Greening The Festival

The Chain of Parks Art Festival Going Green initiative continues in its 8th year in partnership with Sustainable Tallahassee and Rags2Bags. Sustainable Tallahassee is a non-profit organization with a mission to accelerate our community’s transition to environmental sustainability through community engagement and education.

To help with this educational effort, the Festival has also joined forces with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection working to protect the natural resources of our beloved sunshine state. Visit their booths in our Community Corner to learn about living a more sustainable life! Don’t forget to stop by to see the Electric Cars on display on Tunnicliff Lane (N Gadsden St.).

The Festival is building on these greening efforts by working to reduce waste generated by the event. Festival volunteers collect donations of leftover food from our food vendors to feed folks at the Joseph House, and Treehouse Permaculture collects compostable items to help reduce food waste in our landfills. You can help by filling your reusable water bottle at the City of Tallahassee’s Water Filling Station in our main Food Court instead of adding more plastic bottles to the waste stream.

Greening the Festival is an effort to reduce waste from the festival going to the landfill, reduce food waste from food vendors, and offer information about use and disposal choices related to reducing waste, making the festival a more sustainable, green event.

2023 Greening Efforts:

• We worked with Compost Community to collect our food waste from the VIP and Behind the Scenes areas.
• Food vendors donated their leftovers to Food Not Bombs at the end of each day.
• The City’s Waterwagon was available, don’t forget your reusable water bottle next year!
• Visitors stopped by the Rags2Bags booth to get their free reusable tote to carry all of their new purchases.
• Sustainable Tallahassee had 3 Community Partner booths with greening information and an EV car display.

2022 Project:

The 2022 Chain of Parks Art Festival, in partnership with the City of Tallahassee’s TAPP program, commissioned 8 artists to use their artistic talents to decorate repurposed rain barrels for a public art project in downtown Tallahassee! These painted rain barrels were on display for the month of April, leading up to the Festival weekend, April 23 & 24, 2022 and were auctioned off at the festival as a fundraiser for LeMoyne Arts.

Participating Artists: 

Dan Taylor, Gena McDaniel, Quia Atkinson, Lakey Love, Honey Hilliard, Pattie Maney, Marcia Mcauliffe, and Caroline Manuel.