Build your family’s and community’s yearly calendar. It is a powerful way to take hold of a plan to manifest your values in time/space reality. Here are some dates and holidays you can include. We encourage you to find more:
Winter:
- Celebrations of Light in Dark Seasons
- Green Gifting Day (Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa)
- Human Rights Day – December 10
- Winter Solstice – December 21
- HumanLight – December 23
- New Year’s Day – January 1
- Lunar New Year
- Civil Rights Day (Martin Luther King’s Birthday) – January 15
- Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27
- Women and Girls in Science Day – February 11
- Friendship and Love Day (Valentine’s Day) – February 14
Spring
- International Women’s Day – March 8
- Pi Day – March 14 (a great chance to make pies and do math)
- Sleep Awareness Day
- Spring Equinox – March 21 (egg balancing activity)
- World Water Day – March 22
- Earth Day – April 22
- World Book Day – April 23
- Arbor Day – April 26
- Poetry in Your Pocket Day – April 29
- Mother’s Day (originally International Peace day, could be reframed as Nurturer Day)
- May Day Spring Festival – May 1
- International Workers Day – May 1
Summer:
- Father’s Day (could be reframed as Nurturer Day)
- Juneteenth – June 19 (a day to honor racial equality)
- Summer Solstice – June 21
- World Humanist Day – June 21
- Anniversary of Title IX (1972) – June 23
- Rainbow Pride Day – June 26 (a day to honor family diversity)
- Civil Rights Act Anniversary (1964) – July 2
- International Friendship Day – July 30
- Hiroshima Day – August 6 (a day to make origami peace cranes)
- Nagasaki Day – August 9 (a day to string the cranes together)
Fall:
- Climate Justice Week
- Fall Equinox – September 21 (another egg-balancing opportunity!)
- World Gratitude Day – September 21
- International Peace Day – September 21
- Indigenous People’s Day – 2nd Monday in October
- International Pronouns Day – 3rd Wednesday of October
- Green Halloween – October 31
- World Children’s Day – November 20 (commemorating United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child)
- Evolution Day – November 24 (commemorates the initial publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on in 1859)
