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Nature Reserve Volunteers Sessions

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11.00am – 1.00pm
Sat 6 May 2023
In 2023 we will be hosting weekly volunteer sessions 11am – 1pm each Saturday from 6th May till 25th November 2023. These sessions are for both new and regular volunteers...

Ecstatic Rot: Communal (Low) Frequencies & The Listening Party

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Artist Michelle Atherton (she/her) will be in residence during 2023, spending time researching our relationships with transience, decomposition and re-composition as more-than-human activities. She is interested in finding experimental ways...

Volunteer Sessions – January 2021

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We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 29th January 2021. You’ll...

Volunteer Sessions – December 2021

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11.00am – 11.00am
Mon 27 December 2021
We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The December session will take place at 11am - 1pm, Monday 27th December 2021...

EARTHSHAPES #1 REPLENISHING - MID-WINTER

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Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the first in a series of 8 art-practice-led gatherings following and drawing attention to seasonal rhythms, patterns of place and earth-centric chronology. ...

Forest Friday's

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Forest Friday's is a free, weekly forest school for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. School aged children and their families can learn...

Volunteer Sessions – November 2021

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We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 27th November 2021. You’ll...

Volunteer Sessions - September till October 2021

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Join our weekly medicine garden volunteer sessions each Saturday 11am - 1pm throughout September & October. You’ll learn how to identify, nurture and harvest a wide variety of medicine plants...

Forest Friday - October Half Term Session

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Forest Friday’s is a free, weekly forest school for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. School aged children and their families can learn...

Letters to the Earth: A Creative Workshop

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Time to Pause. Time to Connect. Time to Listen. Connect with others to share your responses to the current crises we face: climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice and our...

August Holiday Nature Club

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Forest Friday's is a free outdoor learning opportunity for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. We will be holding a week long Nature...

Leaf Hearing Blue, Moss Tickling a Soil by Becky Lyon

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Join Becky Lyon + ELASTIC FICTION for three experimental workshops inviting you to re-sensitise, re-tune and imagine-with the ecology found within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. This forms part of...

The London Moth Project: Live event and ID session

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Join Katherine Pogson as she surveys and documents month populations living in the heart of Bethnal Green! Meet some of the surprising hidden creatures that live in the local...

Ecology Internship - Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Tower Hamlets

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We are recruiting an Ecology Intern aged 18 – 25 years old from underrepresent groups within the conservation sector i.e. BIPOC, ethnic minorities, people from working class backgrounds & LGBTQ+...

Bird Watching Workshop

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Join Jane Laurie, local artist and bird expert, on a bird watching walk around Bethnal Green. Jane will play her collection of bird song field recordings from her avine archive...

Wild Walk Workshop

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This workshop will take you into the depths of the woods, looking closely at the flora and fauna of Bethnal Green. The workshop will explore the rich biodiversity living in...

Bushcraft Workshop pt.2

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Learn how to build, maintain and cook on an open campfire this summer. You will learn a range of useful techniques for lighting and maintaining a campfire for cooking up...

Foraging Workshop

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Join Izzy (aka Benevolent Weeds) as she leads a foraging walk throughout the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve's woodlands. You'll learn about the wild sessional food and medicinal plants that can...

Wetland Ecology Survey Workshop

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Take part in an ecological surveying of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve wetlands. We will pond dip and collect a range of insects, amphibians, animals and plants living in our...

Living Monoliths & Seed Bomb Talk

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Maria Roy Deulofeu & Sean Ross are two sustainable designers from the United Matters design collective currently working within the Nature Reserve. Over the past two months they have been...

Bug Hunt Workshop

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We will look in the woods and the wetlands for the fascinating invertebrates that live in Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Using equipment, such as microscopes, magnifiers and identification keys. We...

Tree School - Spring Half Term

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Tree School returns to the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve for the spring half-term. Tuesday 1st – Friday 4th June 2021 Tree School is a free, family friendly opportunity for children...

Tree & Urban Forestry Workshop

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Learn more about the ecosystem of trees. One of the planets great food, shelter, carbon regulators, habitat and oxygen providers, trees are an integral part of human and non-human life...

Introduction to Urban Ecology Workshop

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Join Ecologist’s Richard Bullock + Dimuthu Meehitiya to learn about different data collection methods of ecology. Learn about sweep netting, transect walks, pond dipping, and data collation processes. Biodiversity data...

Ecology Workshops

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Wetland/Pond Life 11am - 1pm, 10th April Come and Investigate Bethnal Green Nature Reserve's ponds. Learn about the amazing pond life diversity found in our urban wetlands. Pond-dipping is...

The Squirrel’s Heartbeat by Fiona Banner

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The Squirrel’s Heartbeat ‘The Squirrel’s Heartbeat’ is a series of conversations ruminating on the environment, art and activism, part of Fiona Banners' (aka The Vanity Press) 2020/21 research residency at...

Queer Ecologies: Microbe Disco

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As part of Electric Dreams Online, The Queer Ecologies collective invites you to join us for a multi-species, multi-generational and intersectional virtual disco! Come meet your companion species, move with...

FOREST FRIDAY

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FOREST FRIDAY is a weekly project for local children + families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. Our team will be giving away seeds and soil so...

Woodland Management - Volunteer Day

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We are doing some winter woodland management at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve and would love your help! . 2pm till 5pm, 8th Feb Bethnal Green Nature Reserve . There...

Through The Microscope

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Join the Roving Microscope and LEAP Micro AD for this unique opportunity to look inside Calthorpe’s anaerobic digester. A giant mechanical stomach, the digester produces a rich liquid fertiliser...

Forest Friday's

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Forest Friday's is a free, weekly forest school for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. School aged children and their families can learn...

Sarah Westcott

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Sarah Westcott was artist in residence throughout 2016/17. Westcott produced an extensive body of work throughout her residency, inspired by the natural world and the places where human and non-human...

David Nash

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David Nash was artist in residence in 2016/17. Nash is from County Cork, Ireland, but currently lives and works in London. His writing has been featured in various magazines, anthologies...

Lucy Cash

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Lucy Cash is a writer and artist with a background in performance and choreography. She has written for radio and sound installations, performance and film. Cash was resident artist across...

Compost Mentis

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From 2018 / 2019 we co-created a range of new composting systems at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, including a wormery, thermal compost pile and a much needed accessible compost...

Gardeners Report 2020

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This is part of a 3-part series of posts by Shumaisa Khan on her experience with the Phytology medicine garden throughout 2020. Pandemic Year Reflections from the Garden - Part...

Bat Sanctuary

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In 2017 the Phytology team launched a new bat sanctuary project - extending the natural resources of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve to accommodate urban bat populations. The development of...

DJ Simpson

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DJ Simpson is a contemporary artist who was inspired by the non-human architecture found across the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, such as nests, hives and dreys. Across the Summer &...

Wetland

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The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve pond network were originally installed 2002, with its first upgrade taking place in 2016. In 2021 we will begin a year long upgrade and extension...

Urban Mind

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Help us understand how city living is affecting mental well-being. Urban Mind is an app that measures your experience of city living in the moment. After downloading and installing the...

Talya Baldwin

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Talya Baldwin is a British illustrator based in West Yorkshire. Much of her work focuses on the unseen or disregarded, aiming to promote public engagement with contemporary ecological issues. Her...

Institute of Use

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Institute of Use’s (IOU) response to the Phytology project focuses on the history of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Throughout their 2014 residency IOU explored the site’s ecology, and the...

‘Human Nature’ Talks & Discussions – Part 2

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The Human-Nature talks programme explored the generative and often overlooked potential of un-purposed growth within and across London. Over the course of the programme our speakers discussed the perception gap...

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