Amazing Earthfest, Southern Utah’s week-long festival celebrating the wonders of our planet, is held each year during the 3rd week of May in Kanab, Utah. Events that educate, stimulate and fascinate range from guided hikes through southern Utah’s magnificent wilderness, to performance art and award-winning documentary films. Activities and presentations are open to everyone and most are free of charge.
2013 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS BY DATE (view by category)
Sunday, May 12
7:45 am-Noon – Road Ride for Bicyclists
8:30 am-11:00 am – Squaw Trail Hike
1:30 pm-4:00 pm – Invocation to Sustainability
4:15 pm-5:30 pm – Wilderness Conversations Hike
5:00 pm – Film: America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
7:00 pm – Film: The City Dark
8:30 pm – Film: Fresh
Monday, May 13
8:30 am-11:00 am – Saleratus Trail Hike
8:30 am-2:30 pm – Nampaweap Expedition & Hike
10:30 am-1:00 pm – Tour a Sustainable Permaculture Farm
3:00 pm – Film: So Right So Smart
5:00 pm – Film: Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for a New West
6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Livestock Grazing on Public Lands
7:00 pm – Film: White Water – Black Gold
8:30 pm – Film: Genetic Roulette
Tuesday, May 14
8:00 am-8:30 am – Yoga in the Park
9:00 am-1:00 pm – Bunting Trail Hike
10:30 am – Parelli Horsemanship Demonstration
3:00 pm-4:00 pm – Ex-Polygamous Author Speaks of Her History
3:00 pm – Film: My Father’s Garden
5:00 pm – Film: Chasing Water
5:20 pm – Film: Beyond Organic
5:30 pm-6:30 pm – Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Arizona
7:00 pm – Film: So Right So Smart
8:30 pm – Film: Dirty Business
Wednesday, May 15
8:00 am-11:00 am – Sustainable Forest Management Tour
8:30am-11:00 am – Tom’s Canyon Trail Hike
8:30 am-1:00 pm AZ Time – North Canyon Archaeology Tour
Afternoon – Solar Astronomy
3:00 pm – Film: Terra Antarctica
5:00 pm-6:30 pm – Potluck Social
5:00 pm-6:30 pm – Water Sentinels & the Colorado
5:00 pm-6:30 pm – Plein Air Painting in Color Country
6:30 pm-Sundown – Sunset Photography Workshop
7:00 pm – Maynard Dixon: Approach to Modernism
7:00 pm-9:00 pm – Kanab On Stage
7:00 pm-8:30 pm – A Climate Intervention
8:45 pm-10:00 pm – Deep Night Sky Viewing
Thursday, May 16
8:00 am-8:30 am – Yoga in the Park
8:30am-11:00 am – Squaw Trail Hike
9:00 am-6:00 pm Utah Time – Loop Hike: Buckskin Gulch-Wire Pass
10:00 am – 12:00 Noon – Recycling/Reuse in Kane County: The Big Picture
12:00 Noon – 3:00 pm – Recycling/Reuse in Kane County: The Big Picture
1:00 pm-2:45 pm – Poetry and Short Prose: Literature and the Land
3:00 pm – Film: The Hungry Tide
3:00 pm-4:00 pm – Kanab Arboretum-Grand Opening
4:00 pm-5:00 pm – Future of KaneCounty: Youth Perspectives
5:00 pm-6:00 pm – Ex-Polygamous Author Speaks of Her History
7:00 pm-8:30 pm – Earth Festival Chamber Concert
7:00 pm – Child of Giants
Friday, May 17
8:30 am-11:00 am – Cottonwood Canyon Trail Hike
8:30 am-1:00 pm – South Fork Indian Canyon Pictograph Hike
10:30 am – Parelli Horsemanship Demonstration
1:30 pm – Film: How to Boil a Frog
3:00 pm – Film: Switch
5:30 pm AZ Time – Film: The Lorax
7:00 pm-9:30 pm – Gala Folklife Concert
Saturday, May 18
8:00 am-8:30 am – Yoga in the Park
8:00am-10:00 am AZ Time – Mountain Biking in the Chocolate Cliffs
8:30-Noon – Diana’s Throne Orienteering Hike
9:00 am-Noon – Kanab Farmers Market
10:00 am-NOON – Building With Straw Bales and Earthen Plaster
10:00 am-1:30 pm – Pink Cliffs OHV Ride
1:00 pm-3:00 pm – Irish Dance Workshop
3:30 pm-5:00 pm – Afternoon at The Terrace
7:00 pm-9:00 pm – Symphony of the Canyons Concert
External Events
Wednesday, May 8 – 7:00 -8:30 – Trek West
Sunday, May 25 – 8:00 pm-Midnight – Full-Moon Ride to Elephant Butte
DAILY- See Event Description for Details
As Listed – Pipe Spring National Monument
8:00 am-4:00 pm – Red Pueblo Museum & Fredonia Heritage Park
10:00 am-5:00 pm – Art & Events at the Maynard Dixon Property
10:15 am – Wild Friends Tours
11:00 am – Parrot Garden Tours
11:00 am – 8:00 pm – Explore Your Family History
2:00 pm – Bunny House Tours
3:00 pm-3:45 pm AZ Time – What’s Rockin’
4:30 pm-5:15 pm AZ Time – Flight of the Condor



















