Suncoast Remake Learning Days at The Bay
Celebrate everything blue and green at Earth Day at The Bay! Dive into hands-on activities and fresh ideas that make it easier to become an even better citizen of the planet — while appreciating everything that makes The Bay a special blue-and-green oasis for everyone to enjoy.
Celebrate Good to Be Green Months (March & April) at The Bay
Schedule of Events
10:00am: City Tree Giveaway*
(*while supplies last, with proof of City Residency)
11:00am-1:00pm: Suncoast Remake Learning Days
Engage the senses with hands-on, family-friendly FREE activities that celebrate nature, movement, and science — highlighting how learning happens everywhere in the blue-and-green oasis called The Bay.
11:00am-1:00pm: City of Sarasota & Sarasota County Tabling Event
Engage in interactive experiences focused on making a difference on the environment. Good for the planet. Good for everyone.
11:30am-12:30pm: The Green Benefits of Building Rehabilitation Walking Tour
Join Marty Hylton (President, Architecture Sarasota) for a walk around The Bay to understand the environmental benefits of rehabilitating/ repurposing buildings.
12:00pm: Earth Day Remarks by City Commissioner Jennifer Ahearn-Koch
12:10-1:00pm: Live Music by the Garbage Men Band
Suncoast Remake Learning Days
Engage the senses with hands-on, family-friendly FREE activities that celebrate nature, movement, and science — highlighting how learning happens everywhere in the blue-and-green oasis called The Bay.
Experiences provided by:
Architecture Sarasota: Walk around The Bay to understand the rehabilitation efforts underway and the associated environmental benefits.
Longboat Key Turtle Watch: Learn about the fascinating sea turtle population that call Sarasota home and how you can protect them.
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium: Discover how scientists restore coral reefs — then try planting coral yourself like a real Mote scientist.
Sarasota Bay Estuary Program: Create a beautiful “sun painting” using cutouts of bay creatures and plants on solar paper.
Sarasota Paradise: Mix, mingle and play with members of Sarasota’s first professional soccer team.
Science and Environment Council: Find out how fertilizer (incl. doggie doo) impacts the environment in surprising and eye-opening ways.
Stocking Savvy: Learn how fish, plants, and smart water management work together to create healthy ponds, wetlands, and thriving habitats.
Games and face painting also part of the good, green, clean fun!
City of Sarasota & Sarasota County Earth Day Tabling Event
Engage in interactive experiences focused on making a difference on the environment. Good for the planet. Good for everyone.
Take Home a FREE Canopy Tree* (10:00am Start)
Receive one FREE canopy tree thanks to the City’s tree giveaway program.
(*while supplies last, with proof of City residency, no advanced registration available)
Share a used book. Reduce waste. Make the world a little greener. Bring gently used books to The Nest Café to be used in one of the FREE lending libraries around the park. In Need of Books for Toddlers thru Grade 8.