Newtown Earth Day Festival
IT’S EASY TO BE GREEN
Saturday, April 28 Newtown Middle School, Queen Street 10am-4pm
Newtown’s 5th Annual Earth Day Festival is less than a month away and the excitement is building!
From kids’ activities, live music, tasty food, and an environmental maze to a silent auction, litter pick-up, and a vendor fair, it’s the perfect opportunity for learning how to help our community become a bit more of being “green”.
A full-day of family fun and learning – with proceeds now supporting an annual “green” scholarship at Newtown High School -- it promises to be a great day again for the whole family.
The Interactive, Educational, & Earth-Friendly Environmental Maze
Constructed with bamboo and laid-out on the front lawn of the Middle School, our maze is a fun-filled opportunity for kids of all ages to learn about the environment. With numbered junctions where you’ll need to answer questions from a guide sheet – a correct choice will lead you in the right direction, a wrong one will bring you to a dead end – how fast can you get through it?
Lions Club’s “Lose the Litter”
Join your friends and neighbors to clean up Newtown’s streets. Special prizes are hidden around town and your team may be the lucky crew to win one as you “tackle the trash”!
Live Music and Performances
-- MC John Hemberger – New England’s DJ for over 35 years
-- Earth Day Kick-Off with Pat LLodra
-- Dana Greenfield sings the National Anthem
-- John Voket—Classic acoustic tunes
-- Minstrel Matt – Slippin’ & slidin’ slide guitar instrumentals; blues/folk
-- LITTLEseed Program – Songs & movement by Michelle Wenis
-- Dr. “C” aka the Sultan of Spine – Infectious acoustic grooves to stimulate your mind
-- The Trolls – Classic & today’s rock plus high energy originals
-- SunDad – Father/son world fusion, new age guitar jam
-- Time and Again – Straight ahead rock
-- The Gray School of Irish Dance
-- The Adults – Classic rock played with passion
-- Cadence Carroll & Billy Burton – Singer-songwriter with an old time flair
Tasty Food
Come hungry and make plans to either grab a great lunch, some tasty snacks, or great beverages while browsing our festival. Featuring local businesses like Stone River Grille, My Place, and Aquarian Caterers, our Food Court offers plenty of options for everyone!
AND DON’T MISS OUR VENDOR FAIR!
From “green” merchants to school clubs and town associations, Newtown’s Earth Day Festival is the one place to learn how “easy it is to be green!”
Associated Refuse
Bent of River Audubon
Danielle Chaloux Wooden Pens
EasyCare Energy Solutions
Events Party & Tent Rental
EverWonder Children's Museum
The Fresh Air Fund
Garden Club of Newtown
Girl Scouts of Connecticut
Hawley Garden Club
Hawley Go Green
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School
Iroquois Gas
Juice Plus+
Lions Club
Montessori Comm. School at Brookfield
My Place Restaurant
The Nature Conservancy
The Newtown Bee
Newtown Forest Association
NHS Ecology & Environmental Club
Newtown Parks & Recreation
Northeast Natural Medicine
Origami Owl Living Lockets
Peoples Products
Physical Medicine & Family Wellness Center
Popowich Chiropractic & Acupuncture
Reed School 5th Grade Odyssey of the Mind
Real Goods Solar
Roots & Shoots – Newtown/Danbury
Sandy Hook Elementary School
Square Peg's Vintage Jewelry
Two Coyotes Wilderness School
The Stone River Grille
Viridian Energy
Interested in Exhibiting or Becoming an Underwriter?
Over the last five years, our festival has grown notably and we anticipate over 3,500 attendees and more than 80 local businesses at our Vendor Fair. To further promote Earth Day and our vendors, we have secured a stand-alone supplement in the Newtown Bee. Learn more about exhibiting or becoming a major underwriter by visiting our Website www.newtownearthday.org
Want to Help?
With so much going on, we definitely need some extra helping hands with a number of projects (High School Students, this definitely counts towards your community service hours!). If you have time, please contact Sondra Bradford-Jennings at sondrabj@crystalpengroup.com.
UNDERWRITERS
Iroquois Pipeline Operating Company, The Taunton Press, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School,
Lions Club, Stone River Grille, The Newtown Bee, Events Party & Tent Rental
Awareness Smiles Education
Promotion for this year’s event is being driven mostly by e-mails and a handful of posters and signs.
Please help our non-paper efforts by telling your friends, posting on Twitter,
or linking to our Facebook page.