Circle of Bees Inc
Contact
Need help with a swarm or hive of bees? Call or text the BeeCharmer network:
- Christian: (510) 400-8443
Our BeeCharmer network is a collection of master urban beekeepers who volunteer to help local folk with all things pollinator, including honey-bee problems, bumble-bee rescue, and hive ambitions.
Interested in art, education, or board member of Circle of Bees non-profit?
- Email us: contact@circleofbees.org
We accept and fund art proposals and collaboration ideas on a rolling basis.
Do you have a kid in school? Or are you a teacher? Recently our BeeCharmers have begun conducting living classroom educational experiences to Davis schools and neighborhoods.
Join
Circle of Bees provides a membership network that is free to join. We do a lot of sweet stuff, like randomly send members jars of hyper-local honey, or invite folks to a pollinator-themed masqued ball in Central Park. We might even crew up with the BeeCharmers and come to your neighborhood, spill some mead, and hang out with you!
Join below, or read more about membership here.
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Contributions to Circle of Bees are tax-deductible, and funds are spent in our local community. Our funds go directly to artists and educators. Oh we never ask for money! But if you're feelin' flush, why not contribute to the ecological wealth of your community?
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Circle of Bees operates within artistic, educational, and scientific scopes. We produce utlitiarian folk art, living classroom experience, and techno-scientific experiments, illuminating the human experience of wild natural ecology in sub/urban space. We are one piece of the permaculture revolution, exciting peaceful agrarian renaissance and rewilding in towns and cities.
But is it art?
Circle of Bees is premised on the idea that a corporation can not only be an artwork, but a good one. We mingle elements of corporate and collective identity, with high individualism, progressive action, production machinery, folk art, sub/urban ecology, ancient apicultural practice, new technology, and many other elements in freeform, similar to the way an AbEx painter mingles paint.
Read more about Circle of Bees Art.
100 Hives Davis
100 Hives Davis is a utilitarian artwork and public service focused on the management of honeybee swarms in city space. In 2019, 77 swarm capture hives toured the city with installations at Central Park and the Davis Food Co-op. parks and backyards across Davis. Read more about 100 Hives Davis.
Many thanks to City of Davis office of Art and Cultural Affairs, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Davis Ace Hardware for generous grants for 100 Hives project.
Read more about 100 Hives Davis.
The PolliNation
Read more about The PolliNation.
The PolliNation is an ambitious artwork for 2021 and beyond. It is focused native pollinators in city space and will feature a major public art spectacle. More we cannot say or we will spoil the fun. However, The PolliNation the artwork includes a number of radical/cautious transformative action items for Davis. Most immediately we are working with city officials and like-minded organizations on a 3rd Street Community Thoroughfare, to transform 3rd street into a automobile-free (excepting emergency and commercial vehicles), citizen-friendly passage from the University to the railroad tracks. Read more about The PolliNation.
Included in the The PolliNation artwork are a number of radical/cautious transformative action items. Most immediately we are working with city officials and like-minded organizations on a 3rd Street Community Thoroughfare, to transform 3rd street into a automobile-free (excepting emergency and commercial vehicles), citizen-friendly passage from the University to the railroad tracks.
Read more about The PolliNation .
Living Classroom Education
Pro-pollinator Folk Art
Thanks
Circle of Bees has been so lucky to be nurtured by a growing community of folks that have supported our mission throughout the years. Some of these include ...
Many thanks to City of Davis office of Art and Cultural Affairs, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Davis Ace Hardware for generous grants for 100 Hives project.
Yolo County District 2 Supervisor Don Saylor and City of Davis Chief Innovation Officer Diane Paro
Sacramento Beecharmers and Rachel Morrison
Donna Billick and the Billick Rock Apiary
Farm Davis and Farm 2.6 and Cloverleaf Farm
Restoration Landscaping by Billy Krimmel
Davis Dollars and Nick Barry
Leslie Crenna of EcoAssistant and the good people of WaterWise