Earth Day 2012
The Ever-Changing Land of Enchantment

Earth Day Festival

Saturday, April 21

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

3540 Orange Street

The Earth Day Festival is PEEC's biggest event of the year! The festival will feature booths and displays where community groups will show their earth-friendly products and practices, and provide information about our environment on the Pajarito Plateau.

This year's festival will feature three entertainment groups. Like previous years, Renaissance entertainment group Clan Tynker will perform at 11:00 a.m.

New to the festival this year, Wise Fool will perform with giant puppets at 1:00 p.m.

Also new to the festival this year are the familiar faces of the Hill Stompers. They will perform at noon, with their eclectic mix of antics, costumes, and lively toons.

Earth Day Art Shows

April 2 - 30
Mesa Public Library & Betty Ehart Senior Center

This year's Earth Day celebrations will include two art shows.

Children's Earth Day Art at Mesa Public Library. During the month of April students from all five Los Alamos elementary schools will show their Earth Day art, a project between the elementary school art teachers and PEEC.

Art in Nature show at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. Art will be displayed during the month of April. Artists include Terry Foxx, John and Sue Hains, Yvonne and Chick Keller, Katy Korkos, Liz Martineau, Connie Pacheco, Gowri Srinivasan, Hari Viswanathan, Mary Carol and Joel Williams

A reception will be held on April 18th at 6:30 pm preceeding the Wonder of Nature speaker at the Senior Center.

History and the Ever-changing Enchanted Land

April 10, 7:30 pm
Fuller Lodge

A talk by ecologists John Hogan and Terry Foxx, co-sponsored by the Los Alamos Historical Society and PEEC.

A photographic exhibit of ecological history will be in the Historical Museum for the month of April.

Wonder of Nature: Rachel Carson

Wednesday, April 18

Senior Center

Reception at 6:30 p.m.
Talk at 7:00 p.m.

PEEC's Earth Day talk will be a chautauqua performance by Ann Beyke. Ann will be portraying Rachel Carson, whose work made environmentalism an integral part of our lives.

Rachel Carson was a marine biologist when few women dared even tread the water. Her lifelong love of nature and science led to research on how uncontrolled chemical use in our cities, towns and farming communities devastated wildlife and food sources. Silent Spring, her bestselling book on the topic, detailed this devastation and led to the eventual ban on the use of DDT.

"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?" --Rachel Carson

This performance is made possible by support from the New Mexico Humanities Council.

Party for PEEC

Sunday, April 22, 5:00 pm

Hilltop House Best Western

Join us for our annual "Party for PEEC," a benefit dinner to support the Nature Center. The 2012 party will feature a unique gourmet meal prepared with foods of the Founding Fathers. It will be held Sunday, April 22 at the Hilltop House.

Please register for tickets online on the Calendar page, or bring/mail a check to PEEC.

Anyone wishing to sit with specific people should send an e-mail to center@pajaritoeec.org with the names.

View the Menu and description.

Petra and the Jay

Fri, April 13, 7:00 pm
Sat, April 14, 2:00 pm

In this futuristic sci-fi musical, Petra, a young human, is challenged by her animal and alien friends to accept their "personhood" without projecting onto them human traits and standards. She is further challenged to relate to human beings as "suffering animals" deserving of the same compassion she already shows to aliens and animals.

Meanwhile, human beings are facing their greatest challenge -- to rectify the horrific problems caused by overpopulation and to find their proper niche in the universe.

Performances:
Friday, April 13 @ 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 14 @ 2:00 p.m.

Performed at the auditorium at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Rd. Proceeds benefit PEEC.

Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for students/seniors, and free for ages 6 and under. You can register for tickets online on the Calendar page. Tickets are also being sold at CB Fox and at the door.

Contest:
A contest for students is being held, with cash prizes. Deadline April 8, 2012. See Petra and the Jay Contest.