DSC students and photography museum to celebrate Earth Day

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (April 14, 2015) - Mother Earth will be the center of attention when Daytona State College clubs and student organizations celebrate Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Daytona Beach Campus, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.

“This will be an exciting event that will help promote kindness to our planet,” said Lori Lemoine of DSC’s Office of Co-Curricular Activities. “The engagement by our student clubs and organizations has been outstanding. It’s quite apparent that DSC students see the importance of promoting environmental awareness.”

The student groups will set up booths to help raise awareness about such earth-nurturing practices as recycling old cell phones, reducing energy consumption, composting, making environmentally safe beauty products, cleaners and pesticides, reducing water consumption, planting trees and wildflowers, solar power and urban farming, to name just a few. Music, food and vendors will be on hand, as well, all focused around a theme of conservation and sustainability.

The event also will feature a visit by Critter Encounters Wildlife Rescue, a non-profit group that takes in unwanted, neglected and confiscated wildlife and exotic animals that cannot be released back into nature.

The celebration is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Lemoine at (386) 506-3486 or LemoinL@DaytonaState.edu.

In addition, Daytona State’s Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP) offers a series of movies honoring the Earth Day theme. Open to all, the showings start at 12:30 p.m. in the Madorsky Theater in the Hosseini Center. See calendar listings below:

April 22, 12:30 p.m.
EARTH DAY FILM SERIES
Join us for this special film series that celebrates the 44th annual Earth Day event. Presenting provocative films that illustrate some of today's most critical environmental issues. Admission by donation.
Tapped, directed by Stephanie Soechtig, Jason Lindsey (USA, 2009) 76 min.
Daytona Beach Campus, Hosseini Center, SMP, Madorsky Theater
1200 W. Int'l. Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach
For more information, call (386) 506-4475 or visit www.smponline.org.

April 22, 2 p.m.
EARTH DAY FILM SERIES
Join us for this special film series that celebrates the 44th annual Earth Day event. Presenting provocative films that illustrate some of today's most critical environmental issues. Admission by donation.
dirt!, directed by Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow (USA, 2009) 86 min.
Daytona Beach Campus, Hosseini Center, SMP, Madorsky Theater
1200 W. Int'l. Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach
For more information, call (386) 506-4475 or visit www.smponline.org.

April 22, 3:30 p.m.
EARTH DAY FILM SERIES
Join us for this special film series that celebrates the 44th annual Earth Day event. Presenting provocative films that illustrate some of today's most critical environmental issues. Admission by donation.
More Than Honey, directed by Markus Imhoof (Switzerland, 2012) 95 min.
Daytona Beach Campus, Hosseini Center, SMP, Madorsky Theater
1200 W. Int'l. Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach
For more information, call (386) 506-4475 or visit www.smponline.org.

April 22, 7 p.m.
EARTH DAY FILM SERIES
Join us for this special film series that celebrates the 44th annual Earth Day event. Presenting provocative films that illustrate some of today's most critical environmental issues. Admission by donation.
Avatar, directed by James Cameron (USA/UK, 2009) 161 min.
Daytona Beach Campus, Hosseini Center, SMP, Madorsky Theater
1200 W. Int'l. Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach
For more information, call (386) 506-4475 or visit www.smponline.org.

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