Each year since 1992, CARS has produced this event that has grown into Santa Monica's largest celebration of its civic identity. The Santa Monica Festival expresses the city's persona through a two-pronged approach: culture and the environment. Now one of the greenest festivals in the Los Angeles area, the event employs solar-powered stages, carbon offsets, waste diversion and product replacement to be as sustainable as possible. The festival, located in Clover Park since 1994, also celebrates the amazing diversity of Santa Monica through programming on two stages, a Town Square of local non-profits and government agencies, a Global Café, and a Marketplace of diverse vendors. The festival is presented by the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division as well as the City's Office of Sustainability and the Environment. 

 

As producer of the festival, CARS is also responsible for helping to market and introduce the festival to a wider audience. CARS repeatedly presents the festival to the public at the City of Santa Monica's Cultural Affairs Commission meetings and is responsible for distributing festival flyers and postcards throughout the greater Santa Monica area. CARS utilizes is vast online community to raise awareness of the festival each year.