2026 Charlotte Earth Day Celebration, April 11, 2026
10 am-11 am Resource Fair
10:30 am: Welcome/Opening Remarks
11 am-11:30 am PBS NC Presentations: Rootle Roadster Program (inside)
The Rootle Roadster Tour is one of the ways PBS brings its mission to educate, engage, and inspire individuals to life by traveling to communities across North Carolina to provide families with PBS KIDS resources and Playful Learning opportunities.
11:30-12:00 pm Response Featuring Glen’s 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.
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Segment #1 Four Short Environmental Awareness Films + Panel Discussion
1 pm-1:10 pm Break
1:15-2:15 pm Segment #2 Four Short Environmental Awareness Films and Panel Discussion
2:15-3:00 pm Exhibitors Fair
11:00 am – 3 pm Carolina Farm Trust Food Truck
Note: All inside events will take place in Theatre #4 of the Independent Picture House