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Thank you to all who made our first-ever eARTh Day such a success — especially our presenting partner, Tephra ICA, and our other content partners, George Mason University, Reston Community Center, ArtsFairfax, LOOK Dine-in Cinemas, BXP, and the Hyatt. Let’s bring this back next year!

An art-inspired celebration of the day!
Saturday, April 20, 10:00am-7:30pm
throughout Reston Town Center
ALL FREE

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Updated Program for the Day:

10:00am
Mercury Fountain Plaza

Opening Ceremony & Celebration of Danielle Hatch Installation

  • Hosted by Robert Goudie, Executive Director RTCA, and Jaynelle Hazard, Executive Director and Curator Tephra ICA
  • Poetry Reading, Prof. Heather Streckfus-Green
  • Dignitary remarks (including Cong. Connelly, Del. Keys-Gamarra, Sup. Alcorn, & Scott Cryer, Board Chair ArtsFairfax)
  • Celebration of a special installation by Arkansas-based artist Danielle Hatch, presented by Reston Community Center with support from Tephra ICA, RTCA, and BXP. Entitled All Is In Motion, Is Growing, Is You, the work features furled fabrics of bold colors and shapes secured to the six pillars surrounding Mercury Fountain Plaza. It is informed by native flowering plants of Northern Virginia and takes inspiration from Reston’s founding and Robert E. Simon’s vision of community building.

11:30am and ongoing
Tephra ICA

Special Curator-led Tours of the Pressing Exhibition at Tephra ICA

  • An environmentally themed installation by Rena Detrixhe & Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann
  • The exhibition invites audiences to simultaneously revel in the beauty of the natural world while considering the entanglement of ecological and human histories

1:00pm-5:00pm
Reston Town Square Park

Artist and Environmental Activations

  • eARTh Day-inspired family fun with face painting, composting demonstrations, balloon twisting, plus . . .
  • 1:15pm-1:45pm: Meditative Sound Bath with Very Sad Lab
  • 2:00-3:00pm: Plant repotting and rehabilitation with Very Sad Lab
  • 1pm-5pm:

2:00pm-3:15pm
Reston Town Square Park

eARTh Day Concert

5:30pm-7:30pm
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas

Movie ScreeningAnthropocene: The Human Epoch