Celebrate Earth Day on April 26, 2025!!
Save the Date!! Maple Ridge’s Celebrate Earth Day festival is scheduled for Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 10am to 2pm at Memorial Peace Park in the heart of Maple Ridge.
Our 2025 Earth Day event theme is “Stories” – stories bring people together and connect us across time and distance. This year we highlight the Maple Ridge Library and the Maple Ridge Museum, who specialize in story sharing and connecting our community.
Sharing stories creates identity – when we see the world and ourselves reflected back to us, we feel less alone, more confident, and have the courage to act on our beliefs, to hope for a better future, to strive for a better world. Stories can be told in so many ways – through music & dance, visual art & tattoos, oral & written traditions…We ARE our stories. Come share yours and contribute a verse to the powerful, ongoing story of our Earth.
The Earth Day Poetry & Photo Contests are open NOW! Submit your poem, flash fiction, short video, or photos on this year’s Stories theme for your chance to win great prizes and be featured in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows NEWS. Deadline for entries is midnight on March 31, 2025. Select winners may be invited to share their work at Earth Day on April 26.
Celebrate Earth Day 2025 welcomes all community groups, environmental groups, green businesses, and residents to be part of our event! Sign up to have an interactive booth or activity, volunteer and meet other awesome people, or audition to be one of our performers.
Participant, Performer, & Volunteer registration forms available online at www.mrearthday.ca
If this will be your first Earth Day, don’t miss these always-popular activities:
FAMILY FREECYCLE:
In preparation for the Family Freecycle, the Family Education & Support Centre will be collecting donations of gently used books, toys, and clothing, including at a drop-off event from 5-7pm on Friday, April 25, the night before Earth Day, in front of the Leisure Centre. All items collected are sorted into sizes and categories, set out on tables in the Leisure Centre, and given away at the Earth Day event. We live in an abundant society – most people have too much “stuff” and are more than happy to give it away. Declutter your home then come to find something NEW to YOU!
At the Cycle Recycle, the local HUB Cycling group collects secondhand bikes, fixes them up, and gives them away in a free bike draw at Earth Day at 1:00pm. Many of the bikes were destined for the scrap heap at the Recycling Depot and HUB helps get both the bikes and residents back on the road.ELECTRIC VEHICLE DISPLAY & DEMONSTRATIONS:
Learn more about why the future is electric. Members of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association are more than happy to tell you about the different kinds of electric vehicles and you may even be able to go for a ride in an electric car!! If you are thinking of buying an electric vehicle, come and ask them all your questions!FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL:
Come hungry! The Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival staff have rounded up food trucks to satisfy your sweet, savoury, and any other hunger needs!
REPAIR CAFE:
Got broken stuff? Bring it to the Maple Ridge Repair Cafe, organized by Ridge Meadows Recycling Society, and learn how to fix it for FREE! Experienced Fixers will be on hand to assist with the repair or offer advice on all your sewing, electrical, carpentry, jewellery, or bike repair needs. Glue, tape, tools, sewing machines and more are available to use and TINKERbell Station will be set up for kids to get hands-on with tools, take stuff apart & learn how it works, build original creations, or just tinker! Want to just come check us out? No problem! Come have a cup of tea or coffee and enjoy the magic of repair.
Visit our Facebook page or www.mrearthday.ca
