Bubbles & Bivalves 2015: A Fundraiser for The Watershed Project

What: A fundraising dine-and-drink-about cocktail party to celebrate and support The Watershed Project’s visionary oyster restoration and education program, The Living Shoreline. Join The Watershed Project, James Beard Award-winning author Paul Greenberg, author of American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood and Four Fish, special guests for music, oysters, champagne, libations and hors d’oeuvres from the Bay Area’s finest sustainable restaurants, wineries and breweries, as well as a fabulous Silent Auction. Learn about our native oysters while helping restore the critical underwater ecosystems of our magnificent San Francisco Bay! With your ticket, you’ll also enjoy all the Aquarium has to offer (a $19.95 ticket value), including the underwater tunnels, interactive touch pools and the new river otters exhibit.

Above: a picture of our first community-built, native oyster reef at Point Pinole, Calif. A project made possible by last year's Bubbles & Bivalves and the continued support of ostreaphiles!

Who's Cookin and Servin', Pourin' and Shuckin': Waterbar; Farallon Restaurant; Epic Roasthouse; fish.; Tap(415); Sous Beurre; 25 Lusk; Saltwater Oyster Depot; Hog Island Oyster Company; Tomales Bay Oyster Company; Speakeasy Ales & Lagers; Barrel Head Brewhouse; Domaine Chandon; Radio-Coteau & Sub 14 wines; Elke Vineyards; Rock Wall Winery; Cannonball Wine Company; Bi-Rite Creamery; Three Twins Ice Cream and Wooden Table Baking Company.

Where: The Aquarium of the Bay, The Embarcadero & Beach Street, San Francisco.

When: Thursday, May 21, 2015, 5:30 – 9:00 PM

5:30 – 6:30 PM: Paul Greenberg & Oyster Program (Innovation Hangar aka "iHangar", 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco. This is also was the space formerly the Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts. Entry is the doors across from the Palace rotunda. )

7:00 – 9:00 PM: Food, Beer & Wine, Music, Silent Auction (Aquarium of the Bay)

Why: Oysters were once ubiquitous in the San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, due to ecosystem degradation in the Bay, the native oyster population has plummeted over the last 150 years. The Watershed Project’s Living Shoreline Program educates youth and adults about the importance and benefits of oyster reefs as an essential part of our ecosystem.

Honorary Committee: The Honorable Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom * The Honorable Senator Diane Feienstein * The Honorable Senator Barbara Boxer * The Honorable Congressman George Miller * The Honorable State Senator Mark Leno * The Honorable San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee * The Honorable San Francisco Supervisor Julie Christiansen* Chez Panisse's Alice Waters * Author Michael Pollan * Author Paul Greenberg * Author Andrew Beahrs * Author Rowan Jacobsen

Event Host Committee: Myla Ablog * Greg Babinecz * Leslie Bandy * Pamela Conrad * Luc Chamberlain * Christian Crumlish * Liza Dadiomov * Helen Dickson * Kelli Fiore * Jane Gire * Linda Hunter * Eric Hyman * Scott Kocino * Jennifer Krill * Marty Marfin * Annelise Moore * Sigrid Mueller * Dan Nauschafer * Harmony Niles * Tim O'Shea * Beth Strachan

Contact: Linda Hunter, Executive Director

Linda@thewatershedproject.org

415.378.7832

Attire: Business and cocktail. Festive!

ABOUT PAUL GREENBERG

Paul Greenberg is the author of the bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, a work The New York Times Book Review called "a necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why."

Four Fish has been published in North America, Europe, and Asia and was picked by The New Yorker, Bon Appetit, and The New York Times as a notable book of 2010. His most recent work, American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood (Penguin Press, June 2014), explores why the United States, the country that owns more ocean than any nation in the world, imports more than three-quarters of its seafood.

Greenberg writes regularly for The New York Times and has also contributed to National Geographic, Vogue, GQ, The Times of London, Süddeutschen Zeitung, and many other publications. He has addressed audiences at Harvard University, Google, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Other recognition includes a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature, a Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit, a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellowship, a Blue Ocean Institute Fellowship, and writing residencies at the South Street Seaport Museum and the Bogliasco Foundation.

Throughout the 1990s, Greenberg was with the nonprofit Internews Network, training independent journalists in the former Soviet Union, producing conflict resolution programming in the former Yugoslavia, and working with Palestinian reporters to promote free media in the Levant in the wake of the Oslo accords. Greenberg received a bachelor's degree in Russian studies from Brown University.

All of the restaurants, wineries, and breweries serving at Bubbles & Bivalves are committed to protecting our environment and have donated their time and talent to the event. All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to funding The Watershed Project.

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

For our Keynote speaker talk, there will be free parking at the I-Hangar, which is located at the Palace of Fine Arts. Click here for directions, public transit options, and parking instructions.

For our main event at the Aquarium of the Bay, there are public parking facilties available at Pier 35 or across from the main entrance at the Pier 39 garage (you'll see a large sealife mural on the exterior. You can find driving directions here. There are also public transit options to get to the aquarium.

Try a ride-sharing app! Sign up and download Uber prior to the event on your smart phone, and your first ride is free up to $20! Use the code "uberbubbles15" or if you're in front of a desktop computer type in: https://www.uber.com/invite/uberbubbles15

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Linda Hunter, Executive Director

linda@thewatershedproject.org

415.378.7832

Is my registration/ticket transferrable?

Yes

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

Save a tree! As long as you have a a smartphone (iPhone, Android, etc.), you should be good to go and we can check you in that way!