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CALENDAR 2008 |
Events for everyone to enjoy These
links provide a summary for each month, No events for December |
Calendar for printing
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Current update : 2 December, 2008
Changes/additions
to the Calendar are made between newsletters,
as information is received
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3rd - 25th Weekends only Summer Concerts in the Gardens - 6.00 - 7.30 pm 12th - 18th Snakes Alive ! |
January 3rd, 10th, 17th,24th Sundays 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th 6.00 to 7.30 pm |
Each Saturday and Sunday during January experience talented local bands and musicians performing amongst the gum trees in the setting of the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Enjoy a picnic with family and friends whilst you frolic to funky folk, swing to smooth jazz or revel to rock and roll. |
Venue : Saturdays : Sundays : Donation appreciated |
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5th Up the Native Garden Path - 12.30 pm 12th The 200th Birthday of Charles Darwin - 12.30 pm 19th The World's Best Botanic Garden- 12.30 pm 26th The National Reserves System - 12.30 pm
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February 12.30 pm |
Presenter : Mark Carmody The Friends talks for 2009 start with the cheery, colourful and controversial garden show host, later weather presenter and ambassador for flowers, Mark Carmody, who brings his usual breath of fresh air and amusing insights to the use of native plants in landscaping. The ANBG was honoured during the Beijing Olympics when, each day, a native Australian flower was highlighted in his lapel. |
Venue : Theatrette Donation appreciated |
February 12.30 pm |
Presenter : Julie Ryder and friends
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Venue : Theatrette Donation appreciated |
February Thursday 19th |
Presenter : Tim Entwistle The first botanic gardens were established in the mid-sixteenth century, to celebrate the 'wondrous breadth of God's creation and its order' (Robert Dessaix, 1909, Night Letters). Later they also celebrated evolution. The early gardens in Australia were primarily a place to acclimatise plants for the new colony as well as a stopping-off point for the wonders of the new land to be transported back to Europe. Today there are over 2500 botanic gardens and arboreta, mostly situated in northern temperate regions of low current-day plant diversity. There have been various attempts to define what a botanic garden is, but the most useful guideline is that published in the International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation in 2000: 'Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation and education'. This still leaves a lot of room for each botanic garden to have its own agenda and local character, as it should! So what makes a botanic garden a good one ?
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February Thursday 26th |
Presenter : Peter Taylor A summary will be available soon.
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Venue : Theatrette Donation appreciated
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Events for Friends Only : Annual General Meeting Twilight Dinner
February Tuesday 10th |
Details coming in the mail
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Venue : Theatrette
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February Thursday 12th |
Look out for details and booking forms which will be forwarded to Friends early in the new year. Don't miss this year's theme with a difference !
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Venue : Hudsons Cafe in the Gardens
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December to March Sunday 29th 9.00 am - 4.40 pm
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Visitor Centre Gallery |
3.00 pm 1st Tuesday each month |
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