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Conn College Earth Day celebration includes vendors, events and music, April 22

April 12, 2006

For immediate release - April 12, 2006 Contact: Nina Lentini (860) 439-2505; nina.lentini@conncoll.edu

Connecticut College Earth Day celebration includes vendors, events and music on April 22

NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College will celebrate Earth Day with earth-friendly events, music and vendors on Saturday, April 22, on the College Green. The public is invited to attend these free events, which will take place in the 1962 Room of the College Center at Crozier-Williams if it rains.

The event schedule is as follows:

• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., children's storytelling with Kathy Dame, assistant director of the Connecticut College Arboretum

• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., tours of the arboretum

• Noon to 1 p.m., Mystic Paper Beasts Theatre Co. performance of original and re-told dreams and myths of transformation expressed through humor and dance while wearing witty and whimsical masks.   • 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Tom Callinan's "Environmental Hootenanny," participatory songs and stories about human interaction with the natural world by the celebrated folksinger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and activist.   • 3 p.m., drumming class with Jerry Ziegler, a musician in the college's dance department

• 10 p.m. to midnight, campus bands perform

• Midnight to 2 a.m., Stolen Records perform, Cro's Nest in the College Center at Crozier-Williams. This Boston-based band performs a mix of rock, reggae and ska, according to event organizers.

Vendors will be set up from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., including Toms of Maine, Sleepy Moon Soaps, The Beadmeister: Mel Jonassen (bead sales), Clothworks, Willimantic Food Co-Op and Tumbleweeds. Among the information tables will be the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Flavours of Life, the New London Green Party, the Sierra Club, the Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone, Mystic Aquarium, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, as well as Connecticut College clubs and organizations, including Sprout! (organic garden initiative), MEAT (Motivated for Ethical Animal Treatment), WCNI (college radio station), Connecticut College Democrats and CC Left.

 Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 42 states and 41 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 84-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.

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