Bees, Butterflies, Plants, Raingardens...and more! Gardening for Nature in Hamilton Workshop
Do you want to learn more about how to design a native plant garden that can benefit local birds, butterflies and bees, and/or raingarden that can manage the rain that falls on your property? This virtual environment will include opportunities to:
- Speak with native plant experts and master gardeners, and how your garden can become a Monarch Award winning one
- Learn how to make a raingarden in your yard
- Connect with others and learn about what you can do to support nature in Hamilton
Saturday, March 20th 10 am to 12 pm. Register at land@hamiltonnature.org to receive the zoom link!
Do you Love Nature and Have a Story to Tell?
My Hamilton Includes Nature: Narratives
Do you love nature? Come tell your story!
Nature Narratives is our newest initiative to collect and share stories about nature in Hamilton using digital storytelling.
Join us in a to create a short multimedia video featuring YOUR nature story and help us celebrate nature in Hamilton.
The type of story is up to you – what’s good or bad about nature in Hamilton, what has changed, a significant experience you had, etc.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
All you need is a story, access to a computer and a good Internet connection.
As a participant in this workshop you will tell a personal story and use your own photographs to illustrate your words. Trained facilitators will guide you through the process, supporting and instructing you as you put together image and voice in a simple, yet powerful way. You will create your video masterpiece over a 6 week period --- Wednesdays from 5:00to7:00pm starting on January 27 and ending March 3.
Want to know more about this unique opportunity?
Join us for an information session Wednesday, January 20, 5:00-6:00pm
Please register with Jen at land@hamiltonnature.org to receive a link to the meeting. Numbers are limited to ensure everyone is supported.
Do you love nature? Come tell your story!
Nature Narratives is our newest initiative to collect and share stories about nature in Hamilton using digital storytelling.
Join us in a to create a short multimedia video featuring YOUR nature story and help us celebrate nature in Hamilton.
The type of story is up to you – what’s good or bad about nature in Hamilton, what has changed, a significant experience you had, etc.
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
All you need is a story, access to a computer and a good Internet connection.
As a participant in this workshop you will tell a personal story and use your own photographs to illustrate your words. Trained facilitators will guide you through the process, supporting and instructing you as you put together image and voice in a simple, yet powerful way. You will create your video masterpiece over a 6 week period --- Wednesdays from 5:00to7:00pm starting on January 27 and ending March 3.
Want to know more about this unique opportunity?
Join us for an information session Wednesday, January 20, 5:00-6:00pm
Please register with Jen at land@hamiltonnature.org to receive a link to the meeting. Numbers are limited to ensure everyone is supported.
The Metanoia Project: Nature is Us.
Call for Visuals and Audio Recordings of Hamilton’s Nature/Biodiversity for an Immersive, Digital Art Installation.
Metanoia: Greek μετάνοια, is "a transformative change of heart”. Also, “to change one’s mind,” “change direction,” “turn around.”
The Metanoia Project (Nature is Us) is a new initiative of the *Hamilton Pollinator Paradise Project to raise awareness of what we are at risk of losing if we do not act immediately to protect and uplift rapidly declining native species populations.
With its diverse habitats of marsh, and wetland, and Carolinian forest, escarpment and Lake Ontario, Hamilton is in a hotspot of biodiversity that supports many native species of insects, birds, mammals, plants, etc. But healthy biodiversity is continuously threatened by habitat loss, disease, invasive species, climate change, and pesticide use, amongst other factors.
An Immersive, Digital Art Installation, Metanoia seeks to help viewers connect nature to an emotional landscape; because when we are awed and inspired by nature, we will want to protect what we have.
Contribute
As part of the digital art installation, we are collecting both images (photos and 3-second videos) and audio recordings of Hamilton's **native species nature. We are looking for audio clips of nature, such as sounds of birds, frogs, insects, water, wind, etc. We welcome contributions from the community.
For more information or to contribute directly, email Beatrice Ekoko, Project Lead at projectmetanoia2021@gmail.com
Visit the Metanoia Project page:
https://www.hamiltonpollinatorparadise.org/the-metanoia-project.html
**Native species are those that originated in their location (ecosystems) naturally and without the involvement of human activity or intervention.
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Call for Visuals and Audio Recordings of Hamilton’s Nature/Biodiversity for an Immersive, Digital Art Installation.
Metanoia: Greek μετάνοια, is "a transformative change of heart”. Also, “to change one’s mind,” “change direction,” “turn around.”
The Metanoia Project (Nature is Us) is a new initiative of the *Hamilton Pollinator Paradise Project to raise awareness of what we are at risk of losing if we do not act immediately to protect and uplift rapidly declining native species populations.
With its diverse habitats of marsh, and wetland, and Carolinian forest, escarpment and Lake Ontario, Hamilton is in a hotspot of biodiversity that supports many native species of insects, birds, mammals, plants, etc. But healthy biodiversity is continuously threatened by habitat loss, disease, invasive species, climate change, and pesticide use, amongst other factors.
An Immersive, Digital Art Installation, Metanoia seeks to help viewers connect nature to an emotional landscape; because when we are awed and inspired by nature, we will want to protect what we have.
Contribute
As part of the digital art installation, we are collecting both images (photos and 3-second videos) and audio recordings of Hamilton's **native species nature. We are looking for audio clips of nature, such as sounds of birds, frogs, insects, water, wind, etc. We welcome contributions from the community.
For more information or to contribute directly, email Beatrice Ekoko, Project Lead at projectmetanoia2021@gmail.com
Visit the Metanoia Project page:
https://www.hamiltonpollinatorparadise.org/the-metanoia-project.html
**Native species are those that originated in their location (ecosystems) naturally and without the involvement of human activity or intervention.
T
