Whole Foods Market® - Gold Sponsor

Whole Foods Market® 

Who are we? 

We are a mission driven company with a desire to give you the best experience and the best products. We consider quality the highest form of value and to us that means strict standards that take into account things such as artificial food preservatives, sustainable seafood, animal welfare, antibiotics in meat and pesticides in vegetables. We don’t sell just anything because we are committed to going beyond your expectations. If you want to know what goes into the products you buy, our standards make it easy, because if it doesn’t meet the standards, we don’t sell it!

Learn more about how easy it is to shop! 

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/online-ordering 

CD11 Councilmember Mike Bonin - Festival Partner

Mike Bonin represents the 11^th District on the Los Angeles City Council, bringing a powerful voice for neighborhood empowerment and common sense solutions to city government. There will be a CD11 team there throughout the day and Mike plans on holding open office hours there from 10:30 to 12:30. Join us and share your thoughts!

As Councilmember for the city’s Westside, Mike’s priority is to put neighborhoods first. He is working to promote mass transit and traffic relief, protect the environment, and use technology to make government more effective, efficient and transparent.

The Noël Team - Festival Partner

The Noël Team

We are a team of highly skilled, motivated, and meticulously trained individuals who are all very passionate about what we do. Under the leadership of Sherri Noël, who is ranked one of the Top 20 Real Estate Agents in Los Angeles, our passion has fueled us to greater heights over the past 15 years, completing almost a hundred transactions each year. We have been considered one of the country’s top-producing teams for the past six years, making us the #1 Real Estate Team in Mar Vista, and earning us a spot in Real Trends Magazine’s Top 250 Realtor Teams in the entire nation. Our team consists of Sherri’s partner and husband, Jose Noël, who’s in charge of company operations, four buyers agents, a full-time marketing coordinator, and an office manager. Each team member works hard and focuses on one goal: to give clients the unparalleled level of service they deserve. Backed by tons of experience, motivation, and by keeping a close eye on the market trends, we are able to help our clients achieve all their real estate goals. At The Noël Team, we aim not just to meet clients’ expectations, but to exceed them.

Windward School - Festival Partner

Windward School is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. Windward teachers, parents and administrators work together to inspire our students to be responsible, caring, well informed, ethical, prepared and well balanced adults.

Areté Preparatory Academy - Festival Partner

At Areté, students don’t just jump through hoops.  We guide our learners on a journey of critical reading, informed writing (again and again), and agile argumentation, with a healthy dose of fun along the way. Small, hands-on interactive seminars up the ante for genuine challenge and lively, rich engagement. Our close-knit, supportive milieu, rich with opportunities for individual exploration, encourages high-achieving students to become more than rule followers and “excellent sheep.”  Students learn to reason for themselves, developing their own unique intellectual identities in a culture that rewards risk taking and celebrates provocative thinking.

 The school’s innovative Great Ideas curriculum combines history, philosophy and the social sciences to address the perennial questions of human existence. This carefully planned, cross-disciplinary program introduces students to the important issues in Western and non-Western thought, encouraging the use of historical and contemporary examples to support students' own emergent philosophical positions. Our Eudaimonia Program raises the bar for high-achieving math and science students, offering accelerated curriculum and in-depth, long-term laboratory exploration.  

Areté’s college preparatory program harnesses students’ passions to create future innovators and game-changers, equipped to lead in a world that demands nimble problem solving and creative ingenuity. Driven by a genuine love of learning, our graduates excel in higher education; 90% are accepted to their first-choice colleges and universities.

The Bizzy Blondes - Festival Partner

The Bizzy Blondes Real Estate Team. "As a company, we've always maintained our cutting edge as we continue to revolutionize the real estate industry. Though we may not all be blonde, we are all driven by our tireless work ethic, unparalleled service, and our desire to elevate the industry as a whole. These fundamentals have driven us to sell more than 3500 homes that span over our 35 years of success in Los Angeles. Most importantly, our guiding principles have allowed us to create exceptional relationships with our clients and deliver outstanding results.

Both our company and team are widely recognized for the highest level of service in the industry because we are driven by your needs as our clients.

We're always looking for new ways to best serve you."