Groundhog Day update for Earth Day Festival in Brunswick
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Feb 2, 2026, 4:09:53 PMFeb 2
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Hello Festival friends,
Happy Groundhog day! We've got six more weeks of winter and 12 weeks until the Earth Day Festival. It's going to be fantastic!
Please forward this message to everyone who might want to know about the Festival.
If you can join us tomorrow at 11 am at Curtis Memorial Library for our poster art contest award ceremony, please do! Four local artists will receive awards and we'll unveil the official 2026 poster.
Info Sessions Next Week
Have ideas, questions, or just want to hear the latest about the Festival? Please join us for an info session next week.
* Sunday, Feb 8, 1 to 2:30 pm (in person) Seminar Room 205, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
* Monday, Feb 9, 6 pm (Zoom)
* Tuesday, Feb 10, Noon (Zoom)
* Wednesday, Feb 11, 9 am (Zoom)
Zoom links will be posted on our website and sent out later this week. If you can't make it in February, we'll have more info sessions in March and April. Each month we're offering multiple info sessions so as many people as possible can attend at least one. Please spread the word -- these are a great way to meet and exchange knowledge with other people who are interested in environmental issues in the greater Brunswick area.
Business Sponsors
* Sunday, Feb 8, 1 to 2:30 pm (in person) Seminar Room 205, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
* Monday, Feb 9, 6 pm (Zoom)
* Tuesday, Feb 10, Noon (Zoom)
* Wednesday, Feb 11, 9 am (Zoom)
Zoom links will be posted on our website and sent out later this week. If you can't make it in February, we'll have more info sessions in March and April. Each month we're offering multiple info sessions so as many people as possible can attend at least one. Please spread the word -- these are a great way to meet and exchange knowledge with other people who are interested in environmental issues in the greater Brunswick area.
Business Sponsors
We're delighted to announce that Wild Oats is providing $10 gift certificates to the first 200 people who register for the All Species Parade, dress up as their favorite creature, and come to the Festival. I was at Mount Ararat last week and families are excited about the parade! We might see a capybara, a tarantula, a shark, a clam, a dog, a pig, a polar bear, a kangaroo, a beaver, and a Sasquatch (although the dad who said he was going to come as Sasquatch said no one would be able to see him).
Mere Point Oyster Company is our newest Sustaining Sponsor. In addition to being at the Festival, they are organizing the spring Coastal Cleanup, which will be part of the Festival this year.
We have a few more major sponsorships available, which will help cover Festival expenses and may allow us to share profits with participating non-profits (if Festival revenues exceed expenses). Know a local business who should be at the Festival? Send them to https://earthdayinbrunswick.com/sponsor/
February 28 Deadline for Participating Non-Profit Organizations
We can guarantee a free table or tent space for any non-profit or governmental organization that applies by February 28 to participate in the Festival. After that date, we'll try to accommodate as many groups as we can but space may start to run out. If you are connected to any group that wants to connect with hundreds of people in southern midcoast Maine, please encourage them to reach out to me now. The more the merrier!
Hope to see you tomorrow at our award ceremony or Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday at an info session.
For the Earth we share,
Fred
P.S. On the advice of Doug Ware, the Community Learning Coordinator at Mt. Ararat High School, we are expanding our marketing efforts from "twelve towns and city" to "fifteen freeholds" in the greater Bunswick area, adding Arrowsic, Georgetown, and Phippsburg. These communities send students to Bath High School. We're working to establish relationships with teachers and students in five high schools: Bath (Morse), Brunswick, Freeport, Lisbon, and Topsham (Mount Ararat), and doing outreach to all the communities that send students to those high schools. Our Earth Day Every Day Resource Guide will include information for visitors and residents of all "fifteen freeholds."
P.S. On the advice of Doug Ware, the Community Learning Coordinator at Mt. Ararat High School, we are expanding our marketing efforts from "twelve towns and city" to "fifteen freeholds" in the greater Bunswick area, adding Arrowsic, Georgetown, and Phippsburg. These communities send students to Bath High School. We're working to establish relationships with teachers and students in five high schools: Bath (Morse), Brunswick, Freeport, Lisbon, and Topsham (Mount Ararat), and doing outreach to all the communities that send students to those high schools. Our Earth Day Every Day Resource Guide will include information for visitors and residents of all "fifteen freeholds."
2026 Earth Day Festival in Brunswick
Have fun celebrating Earth with your community
Meet people and make new friends
Explore ways to protect our environment
Dress up as your favorite creature or come just as you are, but don’t miss it!
Saturday, April 25, 2026
10 am to 3 pm, rain or shine
Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School
44 McKeen Street, Brunswick
Bringing people together from Arrowsic, Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Durham, Freeport, Georgetown, Harpswell, Lisbon, Phippsburg, Pownal, Topsham, West Bath, and Woolwich for a day of fun, learning, and environmental action.
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