Deep dive into World Museum’s glorious city wildflower garden and be guided through a short bug hunt with their experts.
Groups of 2-6 can explore and discover the animals and plants that make our museum their home.
This event takes place in their garden so please wear suitable clothing and footwear suitable for all weather. Some surfaces may be unstable.
Learn about the incredible animals in our oceans and how destructive plastics and pollution is to them.
Make a difference through pledging to care for our oceans and climate, to make a positive difference and become part of the solution.
Are you interested in the potential for bamboo to contribute to a be er climate? Do you want to be part of developing a new living artwork connecting new bamboo growers across the Liverpool City Region and the UK?
The team invite you to take part in Taking Root, a collaborative community growing experiment, exploring our relationship with our environment and the potential for bamboo – formerly known as the ‘Bad Boy of British Horticulture’ – to tackle the climate crisis and contribute to a more sustainable future.
What Is My Involvement?
Free baby Borinda bamboo plants will be given to volunteer Bamboo Parents across the Liverpool City Region to grow in your own home or garden between early May – early July. You will each be given access to a digital pla orm to monitor the plant’s growth, learn more about bamboo’s impact on the climate, and check in with other Bamboo Parents and our resident plant expert.
Later on 2 July 2022, you will take part in a grand Planting Ceremony, where your plant can take root permanently in the Liverpool City Region acting as a symbol of our collective commitment to tackling the climate crisis.
Each baby Borinda bamboo plant is po ed in a 2 litre pot, it requires plenty of sunlight, and should be placed in an outdoor location.
How To Take Part?
Find out more and sign up to take part in a free workshop on Saturday 7 May 11.30 – 1.30 pm at The Coach House in Bowring Park, Roby, Knowsley L36 4HD
Interested? Please email – sarah.vasey@liverpool.gov.uk including your name, address and a contact number. Places are limited so sign up soon!
England is one of the least biodiverse countries in the world. By encouraging more plants that are considered weeds into our cities we can help to make a home for nature and support a wide range of wildlife.
Dandelions are one of the first sources of food for bees in early spring and stinging nettles are great for birds and butterflies.
Take part in a wild plant ID session to help investigate what plants have grown in the Edge Hill Station Community Garden over winter/early spring and find out the benefits of letting weeds and wild plants grow.
They will be experimenting making different types of plant based images using smartphone microscope attachments and blueprint paper to map what’s growing in the garden. You will leave with your prints, wildflower seeds from across the city and a quick guide to the wild plants of Liverpool.
All ages and abilities welcome.
Please register for this free event.
NB: There is no step-free access to the Metal garden however there will be elements of the workshop happening in their ground floors spaces inside the station buildings. Part of the workshop will happen outside so please dress accordingly.
About the artist
Jay Hampton is a SciArtist from Liverpool, with a BSc in Earth and Ocean Science and Zoology and an MA in Art in Science. Her interest is in the environment, mainly the hidden and microscopic parts of our surroundings. Previous work has used microscopic organisms from the Mersey to document the health of our waters and see the effects of climate change at the base of the local food-chain.
Showcasing Arts Groupie’s next piece of theatre TREE, come along to a live rehearsal which is going to be developed for ArtsGroupies’s Summer 2022/23 programme. TREE warns about the throwaway society we live in and promotes sustainability through the narrative of a fairy story.
They are also working with the University of Liverpool on a project around local communities and their relationship to their local environments and climate change, developing and delivering ‘Weather Walkshops.’
This piece is in the very early stages of development and ArtsGroupie regulars, Samantha Alton, Ellis Murphy and John Maguire will deliver a reading of the piece under the direction of Artistic director Margaret Connell.
An informal question and answer session will follow with the audience offering advice, suggestions and to generally start a conversation about our relationship with the environment and the role that storytelling has in helping to raise awareness.
Away from the many, many dog walker tracks in Childwall valley woods, there is a wasteland of woodland bramble. During the summer months this part of the wood is unreachable, layered in a thick carpet of blackberry bushes, nettles and thorns.
The rest of the forest is always quite busy, people taking their dogs for a daily walk or teenage wildlife hanging around sneakily smoking or drinking cheap cider, thinking they’re the first people to ever do such a thing.
The wood needs to be enjoyed because like most of the cities green space it is richly sought after for property development. Green lungs slowly being choked by concrete and asphalt.
In this normally unreachable part of the woodland there lived a dainty little Fir Tree. This tree was far from content….
There are 29 species of earthworm living freely in soils in the UK. They are vital to the economic health of our country, as they are crucial for soil health, food production, waste decomposition and even flood mitigation.
This weekend course will provide an introduction to earthworms as a group, their natural history, how to collect them and how to identify them to species level using microscopes.
The course will be a mixture of classroom sessions and lab practicals (World Museum) and fieldwork (Chester Zoo Nature Reserve). The course is suitable for those with an interest in earthworms, and no experience of microscopes or earthworm identification is necessary.
By the end of the weekend participants will:
• Have learnt about the natural history and different ecological roles of earthworms
• Have had experience of field methods for collecting earthworms
• Be able to use keys and microscopes to confirm earthworm species identification
• Know how to record earthworms to the standards of the national recording scheme.
Please note that this course will involve collecting, preserving and killing earthworm specimens to identify in the lab and generate a site species list.
Tutor
Keiron Derek Brown first became interested in invertebrates during a field-based entomology module at university and went on to volunteer on soil biodiversity research projects at the Natural History Museum (London). This included sorting samples of invertebrates to order level and sampling invertebrates across the New Forest in Hampshire and the Malaysian rainforests of Borneo.
Keiron developed and manages the FSC BioLinks project, with the aim of inspiring amateur naturalists to take up the identification and recording of invertebrate groups that are often forgotten and rarely recorded. In his spare time he is the Chair of the Ecology & Entomology Section of the London Natural History Society and is the national recorder for earthworms (running the National Earthworm Recording Scheme on behalf of the ESB).
Location
Sat 19 Mar – Chester Zoo Nature Reserve
Sun 20 Mar – World Museum
Access
World Museum – There are lifts between each of the floors and assistance dogs are permitted.
Chester Zoo Nature Reserve – There are good (grassy) footpaths suitable for wheelchairs around much of the reserve.
The team are working hard behind the scenes to find out how National Museums Liverpool can help look after the environment and reduce our waste.
Head along to their Reduce, Reuse, Recyle family workshops to create art with artists using recycled materials. Join in the conversation and share your thoughts on what we can do to fight climate change and protect the world around us.
Join World Museum every Thursday morning (excluding school holidays) in the Aquarium for Tiddlers: Seaside Explorers.
Enjoy a range of fun activities and games linked to underwater animals. No booking necessary, suitable for 0-36 months.
Additional dates held 5, 10, 17 February, 10-11am.
Enjoy the beautiful grounds of Ness Botanic Gardens and learn a new skill with Nordic Walking courses.
Our experienced instructor will find the correct poles for your height and teach you the correct technique. It’s great fun, friendly and don’t worry about your fitness level as you can take it at your own pace. As you’re outdoors you’ll feel the powerful and calming effects of being in nature, excellent therapy for the mind.
There are 4 weekly sessions held each Wednesday from 2 February, 10.30am-12pm.
Nordic walking poles are provided.
Drop in to this fun scientific experimentation laboratory.
You will explore some simple scientific experiments which will blow your mind and help you to look closer at our wonderful world!
For February half-term World Museum are looking at recycling right, and surprising uses for stuff we might otherwise throw away.