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Haliburton County Family Earth Day Festival
April 24, 2010 1pm - 4pm
Minden Hills Cultural Centre
Families are welcome to join us for this year's Earth Day Family Festival at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre which is affiliated with Canada Earth Day. Admission is by donation and we suggest a minimum donation of $10 per family. All money raised will pay for this year's costs and any profits will be used for next year's festival which will rotate to a different corner of Haliburton County.
1PM Opening Ceremony - Common Room
Barry Hayward Drumming
Fay Wilkinson Storyteller
Live music with Trina West
Name that Tree Mascot contest
1:30 -3:30PM Art Attack - outdoors
Green Girlfriends Clothing Swap - Rotary Room in the library
bring a few items of clothing, leave with a few items of clothing - recycle your
wardrobe! Click here for details and poster.
2:00-2:45PM Kids play outdoor educational games with Kinark Outdoor Centre
Families and adults welcome to presentation on how to recycle in this County.
2:45-3:30PM Kids build water filtration unit and play games with Bark Leadership Centre
Good Green News with Susanne Lauten in Common Room
3:30-4:00PM Closing Ceremony in Common Room
Live music with Trina West
Terri & Rick Johnson - Professional children's entertainers
Drumming - A Sonic Journey
Passing of the flag to the next festival host
To see or download the Earth Day Festival poster please click here.
PRESS RELEASE April 14, 2009
Change doesn’t have to cost a dime
R.D. Lawrence Place on Earth Day demonstrates how to go “green”
Minden, ON – Makeovers don’t always happen in salons as the people of Minden will prove on Earth Day as they hit the streets for the 20-minute Minden Makeover.
R.D. Lawrence Place is challenging businesses, students, groups and the community to spend 20 minutes at noon on April 22 to pitch-in and clean-up their local environment.
“We all have 20-minutes we can spare one day a year to make the place where we live a little nicer,” says Sheryl Loucks, RDLP coordinator. “Going green doesn’t mean shelling green backs out of your wallet. It’s exciting to see how quickly so many people are snapping up this idea.”
Environment Haliburton members and their Green Man will meet at the Cultural Centre for the second year in a row at noon and others are welcome to join them in their makeover efforts. The churches in the village are getting teams together and there is a buzz from the downtown businesses about participating.
“Whenever we have these kinds of events or things like Earth Hour, people say, okay that’s great – now what? We invite people to spend the afternoon at R.D. Lawrence Place and find out what else they can do and what is already happening locally and beyond. I guarantee you will be inspired,” says Loucks.
R.D. Lawrence Place is celebrating its first anniversary and for $5 people can join Sharon Lawrence for a tour of the new exhibits at the Place and learn about her husband’s Green Legacy. The tour will be followed by a presentation by Joanne Adair from the World Wildlife Fund who will be talking about The Good Life program. Loucks explains, RDLP is one of only 10 organizations to be accepted into a WWF pilot program to champion community environmental action.
Loucks explained this is an incredible opportunity to showcase not only the Place but all of the extraordinary work that is being done in Haliburton County around environmental issues. “Joanne was stunned by what we are accomplishing and is excited about profiling us on their national website,” says Loucks.
Anyone interested in finding out more can go to www.thegoodlife.wwf.ca, and in the group section look up RDLP’s group – Haliburton County Naturally.
The afternoon program will also include a reading from R.D. Lawrence’s book The Poison Makers, a discussion about environmental progress since the writing of the book in the 1960s, local initiatives and a reading of local writer Pat Brown’s Earth Hour reflection that was published on March 28 in the Toronto Star. This will happen in the Agnes Jamieson Gallery located across from RDLP. The gallery currently features a landscape exhibition, a beautiful backdrop for a discussion about why the environment is worth saving.
The public is invited to the free launch of 150 Acts of Green challenge at 4pm. There will be a ceremonial planting at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre grounds at 176 Bobcaygeon Road in Minden where RDLP is located. The goal, Loucks says, is to gather a list online by the end of the sesquicentennial year of 150 things the community is doing to go green. And there just may be a figure from Minden’s past on hand to help with the planting! People are invited to bring their lawn chairs to enjoy a free concert of Earth Charter music by the Out Loud Womyn’s choir that will follow the planting.
Collectors may also be interested in noting first anniversary postal stamp covers will be launched on Earth Day featuring a commissioned line drawing of the Place, photographs and the last of the R.D. Lawrence commemorative legal postage stamps. Covers are being sold for $5 as part of the 2009 RDLP fundraising campaign.
R.D. Lawrence Place is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am – 5 pm, year round and is situated at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre which is also comprised of the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden Hills Museum and Minden Library.
To find out more about the local Earth Day Festival happening at Fleming College on September 25, please go to www.gaiacentre.org. Join RDLP and several other environmental groups at the festival between 9:30 am - 1pm.
Also on April 24, RDLP in partnership with the Gaia Centre is offering a unique workshop about how in our current state of economic and environmental chaos we can make a creative economy work. Please scroll down to see the poster for this event.
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