Join Caroline C. Kaufmann, Elder Chair and leader of the Land Tending Ministry at Harbor Christian Church, to learn about our land transition on campus. The 90 minute session will include a quiet sit, a tour of our campus efforts, a brief lecture on the scientific and scriptural need to grow native plants, the opportunity to plant some native plants on our campus as well as take some home to your home garden.

This hands-on workshop will highlight the cultural and ecological significance of the nopal as a symbol of resilience and sustainable living. Participants will learn about nopales as a sustainable cultural food practice. Facilitators will highlight nopales (prickly pear cactus) as an indigenous and cultural food source for Native and Colonial California as well as its use in culinary dishes in Mexican immigrant communities. Facilitation will be in English and Spanish.

Hello! I’m Joey Relaford-Doyle (she/they), an analog collage artist based in Southern California. I am so excited to be a part of the Earthrise Festival! I began making art in 2020, initially seeking a way to communicate things that I found hard to put into words. Since then, I have been continually surprised by the way art-making has sparked my own self discovery, trust in my imagination, and feelings of empowerment. I can’t wait to share my experiences (and make art together!) at Earthrise.

Anaheim’s Poet Laureate Camille Hernandez is creating recycled poetry through blackout erasure. You’ll leave learning new ways to recycle old words to tell your story.

The story of Beauty and the Beast is both timeless and timely. The Beast's transformation and seclusion represents humanity's isolation from the natural world, while Belle finds beauty and seeks value beyond social norms. The enchanted rose represents the vulnerability of the natural world. In this workshop-demonstration, director Annie Loui and actors from UC Irvine will share scenes from their recent production of "La Belle et La Bete," followed by a movement workshop for participants of all ages.

Learn how to prepare flavorful lentil balls and a creamy eggplant salad with a zesty twist. This workshop highlights fresh, plant-based ingredients that come together in simple, satisfying recipes

Spend an hour with a Newport Bay Conservancy Naturalist guide on a walking tour to our Lower Constellation Restoration site. Get an interpretive, up-close look at the habitats of the Bay that feature native and endangered species, as well as information about wildlife, native history, geology and ongoing restoration efforts. Learn how to install native plants and take community-based restoration into your own hands!

This interactive workshop focuses on community storytelling and community knowledge. The workshop holds space for 10 Santa Ana residents to share their participation in the Madison Park Mural Project. Climate burdened communities have played a vital role in shaping just climate futures. This workshop emphasizes how resources play a vital role in how climate action is taken. 10 facilitators will be assisting printmaking of the Jacaranda or Marigold flowers found along the Madison Park Neighborhood in Southeast Santa Ana. This activity provides a visual representation of environmental justice through storytelling with participants co-creating a mural.

This hands-on workshop will highlight the cultural and ecological significance of the nopal as a symbol of resilience and sustainable living. Participants will learn about nopales as a sustainable cultural food practice. Facilitators will highlight nopales (prickly pear cactus) as an indigenous and cultural food source for Native and Colonial California as well as its use in culinary dishes in Mexican immigrant communities. Facilitation will be in English and Spanish.

Pacific Marine Mammal Center is a marine mammal hospital that covers the 52 miles of Orange County, with a mission to inspire ocean stewardship through animal rescue and rehabilitation, medical research, STEM education programs, and advocacy for a healthy ocean. Join the team to learn more about PMMC’s efforts and how our patients are sentinels of the sea, which help us understand the challenges our ocean faces. These amazing animals and their stories remind us that we can all make a difference for the ocean we share.

Come meet the Gibson Family of OC Beekeeping and Hapa Honey, producers of the most award-winning honey in Southern California! Known for their organic and sustainable hive practices, they are passionate about bees, honey, and community. Bill runs OC Beekeeping, a local beekeeping shop dedicated to supporting beekeepers, while his wife Laurie manages the honey side of the business. Their sons, Gavin (16) and Grady (almost 10), have been beekeeping for more than half their lives and play an active role in caring for the family hives, teaching others, and inspiring the next generation of beekeepers. Together, the Gibsons lead educational programs, host outreach events, and run hands-on beekeeping internships. This year they launched the OC Beekeeping Mentorship Program, filling a gap by providing the accurate, practical mentoring beekeepers need. 1. A general explanation of why beekeeping is important for the climate. What is the role of bees in our food system, for example? How does the climate impact this? 2. Some discussion of how those not interested in beekeeping can still support the local bee population. 3. Fun facts about bees, targeting the younger people in the audience. 4. His two sons, who are 10 and 14, will be involved in the presentation as well, and will likely hold a "how to spot the queen" part of the presentation, bringing queen bees around to the audience.

Thistle be the best craft ever! Native plants are key to fighting increasing global carbon output and the effects of climate change, and they help us connect to natural ecosystems that have lived in Southern California for thousands of years too. Join naturalists from Laguna Canyon Foundation to learn about some of our amazing native plants and use them to create sun-activated art prints of your own design. Everyone has an artist inside them – let's find yours together with this fun, accessible activity for plant lovers of all ages!

To feel the grief of the Earth is to remember that we belong to it. This ritual invites us to sit with ecological loss, ancestral sorrow, and the love that persists through it all. Through tears, reflection, and embodied presence, we’ll call in love, speak to what’s been lost, and listen for what still asks for our care. Together, we’ll tend an altar of remembrance and become a village of feeling hearts.

This panel features youth activists (Livi and Kevin Li from Sunrise OC, ) in Orange County addressing issues like stopping the climate crisis, investing in racial and economic justice, and reimagining government by and for the people. This panel and Q&A is moderated by Nora Brown, 9th grader at Costa Mesa High School.

Join eco-poet Nancy Lynée Woo and Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate ambassador(s) to have your own custom poem handwritten (or created on a typewriter!) using an earth tarot deck to create ekphrastic, future-oriented poems. Come away with prompts for your own writing!

Come connect with nature and creativity! Join educators from Laguna Canyon Foundation for a hands-on program where you’ll explore the beauty and importance of our native plants while learning the art of wreath-making. Discover the unique plant species that call this region home and find out why protecting one of California’s rarest plant communities matters now more than ever.

Discover how to make light, nourishing dishes like hearty lentil soup and a refreshing yogurt-cucumber dip. In this interactive class, you’ll explore simple recipes that are both delicious and easy to recreate at home.

Discover how nature’s superheroes—plants and animals—adapt to wildfires, pollution, drought, and more. Then, let their powers inspire you as you create your own Climate Superhero alter ego in this fun, hands-on art workshop! Before you go, share your climate change superpower on our collaborative mural and show how small collective actions can lead to big change.

This one hour event will focus on the role that the Doctrine of Discovery has had on the violence against people and place in the United States. We will discuss the ways that the doctrine has endorsed, supported and grown extractive economies around the world and the links these extractive economies have to our current climate crisis. Naming and addressing these links is the first step in the process of repudiating the doctrine of discovery and working toward repairing the harms caused by this philosophy--including the harms to lands, waters, and non-human relatives.

This session will highlight the perspectives, needs, and contributions of people with disabilities, who are disproportionately affected by climate change, in the development of climate solutions. The session will build the capacity of attendees to incorporate disability-inclusive priorities in their climate action program planning and design. The session will feature Andrew Berk, ADA coordinator at UC Irvine. This session, like all of the indoor sessions, is wheelchair accessible. If you have any accessibility needs, including but not limited to communication support such as ASL interpretation, please contact Rae Hower at rachelhower@gmail.com at least 5 days prior to the event to ensure we have time to make arrangements, which we are happy to do.

In this 2 hour-long interactive session, participants will learn the cyanotype (aka “sun print”) process and collectively create a visual map (similar to a blueprint) of native and non-native flora collected from Wildland Urban Interface sites and locales associated with the wider network. The plant specimens will be collected by artists Audrey Snyder and Joe Riley in collaboration with UC Irvine’s Research Justice Shop. Participants will have an opportunity to create and exchange individual, postcard-scale cyanotype prints, (~5” x 7” sheets) to take away from the workshop.

Please join us for an interfaith liturgy celebrating the four elements, Water, Air, Fire, and Earth, and enjoy performances by Pragya Jain (Jain Center of Southern California) and the Pacifica Sufi Music Ensemble (Pacifica Institute).

Sow the seeds of the future with the LCF Nursery! Laguna Canyon Foundation is excited to bring the nursery to the WUICAN Climate Action Festival by kicking off our fall native seed sowing! Explore different native plant seeds, engage in a hands-on seed sowing demonstration, and plant the seeds of the future to care for at home!

Irvine Ranch Conservancy in collaboration with the Allison Lab at UC Irvine will host a fun booth highlighting important local pollinators along with native and non-native plants. We will have a fun booth with games and prizes to win!

As climate change continues to worsen, our communities in Orange County are becoming increasingly susceptible to extreme weather events including fires and extreme heat. Join OCEJ in learning how you can prepare your household and neighborhood for extreme weather events and get started on preparing your emergency kit with us! Let's prepare together!