EARTH DAY ONLINE FESTIVAL 2020 - 22nd April to 24th April/ India to Global

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There’s talk that the earth is healing...birds, peacocks, dolphins, elephants, deer and other animals are roaming free in previously human habitats and their own. Pollution levels have gone down in many parts of India and the world...no vehicles on the road, no planes in the air. The skies are clear, the flowers are blooming, the trees are shining green, the breeze is gentle and fragrant. There’s no noise, no factory pollutants in the rivers and no polluting footprints on earth.
There’s talk that the earth is healing...Many humans are on the streets, homeless or walking far away to their homes..jobs are lost and there is no money to feed the mouth. There is anxiousness, stress, fear, helpless around-mental, emotional, physical and economic distress has come to the home ground.
There’s talk that the earth is healing...Human beings are staying and working from home. Spending time with family, doing household chores, cooking and eating together, playing and watching movies, listening to news or spending mobile screen time, making fitness a daily routine, practising yoga, mindfulness and meditation each day.
There’s talk that the earth is healing...While hunger, illness and death looms around, empathy and compassion abounds. Doctors, nurses, care givers, relief workers, citizens, homemakers, children, colleagues and strangers are supporting stray animals and human beings to survive. Essential service providers, security guards, police and municipal workers are braving all odds to control the pandemic that has taken over the earth. Leaders are protecting and ‘unprotecting’, managing, failing and succeeding - through governance of all types. A virus has come home...but the fight is on, to keep it out.
22 April is Earth Day and the 2020 theme is Climate Action. Strangely, the corona virus has acted to create an ‘action’ of its own kind.
Let’s come together and make a collective expression of what Earth Day means to us this time around. Inviting you to share #stayhomeexpressions as below:
  • Click a PHOTOGRAPH
  • Write a POEM
  • Make a PAINTING
on what embodies for you “THE EARTH IN LOCKDOWN”
OPEN FOR ALL AGE GROUPS AND GENDERS FROM ACROSS INDIA AND THE WORLD!
Share your #lockdownexpressions on this page to create a COLLECTIVE ONLINE CELEBRATION AND PLEDGE FOR OUR EARTH and US...all living beings, for the present and the future. For the normal and the new normal. For this and the next generation. For today, yesterday and tomorrow.
All expressions will be collated and put up as an Earth Day 2020 collage on our social media pages and other media/ institutional channels nationally and internationally.
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