Jan 26 update for Earth Day Festival in Brunswick
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Jan 26, 2026, 10:45:42 AMJan 26
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Hello Festival friends!
Hope you are all enjoying the snow. We're delighted to welcome First Light Energy and Maine Solar Solutions as our newest sponsors.
We're updating our website to list all sponsors, participating organizations, and the activities that Festival goers can enjoy. If your business is sponsoring the Festival or your organization is planning to participate, please send me the following (if you haven't already):
1) The name of your business or organization
2) Your logo and the marketing messages you'd like us to use to promote your business or organization, including logo image, etc.
3) A brief description of what Festival goers can learn or do at your table or tent
If you're still working on your activities, that's fine. Please share your ideas when you can so we can start planning the schedule and layout.
* How You Can Help *
Save the Date - By far the most important thing you can do is spread the word. Here's the message we've been using in schools: Dress up as your favorite creature or come just as you are, but don’t miss it! The 2026 Earth Day Festival in Brunswick will be on Saturday, April 25, from 10 am to 3 pm rain or shine at Harriet Beecher Elementary School in Brunswick.
Sponsors - We need to lock down our major sponsors so we can print our posters and start putting them up starting March 1. Sponsors at the Sustaining level ($1,000) and above can have their business name on the poster. If you know any business that could sponsor the Festival at that level, please let me know. Sponsoring businesses and generous individuals are paying the cost of the Festival so it can be free for the public and participating non-profit organizations.
Farmers - We are considering a pop-up farmers' market at the Festival. If you know any farmers, please ask them if they'd like to have a free stall in a pop-up farmers market at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School on Saturday, April 25, as part of the Festival. We've included a farmers' market in our permit for the event, but we need to know whether farmers want to be there. (Note: free stalls in the farmers' market are limited to actual farms that grow food, not people selling crafts or non-farm items. To sell other items, vendors can rent exhibit space at the Festival.)
We're updating our website to list all sponsors, participating organizations, and the activities that Festival goers can enjoy. If your business is sponsoring the Festival or your organization is planning to participate, please send me the following (if you haven't already):
1) The name of your business or organization
2) Your logo and the marketing messages you'd like us to use to promote your business or organization, including logo image, etc.
3) A brief description of what Festival goers can learn or do at your table or tent
If you're still working on your activities, that's fine. Please share your ideas when you can so we can start planning the schedule and layout.
* How You Can Help *
Save the Date - By far the most important thing you can do is spread the word. Here's the message we've been using in schools: Dress up as your favorite creature or come just as you are, but don’t miss it! The 2026 Earth Day Festival in Brunswick will be on Saturday, April 25, from 10 am to 3 pm rain or shine at Harriet Beecher Elementary School in Brunswick.
Sponsors - We need to lock down our major sponsors so we can print our posters and start putting them up starting March 1. Sponsors at the Sustaining level ($1,000) and above can have their business name on the poster. If you know any business that could sponsor the Festival at that level, please let me know. Sponsoring businesses and generous individuals are paying the cost of the Festival so it can be free for the public and participating non-profit organizations.
Farmers - We are considering a pop-up farmers' market at the Festival. If you know any farmers, please ask them if they'd like to have a free stall in a pop-up farmers market at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School on Saturday, April 25, as part of the Festival. We've included a farmers' market in our permit for the event, but we need to know whether farmers want to be there. (Note: free stalls in the farmers' market are limited to actual farms that grow food, not people selling crafts or non-farm items. To sell other items, vendors can rent exhibit space at the Festival.)
Volunteers - If you are interested in volunteering in any capacity to help the Festival happen, please let me know what you're most interested in doing. We are organizing volunteers into teams: outreach, parade, music, bikes, setup, greeters, etc. Even if you can't be at the Festival, you can still help on our outreach team.
Food - We need food trucks to feed people at the Festival. I've started contacting some. If you know anyone who has a food truck and might want to make some money selling food at the Festival, please let me know so I can reach out to them soon.
* Festival News *
We've got a lot of Festival news to share!
Events
Events
Our poster art contest awards and poster reveal is next week, Tuesday, Feb 3, at 11 am in the Morrell Meeting Room at Curtis Memorial Library. For details about this and other upcoming events, please see the Festival events page at https://earthdayinbrunswick.com/events/
Facebook Group
If you do Facebook, please join the Festival Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/earthdayinbrunswick
Facebook Group
If you do Facebook, please join the Festival Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/earthdayinbrunswick
Info Sessions
We've scheduled our in-person info sessions where anyone interested in the Festival can meet people, share ideas, and ask questions. They will all be in Seminar Room 205 (on the second floor) in Curtis Memorial Library on a Sunday afternoon between 1:00 and 2:30 pm.
Sunday, February 8, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, Seminar Room 205, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
Sunday, February 8, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, Seminar Room 205, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
Sunday, March 1, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, Seminar Room 205, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
Sunday, April 12, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, Seminar Room 205, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
In addition to these in-person info sessions, we will also be scheduling Zoom info sessions for the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday after the Sunday in-person info session. We'll post the Zoom links on the Festival website.
Activities
Here is our list of activities by likelihood of happening. Our deadline is February 28 for non-profits to be guaranteed a spot at the Festival and March 31 for sponsoring businesses to be guaranteed a spot. If we have spaces available after those deadlines, we'll include organizations and businesses if possible but without a guarantee.
>= 90% Chance to Happen
All Species Parade
Dress up as your feature creature. Follow the leader on a walking parade through Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School and around the school grounds. End up in the cafeteria for a benediction, and then go to the gym for fun and activities!
Art
Nature mandala: allows participants to play with nature materials creatively in a meditative environment where they can feel free to take something home or leave it to nature for others to enjoy or add.
Bike Tune Up Clinic
Bicycle Coalition of Maine will have a bike tune up clinic.
Chewonki Animals
Some live animals displayed by Chewonki staff.
Electric Vehicle Car Show
EV enthusiasts showing their cars and explaining what it’s like to drive on electrons. We will have a Ford F-150 Lightning on display and are inviting owners of other makes and models to have their vehicles at the Festival.
Games
Cornhole and other games will be available on the playground.
Live Music and Dancing
Volunteer acoustic musicians will perform under a tent. We might also have drum circles.
Off-Grid Solar Display
An off-grid solar display by Maine Solar Solutions, giving people a chance to see a working solar electricity generation and storage system. Other solar sponsors are invited to provide solar displays, too.
>=50% Chance to Happen
Bike Rides
Local bicycle clubs are invited to lead rides starting from and return to the Festival on Saturday, April 25.
Citizen Science
Some sort of citizen science project that will have people take pictures or make observations of natural events happening in the greater Brunswick area.
Coastal Cleanup [Pending Confirmation]
Register in advance. Meet at the Festival before heading out to your beach. Come back to the Festival to share your stories and display your treasures! (Pending approval from Kelly Punch, the Coastal Cleanup organizer.) The Coastal Cleanup will definitely happen: the question is how connected to the Festival will it be.
Cycle Show
Like the EV car show, but for human-powered vehicles. Enthusiasts display and talk about their cycles.
Food Trucks
Food trucks sell food.
Harriet’s Haven Grand Opening Ceremony & Garden Celebration [Pending Confirmation]
Hold the official Grand Opening Ceremony & Garden Celebration for the greenhouse and garden, since it just opened last year and they never had a naming ceremony or grand opening. (Pending approval from the school principal and everyone who was involved in that project.)
Litter Walk
Pick up trash around town.
Nature Hikes
Local hiking clubs are invited to lead hikes starting from and returning to the Festival on Saturday, April 25.
>=25% Chance to Happen
Pop-Up Farmers Market
Farms in the twelve towns sell food they grow.
For the Earth we share,
Fred
2026 Earth Day Festival in Brunswick
Celebrate Earth with your family, friends, and community
Meet people and make new friends
Have fun and 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 Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Durham, Freeport, Harpswell, Lisbon Falls, Pownal, Topsham, West Bath, and Woolwich for a day of fun, education, and environmental action.
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