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Earth Day Festival 2024
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Earth Day Festival 2024
April 20, 2024 at 11:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT

Join us for the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice and Sisters of Providence Earth Day Festival at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods! Immerse yourself in nature at our beautiful Woods while enjoying the many activities. There’s something for everyone from nature shows and earth-related craft activities for the kids, to spinning, weaving and felting demonstrations and visits with the alpacas that provide the fiber.

Be sure to bring your refillable water bottles for our free and eco-friendly water station. And the Sisters of Providence will be hosting a bake sale with homemade baked good of all kinds!
The festival begins at 11 a.m. and runs until 3 p.m. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is located 10 minutes northwest of downtown Terre Haute, Indiana.
Click here to see a program schedule for the entire day!
Entertainment includes:
- Moonglade Animal Adventures
- Take Flight! Wildlife Education
- Live Music by The Von Boggins
- Woodcarving demonstrations
- Spinning and weaving demonstrations
Food vendors include:
- Aladdin Kid Café
- Sati Babi
- Maggie & Moe’s Coffee Cart
- Taqueria Los Chamacos
Stop by and see these exhibitors and vendors:
- Card Creations
- Citizens Action Coalition
- Concerned Citizens Against Wabash Valley Resources
- Dye Me Happy
- Earth Drops
- Hallie Hound Barkery
- Healing Hearts Grief Counseling Services
- Herbert the Edgy Hedgie
- Joni Luna Creations
- La Finca Coffee Company
- League of Women Voters
- Maggie and Moe’s Coffee
- Mat Makers of Central Christian Church
- Owen-Putnam Friends of the Forest
- Parke Trails Alliance
- Pride Center of Terre Haute
- Recreation Creation TU
- Renewal by Andersen
- reTHink, Inc.
- Rose-Hulman Zoology Club
- Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Student Counseling Center
- Sierra Club, Hoosier Chapter
- SP Climate Change Task Force
- Terre Haute Childrens Museum
- Terre Haute Wastewater Utiltiy
- The Von Boggins (Tim Tesmer and Brandon Pershing)
- Three French Hounds
- TREES Inc.
- Vigo County 4-H Alpaca and Llama Club
- Vigo County Green Party
- Vigo County Soil and Water Conservation District
- Vigo Invasives Management (VIM) and SICIM
- Wabash Valley Bee Keepers Club
- Wabash Valley Herb Society
- Wabash Valley Master Gardeners Association
For more information
Contact White Violet Center for Eco-Justice at 812-535-2932 or wvc@spsmw.org.

