IPH’s Community Impact Film Series: Charlotte Earth Day

“OUR POWER, OUR PLANET”

Saturday, April 11, 2025 | 8:30am – 3pm | FREE

IPH’s Community Impact Film Series sparks dialogue and builds bridges between people and organizations through the power of film.

Charlotte’s annual Earth Day celebration brings together community members to celebrate our environment, engage families with fun educational activities, foster lifelong connections with nature, and connect attendees with environmentally conscious organizations and businesses from the Charlotte area.

Charlotte Earth Day is open to all members of the community, including children and their families, young adults, educators, and everyone passionate about sustainability. The event will feature dozens of exhibitors representing Charlotte-based organizations and businesses.

• 8:30am – 11am
  Plugged In presents EV Cars & Coffee, hosted by 88’s Coffee & Cocktails
• 10am – 11am
  Resource Fair

Resource Fair Organizations

• • 100 Gardens
  • ASC Greenway
  • Black Girl Environmentalist
  • Christians Caring for Creation (C3)
  • Citizens’ Climate Lobby
  • City of Charlotte City Arborist Team
  • CleanAIRE NC
  • Charlotte Mecklenburg Climate
  • Charlotte Mecklenburg NAACP
  • Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Access Corporation
  • GreenFaith
  • Mecklenburg County Air Quality
  • NC Conservation Network
  • NoDa NBA Greenification Committee
  • PBS: Rootle Kids
  • Sierra Club
  • Sustain Charlotte
  • Transforming Nations Ford
  • TreesCharlotte NC
• 11am – 11:20am
  PBS NC Presentation
• 11:20am – 11:30am
  Introduction – Eboné M. Lockett, Harvesting Humanity
• 11:30am – 12pm
  Poetry Response featuring Glenis Redmond
  Glenis Redmond is Greenville, South Carolina’s inaugural Poet Laureate and a 2025 recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest civilian honor. This award is bestowed by the Governor in recognition of a lifetime of extraordinary achievement, service, and contributions on a national or statewide scale. She received the 2025 Highlights Foundation Inspire Scholarship and is a Baldwin Fellow (2024–2025). In 2023, she was selected as a Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets. Glenis has also been named a Citizen Diplomat by the Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center. Glenis earned her B.A. from Erskine College, her M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College, and is a Cave Canem alumna.
• 12pm – 1pm | Segment #1
  Four Short Environmental Awareness Films + Panel Discussion
• Panelist: Jeff Siebert, Ethan Blumenthal, MaryAnn Sanders, Daisha Wall, Sam Feming
• 1pm – 1:10pm | Break
• 1:15pm – 2:15pm | Segment #2
  Four Short Environmental Awareness Films + Panel Discussion
• Panelist: Maya Espinsoa, Jeff Siebert, Ebone’ Lockett, Alesha Ray
• 2:15pm – 3pm
  Exhibitors Fair
• 11am – 3pm
  Carolina Farm Trust Food Truck

*Join us on Sunday, April 12th, for a nature walk at Anne Springs Close Greenway (2201 Old Nation Road, Fort Mill, SC 29715).

This series is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Kathryn & Luke Kissam, along with funding from:

Thank you to our event partners.