Saturday, June 21 2025

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10:08 AM - 12:08 PM
Friday, May 9, 2025 10:08 a.m.
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Showcase your snapping skills with our Celebrate Nature photography competition!

 

To mark five years of the Nature Recovery Network, we're calling out for nature themed entries focusing on celebrating our local environment, the intrinsic value of our natural world and what it brings us. From the smallest of flowers in our back gardens and green havens, to creatures and natural networks in the wild, we're looking forward to receiving your submissions! 

There will be three age categories, with one winner plus one runner up in each category:

  • 11 years old and under - £30 prize
  • 12-17 years old - £50 prize
  • Adults 18+ - £100 prize

No need for an SLR camera, images may be shot on a smartphone, but need to be submitted as at min 5mb - max 10mb 300ppi.

Submit your artwork by Friday 6th June 2025 to alice@millstreetarts.co.uk

Winners will be announced and artwork displayed at our Big Midsummer Meadow Nature Celebration event on Saturday 21st June 2025

1:30 PM - 3 PM
Saturday, Jun 21, 2025 1:30 p.m.
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This workshop continues NRN's Wild Arts series of workshops. Join us and let yourself be drawn into the art and science of Long Mead's Wildflower Meadow with botanical artist Julia Loken.

Get close up to rare and beautiful flowers and discover whole worlds inside the petals of devil's-bit scabious and birds-foot trefoil...

No experience of painting or drawing needed, drawing pencils, coloured pencils and paper will be provided.

This workshop can be combined with a guided meadow walk before or after though Long Mead's extraordinary 1000-year-old floodplain haymeadow, with its many glorious wildflowers and wildlife.

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12 PM - 4 PM
Saturday, Jun 21, 2025 noon
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Nature Recovery Network is five years old! Come and celebrate with your picnics and friends in our community meadows by Swinford Lock on Midsummers Day.

The community meadows will be starting to flourish and Long Mead, Eynsham's ancient meadow will be at its most beautiful at this time of year

We'll be making wildflower crowns, painting faces with Devil's bit scabious, Great burnet, Crested dog's tail (some of the rare plants that our face-painters are busy preparing for the day).

Join the Beavers in an insect hunt, talk to our local scientists, take a taster bird survey, study the art of botanical drawing or take a guided walk through the glorious beauty of Long Mead's ancient wildflower meadow.

These are some of the delights that we are planning for the day, as well as a winners' exhibition of our photographic competition – there is still time to enter for a place in the show! 

From 12.00 - 4pm Communal picnic in the Neyotts Community Meadow 

  • Wildlife Face Painting
  • Games
  • Storytelling Sessions 
  • Insect Hunt 
  • Guided Meadow Walks 
  • Taster Bird Surveys 
  • Botanical Drawing workshop
  • Photography exhibition

Programme Timings TBC!

 

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