Bernheim thanks the participants and sponsors listed below for making our first annual CONNECT a huge success! Click here to take survey.

Community partners included:
     International Tai Chi Health Research Institute – Tai Chi demonstration
     Louisville Science Center – The States of Mater art and science display
     Gregory Acker and the Kyene Drum Ensemble – drumming,
        fire dancing, stilt walking
     Brenda Wirth and others – Shadow Play
     Louisville Astronomical Society – set up five telescopes for sky viewing
     Milt Hettinger – bagpiper
     J. Glen – musical performance
     Humongous – musical performance
     Julia Oldham – video arts installation
     Ben Evans of YERT films/Bioneers Louisvile – video clothesline
     Jess Meyers of Squallis Puppeteers – troll puppet, roach puppet
     Ohio Valley Creative Energy artist collective – Sculptural screen
        and video projection
     Mary Dennis Kannapel – Hypertufa sculpture heads
     ECO Louisville (student ecology collective) – candle labyrinth
     Walter French – dulcimer music
     Chrissy Neumann – floating fire sculpture
     Douglas Lucas – paint your “heart” out collective painting

Bernheim partners included:
     Wren Smith – Fairy Shadow Puppet performances
     Operations Team – Lake Nevin pyrotechnics
     Operations and Horticulture – Water cannon spectacle
     Mark Wourms and Staff – Disco cube
     Mark Wourms and Staff – Walk-through slide show
     Staff – tree projections
     And all staff contributed in valuable ways.

Sponsors:
     WFPK
     Great American Life Insurance
     Events, LLC
     Salt River Electric
     Best Buy
     Geek Squad
     Kentucky Ale

Our visitors:
As with all public festivals, some of the most interesting performances were those unplanned happenings that occurred spontaneously as a result of people having fun in nature. If you were at CONNECT you were part of the spectacle that was CONNECT.