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Earth Day in the Bay
April 21, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday, April 21
10am – 4pm
All ages, family-friendly.
For over 50 years we have set aside time in April to bring attention to the climate issues facing our home planet. Earth Day is also a time to highlight the different ways we are combating climate issues around the world. Discover more about local organizations helping to fight climate change here in the Bay Area through hands-on activities, guest speakers and more. This is an exciting way to be part of the solution and have fun while you’re doing it!
Spend the day learning about the different ways local organizations are helping conserve our home planet, Earth.
Event Schedule
Environmental Democracy Project
Mezzanine
10 AM-12 PM
Environmental Democracy Project is an environmental justice nonprofit organization based in East Oakland. EDP advocates on behalf of communities of color to address pollution from industrial facilities.
Sustainability with Berkeley Rep
Mezzanine
10 AM-4 PM
Dive into Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s sustainability efforts and enter a chance to win four tickets to their upcoming world premiere musical, Galileo!
Build an Air Bee-n-Bee
Mezzanine
10 AM-4 pm
Join Chabot Galaxy Explorers to build your own beehive! Using materials you can find and reuse in your own house, craft a cozy home to help support some of Planet Earth’s best pollinators, bees!
Climate Wiz: Spin-the-Wheel to Play the Climate Quiz
Mezzanine
10 AM-4 PM
Learn how working with a team to make Oakland tree-planting equitable, showing Oakland homeowners how to electrify their homes, or lobbying Congress or the California legislature to prioritize climate can substitute climate blues with climate action!
Hike Sign-Ups + Discover Redwoods
Rotunda
10 AM-4 PM
Learn about the lifecycle of our beloved California Coast Redwoods and sign up for a hike through the forest surrounding Chabot! 30-minute hikes will meet at the Front Circle and depart at 11:30am and 2:45pm today.
Climate Coloring Sheets with CCAC Fellows
Rotunda
10 AM-4 PM
Join us for a fun coloring activity to visualize the world we want to live in. It’s a place to imagine roads filled with electric cars and homes warmed by heat pumps, families cooking breakfast on induction stoves with power supplied by community solar.
Resource & Seed Library
Rotunda
10 AM-4 PM
Enjoy free resources from our partner orgs working at the forefront of local climate action, and take home a packet of seeds to plant in your backyard, on your patio, or at your local community garden!
Art by Dream
Cafe
10 AM-4 PM
Join artist Dream Campbell to see how she makes her digital art, and check out original pieces for sale and on display! Dream is a sophomore at Skyline High School, and can be found on Instagram at @digital.dreamist.
Solar-Powered Printmaking
Courtyard
10 AM-4 PM
Cyanotype printing is a form of art-making that uses leaves, flowers, and the sun to create beautiful artwork that you can take home and display!
Trashy Crafting
Lab 2
10 AM-4 PM
Reused, recycled, and found materials are some of the best tools a crafter can use! Join us for an open crafting session making beautiful and creative art projects using recycled materials. Spare the landfill, let’s get crafting! Happening all day long in Lab 2.
Compost & Worm Giveaway
Courtyard
10 AM – While Supplies Lasts
Got worms? Head over to the Courtyard to get free compost & Red Wriggler worms to start your composting journey in your own backyard!
We Can Fix It! Repair Lab
Classroom 2
10:30 AM-12 PM
Sit down with a CCAC fellow and learn about how to fix or reuse your broken items instead of putting them in a garbage can! Find out about the cool community re-use resources and tinker with some neat broken things that you’re also welcome to re-home.
Big Astronomy
Planetarium
11 AM
(26min) People, Places, Discoveries explores three observatories located in Chile, at extreme and remote places. It gives examples of the multitude of STEM careers needed to keep the great observatories working. The show is narrated by Barbara Rojas-Ayala, a Chilean astronomer.
Fun with Fog
Inner Loggia
11 AM-1 PM
The Bay Area’s dense, rolling fog is so famous that it has its own name: Karl. How does this phenomenon form, when are we likely to see (and feel!) Karl in our local skies, and can we harvest fog’s moisture to mitigate California’s droughts? Explore these questions and more with Chabot Educators at our Fog Demo.
Forest & Field Diaries: Hike in the Redwoods
11:30 AM
Join Chabot Educators for a short, 30-minute hike into neighboring Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park. Start your very own Field Diary and discover how to identify and catalogue the fabulous flora & fauna that surround us right here in Oakland! Water and comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
How Green Is Your School? with OUSD
Theater
11:30 PM-12 PM
Viewers will learn about the “How Green Is Your School?” project and see drone footage of Oakland Schools with music made by students. Come learn when your school will join the project!
Passport to the Universe
Planetarium
12 PM
(19min) Fly beneath the rings of Saturn, float through the heart of the Orion Nebula, and plunge into a black hole during this captivating introduction to cosmology. Passport to the Universe explores humanity’s place in the cosmos, bringing audiences on an unforgettable journey from Earth all the way to the edge of the observable universe.
Nature Scavenger Hunt
Observation Deck
1 PM-3 PM
I spy with my little eye… a redwood tree! What can you spot and identify? Tucked into two Regional Parks, Chabot is an excellent location to spot all kinds of plants, animals, and other natural organisms. Head to the Observation Deck to help us spot and identify all kinds of cool stuff living in the Parks around us!
Einstein’s Gravity Playlist
Planetarium
1 PM
(23min) Einstein’s Gravity Playlist is an original planetarium show that explores the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, and a century later, scientists detected these waves using incredibly precise laser technology here on Earth. In this show, viewers follow Lucia, a PhD student in physics, on an exploration of how gravitational waves are formed, how they move through the universe, and how scientists like her work to hear them.
Green Hip-Hop: Live Performance with School of Rap, Planet MC, and Kieko
Theater
1 PM-1:30 PM
Join Planet MC, Kieko, and students at the School of Rap and get down to some eco-grooves! Afterwards, stick around to help write a song for Earth Day in the Bay!
Skyline High Student Projects
Inner Loggia
1:30 PM-4 PM
Join students from Skyline High School as they share what they’re working on in their APES and Sustainable Systems classes!
Make-Your-Own Wildflower Seed Bombs with CCAC Fellows
Courtyard
1:30 PM- While Supplies Last
Seed bombs have a rich history beginning in ancient Japan, where they were originally known as Tsuchi Dango – “Earth Dumplings!” Re-popularized in the 1970s with the “Guerilla Gardening” movement, these little guys pack a punch when it comes to urban greening. Join fellows from the California Climate Action Corps to make your own out of a mixture of compost, clay, and California native wildflower seeds!
Compost and Composing: Eco-Beats Workshop with School of Rap, Planet MC, and Kieko
Theater
1:30 PM-2 PM
Check out Planet MC and Kieko’s new songs for Earth Day! Participants of all ages write lyrics about Earth Day to make songs on beats made by Oakland’s School of Rap club. Let’s make eco rap together!
Inspired by Space
Planetarium
2 PM
(32min) Astronomy discoveries and art often go hand in hand. See through the eyes of pioneers in space exploration: astronomers who’ve dared to draw what they saw. We’ll take a look at how art inspires future scientific discovery, and how scientific discovery inspires art. With an expert guide and cutting-edge astronomical visuals, the Cosmos 360 series reveals the workings of the Universe from new perspectives.
Earth Day Trivia
Theater
2:30 PM-3 PM
Come one, come all for a very special Earth Day gameshow at Chabot! Try your knowledge of our planet, win fun prizes, and discover new fun facts about this beautiful blue planet we call home.
Fabulous Fauna Hike
2:45 PM
Join Chabot Educators for a short, 30-minute hike into neighboring Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park. Learn to identify ferns, flowers, fairy rings, and other forest fauna, as we explore together a rich ecosystem in our own backyard. Water and comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
The Home Galaxy
Planetarium
3 PM
(33min) It’s been called a river in the sky, a Tree of Life, a celestial spine, and even a spray of mother’s milk, but since Galileo made the telescopic discovery that it is made of countless hosts of stars and mysterious, dark, brooding clouds, we have come to know the Milky Way as our galactic home among the cosmos. Come and explore Via Lactea, the Milky Way, from its sprawling spiral arms to the ultimate heart of darkness, the supermassive black hole that resides at its center.
