Events

2013 Sea Stewards and Shark Stewards Events

March 21, 7 PM, Surviving the Shark Shark Film and Book Talk Kepler's Books, Menlo Park. With shark survivor Jonathan Kathrien and Dr. Wallace J Nichols of LiveBlu.

March 22, 7 PM Swim For Sharks Film Screening and Talk on Sharks, Hosted by the Pacifica Beach Coalition, Sharp Park Library- Also an update on the Galapagos with Sea Shepherd Lincoln Shaw

March 28, 6:30 PM Swim For Sharks Film and Talk on Shark Attacks,Modern Sailing Academy at Sea Horse, Sausalito

April 16-22nd Pacifica Shark Week. Education, talks and film Friday April 21, culminating in  Earth Day Celebration April 22 with Shark Activities

Thursday, May 9 Shark Attack and Attack on Sharks
Randall Museum Theater, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco CA 94114. 7:30-9 pm. For more information, go to www.sfns.org  Free and open to everyone.

June 8, World Oceans Day, 5th Annual West Coast Shark Celebration Sports Basement  Presidio Location, Beach Clean up, Music and Fun. Followed by party at the Low Tide Club, Sausalito

August 13-17 ,  Guadalupe Island Great White Shark Dive with Sea Stewards.  Learn about sharks and experience them in the wild first hand on a luxurious vessel with the safest and most capable team.  This is a first ever Sea stewards trip to the Island of the Great White Shark with SEESharks. Accompanied by David McGuire as Naturalist, we will learn about the natural history of sharks, conservation measures and the entire ecosystem on this 5 day liveaboard cage diving trip. Experience for yourself what we are trying to protect from extinction, take photographs and film and take away a mental image you will never forget. This trip is a Sea Steward trip only.  Contact us for details on how to book.

Sharktober all month long October Year Six of Celebrating the Sharks

October 12 Sharktoberfest

October 20 Swim For Sharks

Past Events 2013

February 8, 11- 3:0o PM Sausalito Herring Festival

February 22, Surfing For Life, Fund Raiser for the Pacifica Beach Coalition

February 23, 24 Shark Days at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

March 7-10 Swim For Sharks, Film Premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Film Premieres 1:00 PM March 9

March 12-17 Texas Shark Protection Campaign,

 2012 Events with Sea Stewards & Shark Stewards

October 2012 Sharktober is here!  Sharkoberfest- Celebrating Sharks all Sharktober Long

October 19  8:00 AM Swim for the Sharks, Sponsor a swimmer from the world famous dolphin club for 2.5 miles of treacherous waters around Alcatraz Island and back (Dolphin Club members only but swimmers can be sponsored at different levels) Join us, help fundraise for the cause, volunteer as a pilot or SPONSOR  a swimmer for the sharks,
October 20, Mill Valley Film Surf Film Festival   at the Sweetwater Music Hall to benefit TIRN.  Party with the MerMen and premiere film by Taylor Steele.   Get tickets here.

October 21, Farallon Islands Shark and Whale Cruise with Director David McGuire  (Reserve here)  Put in Code SS- 10 for 10% Discount

October 28 Farallon Islands Shark and Whale Cruise with Director David McGuire  (Sold Out)

November 3  Farallon Islands Shark and Whale Cruise with Director David McGuire (Reserve here)  Put in Code SS- 10 for 10% Discount

PAST Events in 2012

October 12, Shark Talk and Happy Hour Benefit 6:00 PM Dolphin Club There arent any sharks in the Bay. Right?  Talk by David McGuire, Raffle for Shark Schwag.   Visitors welcome!
Sharkoberfest at the Sanctuary Family event with the GFNMS Oct 13 (10-2 PM), films, Sharkitecture 101, family activities, merchandise. Located at the Sanctuary Education Center, Crissy Field, San Francisco
October 4  6:30-10 PM   Shark Nightlife at Cal Academy Thursday Shark activities, art, dance, music and shark celebs

September 26  7:00 PM Sharks of the San Francisco Bay  Hosted by the Bay Area Sea Kayakers

September 19, 7:00 PM Talk by David McGuire Sharks of Cocos Island and the Illegal Shark Fin Trade  Hosted by the Marin Scuba Club, FlatIron Bar and Grill, San Rafael   Event Moved to San Rafael Community Center 618 B Street

September 20, 21  Chicago Shark Celebration  Celebrating the passage of the Chicago Shark Fin Ban.  A benefit at the 3rd Coast

Sausalito Sailfest Sept 23. SF Bay Whale watching  free event with music and sailboat rides at the Schoonmaker Marina 

September 15,  2012 Texas Shark Campaign Initiation Benefit party,  Party for the Sharks at The People's Last Stand i 5-7 PM.5319 E Mockingbird Ln  Ste 21,  Dallas, TX 75206  Neighborhood: Upper Greenville   PM Happy Hour & Benefit,  If you haven't heard about the issues facing sharks, apex predators essential for sustaining sea life, please see  article in The Christian Science Monitor

September 15. Kula Anela with Tamalpais Outrigger Canoe Club Angel Island event at the Presidio YC on Ca Coastal Clean Up Day  

September 16  2:00 PM at The Science Place. David McGuire, Guest Speaker  Predator or Prey?  Planet Shark.  Sharky Sundays at Dallas Museum of Nature and Science   Event Information  Please consider bringing your kids to this family-friendly event.  

August 15, SHARK FIGHT with David McGuire  on Discovery Channel's 25th Annual Shark Week! Shark Fight, a story of shark attack survivors turned advocates.

July 28  Save Our Bay, Save Our Ocean Natural History Cruise on the San Francisco Bay

Join Marine Biologists David McGuire of Shark Stewards and the Golden Gate Cetacean Society with Lori Grace of the Sunrise Center on a San Francisco Bay cruise discussing sharks, harbor porpoises and other wildlife in the Bay and visit areas we are trying to restore and protect. Departing Sausalito on the Salty Lady at 4:00 PM, this cruise will take us outside the Golden Gate to Kirby Cove where we will learn about the recolonization of Harbor Porpoises by  the Golden Gate Cetacean Society.

 June 26, Save Our Bay, Save Our Ocean  Part 3 of an ongoing series on Bay and Ocean issues and solutions.

Dr. Jonathan Stern, SFSU & William Keever, Golden Gate Cetacean Society  Harbor Porpoises of the San Francisco Bay

David McGuire, Marine Protection and What it Means for the San Francisco Bay

Sunrise Center, Corte Madera 7-10 PM   Sponsored by Lori Grace  and David McGuire, Sea Stewards.   Free  Sign up here.

June 14,  World Sea Turtle Day, a Nightlife Event with the Sea Turtle Restoration Project at the Califormia Academy of Sciences.

June 8, World Oceans Day Celebration Marin.  A benefit event with food, film, libations and ocean heroes to support our ocean programs. Live music with the El Dorados & Special Guests. Silent Auction.  Circle Bank sponsor of the Pacific Sun Environmental Hero Award given to Sea Steward's Director David McGuire. Location Fish Restaurant Sausalito.

June 7, World Oceans Day, A Nightlife on Sustainability at the California Academy of Sciences  6-10PM

May 11  BLUEMiND  A day of discussion on the ocean, ocean life and how we interpret and are affected by the ocean. Event will be happening at The Romberg Tiburon Center, Bay Conference Room, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California. Hosted by  The Sea Turtle Restoration Project

 

April 23rd Earth Day Marin County

Celebrating sharks and ocean heroes. Sea Stewards David McGuire interviewed by Environment Radio host Jerry Kay.

April 12-15th Okeanos, Blue Mind, Ted Ex San Francisco and National Geographic Ocean Explorers.  Join sharks and sea turtles in  Ocean Solutions at Fort Mason

April 5, Texas Shark Stewards with Demon Fish Author Juliet Eilperin

Planet Shark Exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Science and Nature

March 8-11  San Francisco Ocean Film Festival 

Shark Films and Discussion on Sharks and Ecotourism  March 10, 1 PM  Pier 39 Theater, San Francisco.  Discussion at The Aquarium of the Bay, Farallones Room  Moderated by David McGuire, Sea Stewards

March 7-11 America's Cup Healthy Oceans Project, Farallones Room Aquarium of the Bay

March 1-7, 2012  San Francisco Green Film Festival  Sushi The Global Catch  Sushi, Sustainability and the Future of Fish,

March 3rd  Film and Expert Panel Discussion, 1 PM  The San Francisco Film Society Cinema, 1746 Post (near Webster) in Japantown

Panel Located  in the Superfrog Gallery at the New People, 1746 Post Street.  Panel Free with Film. Get Tickets Here

~ David McGuire, Founder, Sea Stewards [moderator]
~ Mark Hall, director, “Sushi: the Global Catch”

~ Rose Braz,  Program Director, Center for Biological Diversity
~ Dr. Wallace “J” Nichols, Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences and LIVEBLUE.org
~ Casson Trenor, co-owner, Tataki Restaurant

February 29  "The Endangered  Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle, Turtle Watch and new Critical Habitat Protections."

With Dr. Chris Pincetech, Turtle Island Restoration Network,  The Bay Model, Sausalito.  6:30- 9:00 PM

Event is Free. Donations appreciated to support our conservation work.

February 22, 2012  Saving the Bay, Saving Our Oceans, Meeting 2.  Sunrise Center, Corte Madera  7PM-10PM  MAP

A series of film screenings and special speakers on saving the Bay and protecting marine wildlife.

Presented by David McGuire, Sea Stewards and Lori Grace, The Sunrise Center

Guest Speakers: Dr. Chris Pincetich, Turtle Island Restoration Network, "The Western Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle and new Critical Habitat Protections."

Anna Weinstein, Audubon Society California  "Herring, the San Francisco Bay and important resources for Marine Birds"

Bob Wilson, J.D.  The Marine Mammal Center  "The California Marine Life Protected Act"

Screening of documentary The Sheltered Sea, YouTube Preview Image

Discussion to follow on solutions and resource protection and management in the Bay and Ocean.

February 16, 2012   Call of Life, Facing the Mass Extinction,  Film Screening and Discussion  Fish Restaurant, 7-10 PM  Co-sponsored by Slow Foods and The Turtle Island Restoration Network

February 6-9  Shark Week at Stanford University 

Monday Feb 6  5pm Shark Mixer with a photo exhibit, featuring work by Shawn Heinrichs.
Tuesday Feb 7  Screening and Discusion Sharks Stewards of the Reef & Sharkwater with discussion.
Wednesday Shark Science Day with Barbara Block presenting shark and tuna tagging data from the Pacific, and Francesco Ferretti presenting his work on shark population baselines.
Thursday  Panel on AB 376  at 6pm  with Paul Fong, Jennifer Fearing, and Mike Sutton

Film screenings, lectures, Celebration of the Passage of AB 376

February 11 & 12  Shark Days at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Join Sea Stewards for shark fun & shark events with Jim Toomey and other shark experts.