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ALL OCCASIONS .CES DAY -OF Production team will arrive early and coordinate with all vendors, assist with set-up, and stay for the entire event until the end and assist with clean-up. Serve as primary contact for all vendors. EVENT OVERVIEW The objective is to learn, honor, and celebrate Indigenous People's Day and to use the event to bring cultural awareness of the indigenous people and their culture with a full sensory experience to the attendees. Ensuring a good turnout requires adequate event marketing, good location, and offering attractions and entertainment that will keep the attendees to stick around. Making this a family -friendly event, where children and adults can benefit from this cultural experience and enrichment opportunity would be a high priority. The theme of this year's Indigenous People's Day is Gathering. Starting with entertainment, we can invite local tribes to perform grand ritual dances and songs on stage. For the Opening Ceremony, we'd inviting some of the local tribes, such as the Gabrielino-Tongva Indian Tribe and Juaneno Band of Mission Indians in Orange County to perform a ceremonial tribute and invite local elected officials, community leaders, and elders representing local tribes to join. Elected officials can provide brief remarks during the 15-20 minute Welcome Ceremony. The stage will include a lineup of different entertainers throughout the day for 15min/30min/60min performance times. We can invite entertainment acts such as Native American hoop dancers, dance drummers and/or drum circles. The headlining performance could be Red Boy Productions, a Native American family dance group, based in Orange County. There will be vendor booths (retail/business, arts & crafts, service orgs). We will aim to have 15-20 booths, including 3-4 food booths. In prior festivals, we have researched etsy and instagram to invite unique arts & crafts vendors, and will do the same for this event. Finding and securing local Indigenous arts and crafts vendors and/or vendors who highlight Indigenous culture will be top priority. In street festivals I have done this year, for example, we partnered with the Rancho Penasquitos library to bring supplies for their Kindness Rock Painting Program. They brought 250 smooth river rocks, along with paint brushes and paint for the kids' activity. Once they ran out, they had their library mascot, Odi the Coyote, do storytelling. Home Depot was another Kid's Zone sponsor and since the event was on Mother's Day weekend, they provided 250 aprons, flower planter crafts, and seeds.