Surf Into The Funk Zone
Surfing legend SHAUN TOMSON to hold book-signing and slide show benefit,with live music

Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 5:00-8:00 p.m. 
Reds Café at Yanonali & Helena


Surf Into The Funk Zone book-signing and slide show featuring Shaun
Tomson’s book, Surfer’s Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life.
Live music, $3 wine and New Belgium beer specials for happy hour 5-6, $10 fish tacodinner.  $500 in Solitude Clothing raffle.

Featuring 1977 World Surfing Champion Shaun Tomson, sponsored by Solitude Clothing and J.C. Penney, benefiting the Santa Barbara Chapter of Surfrider Foundation, live music by Sugarwater Babies—original folk rock by Matt & Jasmine Commerce.

All ages welcome.  Copies of Surfer’s Code will be for sale.

Local resident and 1977 World Champion surfer Shaun Tomson will present a slide show on his book, Surfer’s Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life to benefit the Santa Barbara Chapter of Surfrider Foundation.  In the book, Shaun explores what he’s learned about life during his long career as a professional surfer.  Not just for surfers to read, his examples are drawn from the complex lifestyle surrounding surfing, and the principles he finds reach out to a broad audience.

In addition to signing copies of his book, Shaun will present a slide show on the 12 principles covered in Surfer’s Code while guests enjoy food, drinks and live acoustic rock by the Sugarwater Babies.  For those who don’t have one, copies of Shaun’s book will be available for purchase at the event.

Shaun’s clothing company, Solitude Clothing, will present the event, along with their distributor, J.C. Penney.  Solitude will bring $500 worth of their clothing for raffle.  Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the preservation of our oceans, beaches and waves.  The Santa Barbara Chapter of Surfrider is currently involved in protection of the Gaviota Coast, public access issues, beach clean-ups and school outreach programs.

Contact info for Reds: 211 Helena Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 966-5906,