Events on Monday 17th May
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Most tickets for the Urban Tree Festival are free, but we ask attendees to please donate if they can.
We suggest a donation of £5 per event and you can easily donate when booking your ticket. Larger donations are always welcomed.
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Meditation with Trees
Each Slow Morning starts with 10 minutes of meditation. Book once for every morning.
09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees with Mel Sutton. Join us for 9 days and establish a daily meditation practice. The start of the day is a great time for contemplation and self enquiry.
Susurrate
9:30 Hosted by Abi Wade, in her series ‘Susurrate’ she has created musical sketches based around urban trees. A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival.
Video Strolls
10:00 A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Films about place, people and journeying. For the Urban Tree Festival we have curated a collection of artists’ films that look at trees.
A Beginners Guide to Urban Forest Bathing
11:00 Join Forest & Family and the Urban Tree Festival for an online talk and venture into the world of Urban Forest Bathing. Discover the joys and wonder of this exciting and globally growing practice and approach to nature connection, with Katie Mills, London based Nature Connection Guide, Forest Bathing guide and Founder of Forest & Family and new well being initiatives Forest Bathing London and the Forest Bathed Baby Club.
Book Club
11:30 Kate Norbury (author & editor) - Women on Nature presents a groundbreaking vision of the natural world which, in addition to being a rich and scintillating anthology that shines a light on many unjustly overlooked writers, is of unique importance in terms of women's history and the history of writing about nature. On-the-ground walk with Festival co-producer Peter Fiennes
Wembley Park Walkabout
12:00 Join Julian Tollast on this virtual tour as he provides an exclusive virtual tour of the nearly completed Olympic Way, as well as offering a glimpse of things to come including the new public park. On this virtual tour, you will learn more about the technical challenges involved in Urban Tree Planting and maintenance at this scale, with illustrations and technical details, made accessible and appealing to all ages, interests and levels of knowledge.
Tree Rings Webinar
13:00 Tree Rings, a live discussion and Q&A on an urban tree topic hosted by CPRE London.
The London Urban Forest Plan - an overview of the Forest Plan and what it hopes to achieve. Chaired by Nicole Collomb, Greater London Authority with panelists Richard Pearce, Forestry Commission; Andy Tipping, London Tree Officers Association; Suzanne Simmons, Trees for Cities; Ian Russell, London Borough of Enfield.
Writing Wood Words
15:00 A creative nature writing on-line workshop with author and poet, Electra Rhodes. Come and write about the things that inspire you in nature - whether it’s trees, the urban or rural landscape, or your relationship to either. No previous writing experience is necessary.
Story of A Hospital Through its Trees
16:00 A virtual tree tour led by Maggie Carson. The grounds of Edinburgh’s Astley Ainslie hospital contain many magnificent specimen trees planted in the late 19th and early 20th century by eminent botanists. Hear about the hospital, its trees and how the Astley Ainslie Community Trust hopes to protect them.
Anansi, Wisdom and the World of Trees
17:30 Join Anansi, the Spider, as he weaves his way around the wisdom of the world - through tree stories. All family members welcome, from 6 to 106! Live Zoom and accompanying activities linked to the Natural History Wildlife Garden.
Giving London’s Fallen Trees a Second Life
18:00 Recycling urban trees into exquisite timber with Bruce Saunders. Together with his old school friend Patrick Welsh, the pair are determined to give more fallen trees a second life, helping to combat climate change and stimulate a vibrant ‘circular economy’ to enable reinvestment into London’s urban forest.