Danza Mexica Cuauhtmoc of Minnesota Whitney Clark, Friends of the Mississippi River Doug Freeman, Minnesota Arts and Ecology Alliance Susan Gust, GRASS ROUTES of U of M City of Mpls Public Health Advisory Committee Neal Hines, Civil Engineer Dept. of Limnology, Hydrology Seitu Jones, Advisor of Community and Public Spaces Jim Koplin, Researcher, Environmental Activist Satish Kumar, Resurgence Magazine, Schumacher College Ken Meter, Director of Crossroads Research Mark Muller, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Anil Naidoo, Council of Canadians Patrick Nunnally,Mississippi River Initiative Megan O'Hara,MN Arts and Ecology Alliance MaryLynn Pulscher, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation April Rust, Project WET Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra, Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center John G. Shepard, Center for Global Environmental Education, Hamline University To dedicate the renewed drinking fountain in our theater's lobby with a day long water festival. Focused on Water quality and our local Water systems. Focused on Water  quantity, consumption, and "ownership". ON THE COMMONS Understanding the presence of the commons in our world makes it possible to imagine social change taking place in new ways. We rise together to claim our inheritance -- of nature, culture and community. In so doing; we recognize our responsibility to safeguard this inheritance for future generations. Here in Minnesota, at the headwaters of the Mississippi, the opportunity for leadership in re-defining our relationship to water is ripe and critical. How we share our water today with those who live downstream has ripple effects around the globe. In our collaboration with In the Heart of the Beast,