County, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, and Humboldt County took part in a school assembly or classroom presentation, and then gathered on beaches up and down the state to celebrate Kids Ocean Day. The aerial art formations this year were on the theme of “Coast For All” in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Act. The message was illustrated in different ways in each location and together sent a powerful message to the world about taking care of our coast and ocean and the preservation of our rights to access and enjoy the coast. The children's aerial art images from this year and previous years can be viewed at OceanDay.net. Above photo shows Kids' Ocean Day artwork from Huntington Beach, led by Orange County Coastkeeper.
