Get your Earth Day celebration started early with back to back documentaries being shown free Wednesday, April 18 at Evans Hall #114 on the Texas State campus. At 5 p.m. “Switch” focuses on our nation’s energy future with regard to renewable energy and fossil fuels. At 7 p.m. “Bag It” investigates the effects of plastic waste and ways it can be reduced through local action.
Then Thursday is National Bike to School Day so dust off that Schwinn and keep an eye out for the kiddos. At 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 19, school children will sing and more than 100 butterflies raised by local students will be released into the trees and plants at Seton Medical Center Hays in Kyle, to herald the annual Wimberley Butterfly Festival which takes place on Saturday.
On Friday, Wimberley’s St. Stephen’s School is hosting an Earth Day celebration called Not So Creepy Critters from 1-2:30 p.m.
On Saturday, start your Earth Day off right helping to beautify Kyle’s newest park with landscaping and tree planting activities from 9 a.m.-noon at Lake Kyle Park and Preserve. Then head south to the Tye Preston Library in Canyon Lake from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. for an Earth Day 2012 celebration featuring more than 40 exhibits and displays including face painting, a fossil dig, Birding 101, rainwater catchment demonstrations and an animal skins and skulls exhibit.
Then head west to the 14th annaul Butterfly Festival, a free family fun event for all ages at the EmilyAnn Theatre in Wimberley. The festival includes the release of 3000 butterflies, games and activities, live entertainment, art and vendors from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Opening ceremonies at the Veterans Memorial Plaza with a commemorative Air Force flyover.
To end the day, a spring night under Texas stars at the Corral is just what Mother Earth ordered. The outdoor theater will be screening “Monumental,” a film following Sierra Club founder David Brower and his fight to preserve the American Wilds, the spiritual connection between humans and the great outdoors and the moral obligation to preserve what is left of the world’s natural wonders. $10. Bring cushions and blankets, wine and beer. Desserts, snacks and beverages available. Civil twilight (8:30 p.m.) Corral Theatre, 100 Flite Acres Road, Wimberley.
