Family Day:

Earth Day

Family Day: Earth Day

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Join us for a day of family fun on Saturday, April 19, to celebrate the 55th annual Earth Day. The 2025 theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.” Kids of all ages will learn about renewable energy and the power they have to make positive change in the world. Enjoy peak Spring Blooms while live music by Butler University students fills the air in The Beer Garden. Check the schedule below to make your plan for the day.

Get your day started early in The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park with a children’s book reading and signing at Newfields brand new StoryWalk in partnership with The Indianapolis Public Library, featuring Mike Homoya’s Wake Up, Woods. Please note, the StoryWalk opens at 10 AM in The Virigina B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park.

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Newfields

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Family Day: Earth Day Schedule

*10 AM | StoryWalk Opening | Children’s Book Reading and Signing | The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, meet in Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion

11 AM–4 PM | Scavenger Hunt | IMA Galleries

11 AM–4 PM | Center for Energy Education | Pulliam Family Great Hall

11 AM–4 PM | Build Your Own Seed Starter | Floor 2 of the Efroymson Pavilion

11 AM–1 PM | Butler Music Performance | Pulliam Family Great Hall

Noon–2 PM | Paws & Think: Therapy Dogs | Floor 2 of the Efroymson Pavilion

Noon–4 PM | Nature’s Canvas: Art in the Everyday with Kassie Woodworth | Studios 3 & 4

1 PM | StoryWalk | Children’s Book Reading and Signing | The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, meet in Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion

2–4 PM | Botanic Beats: Make Music with Plants | Pulliam Family Great Hall

2:30–3 PM | Sound Bowl Yoga with Rhythm & Flow | Clowes Pavilion

*Get your day started early in The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park with a children’s book reading and signing and Newfields brand new StoryWalk in partnership with The Indianapolis Public Library, featuring Mike Homoya’s Wake Up, Woods.

Teaching Artist

Kassie Woodworth 

Kassie Woodworth is a multidisciplinary artist based in Indianapolis, working primarily in drawing, paper sculpture, and ceramics. With a deep interest in the intersection of mindfulness and creativity, her work explores the ways in which slowing down, noticing details, and embracing imperfection can transform both art-making and everyday life. Through interactive workshops and installations, Kassie invites participants to engage with the present moment, using art as a tool for deeper connection with themselves and the world around them.

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Saturday, April 19, 2025

StoryWalk Grand Opening in Partnership with The Indianapolis Public Library

Stout Reference Library at Newfields

Come and go programming from 10 AM–4 PM

Join us in the Stout Reference Library in the Museum for the grand opening and celebration of the Wake Up, Woods StoryWalk installed in The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. Author of Wake Up, Woods and former State Botanist Mike Homoya and poet Shane Gibson will be here for a book reading and signing.

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