Free Compost Demos, Live Music, Kids Activities, and Film at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
CSWD and local partners are throwing a huge, FREE party for compost and you’re invited! We’ve got all kinds of fun for the kids, workshops and activities for adults, great munchies, live music, a cash bar, raffle prizes, great partner organizations to add to the fun, and a showing of Dirt! The Movie, which is touching, energizing, and changes how you regard the dirt underfoot that nurtures us all.
WHEN: Thursday, May 15, 3-9 pm
WHERE: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, 60 Lake Street, Burlington
WHAT: COMPOST JAM!
3-5 pm
- FREE kid’s activities and snacks
3-7 pm
- FREE seed planting with the Vermont Community Garden Network, Green Mountain Compost, and High Mowing Seeds.
- FREE demos on Drop-Off Composting, for those who don’t do backyard composting, or who want to compost all they can with both a backyard system and the drop-off system.
4-5 pm
- FREE backyard composting workshop – learn how to compost food scraps and yard trimmings in your own backyard.
5-7 pm
- FREE, live music by Phineas Gage.
- FREE munchies by Have Your ‘Cake Catering
- Cash bar
7-8:30 pm
- FREE showing of Dirt! The Movie. We guarantee that however you feel now about the thin crust that sustains us, you will feel differently about it when you emerge from Dirt! The Movie. It’s funny and profound, and one of those rare documentaries that educates, energizes, and leaves you feeling good about what you can do in your daily life to be a better Earthling. Dirt! The Movie is an insightful, timely, and amazingly touching film, and features the famous “I Will Be A Hummingbird” sequence with Wangari Maathai.
8:30-8:45
- Drawing for FREE raffle prizes
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