urban tree festival
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Larch, Spruce, Fir, Birch, Hand, Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland 2007–2026
In association with the Urban Tree Festival, we welcome Marlene Creates award-winning photographer and long time supporter of walk · listen · create, as our café guest. Marlene will discuss some of the work she has done over the past 24 years in her outdoor studio, which is a six-acre (2.4 hectares) patch of old-growth
• (Tree inspired) Hidden Garden haiku walkshop – SE1
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover all of Britain’s native trees, all within one park, and visit London’s most iconic peace garden. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert,
• Find Your London: Tree or False?
Devised by Andrew Stuck of the Museum of Walking, this walkshop became a regular event as part of the Mayor of London’s London Tree Week, and subsequent Urban Tree Festivals. Everyone has heard ‘an old wives’ tale’ about a certain tree species, some of which have a layer of truth within them, others are downright
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Needle in a haystack
Don’t ask me to identify a tree. I may be the person who invented and co-founded the Urban Tree Festival but I left it to cleverer people to identify the trees we were celebrating. Over the next four weeks there’s a call out for people to walk in support of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. This
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Urban Tree Festival – Open Call
This year’s Urban Tree Festival will run from 9–17 May, and we are now seeking proposals from individuals, community groups and organisations to run events. Apply via the Google form, you will need a Google account to complete the form. This year, we’ve also produced a PDF of the application questions so you can read through them
Visualisation, Mindfulness & Movement
On this walk, led by Mel Sutton, we will starting in Red Cross Garden and then walk to nearby Mint Street Park, both pretty gardens managed by Bankside Open Spaces Trust Surrounded by nature we have chosen this peaceful garden to explore different ways you can experience mindfulness. This interactive event will make this a fun
• Hidden Garden Haiku creative writing walkshop – City of London – East
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop in which you discover hidden gardens minutes from the Monument, in the City of London. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert, join in this fun walking activity in
• Hidden Garden Haiku walkshop – Holland Park
Celebrating trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival, a 90 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover not one but two Japanese Gardens. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture. Novice or expert, join in this fun walking activity in which you get
• Hidden Garden Haiku creative writing walkshop – City of London
Celebrating Trees as part of the Urban Tree Festival and sponsored by the City of London, a 75 minute walkshop (workshop on foot) in which you discover hidden gardens minutes from St Paul’s, in the City of London. Together we will compose and recite haiku – 3 lined short poem usually associated with Japanese culture.
• Urban Tree Festival creative writing workshop (online) with Joanna Wolfarth
Back by popular demand – for all of you who like DEADLINES – this event is set to run just five days from the closing of this year’s Festival writing competition. How can we use art to inspire words? Ekphrasis translates as ‘description’ in Greek and, today, an ekphrasis is used to mean a literary description
WRITE ABOUT TREES: Urban Tree Festival showcase of new writing
The WRITE ABOUT TREES showcase event introduces the shortlisted authors of the Urban Tree Festival writing competition, and includes readings of their poetry and prose. Run by walk · listen · create and Sampson Low Publishers the Urban Tree Festival writing competition attracted over 160 entires. The competition required writers to compose poems or prose
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The 2025 Urban Tree Festival is now open for submissions!
We are opening submissions a little earlier this year, based on feedback from our participants, and submissions will be accepted via our on-line form.* Inspired by the ‘The London Tree Ring’ vision to surround London with an unbroken ring of trees, working to encircle London with treescapes – connecting up a rich mosaic of other
Urban Tree festival 2023 writing competition shortlist announced.
Writers were asked to tell us their “Secrets of the Trees” in the Urban Tree Festival writing competition that walk · listen · create administered – their imaginations branched out, with more than 150 authors submitting poems and stories. The Top 12 shortlisted “secrets”, chosen by a team of volunteer judges that included past competition
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Urban Tree Festival 2020 Open Call
The third 2020 Urban Tree Festival runs in London from 16-24 May 2020. Help us make this the best one yet! Event and Activity Open Call We’re seeking submissions for events and activities for the 2020 Urban Tree Festival. Do you have an idea for an event? It can be anything to do with urban trees, it
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Wheatley Elm Wellbeing Walk
Wheatley Elm Wellbeing Walk, May 10th 2025 (2-3.30pm). A free community event beginning at Granton Crescent Park with some walking, art activities and gentle exercises. Part of the country-wide Urban Tree Festival, it focuses on our local trees, ones we go past everyday, and celebrates how brilliant they are. Booking Link: https://urbantreefestival.org/wheatley-elm-well-being-walk Meet here: There … Continue reading Wheatley Elm Wellbeing Walk
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Events
Explore the Urban Forest
Discover London’s surprising and diverse canopy! Working with Paul Wood, author of London is a Forest (Quadrille, 2019) and London Street Trees (Safe Haven, 2017), Andrew Stuck from the Museum of Walking created a series of walkshops inviting participants to Explore the Urban Forest. According to a UN definition, 20% tree canopy gets you to forest status, and so London with
• Urban Tree Festival creative writing workshop (online)
How can we use art to inspire words? Ekphrasis translates as ‘description’ in Greek and, today, an ekphrasis is used to mean a literary description of art. In effect, it is one artist responding to another, using a verbal response to visual representations. But beyond writing about what you see, it is about connecting to an image,
Urban Tree festival 2023 free creative writing workshop
Joanna Wolfarth and M. L. Grieve, winners of the 2022 Festival writing competition, invite you to a free online creative writing workshop to inspire you to submit written pieces in the Urban Tree festival 2023 writing competition. The competition will be launched at the workshop. Regrettably both Joanna and Michele are unwell, however, our colleague
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