Here you will find a calendar of Friends’ activities in the Gardens including lunchtime talks, social events, exhibitions and the ever-popular spring and autumn plant sales. In addition to events arranged by the Friends, we include some events arranged by the Gardens and by other organisations. A full list of events arranged by the Gardens is in their What's On webpage.
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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Nicki Taws ‘Native Grassland Restoration’ | Thursday, 25 July 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Nicki, Program Manager with Greening Australia, will present some of the grassland restoration work that has been undertaken in the ACT region over the past 10 years, sometimes with drastic measures that were required to give native plants the competitive edge. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CQGMJ |
| Jo Harding ‘Taxonomists don’t stuff things’ | Thursday, 1 August 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Jo, Bush Blitz Manager, will explain the who, what and why of what Bush Blitz does - who are these weird people that are so fascinated with insect genitals? what is this information used for? and why do we care about these new species? Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CQGMK |
| Dr Ana Gracanin ‘Why Hollow There! The importance of tree hollows for Australian native fauna’ | Thursday, 8 August 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Ana, from the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU, will talk about how hollows are created, how different animals, including gliders, use them, and how we can support wildlife in our backyards. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CQGML |
| Jay Nicholson ‘Plant dieback and drought tolerance in Uluru-Kata Tjuta’ | Thursday, 15 August 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
One of the world’s most stunning and unique places is one of the places most at-risk to the impacts of climate change. Jay, a Ph D student at ANU, will outline what has been discovered so far as he and Anangu people design and use field studes and nursery experiments to answer questions about how plants cope with heat and water stress. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CQGMM |
| Dr Keith Bayless 'The wonder of tiny dark flies' | Thursday, 22 August 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Keith, a research scientist at CSIRO, says flies are one of the most diverse insect orders, yet poorly known in their species richness and evolution. He will describe innovations in the field and lab for understanding how, when, and why small dark coloured flies diversified spectacularly. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CQGMN |
| Violet Marriott ‘Ginninderry Conservation Trust- who we are and what we do’ | Thursday, 29 August 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Violet, from Ginninderry Conservation Trust, will provide insights into the Ginninderry Conservation Trust, its community engagement, and the current on-ground activities taking place to help protect and conserve the cultural and environmental values of the Ginninderry Conservation Corridor. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CQGMO |
| Dr Marita Bradshaw ‘The National Rock Garden – new location, new rocks and new stories to tell’ | Thursday, 5 September 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Marita, steering committee member with the National Rock Garden, will present an update on the expanded rock garden, the stories it tells of the deep history of Australia and the recent move of the big rocks into Forest 13 at the National Arboretum Canberra. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CTFWO |
| Anthony Whalen ‘CSIRO has a new building – what will this mean for Australia’s national biodiversity collections?’ | Thursday, 12 September 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Anthony, Director of the National Research Collections Australia CSIRO, will outline the careful planning for CSIRO and ANBG’s precious national collections of preserved plants, vertebrate and invertebrate animals and other organisms, and how new laboratories and technologies will contribute to new ways to biodiversity research. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CTFWP |
| Dr Tobias Hayashi ‘The sexual chemistry of greenhood orchids’ | Thursday, 19 September 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Tobias will talk about research from his PhD on pollination in greenhood (Pterostylis) orchids. Greenhood orchids attract their male fungus gnat pollinators by mimicking the sex pheromones of the female fungus gnats. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CTFWR |
| Professor Nerilie Abram ‘Emerging tipping points in Antarctica’ | Thursday, 26 September 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Nerilie, climate scientist from ANU, will review evidence for climate change vulnerabilities in Antarctica, including using past, present and future perspectives to assess the potential for tipping points in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. This will include a description of the 2023/24 Denman Terrestrial Campaign to characterise the Denman Glacier, the deepest known glacier on Earth. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CTFWS |
| Dr Alex Wall ‘Traps'n'Maps: collecting data today to better understand the past tomorrow’ | Thursday, 3 October 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Alex, from the ANU, will talk about the value of fossilised pollen for understanding environmental changes over time, and measuring the amounts and types of pollen across Australia today to understand the links, including collection by VegeMap, a citizen science project. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CTFWW |
| Graham Gall ‘Flora in focus: the Art of Botanic Photography’ | Thursday, 10 October 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Graham, an internationally awarded photographer, will describe his artistic approach to photographing botanic subjects and will give practical insights into producing exhibition quality shots of flora and associated fauna, from the tallest tree to the most detailed macro view of flowers, fungi and associated pollinators. Bookings can be made from about 30 days in advance until the night before the talk or until seating limits are reached. (Tickets are Free but a donation on entry is appreciated.) This talk will be held in the ANBG Theatrette. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CTFXA |
