Easy Being Green

Celebrating Earth Day

4:15–5 p.m. – FREE Community Yoga with World Peace Yoga

5–5:30 p.m. – Erin Locke: singer/songwriter

5:30–5:40 – Art Academy of Cincinnati Student speakers

5:45–6:00 – Cincinnati STEAM, Sustainability, and Equity

6:00–6:20 – Community Dancing: Dunham Technique with Jeanne Speier

6:20–6:30 – Art Academy of Cincinnati Student speakers

6:30–7 – CLEÖCRT: Inspired by Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On

7–7:30 – Community Earth, Art, Diversity, Innovation, and Design Meditation and Closing

More information on Earth Day in Eden Park.

“Our college-aged students, high school students, middle and elementary school students are fully aware of the human problems that we are facing on the planet,” says Annie Melzer, an instructor at the Art Academy and a local environmental, cultural, and applied anthropologist. “These youths are our innovators of the future.”

Students from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, in partnership with Cincinnati Parks and the Cincinnati Art Museum, are hosting an Earth Day event at Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park on Friday, April 22, 2022 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

“This event is about designing a positive space for the community to come together at the local level, to celebrate Earth Day, creativity, diversity, innovative thinking in community and more,” says Menzler.

This free, community-based event is designed to inspire creative problem solving and focused conversations on climate change, deforestation, water pollution, and other eco-issues. The student organizers are working within their community to create real world, local change in real time for Earth Day 2022, in an effort to put Cincinnati at the forefront on environmental issues.

Art Academy students will be speaking during the event and exhibiting their artwork to engage the community with creativity, art, and design. The Cincinnati Art Museum will be open until 5 p.m., with free admission. Indigo Hippo will have are materials available for children's art. The event will also include music, dancers, and nonprofit organizations. Foodtrucks from BOL, the first acai bowl bar in Cincinnati, and Fire on High, Cincinnati's first organic food truck, will be onsite with food for sale.

Melzer believes that Cincinnati may emerge as a leader for the global community when it comes to making the real shifts necessary to repair our relationship with the earth.

“We can do this in Cincinnati and be a leading city in this eco/green/sustainable/more equitable movement and the only way to begin to tackle these global human-initiated problems is to begin with a positive community-based force at the local level,” says Menzler.