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Earthrise Climate Action Festival
October 11th, 11am - 9pm
Experience the beauty of our local environment and explore the power of science, art, and faith to heal our world!
At 5pm, join our panelists Dr. Christena Cleveland and Victor Villaseñor for an inspiring conversation about the future of faith in these changing times.
Dr. Christena Cleveland
Dr. Christena Cleveland is a weaver of Black liberation and the Divine Feminine, who embraces the archetype of the Black Madonna as she guides people of all races and genders into freedom, wholeness, and embodied justice.
Learn more about Dr. Cleveland here!
Victor Villaseñor
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Earthrise offers workshops, crafts, nature walks, food, and performances for guests of all ages. Expand your imagination on the beautiful Harbor Christian Church campus located across from the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Preserve.
Ecology and Environment
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Learning from a local beekeeper
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Exploring the Back Bay as you learn how you can help rehabilitate its important ecosystem
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Being guided around Harbor campus to learn about how this unique community is giving its land back to Native plants
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Learning about Native plants and pollinators and just how important they are to our ecosystem.
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And planting seeds that symbolize our hope for a future that is as colorful as our Earthrise community!
Food and Tradition
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Tasting Prickly Pear and nopal as you learn about their cultural and ecological importance.
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Preparing foods that are significant in the Muslim tradition.
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Learning about traditionally Jewish food and culture.
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Enjoy the amazing food throughout the day that will be provided by local food trucks!
Arts and Expression
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Exploring the arts of cyanotype, wreathmaking, and collage with local artists.
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Receiving a personal climate poem by local poet Brian Sonia-Wallace.
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Enjoying a theatrical production of Beauty and the Beast.
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Exploring the religious arts of calligraphy and water-marbling with Muslim representatives of the WUICAN Interfaith group.
Learning and Inspiration
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Being inspired by our local youth as they discuss the importance of caring for the earth.
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Understanding the unique needs of those living with disabilities in a fast-changing climate.
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Learning about the painful history of the Doctrine of Discovery from an Indigenous perspective.
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Listening to the stories of local people who are working to improve their own communities.
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Learning how to be prepared as we face new climate challenges.
Earthrise Experiences
Click on the organizations' name to learn more!
Food Truck links and their information
blurb about earthrise passport
Event Schedule
11:00am
Harbor Christian Church
Land Tending Ministry: Native Plants
Front Parking Lot, look for Caroline
11:00am
GREEN-MPNA
Sagrado y Sostenible: Crear alimentos a partir de los nopales / Sacred and Sustainable: Prickly Pear as a Cultural Food
Harbor Kitchen
12:00pm
UCHRI with New Swan Shakespeare Center
Shakespeare & Climate
Sanctuary
12:00pm
Pacifica Institute
Cooking Class
Harbor Kitchen
12:00pm
Newport Bay Conservancy
Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve Restoration
Front Parking Lot, look for Heather
12:00pm
GREEN-MPNA
Community Storytelling: Madison Park Mural Project
Living Coast Ministry Center, large room
1:00pm
PMMC
Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Living Coast Ministry, large room
1:00pm
UCI, School of Humanities
Beekeeping
Front lawn
1:00pm
Laguna Canyon Foundation
Planting creativity: cyanotype printing with native plants
Ackelson Patio
1:00pm
Harbor Christian Church
Climate Grief Ritual
Living Coast Ministry, small room
1:00pm
Jewish Collective OC
Cooking Class
Harbor Kitchen
1:15pm
UCI, School of Humanities and local youth
Youth Climate Action
Sanctuary
2:00pm
Laguna Canyon Foundation
Wreaths for the Wild: Creating with Native Plants for Climate Awareness
Front lawn
2:00pm
Cooking Class
Pcifica Institute
Harbor Kitchen
2:00pm
WUICAN Climate Science & Education Workstream
Climate Superhero
Living Coast Ministry Center, large room
2:00pm
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
The Doctrine of Discovery: Understanding the Roots of Violence Against People and Place
Front lawn
3:00pm
Harbor Christian Church
Disability Inclusive Climate Action
Living Coast Ministry Center, small room
3:00pm
Research Justice Shop
Cyanotype Workshop
Front lawn
Throughout
The Day
Laguna Canyon Foundation
Sowing the Seeds of the Future with the Laguna Canyon Foundation Nursery
Front lawn
Throughout The Day
UCI, School of Humanities
Typewriter Poetry
Breezeway
Throughout The Day
Irvine Ranch Conservancy and Allison Lab (UCI)
Local Pollinators
Breezeway
Throughout the day
OC Environmental Justice
People for Environmental Justice - Emergency Preparedness
Breezeway
Throughout the day
Harbor Christian Church
Imagining a New World through the Art of Collage
Breezeway/Children’s Sanctuary
Links to mc and Kelly Brown
*This event is sponsored by the Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network (WUICAN, pronounced “we can”), a consortium of community-based organizations, California Native American Tribes, land managers and universities in Southern California working together to address the climate crisis.