Children’s Workshops:
1pm-2pm & 2pm-3pm

At the Old Church venue at Blueskin Nurseries.

(photo Sam Purdie)

Pam McKinlay from the Dunedin School of Art uses art workshops to give children a better understanding of native bees - what they look like, where they live and how they help us.

Many of the ngaro huruhuru/native bee species are so small we don’t even notice them. Find out from Dr Jenny Jandt, Otago University bee researcher, just how important native bees are and what we can do to protect them.

These workshops are a collaboration with Art+Science Project and University of Otago’s Jandt Lab on the importance of native bees as pollinators and protecting their nesting sites and habitats.

This Art+Science Project on native bees is supported by the Participatory Science Platform (PSP) and is a world-first initiative that aims to engage communities of all kinds in research projects that are locally relevant.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

The maximum children for each session is 10, so if you book and cannot attend it is important you release the place for someone else.

Cost: Free (book places for children only) - For school-aged children

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Hosted by Blueskin Nurseries: Blueskin Nurseries has been a nursery operating for over 30 years. Blueskin staff are passionate and knowledgeable about plants and gardening and love to inspire gardeners, old and new, with gardening ideas and plants for their gardens.