Earth Day celebrations all week in the islands

The week is full of ways to honor the Earth and strengthen our values for stewardship, peace, and compassion for all life.

Come celebrate in Community!

Come learn, create and celebrate! This year’s Earth Day Eco Fair resource sharing is hosted by inspiring island innovators: SJC Land Bank, Friends of the San Juans, OPAL Community Land Trust, Island Rides, Orcas Island Garden Club, SJC Master Gardeners, San Juan Islands Makers Guild, Salmonberry School, Eye of the Whale Arts, and Protectors of the Salish Sea.

Open 10-1:30 on the beautiful waterfront grounds of Emmanuel Episcopal, 218 Main, Eastound.

Add a square to the community Salish Sea art mural, learn about solar energy, check out the Green Car Share and proposed Island EV Shuttle, and see what’s up with great island non-profits.

Peace: For A Wiser World

The Eco Fair Opens with Peace Events

Sat. April 25th at Emmanuel Labyrinth, 10am

Woven into the Eco Fair Day are Special Experiences you are welcome to join.

Dances and Parade: We open the Earth Day Fair with Dances of Univeral Peace at 10am. All welcome to join and learn.

The Earth Day Parade begins at 11am and is a Peace Walk this year. Costumes, peace signs, and nature props welcome. Kids invited to help carry the Earth Ball. Walk is a contemplative Prayer for Peace for All Beings and the Earth. Song stops join community voices; you are welcome to join anywhere along the North Beach and Prune Alley route.

Please convene at the Labyrinth at 10:45am to join the Walk.

Song Circle for Peace and the Earth follows parade at the labyrinth – all voices welcome for a community peace and ecology sing along. Dancers from Orcas Dance Collective join the celebration of the Salish Sea.

Special thanks to Sharon Abreu, Michael Hurwicz, Darcey Leach, and Clint McCune for leading us in singing for a better world.

Peace Garden and Memorials: The grounds of Emmanuel are hosting a sculpture garden with peace and memorial installations through the end of the month. Memorials on the 25th honor and mourn lives lost in homeland protests, and in wars abroad. You are invited to reflect on the challenging state of our world, and to bring flowers, art, and poems to set on the memorials.

Memorial visits open 10-4 on the 25th.

Sculptors and Artists include Eric Morris and Earthball, Pete Welty, Dwight Duke, Daniel Marks, John Raymond Berry, and Kiel Sloper.

Dive Deeper: Afternoon Indigenous Voices in Concert & Story, 4/25, 2pm

Native Flute and Story w/Paul Chiyokten Wagner (Saanich), Story, Chant and Drum w Chenoa Egawa (Lummi, S’Klallam), Story and Poetry w Rena Priest (Lummi).

Poster art by Tamara Adams. Presented by Orcas Island Cultural Bridge w support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Eye of the Whale Arts..

Other Earth Day Events on Orcas