Earth & Culture Day 2025

Earth and Culture Day is returning in 2025 to celebrate local and regional artists, organizations, and community initiatives that honor our shared planet through creativity and collective action. This event weaves together art, storytelling, and reuse to highlight how lived experience and culture shape our approach to caring for the place we call home. 

Attendees can enjoy international food from local vendors and a variety of artistic and interactive experiences, including live music, storytelling, exhibits, and workshops featuring creative reuse. Through hands-on activities and inspiring showcases, this Earth and Culture Day invites people of all ages to connect, learn, and take part in shaping a more vibrant, connected community that honors our Appalachian history of resourcefulness and ingenuity. 

Performances @ Gazebo Stage:

12:30 -- Guided Meditation with Sassa Wilkes followed by a poetry reading with Kii Kōmori
1:00 – Keyamo Onoge
1:30 PM – Poetry Reading with Miles Green and RaJon Staunton
2:00 PM – Annie Wolfe
2:30 PM – Marshall University Contemporary Dance Co.
3:00 PM – Morning Tea
3:30 PM – Gardenn
4:00 PM – Icezaya & Fat Shane

Activity Schedule:

1:00-1:30 PM – Storytime & Craft @ Cicada Books
2:00-2:30 PM – Native Plants & Urbanization Talk with Terra Fate @ Senior Center
3:30 PM – Medicinal Native Plants Talk with Granny Witch Gardens @ Senior Center
4:00 PM – Appalachian Gardening with Phoenix Farmacy @ Senior Center

Food Vendors:

- El Botanas Food Truck
- Native Eats
- Sweet Bliss Bakery

Art Vendors:

- Kathryn Thompson Art
- HeART Vibes
- Robbie Poore
- Copperhead Exchange
- Patty Stewart
- Petyon Media WV
- Thrift Haus
- Jewelry by Jade
- Fourpole Press

Info/Creative Reuse Vendors:

- Mountain Mindful (offering printmaking activity)
- Solar Holler
- Applachian ReUse Hub (with upcycling creative station)
- Sunrise Huntington
- Huntington Children's Museum (offering children's creative reuse activity)
- WV Rivers
- Renewable Energy
- Marshall Sustainability
- Pheonix Farmacy
- Terra Fate
- Granny Witch Gardens
- WV For Freedom Energy