OUTDOOR EARTH DAY CELEBRATION -Green Artisan Market -Live Music -Animal Demos -Art Classes
SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH 3-10PM 770 Jackson Plaza, Hoboken, NJ www.mainstreetpops.com
OUTDOOR EARTH DAY CELEBRATION OUTDOOR EARTH DAY
Wild & Scenic Film Festival Returns to Hoboken CELEBRATION -Green Artisan Market -Live Music -Animal Demos -Art Classes
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he Wild & Scenic Film Festival, presentedAPRIL by Main Street Pops and the Hoboken Business SATURDAY, 30TH -Green Artisan Market Alliance, will return to Hoboken live and in person on April 30, in conjunction with an outdoor Earth Day celebration.-Live The3-10PM free Music film festival will cap off an afternoon of commu770 Jackson Plaza, nity activities for all ages at 7th and Jackson Park. anHoboken, urban coastal city,NJ businesses in Hoboken -Animal“As Demos are particularly vulnerable to thewww.mainstreetpops.com effects of climate change. A sustainable future is inextricably Classes linked to the actions we take now.” says-Art James Runkle, President of the Hoboken Business Alliance.
Earth Day 3 toSATURDAY, 7 p.m.
APRIL 30TH
Earth Day events will begin at 3 p.m. Guests can shop at the Green Artisan Market, featur3-10PM ing local sustainable and up-cycled vendors; listen to live music by the Demolition String Band; and watch live, earth-inspired chalk art by Ezenwa. 770 Jackson Plaza, Hoboken, NJ They can also participate in nature-themed art classes for all ages with Urban Arts and an ocean-themed craft project with Sea Smart; watch a live beekeeping demonstration www.mainstreetpops.com with the Weehawken Bee Club; learn Composting 101 from the Hoboken Green Team; and take part in outdoor-adventure-themed exercise demos with Jane Do. The NJ Snake Man will host live snake, lizard and bird shows at 4, 5 and 6 p.m.
Film Festival 7 to 10 p.m. The film screenings will begin at 7 p.m. with a film panel moderated by Mile Square Theatre founder Chris O’Connor and featuring Mayor Ravi Bhalla, Melissa Gigante of the Hoboken Police Department, and the filmmakers from Hoboken’s Branding Shorts, which produced the award-winning Mile in the Eye, about the city’s response to the COVID pandemic. The panel discussion will be followed by a screening of the short film. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival will begin at 8 p.m. Themed “Inspiring Adventure,” it’s a 90-minute collection of uplifting short films that illustrate the earth’s beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work communities are doing to protect it. Guests who can’t stay for the films can register for free to watch them at home. Registrants will be emailed a video-on-demand link that will be active for seven days, beginning April 30. For more information or to register for the free video on demand link, visit MainStreetPops.com. 8
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WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL
2022
Inspiring Adventure My Last Day of Summer A young rider finds adventure in animation The Ghost An intimate portrait of famed through-hiker Heather Anderson Denizens of the Steep Explores the intersection of backcountry recreation and the conservation of an iconic species of big horn sheep in Grand Teton National Park DURGA: Forging a New Trail A young woman in Nepal changes societal and familial expectations for herself and future generations Maneuvers An experimental film combining skiing with stop-motion animation Can’t Beat This Place for Fun Flagstaff ’s Fretwater Boatworks defines the process of building Grand Canyon dories An Imperfect Advocate A jet-setting mountain climber becomes a climate-change activist Sea Gypsies: The Plutonium Dome An expedition to the birthplace of the nuclear age, a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean
