Fountain Of Youth In Healdsburg Plaza

 Healdsburg High School's Progressive Club is hosting the Ninth Annual Earth Day Festival in Healdsburg’s downtown Plaza.

The event is this Saturday, April 23, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“This is our ninth Earth Day Festival and one of our biggest to date,” said Rebel Fagan, teacher. 

Entertainment will include local artists and area bands.

It will be many of the same groups that played at at the high school recently.

Please see the attached video, below, of The Ukelele Band.

Also playing will be The Tropes, Hoytus and One Love, Danza Azteca Xantoll, Happy Accident, Canine-Feline, The Devin Menzies Experience, Attila Nagy, poets, bagpipes and more! 

“This has proven to be a great alternative outlet for the students and a fun one at that.” Said Robert Lee, Healdsburg High School teacher. “The goal of this event is to raise awareness of many social and environmental issues that this club and youth in general see as their greatest challenges in the years ahead.

"This is a great environment to see how this youthful group is planning on raising social awareness regarding these issues," Fagan said.

The theme for this event is to educate, empower and act. The goal is to educate people and to empower them to take action against a wide variety of issues.

To that end, many environmental and social justice speakers will be there on Earth Day to raise awareness.

Speakers will include:

--Media analyst and social critic Norman Solomon;

--Project  Censored, an investigative journalistic organization;

--The Green Challenge's representative Veronica Jacobi;

--The Immigrants Rights Committee speaker Davin Cardenas;

--Russian River activists speaking about the wild salmon habitat;

--Sonoma County supervisor

As well as the speakers, there will be over 30 booths from various community organizations. There will be a bake sale, a silent auction, an art and science show and Mother Earth face painting for all of the children that attend. 

UKELELE ORCHESTRA VIDEO