The 2021 Urban Tree Festival

Saturday 15th May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (elm) with Mel Sutton Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

11:00 Discover Downham, This walk explores some hidden treasures of Downham, in South-East London. Real-life event. Read more

11:00 Urban Tree wiki-thon, An online tree themed Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Read more

11.30 Mindful Doodling, Creative online workshop exploring the benefits of doodling. FULLY BOOKED.

11.30 Urban Bonsais Real and Imagined, Learn how to make your own Urban Bonsai! FULLY BOOKED.

12:30 Tree Rings Webinar, Trees for All - improving accessibility. Read more

14:00 Games in the Woods Launch, Online tree themed game jam for all ages. Read more.

14:30 Tree Feeling Walk, join Tamsin Grainger for a walk in Edinburgh and explore how you feel about urban trees. Real-life event. Book here.

15:00 Elephant Adventure, Craft your own location-based storytelling piece. Read more

16:00 The Nature Diary of an Elizabethan Gentleman, Learn about the wildlife of a small urban woodland in South London. Read more

16:00 Book Club with Peter Fiennes. Nick Hayes & Rob Cowen discuss ‘The Heeding’. Read more.

18:00 Community Tree Groups: Models of success in planting and protecting trees. Book here.

Sunday 16th May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (oak) with Mel Sutton Read more

09.30 #SundayNatureWorship, Readings from a nature blog by Amanda Tuke. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10.00 Billy & the Lost Trees, Interactive sessions for children Read more

10:30 Tree Stewarding, a guided walk-shop and online gathering. Read more

12.00 Improving a brownfield site, online talk followed followed by a live Q&A. Read more

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, Blossom and Bloom. Read more

16:00 Drawing Trees, an experimental approach with Ruth Broadbent. FULLY BOOKED.

18:00 The Wonder of Ancient Trees, A webinar on the importance of ancient trees. Read more.

19:00 Mind the Trees!, A self-guided mindful tree exploration workshop. FULLY BOOKED.

Monday 17th May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (beech) with Mel Sutton Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

11:00 A Beginners Guide to Urban Forest Bathing an online talk with Katie Mills from Forest & Family. Book here.

11:30 Book Club with Peter Fiennes. A walk with Kate Norbury, editor of ‘Women on Nature’. Real-life event. Read more

12:00 Wembley Park Walkabout, A virtual walking tour of the trees of Wembley Park. Read more

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, The London Urban Forest Plan. Read more

15.00 Writing Wood Words A writing workshop with Electra Rhodes Read more

16:00 Story of A Hospital Through its Trees, online talk about the Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, with Maggie Carson. Read more.

17:30 Anansi, Wisdom and the World of Trees, with Community Centered Knowledge & The Natural History Museum. Online adventure for all the family. Read more.

18:00 Giving London’s Fallen Trees a Second Life, Recycling urban trees into exquisite timber with Bruce Saunders. Book here.

Tuesday 18th May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (holly) with Mel Sutton. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Trees & Social Housing Estates, a discussion with Trees for Cities, Peabody Group, Craven Vale Community Association & Camden Forest initiative (tbc). Book now.

12.00 Recording Ancient Trees A workshop on how to identify and record ancient and veteran trees with The Woodland Trust. Book here.

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, Urban Hedges: Why they matter. Read more

14:00 Missing Trees. This is an invitation to participate in an online gathering to talk about our relation to trees and share your thoughts. Read more

15.00 Great Eastern Parks Route, learn more about this project with the East London Garden Society’s Will Sandy & Geoff Juden and Des Garrahan of the Ramblers. Book here.

16:00 Book Club with Peter Fiennes. Anita Sethi discusses her new book, ‘I Belong Here’. Read more

17.00 Sounds of the Plants Plant Music and Plant Consciousness. Read more

17.30 Trees In Bloom: Flowering trees of Hyde Park A virtual tour with Greg Packman. Read more

18.00 Universal Species Suffrage Workshop An online workshop proposing a new relationship with all species. Read more

Wednesday 19th May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (willow) with Mel Sutton. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10.30 Forest Bathed Baby Club, A walk for new and expectant Parents with sling worn babies in Alexandra Palace Park (London) with Katie Mills from Forest & Family. Real-life event. Book here.

11:00 Resilience Tree Walk, take an uplifting local walk and connect online with Anise Bullimore. Book here.

11:45 Introduction to Forest Bathing, small group Forest Bathing taster walk in Alexandra Palace Park (London) with Katie Mills from Forest & Family. Real-life event. Book here.

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, Nine Elms and urban elm trees. Read more

14:00 Trees for All - All for Trees A look at trees in Dublin. Read more

15.00 Writing Wood Words A writing workshop with Electra Rhodes Read more

16:00 Ask An Expert: Haynes Tree Manual, Q&A on living with trees for homeowners based on the Haynes Tree Manual with Tony Kirkham (Head of Kew Gardens Arboretum) & Kenton Rogers. Read more

17:30 Anansi, Wisdom and the World of Trees, with Community Centered Knowledge & The Natural History Museum. Online adventure for all the family. Read more.

18:00 Tree Stories: Heart, Mind & Soul, with Tracy Chevalier & Jonathan Drori. Read more.

Thursday 20th May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (hornbeam) with Mel Sutton. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

11.00 Right Tree Right Place a presentation on tree planting with Mark Chester. Q+A to follow. Book here.

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, Urban trees and climate change. Read more

15:00 Connecting people with trees and growing trees from seed, with Roger Parkinson, Chairman Tree Wardens Voluntary Group, Wakefield Read more

17.00 TCV and the Miyawaki forest A virtual presentation about the Miyawaki technique by Douglas Palarm and Peter Hutchinson, from TCV. Read more.

18.00 From Grey to Green: repurposing our streets CPRE London - the Countryside charity’s 2021 AGM and panel discussion. Read more.

Friday 21st May

08:00 Guided Forest Bathing in Beckenham Place Park with Andrew Jenkins. Real-life event. Read more

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (pine) with Mel Sutton. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:30 Journaling With The Inner and Outer Nature Self Discovery Card Deck, with Jackee Holder Read more

12:00 Midday Modern Conversation on Mulberry Trees, Dr Peter Coles will talk about mulberry trees and in particular Hogarth House’s historic mulberry tree. Read more

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, Ancient Urban Trees. Read more

14:00 Guided Forest Bathing, in Beckenham Place Park with Andrew Jenkins. Real-life event. Read more

15.00 Writing Wood Words, A writing workshop with Electra Rhodes Read more

15.30 Belfast and its Streets of Trees, with renowned street tree expert Mark Johnston and Alan McHaffie of Belfast City Council. Read more

18.00 The True Tree of London? A debate about the true tree of London between author Paul Wood and Mathew Frith of the London Wildlife Trust. Book here.

Saturday 22nd May

00:30 Treecreative walking in the suburbs with Tracey Benson from Canberra, Australia. Real life event. Read more & book

08:00 Guided Forest Bathing in Beckenham Place Park with Andrew Jenkins. Real-life event. Read more

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (birch) with Mel Sutton. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:30 Nature and Nurture in Downham, a guided walk through Downham in Lewisham with Theresa Webb. Real-life event. Read more

10:30 A Tree-Feeling Walk and Online Meeting. Walk alone or together to discover trees near you and your feelings towards them. Then meet online to discuss your experience. Devised by Tamsin Grainger. Read more.

11:00 Anansi, Wisdom and the World of Trees, with Community Centered Knowledge & The Natural History Museum. Online adventure for all the family. Read more.

12.00 Data Tree, Art installation and launch event with artist, Jonathon Wright in collaboration with the Estuary Festival. Info coming soon.

12.00 Nature Access in Bromley, A project highlight access to nature in the London Borough of Bromley. Read more

13:00 Tree Rings Webinar, How should we value trees? Read more

15:30 Tranquillity of Tilia, Herbalist Hannah Sylvester talks about Lime trees in health. Read more

17:00 Anansi, Wisdom and the World of Trees, with Community Centered Knowledge & The Natural History Museum. Online adventure for all the family. Read more.

17:30 Connecting with your inner tree, an invitation to remember the deep symbiosis humans have with the plant world. Led by Ciara Jean Roberts. Read more

Sunday 23rd May

09:00 Daily Festival Meditation with Trees (cherry) with Mel Sutton. Read more

09.30 #SundayNatureWorship, Readings from a nature blog by Amanda Tuke. Read more

09:30 Susurrate, A new musical piece will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Video Strolls, A new artists film will be published each day of the Festival. Read more

10:00 Billy & The Lost Trees with the Drama Geezers. A variety of online storytelling activities and drama games for families. Read more

10:30 Book Club with Peter Fiennes, Ruth Pavey leads an on-the-ground walk in Highgate to mark the publication of her new book, ‘Deeper into the Wood’. Real-life event. Read more

11:00 London is a Forest Paul Wood leads an on-the-ground tour of trees in Kings Cross. Real-life event. Read more. This event is SOLD OUT.

11:00 Urban Tree wiki-thon Show and Tell, online tree themed Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the British Library. Read more

13:00 Lesnes 100 Community art piece with artist Eric MacLennan. Info coming soon.

14:00 Wild and Ancient Trees of Beckenham Place Park. This is a walk around Beckenham Place Park in search of wild trees. Real-life event. Read more

14:00 The Politics of Street Trees, Panel presentation chaired by Camilla Allen, co-editor of the forthcoming book ‘The Politics of Street Trees’. Read more.

14:00 ‘Tree Song’ Tree Trail & Performance by musician Phoebe Coco with Tree Voices under the branches of Islington trees. Real-life event. Read more

14:00 Billy & The Lost Trees with the Drama Geezers. A variety of online storytelling activities and drama games for families. Read more

15:00 Tree Rings Webinar, Campaigning for trees. Read more

15:00 Lore of the Wild Guided tree walk in Lesnes Abbey Wood. Info coming soon.

15:00 The Neighbouring Orchard Artist talk with Annie Lord. Read more

15:00 & 16:00 Mulberry Tree Rhyme Time, family storytime with Hogarths’ House. Read more

16:30 Write About Trees, showcase of ‘Canopy’. Read more

18:00 Games in the Woods Show & Tell, finale of the Games Jam. Read more