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GIANT Tree Climbing Song Sessions are done for this year! Arts and Gardens worked with 239 brave children from Haringey schools, who had a magnificent time in Alexandra Palace Park climbing big plane trees while singing with soprano Ellie Alderton and composer and guitarist Oliver Weeks

Thanks to Arts Council England Waltham Forest, London Borough of Culture Alexandra Palace .

Fresh summer air from the canopy of Epping Forest! Come harnessed big tree climbing with us, and enjoy live music while you're up there. Three weekends only July-August 2021

GIANT Tree Climbing Song Sessions - Epping Forest Step into the forest and be part of an unforgettable treetop experience! Harnessed big tree climbing with a music twist.

Things are looking UP this summer! Join us for big tree climbing in Epping Forest...with a music twist.

Bookings now open for GIANT Tree Climbing Song Sessions https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/giant-tree-climbing-song-sessions-epping-forest-tickets-148472935547

Epping Forest, Arts Council England London Borough of Waltham Forest

We're scaling trees this summer in Epping Forest with GIANT Tree Climbing Song Sessions. Climb one these beautiful oaks with us and have a good old sing to the forest while we're up there! Two weekends of one hour sessions now open for registration, and more dates to follow. Epping Forest City of London London Borough of Waltham Forest Waltham Forest, London Borough of Culture Arts Council England

GIANT Tree Climbing Song Sessions - Arts & Gardens We are back in London parks this summer. Join us as Arts and Gardens returns for more exhilarating, creative, tree adventures! You’ll learn a fun and simple tree-themed song with our music leader and climber, Ellie Bowers-Jolley, accompanied by guitarist on the ground, Olly Weeks, before ascending...

Our latest A&G interview is up! Artist gardeners Heywood and Condie discuss garden rituals, reimagining the formal London square, and bringing Formby beach into their latest exhibition, This Land. http://artsandgardens.org/interviews/heywood-and-condie/

Heywood and Condie - Arts & Gardens Tony Heywood and Alison Condie chat to A&G about their world of garden rituals, Merseyside beachscapes, emotionally charged placemaking, and using live plant matter to create fantastical art for their new show This Land. What are your earliest memories of garden ritual? It really goes back to the ve...

Our latest A&G interview is ready this August! Featuring brilliant landscape architect Neil Porter. Amid a jaw-dropping set of projects that includes the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, Neil tells us how his practice Gustafson Porter + Bowman is currently transforming the Site Tour Eiffel.

Neil Porter - Arts & Gardens Currently transforming the Site Tour Eiffel – just one project in a portfolio that has our jaws dropping like Orcus at Bomarzo – Arts and Gardens talks to Neil Porter; landscape architect and leader at Gustafson Porter + Bowman. From the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in London’s Hy...

Happy World Environment Day! And what a wonderful world it is! This mighty mountain ash is at Grants Picnic Ground in Melbourne and was the first wild walk for some of our Arts and Gardens’ family after 8 weeks of lockdown. Parks Victoria

Thanks Christo, for your legacy of audacious art that opened our eyes and transformed how we see landscapes. Wishing you peace with your fondest creative collaborator, Jean Claude https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/31/christo-artist-who-wrapped-the-reichstag-dies-aged-84 and so much more.

Christo, artist who wrapped the Reichstag, dies aged 84 Bulgarian creator of large-scale public artworks worked in collaboration with wife Jeanne-Claude

We are thrilled and humbled at Arts and Gardens to have received Arts Council Emergency Response Funding. Thank you so very much to players for making it possible to hang on to what we do for another year and hopefully more. We can't wait to get back into trees, onto snail mounts, into garden lodges, orchards, meadows, labyrinths, terraces, fields and forests with all of you!