Nature Festival & Block Party

Celebrate nature right in your neighborhood with these completely free events!

Join us for an all-ages, family-friendly, festival including: live music, storytelling, nature-themed carnivale performers, hands-on activities, games, show-n-tell with urban wild birds, Esperanza bike repair clinic (bring your bike), paletas, home resources, on-site language interpreters, and more!

Free! Make a reservation to get event updates and additional details.

Community Partners:

• City of Albuquerque Open Space Division
• Esperanza Bicycle Safety & Education Center
• Keep Albuquerque Beautiful
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico
• Conservation Carnivale
• Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District
• Friends of Valle de Oro - ABQ Backyard Refuge Program
• Hawks Aloft
• Michelle Adam - Bilingual Storyteller
• We Grow Eco
• Naomi Todd-Reyes LLC: On-site Language Interpretation
• PopFizz Paletas Food Truck
• Rock Your Body Face and Body Art

Performance Schedule:
10:15-10:45 AM: Michelle Adam - Storyteller
10:45-11:30 AM: NM Marimba Band 
11:00-11:30 AM: Conservation Carnivale (CC) science performance
11:45 AM-12:45 PM: NM Marimba Band musical performance

The New Mexican Marimba Band performs on an authentic Mexican Marimba featuring the music of Steve Chavez, who is a teacher, screenwriter, composer/arranger, and collector of 38 Marimbas from around the world. Steve was a member of the NM Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque and Santa Fe Pro Musica. He has composed/arranged nine Concerti for Marimba and Orchestra and over 70 works for Marimbas, Steel-Drums, Latin-Jazz, pop, country, and religious.