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Summer Sounds concert – Royal Military College Band with Jumptown Swing Sunday, 3 February 2019 - 5:00pm to Monday, 4 February 2019 - 7:45pm

The ever-popular Summer Sounds concerts will be held again on the first two weekends in February 2019.

Program for Sunday 3 February: Royal Military College Band with Jumptown Swing

Concerts are held on the Eucalypt Lawn at the Gardens in Clunies Ross Street, Acton, on the lower slopes of Black Mountain. Entertainment starts at 5.00 pm, with the concert performances starting at 6pm and finishing at 7.30.

Book online for early bird ticket prices: $7.50 adults, $5 Friends member, concession and students, $3 children; under 3 are free.

Purchase tickets on arrival at the Botanic Gardens: $10 adults, $7.50 Friends member, concession and students, $5 children; under 3 are free.

Summer Sounds concert – Annie and the Armadillos with Jumptown Swing (updated) Saturday, 2 February 2019 - 5:00pm to Sunday, 3 February 2019 - 7:45pm

The ever-popular Summer Sounds concerts will be held again on the first two weekends in February 2019.

Program for Saturday 2 February:   Annie and the Armadillos with Jumptown Swing

Change of line-up: Unfortunately due to a family emergency, Bewitched will not be able to perform at Summer Sounds this Saturday 2nd February as scheduled.

Concerts are held on the Eucalypt Lawn at the Gardens in Clunies Ross Street, Acton, on the lower slopes of Black Mountain. Entertainment starts at 5.00 pm, with the concert performances starting at 6pm and finishing at 7.30.

Book online for early bird ticket prices: $7.50 adults, $5 Friends member, concession and students, $3 children; under 3 are free.

Purchase tickets on arrival at the Botanic Gardens: $10 adults, $7.50 Friends member, concession and students, $5 children; under 3 are free.

Black Mountain Weeding Work Party Saturday, 2 February 2019 - 8:30am to 11:30am

We shall focus on removing non-local Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum) (perhaps not really so sweet as a weed!) and Yellow Pittosporum (P. revolutum) and other naturalised woody species in the peripheral areas of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG).

Please book: if you are planning to come, please email your name and phone number to friendsofblackmountain@gmail.com or phone 0437 298 711, as this helps with the catering for morning tea. 

Cook and the Pacific – The Australian Plants – Summer Walk Sunday, 20 January 2019 - 9:30am to 10:30am

The exhibition, Cook and the Pacific, and the immersive sound and light experience, Beauty Rich and Rare, at the National Library, may have aroused your interest in the plants collected by Banks and Solander in Australia on Cook’s 1770 voyage. Join a Volunteer Guide on this special one-hour walk visiting some of these plants, which were illustrated by Sidney Parkinson and subsequently published in Banks’ Florilegium. Discover their Aboriginal uses ranging from medicinal to clothing, food to weaponry.

Please note that this walk is also open to the general public. Numbers are limited. Bookings are essential

Cook and the Pacific – The Australian Plants – Summer Walk Monday, 14 January 2019 - 9:30am to 10:30am

The exhibition, Cook and the Pacific, and the immersive sound and light experience, Beauty Rich and Rare, at the National Library, may have aroused your interest in the plants collected by Banks and Solander in Australia on Cook’s 1770 voyage. Join a Volunteer Guide on this special one-hour walk visiting some of these plants, which were illustrated by Sidney Parkinson and subsequently published in Banks’ Florilegium. Discover their Aboriginal uses ranging from medicinal to clothing, food to weaponry.

Please note that this walk is also open to the general public. Numbers are limited. Bookings essential.

Butterflies in the ANBG – Summer Walk Sunday, 13 January 2019 - 10:00am to 11:30am

Do you know an Imperial Blue from a Macleay’s Swallowtail? Or an Eastern Flat from a Common Brown? This is a wonderful opportunity to join local expert, Suzi Bond, in observing these elusive creatures in the ANBG.

Please note that this walk is open to Friends of the ANBG only. Numbers are limited. Bookings essential.

Weeding Work Party Saturday, 5 January 2019 - 8:30am to Sunday, 6 January 2019 - 10:45am

We shall focus on removing non-local Sweet Pittosporum (Pittosporum undulatum) (perhaps not really so sweet as a weed!) and Yellow Pittosporum (P. revolutum) and other naturalised woody species in the peripheral areas of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). 

Meet: the ANBG Southern car park. After going in the main gate, turn sharp left, follow road around the perimeter up to the top level of that carpark. Look for banner or balloons near the pay-parking machine. 

Bring:  Enthusiasm, your family and friends, water (and a small digger, if you wish). Everyone is welcome.

Wear:  hat, sunscreen, long-sleeved shirt, long pants, gloves, stout shoes.

ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk Monday, 3 December 2018 - 10:30am to 12:30pm

Place: Theatrette, ANBG

Topic: Monitoring the condition of ecosystems across the Commonwealth national parks

Speaker: Dr Nick MacGregor, Scientist, Parks Australia.

Bush Blitz is coming to the Australian National Botanic Gardens Sunday, 2 December 2018 - 10:00am to Monday, 3 December 2018 - 2:45pm

Join Bush Blitz scientists on their search for species, learn how to identify the amazing plants and animals that call the Australian Capital Territory home…and SO MUCH MORE!

Visit bushblitz.org.au for details.

ANBG Friends Photographic Group - November meeting Friday, 30 November 2018 - 10:30am to Saturday, 1 December 2018 - 11:45am

Our guest speaker will be Con Boekel – bird photography.

Con's lifelong interest in birds has progressed through egg collecting on his parents' farm, bird watching, writing articles, contributing to collective databases and surveys, and culminated with bird photography. He has contributed images to BirdLife Australia, the Internet Bird Collection, and the Oriental Bird Club photographic database.

The speaker will be followed by a ‘Show and Tell’ by members.

The Photographic Group meet on the last Friday of the month at 10.30am in the Gardens Theatrette.

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