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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Dr Michael Jones: 'The Cotter heritage history' | Thursday, 13 March 2014 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Michael will discuss his 2011 book on the historical setting of the Cotter, Canberra’s most precious water catchment area. The book was commissioned by ACTEW, ActewAGL and the Bulk Water Alliance partners to document the history of the Cotter area while work was underway to enlarge the Cotter Dam. |
| Dr Lisa Doucette: 'The Grassland Earless Dragon: Canberra's most endangered reptile' | Thursday, 6 March 2014 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
The Grassland Earless Dragon (Tympano cryptispinguicolla) is an endangered species that has experienced both gradual long-term and dramatic short-term declines in both its range and population size. Currently fragmented populations exist only in the native grasslands of the ACT and the nearby Southern Tablelands of NSW. Lisa will discuss issues relating to the decline of this local species and describe the delights and dilemmas of establishing a breeding colony of Tympano cryptispinguicolla at the University of Canberra. |
| David Young: 'Magic of the Galapagos Islands: their flora and fauna' | Thursday, 27 February 2014 - 12:30pm |
Darwin was fascinated by the Galapagos Islands’ flora and fauna, and this fascination still attracts many visitors from all parts of the world. |
| Photographic Group Exhibition: 'ANBG Through the Lens' | Monday, 24 February 2014 - 12:00am to Sunday, 16 March 2014 - 11:45pm |
The Friends' Photography Group is fairly new. For the first time, members are mounting an exhibition in the Visitor Information Centre. They share a common bond of photography and pleasure in exploring the Gardens. The Exhibition’s contributing members have different photographic experiences and skills, and use a wide variety of cameras. |
| Twilight Dinner 2014 | Thursday, 20 February 2014 - 6:30pm |
The Friends' 2014 Twilight Dinner will be held at Cafe Floresco in the Gardens. Our after-dinner speaker is Catriona Anderson from the National Library of Australia. This is a Friends only event, members may invite one guest. The cost is $70 per person, which includes a pre-dinner drink, canapes, main course, dessert and tea/coffee. Additional wine, beer and soft drinks may be purchased at Floresco. Click on the heading in the left hand column for more details, including a link to the booking form. |
| Anna See: 'Centenary Canberra BioBlitz: bouquets and bushbats' | Thursday, 20 February 2014 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Anna played a key role in the first BioBlitz held in Canberra, as a Centenary event - a collaboration of scientists, naturalists, citizen scientists and members of the public working together to discover, identify and record a snapshot of the region’s biodiversity. She will talk about its participants and its findings. Anna See is Coordinator with the Molonglo Catchment Group and was Convenor of the BioBlitz Committee.
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| Friends Photography Exhibition: Visitor Centre Gallery | Wednesday, 19 February 2014 - 9:00am to Monday, 17 March 2014 - 4:45pm |
The Friends of the ANBG Photographic Group will exhibit in the ANBG Visitor Centre a collection of photographs taken in the Gardens and inspired by the animals, birds, plants and landscapes found there. |
| Matthew Higgins: 'Surveyors at the snowline' | Thursday, 13 February 2014 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Matthew considers why the ACT border is where it is, who the surveyors were, how they marked the border and what they experienced. This is a tale of three young men – two of whose names are commemorated in modern Canberra- working partly in some of Australia’s most rugged mountain country and living under canvas. One of them got snowed-in, two had young wives with them, while one drove a Model T Ford and had a quirky sense of humour. The surveyors’ field books are archives of considerable heritage significance and historical interest. |
| Mark Carmody: 'It's all about P: postie, plants, people and places' | Thursday, 6 February 2014 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Mark will launch the 2014 Thursday Talks program by talking about his ‘postie bike’ trip after retirement from the ABC, where he imparted a gardening flavour to the nightly weather news. Mark Carmody has spent many years gardening in Canberra at ACT Parks and Conservation, the National Rose Gardens and as head gardener at The Lodge.
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| Summer Sounds Concert | Sunday, 26 January 2014 - 5:30pm |
The featured band for tonight's concerts is Dorothy-Jane Gosper Band. The venue is the Eucalypt Lawn at the Australian National Botanic Garden, Clunies Ross Street, on the lower slopes of Black Mountain. The concert starts at 5.30 pm and finishes at 7.30 pm. |
