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eARTh Day Celebration
April 20 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Presented in partnership with
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
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:
- Cookie/Edible Flower Workshop and Lily Pad Activation with Danielle Hatch
- Plant Matter Printmaking with Adjoa Burrowes
- Dried Floral Arrangement Workshop with The Watering Can
- Textile Mending and Natural Dye workshop with D. Allen
- Love Letters to Nature By Nicole Salimbene
2:00pm-3:15pm
Reston Town Square Park
eARTh Day Concert
- GMU Prof. Victor Provost’s Steel Pan ensemble will present an environmentally themed concert
5:30pm-7:30pm
LOOK Dine-In Cinemas
Movie Screening – Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
- Featuring opening remarks from, and post-film Q&A with, Prof. Jeremy Campbell of GMU’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth
- Sponsored by and presented at LOOK Dine-In Cinemas at Reston Town Center