This summer time join our Family Activity Walk to learn about historical herbal remedies, how to make them from plants and honey. You’ll play games, make crafts & go home with your own herbal remedy.
Join this Family Activity Walk to explore the animals past and present associated with Abney Park this Springtime. Learn about the animal history of the park while playing games and making crafts. Highlights include visiting the lion, learning about and listening to the park’s birds, and and making an all natural bird feeder. Perfect for children aged 5-10.
We are surrounded by nature yet, rarely, do we pause to encounter and experience it. Experienced local artist Christina Lovey is leading this workshop. She begins with an introduction to the concept of mindfully engaging with nature and then applying that engagement to creative expression using mark making, or drawing.
We are surrounded by nature yet, rarely, do we pause to encounter and experience it. Experienced local artist Christina Lovey is leading this workshop. She begins with an introduction to the concept of mindfully engaging with nature and then applying that engagement to creative expression using markmaking, or drawing.
Abney Park and Stoke Newington are rich in literary history, much of it connected to Hackney's tradition of dissent. Join walking artist and tour guide Simon Cole in this historic cemetery and surrounds for an interactive literary saunter through this lit-lovers' paradise, in this bookish corner of the borough.
Come along to Abney Park Cemetery for a magical night time walk with Charlotte Brennan, and to meet some of these bats and learn about their ecology. Some of them are amongst the most protected species in the UK
This workshop will help you take inspiration from artist Edward Calvert by showing you how to make natural paints and paintbrushes using Abney Park’s plants and berries, and then create your own artwork.
Join Louie Stowell on an outdoor adventure and quest workshop based on her new book, Otherland.
In celebration of Moth Night 2021, Abney Park Trust has teamed up with Stoke Newington Naturalists to give an exclusive after dark visit to our 32-acre woodland in search of its night-flying moths. (Image © Ian Kimber)
