GREEN MAN FESTIVAL 2012
Honoring Earth Through Music, Art and Science
Roosevelt Center in Historic Greenbelt
Gardens
Messages from Mother Earth
Call for Entries
Visual Artists, Poets and Writers
All ages are invited to become part of the Green Man Festival, for a two month long exhibit at the New Deal Cafe during May and June, 2012.
This year's theme of gardens from Mother Earth asks you to connect your senses and imagination to all kinds of messages about our world. They can be found in small spaces tucked away on windowsills, in yards, at the edge of dense forests, along riverbanks or beside lakes--wherever the Green Man goes-- even on a walk around your neighborhood in what is green and growing.
When you discover one of Mother Earth's gardens--ask how she is doing. Is she hopeful? Colorful and fragrant? Peaceful? Does she welcome the wild things and invite fairies? Perhaps she simply needs your help.
By including materials such as recycled glass, nontoxic paints, organic fabrics and dyes, mosaics, crayons, pencils or other goods, make some Earth friendly art about what Mother Earth has to say. Poetry and stories printed on recycled paper, or pages from a journal are possibilities. Perhaps photography or a terrarium will become her voice without words.
Click here for instructions for submitting art and to get involved!
Come join us rain or shine for two days of music, vendors, crafts, environmental awareness, food, and fun in beautiful downtown Greenbelt, Maryland.
Greenbelt's Seventh Annual Green Man Festival is a celebration of Greenbelt's commitment to preserve its acres of forests and to honor this green Earth by choosing wisely and acting locally.
Festival activities will reconnect us to the folklore of ancient civilizations through science, art, music and myth by featuring many local artists, musicians and performers from Maryland as well as other parts of the country.
The Green Man Festival became a project of CHEARS in 2008. CHEARS, the Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the health of all who share the Chesapeake watershed environment. For more information go to the CHEARS website.