This year’s theme:  

EDGES: Where Habitats Meet, Where Habits Meet

MUSKETAQUID EARTH DAY CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES

Visit the Earth Month Exhibit, sing and launch your sculpture in the River

Ceremony, romp in the Parade, and taste, listen and learn at the

Environmental Arts Festival.  More details below.

ADOPT-A-PUPPET! 

CLICK HERE  to learn more and see the puppet inventory!

EARTH DAY T-SHIRT CONTEST
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED ENTRIES
Congratulations to our winners:
First Place: Sierra Zimmerman, Age 9, Ayer, MA
Honorable Mention: Diana Delahaye
Honorable Mention: Emma Kraus
Meet the artists and see the designs at the Earth Month Exhibit Artists’ Reception, Sunday April 21, 5-8pm, Emerson Umbrella.

EARTH MONTH ART EXHIBIT   –   April 13 through May 5, 2013

Thank you to all who submitted entries for Musketaquid’s annual non-juried multi-media gallery show.
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 21, 5:00 -8:00 pm

2013 EARTH DAY CEREMONY, PARADE & FESTIVAL

Schedule of Events

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1:00-4:00pm 

River Ceremony Workshop 

Find your stories in branches and grasses, explore outdoors and then make a sculpture to float on the river.  Participate in creating the River Ceremony to honor our home – this Earth.  Attend the Earth Month Art Exhibit Reception that follows at 5:00pm.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 5:00-8:00 pm

Earth Month Exhibit Artists’ Reception

Emerson Umbrella Gallery

SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
 
10-10:45 am (rain or shine)
River Ceremony

River’s edge at the Lowell Road Bridge
 
10:45 am-noon (rain or shine)
Earth Day Parade

Lowell Road Bridge to the Emerson Umbrella
 

• larger-than-life puppets
• stilters
• La Piñata dancers
• Alice Heller’s Dancers
• Musketaquid All-Star Brass Band (led by Billy Novick)
• AfroBrazil (led by Marcus Santos)
• folk rockers Snow Crow
• members of Branches Steel Orchestra begin at 10:30 am

 
12:00 to 2:00 pm (in case of rain, the festival moves indoors)

Arts & Environment Festival
 

• The Folks Below w/Holly Brewer
• The Squeezebox Stompers
• Julie Corey of The Village Drum

 
Earth Day partially sponsored by
 

For up-to-date information on Musketaquid activities:
–follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MusketaquidAE;
–friend us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/MusketaquidArtsEnvironment
–contact us via the Musketaquid Information Line, 978-371-0820 x-213, or email musketaquid@emersonumbrella.org.