Misery Party

Misery Party in residence at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve this year. Misery Party is a mental health collective centring healing for queer / trans / non-binary black people and people...

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve - Weekly Volunteer Sessions

In 2022 we will be hosting weekly volunteer sessions 11am – 1pm each Saturday from 7th May till 19th November 2022. These sessions are for regular volunteers who have previously...

Ecology as Boundless Presence: Mindful Observation and Writing Workshops

For this second experimental wetland survey, we will practice presence as a gateway to ecological knowledge. We will begin with a mindful observation workshop held by interdisciplinary ecologist Tyra Enchill...

EARTHSHAPES #7 Re-storytelling, Autumn Equinox

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the seventh in a series of 8 art-practice-led gatherings following and drawing attention to seasonal rhythms, patterns of place and earth-centric chronology. ...

Insect Survey Workshop - Surface, Soil & Leaf litter Invertebrates

Our local insect expert, Gino Brignoli, will be hosting a series of insect (invertebrate) workshops across summer. The workshops will celebrate local invertebrate fauna by providing first-hand knowledge on how...

Open House Festival 2022

A self-guided tour of Old Bethnal Green’s Social Spaces - how places shape people and people shape spaces. This self-guided walking tour is a short stroll through the little-known but...

Pesticide-Free London Event - Botanical Mixer

Come and find out about London’s urban pesticide problem and how, together, we can make the city greener and more diverse. We invite local green organisations, Pesticide-Free London campaigners and...

Insect Survey Workshop – Aquatic Invertebrates

Our local insect expert, Gino Brignoli, will be hosting a series of insect (invertebrate) workshops across summer. The workshops will celebrate local invertebrate fauna by providing first-hand knowledge on how...

Learning from herbs: tea tasting and plant observation with Mila.

As part of the ongoing experimental ecology survey at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, this workshop will be looking at the physical and emotional responses that plants generate within us...

‘Red Echo’ by Eduardo Padilha

Eduardo Padilha's latest billboard is called 'Red Echo’, a vivid large-scale paper artwork created through a process called 'eco-printing’. The dye from these eco-prints has been sourced from plant material...

New Volunteers Session – 30th July 2022

In 2022 we will be hosting monthly volunteer sessions for new volunteers at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. The next session will take place 2pm – 4pm Saturday, 30th July...

Cyanotype Workshop by Hayley Harrison & Melanie King

Cyanotype type printing is an alternative photography process using chemicals that create blue prints when exposed to sunlight. You’ll learn how to make one-off Cyanotype prints from flowers, leaves and...

The Gardening Drawing Club: VOL. 1 Summer

Founded in 2021, The Gardening Drawing Club is a series of unique events with a holistic approach offering free access to arts and horticulture in Britain. With monthly happenings, The...

Hidden Rung presents 'Canopy Soundscapes'

Musician and sound artist Hidden Rung presents a delicate evening of soundscapes, field recordings and assorted acoustics for drifting off at; Phytology, Bethnal Green 7pm - 10pm Saturday, 23rd July...

Experimental Ecology Survey Workshop; ‘A morning with Terry Lyle & Izzy Johnson: Stories and Flora of the BGNR from 1970's to now'

As part of an ongoing experimental ecology survey at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, this workshop will be centered around sharing stories about the history of the Reserve as...

EARTHSHAPES #5 - Digesting Summer

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the fifth in a series of 8 art-practice-led gatherings following seasonal rhythms. About this event Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for...

Experimental Ecology Survey Workshop; 'What’s your herb culture'?

Mixing our medicine ways and sharing our plant love. As part of the experimental Ecology Survey at the Bethnal Green Natural Reserve, we are gathering with community herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad...

Insect Survey Workshop - Invertebrates on Plants & Flying Invertebrates

Our local insect expert, Gino Brignoli, will be hosting a series of insect (invertebrate) workshops across summer. The workshops will celebrate local invertebrate fauna by providing first-hand knowledge on how...

‘Purple Echo’ by Eduardo Padilha

Eduardo Padilha's latest billboard is called 'Purple Echo’, a vivid large-scale paper artwork created through a process called 'eco-printing’. The dye from these eco-prints has been sourced from plant material...

Insect Survey Workshop - Recording data, keeping a field notebook, & using identification guides and keys

Our local insect expert, Gino Brignoli, will be hosting a series of insect (invertebrate) workshops across summer. The workshops will celebrate local invertebrate fauna by providing first-hand knowledge on how...

New Volunteers Session – 25th June 2022

In 2022 we will be hosting monthly volunteer sessions for new volunteers at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. The next session will take place 2pm – 4pm Saturday, 25th June...

Kupala Effigy Making Workshop

We will be holding a pre-Kupala effigy making workshop on Sunday 19th June in Hackney Marshes. This workshop will include foraging for flowers and grasses and building a human figure...

Ayahuasca: A Declaration of Love

Eduardo Padilha is artist in residence at Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve throughout 2022, as part of the, We Speak In Tongues About The Thing(s) We Love project curated by...

'Looking Back' billboard by Eduardo Padilha

Eduardo Padilha is an artist in residence at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve throughout 2022, part of the ‘We Speak In Tongues About The Thing(s) We Love’ project curated...

New Volunteers Session – 28th May 2022

In 2022 we will be hosting monthly volunteer sessions for new volunteers at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. The next session will take place 2pm – 4pm Saturday, 28th May...

Insect survey workshop pt.1

Our local insect expert, Gino Brignoli, will be hosting a series of insect (invertebrate) workshops across summer. The workshops will celebrate local invertebrate fauna by providing first-hand knowledge on how...

Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds album launch

Singer, song writer Merlyn Driver will be hosting a one-off album launch in collaboration with the RSPB 7pm - 10pm, 12th May 2022 Merlyn Driver's love for one of the...

Earthshapes #4 Resonating

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the fourth in a series of 8 art-practice-led gatherings following and drawing attention to seasonal rhythms, patterns of place and earth-centric chronology. Time...

Volunteer Session – April 2022

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am – 1pm Saturday, 9th April 2022. You’ll...

An Evening of Listening

The evening will include ‘Projection’ a participatory interspecies performance led by Hayley Harrison, bat echolocation led by Michael Smythe - accompanied by fresh nettle pakora, herbal tea & a...

Rights for Weeds – Foraging Walk pt.3

Izzy Johnson aka Rights for Weeds will be hosting a series of foraging walks through Spring and early summer within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. 1pm – 3pm, Saturday 2nd...

Rights for Weeds – Foraging Walk pt.2

Izzy Johnson aka Rights for Weeds will be hosting a series of foraging walks through Spring and early summer within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. 1pm - 3pm, Saturday 26th...

EARTHSHAPES #3 - Spring Equnox

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION to celebrate the long awaited arrival of spring! About this event Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the third in a series...

Rights for Weeds - Foraging Walk pt.1

Izzy Johnson aka Rights for Weeds will be hosting a series of foraging walks through Spring and early summer within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. 1pm - 3pm, Saturday 19th...

Volunteer Session – February2022

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 26th February 2022. You’ll...

Volunteer Session – February2022

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 26th February 2022. You’ll...

Healing Herbalism - Mushroom Medicine Making Workshop

Create Conscious Community presents Healing Herbalism: Mushroom Magic Healing herbalism is a series of workshops that teach people how to collaborate with the earth's treasures and make healing medicines...

EARTHSHAPES #2 AWAKENING - FIRST SHOOTS - FEBRUARY

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for an early morning gathering marking the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. About this event Join Becky Lyon...

Volunteer Sessions – January 2022

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 29th January 2022. You’ll...

Volunteer Sessions – January 2021

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 29th January 2021. You’ll...

Volunteer Sessions – December 2021

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The December session will take place at 11am - 1pm, Monday 27th December 2021...

EARTHSHAPES #1 REPLENISHING - MID-WINTER

Join Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for the first in a series of 8 art-practice-led gatherings following and drawing attention to seasonal rhythms, patterns of place and earth-centric chronology. ...

Forest Friday's

Forest Friday's is a free, weekly forest school for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. School aged children and their families can learn...

Volunteer Sessions – November 2021

We are holding monthly volunteer sessions at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve across the winter months. The next session will take place 11am - 1pm Saturday, 27th November 2021. You’ll...

Volunteer Sessions - September till October 2021

Join our weekly medicine garden volunteer sessions each Saturday 11am - 1pm throughout September & October. You’ll learn how to identify, nurture and harvest a wide variety of medicine plants...

Forest Friday - October Half Term Session

Forest Friday’s is a free, weekly forest school for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. School aged children and their families can learn...

August Holiday Nature Club

Forest Friday's is a free outdoor learning opportunity for local children and families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. We will be holding a week long Nature...

Leaf Hearing Blue, Moss Tickling a Soil by Becky Lyon

Join Becky Lyon + ELASTIC FICTION for three experimental workshops inviting you to re-sensitise, re-tune and imagine-with the ecology found within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. This forms part of...

The London Moth Project: Live event and ID session

Join Katherine Pogson as she surveys and documents month populations living in the heart of Bethnal Green! Meet some of the surprising hidden creatures that live in the local...

PRIMORDIAL SKY 

Primordial Sky is an experimental performance of music and movement taking place across the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve woodlands. A symbiosis of music/dance/sculpture will correspond with above-ground and soil ecologies...

Wild Walk Workshop

This workshop will take you into the depths of the woods, looking closely at the flora and fauna of Bethnal Green. The workshop will explore the rich biodiversity living in...

Bird Watching Workshop

Join Jane Laurie, local artist and bird expert, on a bird watching walk around Bethnal Green. Jane will play her collection of bird song field recordings from her avine archive...

Bushcraft Workshop pt.2

Learn how to build, maintain and cook on an open campfire this summer. You will learn a range of useful techniques for lighting and maintaining a campfire for cooking up...

Whittling Workshop pt.2

Learn basic wood whittling techniques to make yourself a spoon to take home and enjoy. You will learn a range of woodworking techniques using a bunch of tools such as...

DIY Biochar & Bacterial Cultures for Soil Workshop pt.2

Biochar originates from an indigenous Amazonian technique to give nutrition and health to the soil. Scientifically the term biochar is meant to describe the process of using charcoal as a...

Foraging Workshop

Join Izzy (aka Benevolent Weeds) as she leads a foraging walk throughout the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve's woodlands. You'll learn about the wild sessional food and medicinal plants that can...

Wetland Ecology Survey Workshop

Take part in an ecological surveying of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve wetlands. We will pond dip and collect a range of insects, amphibians, animals and plants living in our...

Campfire Club - The Rheingans Sisters + Sarah Smout

The Nest Collective's 'Campfire Club' is returning to the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve this summer! 7pm - 10:30pm, 18th June 2021 The Rheingans Sisters Winners of the 2016 BBC Radio...

Living Monoliths & Seed Bomb Talk

Maria Roy Deulofeu & Sean Ross are two sustainable designers from the United Matters design collective currently working within the Nature Reserve. Over the past two months they have been...

Whittling Workshop

Learn basic wood whittling techniques to make useful things such as spatulas and spoons. We will learn different techniques for tools such axes, knives and hook knives. All equipment will...

Bug Hunt Workshop

We will look in the woods and the wetlands for the fascinating invertebrates that live in Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Using equipment, such as microscopes, magnifiers and identification keys. We...

Tree School - Spring Half Term

Tree School returns to the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve for the spring half-term. Tuesday 1st – Friday 4th June 2021 Tree School is a free, family friendly opportunity for children...

DIY Biochar & Bacterial Cultures for Soil Workshop

Biochar originates from an indigenous Amazonian technique to give nutrition and health to the soil. Scientifically the term biochar is meant to describe the process of using charcoal as a...

Tree & Urban Forestry Workshop

Learn more about the ecosystem of trees. One of the planets great food, shelter, carbon regulators, habitat and oxygen providers, trees are an integral part of human and non-human life...

Introduction to Urban Ecology Workshop

Join Ecologist’s Richard Bullock + Dimuthu Meehitiya to learn about different data collection methods of ecology. Learn about sweep netting, transect walks, pond dipping, and data collation processes. Biodiversity data...

Ecology Workshops

Wetland/Pond Life 11am - 1pm, 10th April Come and Investigate Bethnal Green Nature Reserve's ponds. Learn about the amazing pond life diversity found in our urban wetlands. Pond-dipping is...

Mobile Apothecary - Winter / Spring Dates

Mobile Apothecary Schedule January till March 2021 10th January, Bethnal Green Tube Station @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm 21st January, Hackney Town Hall @ 8pm – 9pm 5th February, Ridley Road...

Online ‘Herbal Chat’ with the Community Herbal Network + Mobile Apothecary

Online Herbal Chat for Barking & Dagenham Women's Empowerment Month! Wed 24 March 2021 6-7pm Zoom meeting Email Shaun@companydrinks.info for a link. . Company Drinks, the Mobile Apothecary + Community...

Annual General Meeting 2020

The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust invite you to our Annual General Meeting. 7pm - 8pm, 20th January 2021 Please note, due to the pandemic both meetings will be held...

Mobile Apothecary - Autumn Dates

The Mobile Apothecary street service will be at the following locations throughout September, October, November & December 2020; 8pm Thursday, 24th September – Outside Hackney Town Hall 8pm Friday, 9th...

'Of Lost & Found' by Ellie Doney

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 'Of Lost & Found’, an online archive exploring the material history of the Phytology site by Ellie Doney. Ellies work explores...

Mobile Apothecary, Street Service Schedule - July, August, September

The Mobile Apothecary street service will be delivering our free fortnightly service at the following locations; 8pm - 8:45pm Thursday, 2nd July @ Outside Hackney Town Hall 8pm - 8:45pm...

FOREST FRIDAY

FOREST FRIDAY is a weekly project for local children + families to explore the wonders of nature on your doorstep. Our team will be giving away seeds and soil so...

Mobile Apothecary, June Schedule – Dalston Street Service

The Mobile Apothecary street service will be outside Hackney Town Hall fortnightly throughout the month of June, 2020; 12th June @ 8pm Friday, Dalston Kingsland Overground Station, London 26th June...

Mobile Apothecary, June Schedule - Hackney Street Service

The Mobile Apothecary street service will be outside Hackney Town Hall fortnightly throughout the month of June, 2020; 11th June @ 8pm Thursday, Hackney Town Hall, London. 25th June @...

Mobile Apothecary, May Schedule - Dalston Street Service

The Mobile Apothecary street service outside Dalston Kingsland Overground Station each Friday throughout the month of May, 2020; 8pm Friday, Dalston Kingsland Overground Station, London We will be serving alongside...

Mobile Apothecary, May Schedule - Hackney Town Hall Street Service

The Mobile Apothecary street service will be outside Hackney Town Hall each Thursday throughout the month of May, 2020; 8pm Thursday, Hackney Town Hall, London We will be serving alongside...

Mobile Apothecary #7

Mobile Apothecary winter time medicine making returns for a stock-building session mid-February at the Keddlestone Walk Community Centre in Bethnal Green, a short walk from the Phytology's medicine garden. Join...

Woodland Management - Volunteer Day

We are doing some winter woodland management at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve and would love your help! . 2pm till 5pm, 8th Feb Bethnal Green Nature Reserve . There...

Annual General Meeting

The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust invite you to our Annual General Meeting. 6pm - 7:30pm, 4th December 2019 Location - Hollybush Gardens, Kedleston Walk Community Centre, Bethnal Green E29RP...

Mobile Apothecary Workshop #6

2019 has seen us developing the Bethnal Green Mobile Apothecary, a productive collaboration between Phytology medicine garden, Herbalists Without Borders London and St Margaret's House, seeking to support underserved communities...

Through The Microscope

Join the Roving Microscope and LEAP Micro AD for this unique opportunity to look inside Calthorpe’s anaerobic digester. A giant mechanical stomach, the digester produces a rich liquid fertiliser...

Mobile Apothecary Workshop #5

2019 has seen us developing the Bethnal Green Mobile Apothecary, a productive collaboration between Phytology medicine garden, Herbalists Without Borders London and St Margaret's House, seeking to support underserved communities...

Drawing Nature’s Medicine: Embodying the Autumn Transition

Explore the shift from Summer into Autumn through botanical drawing and the elemental teachings of Ayurveda. The day-long workshop will explore how aligning better with nature’s cycles increases resilience...

Campfire Club: Iona Fyfe & Finnegan Tui

This summer, The Nest Collective invites you to discover extraordinary music around the campfire. Every week from May to September, the Nest Collective gather in beautiful green spaces under city...

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS With Materials & Microbes

An up-close and personal sensory exploration of human-material-microbe interaction, through mudlarking, microscopy, biscuit making and creative writing together. Where do microbes like to live? How do we feel about the...

Bethnal Green Open Gardens Treasure Trail

Are you curious about what is growing in the gardens of Bethnal Green? Join us on Sunday 25th August from 11 – 6 for a rare opportunity to explore an...

Mobile Apothecary Workshop #4

High summer outing for the Mobile Apothecary! Come participate in our day at the medicinal meadow, meeting and gathering healing herbs of the season and joining together in making stocks...

Tree School

Phytology hosts a week-long summer school for local children and young people in Bethnal Green. 29th July - 2nd August, 2019. The course explores the historic and contemporary relationship between...

Remaking the soil food web

Join soil ecologist Olly Edmonds and artist Melissa Thompson for a day long workshop which uncovers the fascinating relationships, exchanges and stories which are buried in the soil. We will...

Site Tour & Volunteer Session

Join our monthly medicine garden introduction and site management working-group. 11am – 1pm Saturday, 29th June We discuss woodland, wetland and medicine garden management, while supporting the upkeep and ongoing...

Kupala Festival 2019 - Lunar Edition

This year’s festival will feature performative works by artists responding to the theme of the moon. Participating artists: Rosanna Dean, Sarah Fortais, Vanessa von Heydebreck, Yva Jung, Jin Han Lee...

Mobile Apothecary

The Mobile Apothecary will return to Bethnal Green on 16th June. The Mobile Apothecary is a collaborate between Phytology, Herbalists Without Borders & St Margarets House - delivering free, freshly...

Mobile Apothecary Workshop pt.3

The Mobile Apothecary returns to Phytology in June. Phytology; 11am - 3pm, 15th June. The session will be led by the brilliant Melissa Ronaldson. You will learn to identify, harvest...

London’s Modern Nature: Nurturing green spaces in the capital

Public Talk @ The Drawing Room. Sat 1st June 2019 : 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Katharine Stout, curator of Modern Nature, chairs a panel discussion with Joyce Cronin of The...

Mobile Apothecary Workshop pt.2

The Mobile Apothecary returns to Phytology this May! Our second outing will focus on medicinal plants, shrubs and trees coming into flower throughout Spring. The workshop session will specifically focus...

Microscopic Lunch

Join us for a free shared lunch and microscope gazing session at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Bring some food to share and anything you'd like to look at in our...

UpRoot

A CREATIVE WRITING, PERFORMANCE AND GARDENING WORKSHOP FOR EAST-LONDONERS TRYING TO PUT DOWN ROOTS. . As part of 2 Degrees Festival by Artsadmin, award-winning artist company Curious are offering a...

Mobile Apothecary Workshop pt.1

Join our new monthly herb harvest + medicine making workshop at Phytology & The Create Place. The first session will take place on Sunday 7th April, 11am - 3pm. Spring...

'Speaking to the City' billboard installation

The Alternative School of Economics is a collaboration between artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck. It is both an artwork and a way of working; it links artist practice with...

ROOT HARVEST - Solidarity Medicine Making

Join Community Herbalists Rasheeqa Ahmad (Hedge Herbs, Herbalists Without Borders (HWB) London) & Shumaisa Khan (HWB-Sussex, Phytology), for a community root harvest at the Phytology medicine garden, Bethnal Green Nature...

Bat Habitat Workshop

Join Phytology Ecologist, Olly Edmonds for our final bat box install of the season at the Hollybush Estate, Bethnal Green. Help build, paint & install bat boxes around this...

Bat Walk at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Evening Bat Walk at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park with Ecologist Olly Edmonds Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park - meet by the Soanes Centre, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park main entrance on the...

Urban Mind - Launch Event

Help us understand how city living is affecting mental health and wellbeing Please join us for the launch of Urban Mind, an international research project exploring how the urban environment...

Campfire Club: Jim Causley + Saskia Maxwell

Returning for a fourth summer filling London’s green spaces with music. A concert like no other: unamplified, outdoors, around a fire. Gather together and listen. Tickets here! Jim Causley During...

Urgent Matters III

Urgent Matters III: soil, poetry and care, brings together creative, philosophical, ethical, poetic and political concerns in relation to soil. We are delighted to invite Maria Puig de la Bellacasa...

Herbal Medicine Workshops: Herbal Tinctures for Digestion

Led by Phytology Medical Herbalist Molly Maitland. Focus: Internal Medicinal Tinctures for Digestion An introduction to tincture making and how to make medicines for internal use at home. Explore...

Calming Yoga by Lemonade Yoga Life

Come and join us this summer or calming, meditative and balancing yoga sessions with yoga practitioner Rosemarie St. Louis. http://www.lemonadeyogalife.com Relax the mind and body within the Bethnal Green Nature...

LCN presents: Art & Ecology panel discussion

Bringing together a panel of art practitioners working at the intersection of ecology, science, activism and art, the session will focus on different perspectives around ecology in the urban and...

'Speaking to the City' - The Alternative School of Economics billboard launch

Join The Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck) for the launch of their new billboard commission titled 'Speaking to the City'. Make and share dampers with local...

Foraging Course with Totally Wild UK

Join expert forager Gavin Ireland to learn the basics of foraging and discover a variety of edibles within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Gavin will introduce you to a number...

Herbal Medicine Workshop: Herbs To Restore

Led by Phytology Medical Herbalist Molly Maitland. An introduction to Phytology‘s summer herbal meadow and the plants main herbal constituents. Explore how to pick and dry herbs seasonally and...

Life Underground pt.2

Join Ellie Doney and Nayoung Jeong for the second part in their olla irrigation and fermentation workshop. During this session you will have the chance to bury and install some...

Life Underground pt.1

This informal clay pot making session explores the buried vessel as site of transformation, and agent of slow irrigation. Conceived as an exploratory part of our composting season, artists Ellie...

Gasper Nali + Ellie Ford

Tickets here! Gasper Nali Gasper Nali plays a Babatoni – a 3 meter, one-stringed, home-made bass guitar – with an empty bottle and a stick. And makes the most beautiful...

Wormery building workshop with Beth Stewart

Join us to help make a worm farm for Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Wormeries are an amazing way of recycling uncooked food waste and producing a rich compost and liquid...

Urgent Matters II: answering the call of nature

This is the second in a series of talks and workshops addressing urgent material, social and environmental concerns through conversation, making, and thinking together. 1pm - 5:30pm In this two...

Shared lunch lecture – Nick Bridge

Join our resident climate change expert, Nick Bridge, as he introduces ongoing working processes. Nick is the writer in residency throughout 2018. His residency reflects on the meaning and value...

Yoga with Alessandra Bosi

Alessandra Bosi will be leading a Vinyasa class at Phytology. She will move through a open level class focussing on Muladhara, the First Chakra. A great way to recharge Muladhara...

Herbal Medicine Workshop: Herbs to Protect

Gain hands on experience making your own bespoke lip and body balm using fresh herbs from the Phytology meadow. We will explore the properties of different carrier oils for...

Shared lunch lecture - Matthew Beach

Join our Resident Geographer, Matthew Beach, as he introduces current working processes. Beach is researching the historical, material, and caring geographies rooted within its participatory art projects. Specifically, the medicinal...

London National Park City Fair

London National Park City, put simply, is a movement to improve life in London. Michael Smythe will discuss various ways we can all influence, shape and design healthier ecosystems in...

London Radical Herbalism Gathering

London Radical Herbalism Gathering - Join Shumaisa Khan (Phytology) as she talks about Ayurvedic health & colonisation of European plant medicine tradition by biomedicine.

Dwelling in Phytology – A Movement Based Exploration

Dwelling is part of a research project exploring and designing tools to expand sensory and movement awareness. Luc and Mira will lead the session through exercises of perception and performance...

Evening Bat Walk & Moth Calling

Join Ecologist Olly Edmonds to learn all about London bats & the ecological importance of places like Haggerston Park to support these amazing mammals. 8:30pm - 10:00pm You will learn...

Help us build a new bat sanctuary in Hackney!

Join us for a bat box & habitat building workshop in Haggerston Park. 11:30am - 1pm Learn all about London bats, the ecological importance of places like Haggerston Park...

London Bulgarian Choir + Harbottle & Jonas

Tickets here! London Bulgarian Choir The award-winning London Bulgarian Choir is a vibrant, sociable and open-hearted group of singers embracing all nationalities, ages and abilities. The choir was founded in...

Urgent Matters I: Plants, people and pollution

Urgent Matters I: Plants, people and pollution How can people and plants work together to improve air quality, as well as mental and physical health in the city? In this...

Bat Box Install - Canal Club Community Gardens

Join Ecologist, Olly Edmonds, at the fantastic Canal Club Community Garden to help build and paint bat boxes. 4pm - 6pm We will install the boxes around the garden...

Bat Box Install – Bow, East London

Join Ecologist, Olly Edmonds, at the historic St Leonard's Churchyard in Bow (East London) to help build, paint bat & install new boxes & habitat infrastructure. 1pm – 2:30pm...

Compost bay building with Beth Stewart

Join us for an all-day community build workshop (11am – 5pm) when we will be assembling our first new composting system on site. We will be using reclaimed and sustainably...

Ivana Kupla Celebration

. Join us at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve for the second year of Ivana Kupala summer celebration - based on the traditional Ukrainian folk midsummer celebration. The evening...

Community Haystack 2018

The annual haystack event is back! Join us for the hay harvest on the Walthamstow Marshes, learn how to scythe and build a haystack, ramble the marshes, come along to...

Herbal Medicine Workshop: Herbs for Balance

Focus: Herbs for allergies and respiratory system health. Guest speaker Nat Mady from Hackney Herbal. An introduction to Phytology‘s herbal meadow and the plants main herbal constituents. Explore how to...

Compost Toilet Co-design Workshop at Phytology pt.3

Come and help design a new accessible compost toilet for Bethnal Green Nature Reserve! This is the third and final co-design workshop and opportunity to have your say about how...

Compost Toilet Co-design Session pt.2

This year we will be building a new accessible compost toilet at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve to improve access to the site. We would like to involve local residents as...

Phytology Evening Bat Walk with Ecologist Olly Edmonds

Phytology will extend our successful bat habitat project across East London this Summer, in collaboration with several housing estates and community groups. Join us for our second session this June...

Bat Box Install: Columbia Rd & Ion Sq

Phytology will extend our successful bat habitat project across East London this Summer, in collaboration with several housing estates and community groups. Join us for our first session this June...

Urban Mind - Arts in Mind Festival

Over three-and-a-half billion people, more than half the world's population, live in urban areas. This number is rising fast in both developed and developing countries, and it is expected that...

Campfire Club: Seckou Keita

Returning for a fourth summer filling London’s green spaces with music. A concert like no other: unamplified, outdoors, around a fire. Gather together and listen. £12 - 16 online or...

Compost Toilet Co-design Session pt.1

This year we are building a new accessible compost toilet within the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. We would love to involve past, present and future users of the Reserve to...

Carol Sharp - Chelsea Fringe Installation

Carol Sharp will be presenting an experimental sound installation combining machines and living plants, part of the 2018 Chelsea Fringe Festival. 11-6pm - Friday 25th & Saturday 26th May The...

Phytology 2018 Launch

5pm -10pm ALL WELCOME! We will preview new works from last year’s resident artists DJ Simpson, Kathrin Böhm & Ellie Doney, with live music from The Nest Collective. Our resident...

 The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind

Hauser & Wirth Somerset ‘The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind’ 20th January – 7th May 2018. This ambitious survey exhibition explores the contradictory nature of...

The Social (Re)Production of Architecture

Michael Smythe (Phytology) & Kathrin Böhm (Company Drinks) will be in conversation at the launch of 'The Social (Re-) Production of Architecture' tonight @ Central St Martins, Granary Sq, London...

VOICED - Stick In The Wheel

In the summer of 2015, artists Lucía Montero and Duncan Robertson commissioned six writers to develop original text inspired by this wild piece of land called the Bethnal Green Nature...

Restorative Yoga

Come and join us throughout August for calming, meditative and balancing yoga sessions at Phytology with yoga practitioner Rosemarie St. Louis. Relax the mind and body within the Bethnal Green...

Herbal Medicine Workshop Pt.4 – Herbs to DIGEST

Phytology’s Herbal Medicine summer workshops offer an introduction to the native plants growing in the medicinal meadow at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, alongside practical information about how to use...

Dig 4: Mobile phone microscopy & ‘stained glass’ collage

Urban Mudlarking at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve with Phytology’s Artist in Residence: Ellie Doney. Over the summer months Ellie will lead a series of public ‘digs’, urban mudlarking, excavating...

Bat Workshop pt.4 - Bat detecting & monitoring in Hampstead Heath

Phytology takes a field trip in August, with resident ecologist Olly Edmonds, looking at a variety of bats within Hampstead Heath. Using bats detectors, we have a good chance of...

VOICED - James Nixon

In the summer of 2015, artists Lucía Montero and Duncan Robertson commissioned six writers to develop original text inspired by this wild piece of land called the Bethnal Green Nature...

The Growth

Culture Device present The Growth, an afternoon of performance poetry by UK's leading artists with Down Syndrome. Tickets £5 Book here! Featured artists include Sarah Gordy, Tommy Jessop, Holly Risebough...

This is the garden and the garden is many things

with Kim Trogal, Ana Vilencia & Kathrin Böhm Phytology is described by its users and keepers as a cultural institute, a bat paradise, a garden, a medicinal field, a community...

Herbal Medicine Workshop Pt.3 – Herbs to CLEANSE

Phytology’s Herbal Medicine summer workshops offer an introduction to the native plants growing in the medicinal meadow at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, alongside practical information about how to use...

VOICED - Lucy Cash

In the summer of 2015, artists Lucía Montero and Duncan Robertson commissioned six writers to develop original text inspired by this wild piece of land called the Bethnal Green Nature...

Dig 3: Found object collage & mouldable plastic badge-making

Urban Mudlarking at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve with Phytology’s Artist in Residence: Ellie Doney. Over the summer months Ellie will lead a series of public ‘digs’, urban mudlarking, excavating...

Bat Workshop pt.3 - Bat detecting along the canal (the basics in echolocation)

Join us for an evening of bat detecting along a walk from Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park to the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve taking in Mile End Park and the Regents...

Ivana Kupala - Solstice Festival

Join us for Ivana Kupala celebration, an Eastern European & Scandinavia summer solstice festival dating back to pagan times. The evening will include a Ukrainian tea ceremony by artist Olha...

Let's Get Lost

Come and join us for an evening of outdoor readings from contemporary writers & poets, including specially commissioned work exploring themes of urban wilderness. Contributors include.. Music by Helen Bailey...

Dig Workshop pt.2 - Pewter casting and silicone mould making

Urban Mudlarking at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve with Phytology's Artist in Residence: Ellie Doney. Over the summer months Ellie will lead a series of public ‘digs’, urban mudlarking, excavating...

VOICED - David Nash

In the summer of 2015, artists Lucía Montero and Duncan Robertson commissioned six writers to develop original text inspired by this wild piece of land called the Bethnal Green Nature...

Herbal Medicine Workshop Pt.2 - Herbs to PROTECT

Phytology’s Herbal Medicine summer workshops offer an introduction to the native plants growing in the medicinal meadow at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, alongside practical information about how to use...

Botanical Drawing Classes

Drop in botanical drawing classes with artist and illustrator and teacher Jo Fisher Roberts. Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve 2-4pm, 10th June No previous experience required (donation payment). “To draw...

Bat Workshop pt.2 - How To Construct A Bat Habitat

Phytology is launching a new bat sanctuary project – extending the natural resources of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve to accommodate an urban bat population. The development of the bat...

IN YOUR HANDS - After School Club

Standpoint Studios, in collaboration with Phytology, invite young people aged 8 -14 to participate in a series of creative workshops over the summer of 2017. The course will focus on...

VOICED - Sarah Westcott

VOICED is an immersive sound installation embedded amongst the trees, undergrowth and ruins of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Sarah Westcott will be the featured artist throughout the month of...

Urban Mudlarking Workshop

Urban Mudlarking Workshop with Resident Artist - Ellie Doney Urban Mudlarking Workshop with Resident Artist - Ellie Doney: Sun-prints and flipbook animations This method of early photography captures the shadow...

Herbal Medicine Workshop pt.1 - Herbs for BALANCE

Focus: herbs for allergies, respiratory system and for stress, anxiety and depression. Introduction to phytology‘s herbal meadow and the plants main herbal constituents. Explore how to pick and dry herbs...

Bat Workshop pt.1 - Bats in Bethnal Green (Evening Workshop)

An evening focusing on the importance of Bethnal Green Nature Reserve for bats. Visitors will get the chance to learn more about the Bat Sanctuary project, why and how bats...

2017 Launch

Phytology returns for 2017! Join us for the launch of our new season. Date - May 6th, 2017 Time - 4pm till 8pm Location - Bethnal Green Nature Reserve For...

Landscape Learn - Winter Dormancy

Landscape Learn, in collaboration with Phytology, invite you to explore the process of redefining a city landscape in the context of changing urban ecologies. Landscape Learn is a J &...

Herbal Skincare and Tea-Making Workshop

Gain hands on experience making your own healthy, inexpensive, and effective herbal body balm, using fresh herbs from the Phytology medicine garden. The workshop is taught by qualified medical herbalist...

Places to Dwell that May Never Have Been Seen

Installation and street artist Lucy McLauchlan has created Places to Dwell that May Never Have Been Seen, a sequence of fluid, playful location-responsive installations situated throughout the Bethnal Green Nature...

VOICED

VOICED is a five-part immersive sound installation created by Duncan Robertson and Lucia Montero in collaboration with Lucy Cash, David Nash, James Nixon, Stick In The Wheel and Sarah Westcott...

Herbal Skin Cream Workshop

Our season of Phytology summer workshops continues this August with an herbal skin cream-making workshop. August 20th - 11am till 1pm Gain hands on experience making your own quick, inexpensive...

'So Below' Billboard - Sam Wallman

‘So Below’ is an online graphic essay by cartoonist and journalist Sam Wallman. Exploring the idea of land ownership, Wallman melds the political with the poetic, connecting both historic and...

So Below

So Below is an online graphic essay by cartoonist and journalist Sam Wallman. Exploring the idea of land ownership, Wallman melds the political with the poetic, connecting both historical and...

The Walking Reading Group: On Commons

The Walking Reading Group (TWRG) 'On Commons' offers a chance to discuss the many perspectives related to this complex theory while walking a contextual and predetermined route starting in Hackney...

Balm Making Workshop

Our Phytology summer workshops start this July with a herbal body balm making workshop.WHEN:Saturday, 2 July 2016 from 11:00 to 13:00 (BST) - Add to CalendarWHERE:Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve...

Wood Spirits by Steph von Reiswitz

‘Wood Spirits’ Inspired by the myth of Demeter & Persephone, artist Steph von Reiswitz has produced a series of drawings and large-scale paintings during her spring residency at the Phytology...

Medicinal Weed Tour - Haggerston Park

The Phytology team will be leading a medicinal weed tour of Haggerston Park this Saturday. Date: June 11th Time: 1pm - 1:45pm Location: Audery St, Hackney, London E2 8QY Fore...

Steph von Reiswitz - Billboard Launch

'Wood Spirits' Inspired by the myth of Demeter & Persephone, artist Steph von Reiswitz has produced a series of drawings and large-scale paintings during her spring residency at the Phytology...

WHO HOLDS THE KEYS

Political cartoonist Sam Wallman has produced the most recent billboard artwork titled 'WHO HOLDS THE KEYS'. The artwork explores the idea of land ownership - connecting both historical and contemporary...

The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust - Public Meeting

Trustees Meeting & Site Tour The Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Trust has recently been granted charitable status. We will be hosting our first Friends & Trustees meeting this Saturday, May...

Launch

The Phytology project will reopen this Saturday - May 7th. Join us for celebratory drinks from 4pm till 7pm. This years program will feature new works by Lucy McLauchlan, Sam...

Japanese Knotweed and Urban Foraging as Collective Performance

A two-part Haystack event with Ljubljana based designer Gaja Mežnarić Osole. Spring has sprung and the Japanese knotweed season is upon us. Please join us for the next Haystack in...

Stick In The Wheel - Billboard

Stick In The Wheel are Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter. Their recent billboard artwork directly references a prayer pamphlet found within St Jude's church around the turn of the century...

Mike Ballard - Advertising the Invisible

Phytology proudly presents a new billboard commission by Mike Ballard titled 'Advertising the Invisible'. The new artwork will be featured on the Phytology billboard from December 15th until January 15th, 2016.

Final weeks of 2015

Phytology is open for the next two weeks - before we close the medicinal field for winter. Saturday 19th + 26th September 11am & 6pm Come and harvest fresh medicinal...

Herbal Workshop

The Phytology team will host a free workshop on how to make your own fresh balms and tinctures: 4pm till 5pm Come and harvest medicinal herbs and learn how to...

Sarah Westcott - billboard launch

Phytology proudly presents a new billboard commission by Sarah Westcott. We will be launching the latest billboard on Saturday 19th September - 11am till 6pm Sarah Westcott is currently a...

Michael Howard - Billboard Launch

5pm - We will be launching the latest billboard by local artist - Michael Howard. Drinks will be served between 5pm & 6:30pm today.

Campfire Club

Stick In The Wheel Jaron Freeman Fox Sam Mumford 7:30p till 11pm

The Campfire Club

The Campfire Club returns to Phytology with another fantastic group of artists: Vula Viel Fabian Holland + special guests 7:30p till 11pm Tickets – £6 (online), £8 (door) Address Phytology...

Writers Residency Program

As part of the Phytology programme, artists Duncan Robertson and Lucía Montero will commission a series residencies for writers - including poets, song writers - during Spring and Summer 2015...

Night Walking Tour

Groundwork London are hosting a candlelit tour of the Phytology site on Friday night. Forage from the medicinal meadow and enjoy some plant-based refreshments. Booking essential as places are limited...

Tal Brosh - Private View

To celebrate the end of Brosh's four month residency we will be holding a Private View featuring Brosh's fourth and final piece on the Phytology billboard. Saturday June 6th from...

Gardener Internship - Job Opportunity

We are hiring! Job Description: Gardener Internship Phytology is an action research project bringing together artists and botanists to explore the ecology and medicinal properties of wild plants and weeds...

Opening dates for 2015!

The Phytology medicinal field and the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve will re-open in May 2015! Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9RR, London Opening Dates May 2nd...

Closed for 2014

Phytology and the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve is now closed for 2014. Check our social media platforms for updates and information: Vimeo Facebook Instagram Twitter

Apple Of My Eye, Alba & Pressed For Time

The Phytology project is having one final send off and would love to see you there.Please join us in the Phytology amphitheatre for a open fire and some exceptional live...

Closed to the public for 2014

Phytology and the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve will close for the year on August 30th, 2014. Come and harvest medicinal weeds for the final time in 2014 this weekend...

Farafi

Farafi is a project based on musical fusion. It weaves the colors of traditional african music together with contemporary folk music. Darlini Singh Kaul & Joy Tyson are at the...

Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith

Sid and Jimmy are an emerging duo who play traditional folk music predominantly from the British Isles. They tell stories of hardship, joy, murder and celebration held together with driving...

Printmaking Workshops

Join the Phytology team for a weekend of workshops and printmaking at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Learn how to identify wild plants and their incredible medicinal properties. http://www.phytology.org.uk/plants/ Take part...

Adopt A Plant

Adopt A Plant will officially commence from Saturday, 7th June, 2014. People will be able to adopt and take home one of the following plant species: Common Nettle Dandelion Marsh...

Bridie Jackson & The Arbour

Sitting “somewhere between the lushness of Norah Jones and the quirkiness of Joanna Newsom”, Bridie Jackson & The Arbour’s music is simultaneously beautiful, ethereal, dark and powerful. Recently revealed as...

Simon Whitehead & Richard Reynolds / The Mobile Meadow: Seeding Walk

Free Guerrilla Gardener and accidental activist, Richard Reynolds, works with movement artist Simon Whitehead to create a mobile meadow. Made with the participation of people carrying wildflower seedlings on a...

Ackroyd & Harvey

Radical Growth Siobhan Davies Studios £10 tickets Ackroyd & Harvey discuss the special freedom an artist has to work across boundaries and make powerful, though often subtle statements in an...

Johanna Gibbons & Paul Lincoln

Planting Steps Walk £5 tickets Johanna Gibbons of J & L Gibbons, Landscape Architects and Paul Lincoln of the Landscape Institute lead a walk from City Hall, seat of the...

Alasdair Roberts

Tickets: £12 Alasdair Roberts is a musician (primarily a guitarist and singer) who is based in Glasgow Scotland. He has worked with Drag City Records since 1997, firstly releasing three...

Tony Juniper

‘WHAT HAS NATURE EVER DONE FOR US?’ Siobhan Davies Studios £10 / £8 tickets Britain’s leading environmental campaigner, Tony Juniper discusses the services nature performs for us, from the provision...

Dan Pearson, Thomas Heatherwick & Joanna Lumley

THE GARDEN BRIDGE PROJECT Siobhan Davies Studios £10 tickets In their first joint public talk Pearson, Heatherwick and Lumley discuss the concepts behind London’s first Garden Bridge. Connecting Temple station...

Gwennie & the Old Accord

Tickets: £6 / £8 on the door Whilst living in Scotland Gwennie met John Langan who played a big part in encouraging her music making and helping produce her first...

Arlet

Tickets: £6 / £8 on the door Arlet’s music is located somewhere between the folk club and the chamber music hall. Their sound brings together the primary colours of the...

Simo

Simo Lagnawi Tickets: £6 / £8 on the door Simo has been nominated for two Songline awards for 2014 - best newcomer and best artist. His solo debut album 'Gnawa...

Human-Nature, Talks & Discussions

JOHANNA GIBBONS £5 (booking essential) Wild London Walk Johanna Gibbons and Neil Davidson of J&L Gibbons, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Practice speak on alternative urban planning and lead a...

Human-Nature, Talks & Discussions

The Human-Nature talks program endeavours to explore the generative and often overlooked potential of unpurposed growth within the urban environment. Over the course of two weekends our speakers will explore...

The Nest Collective present - The Campfire Club

Doors: 18:00 Tickets £10 / local residents free (booking essential) You’re invited to join in the Campfire Club! In time-honoured fashion we will gather around roaring blazes enveloped in...

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Phytology Project Launch

The Phytology project will be officially launch at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve between 12pm and 5pm. This event will mark the official opening of our medicinal field. Phytology Bethnal...

Site Tours

A series of guided tours will take place on the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve throughout spring and summer of 2014. The first tour will take place at the Phytology launch...

Volunteer Induction Day

The Phytology project welcomes anyone interested volunteering on the medicinal field throughout the spring and summer. All volunteers will be invited to join our first induction day on April 25th...

Circle of Listening

You are invited to 'Circle of Listening', a meditative gathering where we will sit and walk silently together, listening to what the nature reserve has to say. The session will...

Billboard by Gail Burton

Our latest billboard titled 'Touch Wood' is by resident artist Gail Burton. LOOK UP AND TURN FACE TO SUN AND BALANCE ON ONE FOOT STAY Gail is manoeuvring with the...

Alba

Alba sings, plays percussion, dances, practises Body Percussion, studies the guitar. All the arts seem to scintillates in front her eyes. She was born in Sao Paulo, Brasil and her...

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