- Ann Arbor Area Earth Day Festival, Sunday, April 25, 2010, 12noon-4pm
Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Building
Free! Everyone Welcome!
This family-friendly event features live music, entertainment, hand-on activities, and live animal demonstrations. Displays from over 60 local environmental, non-profit and governmental organizations will focus on alternative energy, green building, conservation, sustainable agriculture and more. Program details are available online at http://www.a2earthday.org/
Highlights of this year’s events include:
· the annual All Species Parade in which participants young and old bring costumes to wear representing their favorite plants and animals. The parade begins at 2:30 p.m. and winds through the event area.
· Also enjoy free face painting provided by Ann Arbor Cohousing,
· and musical instrument crafts sponsored by The Scrap Box.
· Leslie Science and Nature Center’s Birds of Prey exhibit
· and Brian Cressman’s reptile exhibit.
This year’s entertainment will include WCC student singer-songwriters, WCC’s own Renee’ Stokley and her cigar box guitar, popular local musician Joe Reilly and a Songs for the Earth Sing-Along. The Bubbleman will also be on hand and there will be nature explorations of WCC pond life and the woods.
Food will be on sale from Silvio's Organic Pizza, Pilar's Tamales Traditional Salvadorian and Latin Cuisine and other vendors.
This year, for the first time, Earth Day will be a zero waste event coordinated by Recycle Ann Arbor.
Earth Day is a free event thanks to generous sponsorship from Whole Foods Market, The City of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Community College, and Ann Arbor’s 107one fm radio. The 2010 Earth Day event was planned by the following organizations: The Clean Energy Coalition, The Ecology Center, The Environmental Education Network of Washtenaw (EE-Now), The Leslie Science and Nature Center, National Wildlife Federation, Recycle Ann Arbor, The Scrap Box, The University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, and Washtenaw Community College.
