[Pollinator] International Pollinator Week - Save the Date

[Sunny Boyd]

Celebrate International Pollinator Week June 21-27, 2010! 

Bees, butterflies, birds and bats are essential players in our gardens, farms and wild areas. They are the pollinators that help produce fruit, vegetables and flowers. It is estimated that one out of every three bites humans eat can be attributed to a pollinator.
Come and celebrate these amazing creatures. Learn about how pollinator populations are declining globally and what you can do in your garden to make a significant ecological difference by providing them with nesting and foraging habitat. Join us to make Toronto a friendlier place to bee. 

Events:

The Pollinator’s Cabaret: An evening of storytelling, poetry, song, visual art, and dance to celebrate native and managed pollinators. 
When: Thursday June 24, 2010, 6:00-11:00 PM
Where: The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West

Urban Buzz: A Tale of Three Cities (Multi-media art exhibit): A visual journey to learn about the different ways bees inhabit Toronto, New York City and the San Francisco Bay area. Artists include: Sabrina Malach (photographs), Charmaine Lurch (wire bee sculptures), Sarah Peebles (audio), Michael Abraham (film)
When: Thursday June 21-27, 2010, 12 PM-5 PM 
(phone first for availability 416-531-4635) 
Where: The Art Bar in The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West 

The Pollinator’s Festival: A full day celebration of pollinators with workshops from a diverse group of educators and a marketplace with local honey, bee houses made by local artists and scientists, books and other goods. 
When: Sunday June 27, 2010, 10:00AM to 5:30 PM
Where: Evergreen Brickworks, 550 Bayview Ave (between the Prince Edward Viaduct (Bloor/Danforth) and Pottery Road).
For public transportation info see: http://ebw.evergreen.ca/visit/bus.

Detailed Schedule:

· 10:00-11:15 -Exploring the lives of Bumblebees with Sheila Colla, PhD

· 11:30-12:45- Pollinator Gardening: Tips and Tricks to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden with Dr. Clement Kent and The Brickworks staff

· 1:00-2:00-Honey Bee Hive Life with the Toronto Beekeepers Cooperative

· 2:00-2:25-Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are At Risk and What You Can Do to Save Them with Dr. Laurence Packer

· 2:30-4:15-Pollinator Monitoring with Dave Barr, Maria Kasstan, and Norma Barr

· 4:30-5:30- The Movement of Bees with Naomi Tessler and Zita Nyrady

**All day marketplace with great information and materials including the display and sale of ‘bee houses’ for your garden’s solitary bees by artists, architects and creative thinkers (Details and flickr page via resonatingbodies.wordpress.com) , local honey made by Toronto honey bees and Dr. Laurence Packer’s new book Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees are at Risk and What We Can Do To Save Them.

Details: http://ebw.evergreen.ca/cal/event/international-pollinator-week

Media contact: pollinatorweek at gmail.com.

 

 

 

Sunny Boyd

Pollinator Partnership

423 Washington St., 5th Floor

San Francisco, CA  94111

t.  415.362.1137

f.  415.362.3070

 <mailto:sun at pollinator.org> sun at pollinator.org

 

Our future flies on the wings of pollinators. 

 

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