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| Event title | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| ANBG Photographic Group exhibition & awards - Recovery | Thursday, 25 November 2021 - 9:30am to Sunday, 12 December 2021 - 4:30pm |
The Friends Photographic Group encourages you to come and view their special exhibition “Recovery” being held in the Visitors Centre at the ANBG. This year there are several different categories with awards presented to the winners of each category as well as other awards. The Award winners will be on display and for sale to the public. Framed works and unframed prints are for sale. Unique gifts of cards, calendars, photo bags and more are on display. A percentage of sales go to the Friends for use in projects in the Gardens. |
| Weeding Work Party - An Extra Session! | Saturday, 20 November 2021 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
Meet: Frith Road extension, Acton, behind CSIRO and ANBG. Park near the electricity substation. Look for banner. Please arrive in good time, because we will need to lock the gate when we go to the weeding site. As usual we are planning to work in small groups, keeping social distance as much as possible, and remove lots of woody weeds and the thriving Red Passionflower. |
| Ian Fraser ‘How Did Australian Birds Get English Names?’ - POSTPONED | Thursday, 18 November 2021 - 12:30pm |
COVID-19 restrictions have caused postponement of so many interesting talks this year. The ANBG Theatrette is not available for Thursday Talks this month, and neither is Telstra Tower. Thursday Talks that were scheduled for November are being re-scheduled for dates next year. |
| Professor David Lindenmayer ‘The Great Forest’ - CANCELLED | Thursday, 11 November 2021 - 12:30pm |
COVID-19 restrictions have caused postponement of so many interesting talks this year. The ANBG Theatrette is not available for Thursday Talks this month, and neither is Telstra Tower. Thursday Talks that were scheduled for November are being re-scheduled for dates next year. |
| Black Mountain weeding work party - November | Saturday, 6 November 2021 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
We are so pleased that our next weeding work party will be on Saturday 6 November. As usual we are planning to work in small groups, keeping social distance as much as possible, and remove lots of woody weeds and the thriving Red Passionflower. A slight difference is that a current COVID-19 Restriction for ParkCare field work is that people need to bring your own (BYO) Morning Tea on this occasion. |
| 2021 Annual General Meeting - change of date | Friday, 29 October 2021 - 3:15pm |
The 33rd Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the ANBG will be held on 29 October 2021, at 3.15 pm for 3.30pm. Ian Wark Theatre at the Shine Dome, 15 Gordon Street, Acton ACT OR via Zoom, if COVID restrictions prevent assembly. Should a Zoom meeting be required, details will be published on the Friends’ website and in the Friends’ e-newsletter. We depend on members' ideas, knowledge, skills and energy to achieve our goals in supporting the Gardens, especially in the current challenging circumstances and with so many exciting developments at the Gardens to look forward to. Please consider the difference you can make to the Friends and to the Gardens in this way. |
| 50th Black Mountain Spring Wildflower Ramble | Saturday, 23 October 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm |
Good news .. the 50th Annual Spring Wildflower Ramble on Black Mountain is on 23 October 2021 (not 9th October). A small number of places remain for some of the times being allocated…. Celebrate the spring flowering on beautiful Black Mountain with a social ramble for wildflower lovers in the tradition established by Nancy Burbidge, and continued by George Chippendale. Discover the surprising diversity of tiny orchids, bush peas, wattles and billy buttons on easy bush tracks with experienced guides and good company. All springs are not the same. The pattern remains but timing and abundance vary with the weather; after the rain we have had this year we are anticipating a special display of flowers. Booking is essential to ensure we have enough guides. Contact friendsofblackmountain@gmail.com or Julie (02) 6251 8972 or Linda 0437 298 711. Please include a name and phone number for all the people in your booking as we are required to keep this information on file in case contact-tracing for Covid becomes necessary. |
| CANCELLED - Professor Simon Haberle ‘What you never knew about poo!’ | Thursday, 7 October 2021 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
The fascinating story of tiny fungi that live on dung and what they tell us about giant animals that roamed the earth. |
| CANCELLED - Michael Mulvaney and Chris Davey ‘Gang Gang nesting ecology’ | Thursday, 30 September 2021 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Chris Davey and Michael Mulvaney will reveal how citizen science research by hundreds of Canberrans has contributed to the scientific and wider understanding of Gang Gang and how this research is to be continued with a focus on trying to answer why the Gang-Gang numbers have been stable but declined in other places. |
| CANCELLED - Dr Prame Chopra ‘Melting ice and rising seas; how much, how fast?' | Thursday, 23 September 2021 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
This talk will discuss the uncertainties in the future paths of ice volume and sea level, the machinations of the imperfect Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the likely consequences for us all. |
