Earth Day Festival 2009
at Leslie Science & Nature Center
Sunday, April 26th
12-4pm

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Earth Day Festival 2009
Sunday, April 26th
12-4pm
FREE
at Leslie Science & Nature Center
1831 Traver Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Celebrate our natural world at the annual Earth Day Festival. This FREE, family friendly event features music & entertainment, hands on activities, live animal demonstrations, a Clean Energy Expo, and displays from local environmental, non-profit, and governmental organizations.

This years festival entertainment includes "Bubbleman" Ron Loyd, musician Joe Reilly, Storyteller Darryl Mickens, Afro-Brazilian band Ginga97, and folk musicians Seth Bernard & May Erlewine. Leslie Science & Nature Center's birds of prey will be available for viewing along with educational talks.

Come dressed as your favorite plant or animal or make accessories and instruments at The Scrap Box activity table, face painting will be provided by Ann Arbor Cohousing. At 2:30pm an All Species Parade will wind through the festival with those costumed as animals and plants.

For many more environmental activities throughout April check out the Earth Month Calendar of Events here!

Enter Recycle Ann Arbor's Third Annual Earth Day Essay Contest
"If I were president, how I would get more Americans to recycle?"

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Earth Day Festival 2009 is FREE due to the generous sponsorship from Whole Foods Markets, The City of Ann Arbor, Gretchen's House, and ann arbor's 107one.

The Earth Day Festival has been planned by the following organizations:
The Environmental Education Network of Washtenaw (EE-Now), The Leslie Science & Nature Center, National Wildlife Federation, Clean Energy Coalition, The City of Ann Arbor, The Ecology Center, The Scrap Box, Washtenaw Community College, and The University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum.