EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: OUR POWER, OUR PLANET

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: OUR POWER, OUR PLANET

Tuesday, April 22 | 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Main Library, Lobby and Central Courtyard

Learn how you can help protect our planet at this drop-in event with information tables, mini-presentations, and activities for all ages. Events include:

• 3 - 6 p.m. Friends Bookstore is open for sustainable book shopping!
• 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Get your hands dirty with the California Climate Action Corps Fellows and Santa Monica Community Gardens Staff. Plant native milkweed, dissect owl pellets, explore a worm bin and learn about some cool bees from our Bee Specialist.
• 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Camera Obscura Artist in Residence Raphaele Cohen-Bacry presents a collage/assemblage workshop incorporating recycled and re-purposed materials.
• 3:30 p.m. The Urban Forest team presents a family-friendly talk on the Importance of Trees. Get answers to your tree care questions at their Ask an Arborist! table.
• 4 p.m. City of Santa Monica Poet Laureate, Anne Carmack, presents “Poems for the Planet", an interactive poetry workshop honoring the Earth for National Poetry Month.

Participating Organizations:

City of Santa Monica

• Cultural Affairs
• Library
• Office of Sustainability & the Environment
• Resource Recovery & Recycling
• Urban Forest
• Water Resources

California Climate Action Corps

California Native Plant Society

Friends of Ballona Wetlands

Friends of Santa Monica Public Library

Heal the Bay

Santa Monica History Museum

Sustainable Works

Host or Publisher Santa Monica Cultural Affairs