The Earth Day Indiana Festival moves to White River State Park in 2010

Growing interest in the environment, more and better exhibits and larger crowds left the Earth Day Indiana board of directors with an important question: Where do we go from here?

The Earth Day Indiana Festival moves in 2010 to White River State Park in downtown Indianapolis. Plans are in place to host the event at the site for at least the next four years.

White River State Park provides space for the festival to grow in an area surrounded by some of central Indiana's best tourist attractions — the Indianapolis Zoo, Indiana State Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, NCAA Museum and the Indianapolis Indians.

Exhibits will be displayed on celebration plaza (number 14 on the map below). With the river behind them, bands will play from a soundstage on the park's natural amphitheater. Walkways along the central canal provide visitors scenic access to and from the site.

We are very excited about the new venue and the next Earth Day Indiana Festival. Our sponsors, exhibitors and volunteers will play an even more important role in the next festival. We'll be sending updates and posting more soon at earthdayindiana.org.

We can't do the Earth Day Indiana Festival without a strong team of volunteers. It's nice to reward some of you whenever we can.

Stacy Howell volunteered and joined our Facebook page. Her name was drawn to receive an Epiphone guitar donated by the Guitar Center. We'll announce more award winners soon.

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On the final Saturday of every April, thousands of Hoosiers head to downtown Indianapolis to attend one of the nation's largest Earth Day festivals.

The Earth Day Indiana Festival combines 130 environmental and conservation exhibits with live music from some of Indiana's best new bands, special activities for kids and good food. An estimated 30,000 people attended the 2009 Earth Day Indiana Festival. That's the most visitors ever, and we're still growing.