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Riverfront Earth Day Festival (Apr 27)

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2nd Annual RIVERFRONT EARTH DAY

Interfaith Prayer Service ■ March ■ Riverfront Festival

 

Sunday, April 27, 2014

HARTFORD

Riverfront Earth Day is an annual festival co-produced by the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network and the Office for Catholic Social Justice Ministry of the Archdiocese of Hartford have organized what promises to be the state's largest​ Earth Day celebration, ​attracting​ people from across Connecticut.

12:45pm        Interfaith prayer service, followed by a march to the Riverfront

                        Charter Oak Cultural Center (21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford)

 

1pm – 5pm   Speakers, musicians, dancers, vendors and activities for kids

                        Riverfront Mortensen Plaza, overlooking the Connecticut River

                        (300 Columbus Blvd, Hartford)

 

Speakers:     Rev. Matt Laney (Senior Pastor, Asylum Hill Congregational Church)

Councilwoman Cynthia Jennings (Hartford City Council)

Bishop Tyrone Black (Pastor and Presiding Prelate, Ebenezer Holy Temple)

 

Master of Ceremonies - Rev. Tom Carr is Senior Pastor, Second Baptist Church of Suffield and Co-founder of the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network.  Rev. Carr has been named the 2014 Steward of God's Creation Award recipient, an honor previously awarded to activist/author Bill McKibben, poet Wendell Berry and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

 

Mainstage Performers include: Hartford Steel Symphony, Hannah and Maggie,

Sonia Plumb Dance Company, Western Lands Trio, and The Meadows Bros.

 

Children’s stage will include music, magic and storytelling!

 

MORE INFORMATION: http://riverfrontearthdayct.org/

 

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