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| Event title | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| ANBG Friends Photographic Group – August meeting - walk | Friday, 31 August 2018 - 7:30am to 9:30am |
Early Morning Walk in the Gardens Followed by breakfast at Pollen Café and 10:30 members meeting. |
| Julie Ryder ‘Nature as muse: the interaction between art and botany’ | Thursday, 30 August 2018 - 12:30pm |
Julie, a Canberra textile designer and artist, will talk on the profound influences botany has had on her work. She uses natural dyeing, mordant printing, screen-printing and embroidery as a language on cloth to tell narratives about place and people |
| Black Mountain Symposium 2018 | Friday, 24 August 2018 - 12:00am to Saturday, 25 August 2018 - 11:45pm |
Black Mountain was declared a nature reserve on 23 July 1970. In the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of this declaration, the Friends of Black Mountain in association with the Molonglo Catchment Group is holding a Symposium at which invited speakers will give presentations summarising what we know about the area. The Symposium is now fully booked. All 150 seats at the CSIRO Discovery Centre Theatre will be occupied. Themed talks will be on Friday 24 August, followed by drinks and nibbles. Themed walks will be held on Black Mountain on the morning of Saturday 25 August 2018. |
| Doug Laing ‘The Apothecary’s garden – a gem in London’s heart’ | Thursday, 23 August 2018 - 12:30pm |
Doug, chair of the Thursday Talks Committee, will trace the history of the Chelsea Physic Garden in London – this tiny garden that has left an indelible mark on modern pharmacology and medicine. |
| Time Travel - walks | Monday, 13 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm, Saturday, 18 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm |
Unpack your imagination during this free walk, and step back 3,000 million years in time to look at the origin of all plants. Meandering along through the Gardens, the major events in the evolution of plants will be explored with living plants illustrating each step. Using a timescale of one year, we will time travel forward to today, watching the development of plants from their humble beginnings to the present amazing diversity of Australian flora. Join us in an incredible journey through time. Bookings essential. |
| Professor Emeritus Patrick de Deckker ‘Dust, dust everywhere! Implications for your health, that of the environment and climate change’ | Thursday, 16 August 2018 - 12:30pm |
Patrick is from the ANU, and will talk about ubiquitous airborne dust. Where does it come from and where does it go, and have dust concentrations changed through time? The talk will try to answer these questions by taking you on a fascinating dust collecting trip to many parts of Australia. |
| Time Travel - walks | Monday, 13 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm, Saturday, 18 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm |
Unpack your imagination during this free walk, and step back 3,000 million years in time to look at the origin of all plants. Meandering along through the Gardens, the major events in the evolution of plants will be explored with living plants illustrating each step. Using a timescale of one year, we will time travel forward to today, watching the development of plants from their humble beginnings to the present amazing diversity of Australian flora. Join us in an incredible journey through time. Bookings essential. |
| Time Travel - walks | Monday, 13 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm, Saturday, 18 August 2018 - 11:30am to 12:30pm |
Unpack your imagination during this free walk, and step back 3,000 million years in time to look at the origin of all plants. Meandering along through the Gardens, the major events in the evolution of plants will be explored with living plants illustrating each step. Using a timescale of one year, we will time travel forward to today, watching the development of plants from their humble beginnings to the present amazing diversity of Australian flora. Join us in an incredible journey through time. Bookings essential. |
| Getting To Know Eucalypts - walk | Sunday, 12 August 2018 - 1:00pm to Monday, 13 August 2018 - 1:45pm |
Explore Australia’s iconic tree species on this free one-hour walk with Volunteer Guide John Turnbull. Stroll through the ANBG admiring the eucalypts; learn to identify the three genera in this Myrtaceae family; discover the stories behind their naming as well as more about their leaves, flowers, fruits and growth habits. Bookings essential. |
| Dr Don Fletcher ‘Goannas in the ACT’ | Thursday, 9 August 2018 - 12:30pm |
Since retiring from various roles as a land manager with the ACT Government, Don has investigated the ACT’s two goanna species. This talk will reveal what a research team funded and run by local volunteers, with in-kind support from the ACT Government, has been attempting to learn about the goannas of Namadgi National Park |
