Festival Program
Outside activities will take place throughout the day. They include exhibitors, art and educational activities, an indigenous teepee and drumming, making origami boats with water test kits, Japanese fish painting, a dunk tank and more. The Iowa Brewers Union is brewing special beers for the event and will pour samples for attendees.
Lunch available from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
List of Exhibitors coming soon!
Iowa Water festival is also a featured event in “art week des Moines”
water jam 2019 - immediately following afternoon activities
Morning
11 am: Activities start now: art, music, drumming, education, exhibitors, and more…
11:30 am: Opening Ceremony: Donnielle Wanatee - Meskwaki Tribe, The Indigenous roots of our land
Lunch served from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
(to purchase a lunch ticket, click on green button)
afternoon
12 pm: MikeDelaney - Conservation Director, Izaak Walton League, Overview of Iowa’s current landscape
1 pm: Liz Cunningham - Author & Speaker “Ocean Country” connection with hope from land to Sea
2 pm: Bill Van Bonn, DVM, Water and animal health from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico
3 pm: Luther College “Body of Water” dance performance
3:45 pm: Panel Discussion
1) Chris Henning - Practical Farmers
2) Peter Levi, PhD - Drake University Professor Water Researcher
3) Brindha Narasimhamoorthy, PhD - Scientist Kemin Industries
4) David Osterberg - U of IA - public health
5) Lydia Pesek - Climate Youth Leader
6) Alicia Vasto - Iowa Environmental Council - policy
7) Donnielle Wanatee - Indigenous perspective
Evening
Immediately following panel discussion:
~ Water Jam 2019 ~
prominent local musicians TBA
SPONSORS
Joe Henry, Realtor & Community Advocate
Curtis Cokeley
Institute for Global Health & Health Policy
Kemin Industries
Channing for Climate
Mike Delaney
Jack Hatch
Eddie Mauro
Dr. Bill and Anna Van Bonn
S Uedelhofen Design
Raygun
Prudent Produce
Des Moines Chapter Izaak Walton League
Visual House
Brian Casey
Embrace Life Chiropractic
Environmental Law & Policy Center
Raymond J. Tarpley
Boesen the Florist
Brightside Kitchen
Fresh Cafe & Market
Des Moines Water Works
Ecocare Supply
EcoFluence
Raccoon River Watershed Association
Rainsoft Home Water Systems by The Detox Artist
Rick Smith for Climate Youth
Moberg Framing
Linda Appelgate
Paula D. Barbour
Iowa H2O
Laura A. Mackaman
Ann Y. Robinson
Deb Smith
Dawn Thorpe
Nancy Goreman
Jon Tesdell
