4th Annual Central Coast Beaver Festival
Save the Date for our 4th Annual Central Coast Beaver Festival!
📅 Saturday, April 11, 2026
🕙 10 AM – 3 PM
📍 Mission Plaza, 989 Chorro St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
🎟️ Free admission
The Beaver Festival will feature live music, guest speakers, informational booths, food & beverage vendors, kids’ crafts & games, and more!
Our Keynote Speaker: Pamela Adams
Pamela Adams is a Seattle-based freelance beaver detective who is pioneering community based beaver ecology—especially focused on urban beaver ecology. Her vision is to foster more “freelance beaver detectives” in every urban waterway in the west and beyond. When one is dedicated to follow beavers one is bringing the news of good trouble.
Check out Pamela’s website, Beaver Insights, to learn more about her work and to view some amazing footage of Seattle’s urban beavers.
Opening by Shaunie Briggs
Shaunie Briggs is a California Native and proud Salinan woman devoted to land, food, and cultural revitalization. As a living systems artist, she works at the intersection of ancestral knowledge, ecological stewardship, and community healing. Through traditional foodways, foraging, and Indigenous contemplation of the natural world, she invites others to reconnect with the natural world and honors the vital role of keystone species like beavers in restoring balance.
Her journey is both personal and collective—a reclamation of culture and a call to live in right relationship with the Earth. For Shaunie, life is art, living is a science, and harmony with nature is both a joy and a responsibility.
Food by Sichuan Kitchen
Sichuan Kitchen is back this year as a food vendor at the Beaver Festival! Sichuan Kitchen serves local food with spices from the Sichuan region of China. Come enjoy the flavors of Sichuan cuisine at the Beaver Festival.
Check out photos and stories from previous years of the Festival:
Our Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors!!!! The festival would not be possible without each and every one of them.
Find out about Becoming a Sponsor!
2026 Beaver Festival Sponsors:
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
City of San Luis Obispo
New Times
Rancho Estrellita in Shandon
Spaceman Media
Frankie Lopez-Johnson
KCBX
Atascadero Mutual Water Company
Defenders of Wildlife
California Central Coast Joint Venture
Karlandia Foundation
Elationscapes
