Urban Tree Festival Activities
Activities
Check out our list of family-friendly activities that are running throughout the 2024 festival!
Lovely as a Tree Exhibition - The Linnean Society
An exhibition on the culture of trees explored through the Linnean Society's collections. We explore the use and representation of trees through our collections, looking at how trees are represented in natural history illustration, iconic trees, economic botany, and the exploitation of trees!
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Running over two weekends in May, the Brighton & Hove Tree Festival offers a host of free events for everyone to enjoy. There are also opportunities to get involved before the festival and throughout May with Tree Trails, a Photography Competition ‘I love this tree because...’ and the Champion School Trees project.
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Royal Parks ‘tree’mendous workshop resources, free curriculum-linked virtual workshops. The Royal Parks invite you and your KS2 students to get creative this summer term and speak out about the impact of urban trees during the climate emergency!
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If you haven’t done already, sign-up for Paul Wood’s substack. Author Paul Wood posts regular accounts of great individual trees in towns and cities across the UK and Ireland. For the last two years, Paul has been researching trees across Britain and Ireland for a new book to be published in 2025.
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All communities are are invited to remember the 72+ that died in Grenfell Tower. It will be a reminder of those lost and show support for the Hope and growth of our communities at all levels so a tragedy like this never happens again.
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An audio activity you you can take part in at your leisure. You can listen to this story wherever you may be - but it’s best enjoyed outside, on a walk and preferably in London. Berkeley Square, Highbury Fields, Victoria Park, Finsbury Park - are all optimum spots to not just hear this story but experience it first hand.
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Nine Elms and Beyond - Get familiar with Wandsworth’s elms - go and take a look at them, learn to recognise them and love them. Explore Wandsworth’s ‘known’ elms on a map of Elms in the neighbourhood. We know there are more elms out there to find - can you help us find them? The activity runs throughout the festival.
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Activities from last year’s Festival - enjoy these at any time.
Making Walnut Ink
With Fiona McIntyre
Why Artists need Trees
With Grace Adam
The Trees of Nine Elms
Explore the Trees of Nine Elms
The Tree Charter Tapestry
a podcast of the stage play
Make a #LeafMotif!
With Save Our Street Trees Northampton
TiCL
Create a #TreeTrail guide for your park or town
Zooming In: Drawing Bark
With Ruth Broadbent
Inspiration Conversation
Naturalist versus Artist
A Dose of Nature
At Beckenham Place Park
Tree Talk
Free Tree Therapy
Hidden Treasure
A poetry project in the London Borough of Merton
Woodlands Theatre Workshop
From Signdance Collective
The Climbing Tree
from the Friends of Horsenden Hill
Walk Generator
From TreeTalk London
Lucas Gardens Tree Trail
with Camberwell Society
How to Paint Trees in Watercolour
With Jay Nolan-Latchford
Brighton Tree Map
The story of a community mapping its trees
Tree Art Competition 2023
With Students For Trees