POLLINATOR WEEK EVENTS 2019 Event Name Description Date Time Address City State Zip More Info Join Crescent Heights Community Garden and cath-earth-sis in the celebration of Pollinator Week! Wear your fave ‘bee friendly’ costumes to enjoy pollinator learning activities in the park! This family friendly event is open to all, with a suggested donation of $5 to Bee City Canada, Tree Canada or a conservation group of your For more information, please choice. contact Catherine Dowdell at garden (at) crescentheightsyyc Meet outside the Crescent Heights Community Association Hall by the (dot) ca or catherine.dowdell Building Bee Houses Community Garden from 1pm to 3pm. 6/22/2019 1:00 PM 1101 2 St NW Calgary AB T2M 2V7 (at) gmail (dot) com On June 19th, 2019, we plan to celebrate Pollinator Week by having a Pollinator Celebration at the University of Calgary community garden. The intention of this event is to educate attendees about the importance of pollinators and how to support and protect pollinators in our community. This event includes a campus BioBlitz, a bee box Registration Page: making workshop, and planting of native pollinator plants in the garden. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/poll In addition, we will have experts provide information to attendees about inator-celebration-june-19th- bees and other pollinators through interactive displays following the 230pm-to-730pm-tickets- Pollinator Celebration above activities. 6/19/2019 2:30 PM Calgary AB T2N 4V5 60195492338 Employees at Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation will bring pollinator-dependent dishes to share at a potluck and learn about the AECC Pollinator Potluck importance of pollinators. Bee/butterfly houses are to be raffled off 6/21/2019 11:30 PM 1 81st St Little Rock AR 72209 Visit our social media pages for event details https://www.facebook.com/pg/y Open garden event the public to view the garden, see our apiary and atestgarden/ learn about pollinators. Help us plant a pollinator boulevard garden https://www.instagram.com/yat Pollinator Week Saturday 22nd. 6/17/2019 10:00 AM 676-632 Yates St Victoria BC V8W escommunitygarden/ We welcome you to join us for our Pollinator Week 2019 celebration at Amador Flower Farm! On Saturday and Sunday, June 22 - 23, we will have giveaways, a pollinator plant sale, and kids coloring contest. On Sunday only, from 9 am - 4 pm, Uncle Jer's Traveling Bee Show will join the celebration. Uncle Jer will have honey for sale and will wow you You can find more information with his bee demonstration. At 1 pm, he will give a class on backyard 22001 Shenandoah on our Facebook page: Pollinator Week beekeeping. Don't miss the fun! 6/23/2019 9:00 AM School Rd Plymouth CA 95669 Amador Flower Farm. Twelve years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread grown into an international the word about what you can do to protect them. celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided The Pollinator Partnership is proud to announce that June 17-23, 2019 by bees, birds, butterflies, bats Pollinator Week 2019 has been designated National Pollinator Week. 6/17/2019 12:00 AM 423 Washington St San Francisco CA 94111 and beetles. Pollinator Week at 475 Sansome Lobby tabling by Pollinator Partnership for tenants of 475 Sansome 6/18/2019 11:30 AM 475 Sansome St San Francisco CA 94111 Colombian Pollinator Three government authorities are organizing an event to present the Initiative Colombian Pollinator Initiative. Hotel Hilton Garden Bogota. 5/22/2019 2:00 PM Cl. 46 #14a-57 a 14a-1 Bogotá Colombia FREE FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT - OPEN TO ALL * Our first Session explained how lawn and garden chemicals negatively affect the insects, birds and wildlife of Weston. In session 2, we will focus on how exposure to these chemicals is adversely affecting humans! For this interactive workshop, we have assembled a panel of Is your backyard a renowned experts, guaranteed graveyard? Learn how to care for your yard without using toxic chemicals 4/5/2020 1:00 PM 106 Godfrey Rd W Weston CT 06883 to invoke a lively, informative, Free, educational webinar! The birds and the bees need our help. Pollinators help to feed us and make our world more beautiful, but their habitats need protecting. Backyard gardeners to big companies alike know this and some are creating strategies to safeguard these precious creatures. Join us for a webinar on how you can protect pollinating bees, wasps, bats, and birds on various scales. You'll hear strategies that are being implemented in small to large scale gardens. You'll be informed of best practices and inspired by the work that's being done. Educational and free, this webinar is for anyone seeking to learn more about pollinating species and ways to keep them safe. Question and Register online at Webinar: Protecting answer encouraged! https://attendee.gotowebinar.c Pollinators: Creating Habitats om/register/310484311436801 Big and Small Panelists include: 6/18/2019 1:00 PM 1301-1399 US-1 Washington DC 20001 7165 To raise awareness of the importance of bees and other pollinators, and highlight solutions to the threats they face, join the the World Bee Day Twitter Chat! Date: Monday, May 20 from 2 -3 PM EDT Main hashtag: #BeeChat and #WorldBeeDay Additional hashtag: #Savethebees Host account: @FAONorthAmerica Questions: Why are bees and other pollinators key to the #FutureOfFood and Join the World Bee Day #globalgoals? Twitter #BeeChat What are the largest threats facing bees and other pollinators? 5/20/2019 2:00 PM 2121 K St NW Washington DC 20037 http://bit.ly/2W8Iyyg Get in touch with us at Clearion will host an in-office tasting of local honey to celebrate www.clearion.com with any Clearion Honey Tasting Pollinator Week! 6/19/2019 11:30 AM W Park Square Marietta GA 30060 questions. Celebrate National Pollinator Week by constructing your very own bee hotel! Solitary bees are excellent pollinators, and bee hotels are a way to raise awareness and provide habitat for our local bee population. This will be a guided workshop with materials provided. Participants will have free reign on their designs, with guidance provided on how to design and construct an effective house. Limit of 12 participants. $15 materials fee; registrations are due 6-13. Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/644975705925150/ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-bee-hotel-tickets- Build your own Bee Hotel 62018844032?fbclid=IwAR3jupvM5tjjXX- 6/18/2019 5:00 PM 201 3rd Ave SW Cedar Rapids IA 52404 Walking tours of the pollinator habitat around our vineyards with Dr. Ron Bitner, Bee Biologist 16645 Plum Road Bitner Vineyards and Bees Caldwell, ID 83607 6/21/2019 2:30 PM 16645 Plum Road Caldwell ID 83607 www.bitnervineyards.com The PASS-Pinehurst Afterschool Solution program will be learning about pollinators. We will have a bee craft, pollinator picnic, Wild Kratts film about Flight of the pollinator, and make seedles with native Pollinator Awareness Day pollinator species to distribute at our area's farmers market 6/19/2019 8:00 AM 201 S 3rd St Pinehurst ID 83850 Celebrating National Pollinator Week and Native Perennials. Speaker Natives for the Home on Natives for the Home Landscape. Raffle benefiting Openlands. Landscape Perennial Sales & Specials, Native Plug Sale and Seed Giveaway. 6/22/2019 11:00 AM 2550 E Dempster St Des Plaines IL 60016 www.lurveys.com/events Celebrating National Pollinator Week and Native Perennials. Speaker on the Project Budburst Citizen Scientist Program at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Raffle and Garden Yoga (at 8:30am) benefiting Project Budburst Citizen Openlands. Perennial Sales & Specials, Native Plug Sale and Seed Scientist Program Giveaway. 6/23/2019 11:00 AM US-14 Des Plaines IL 60016 www.lurveys.com/events Celebrating National Pollinator Week and Native Perennials. Pollinator- friendly Conatiner Workshop $54.99-$59.99 (Includes all Materials)! Pollinator-friendly Container Raffle benefiting Openlands. Perennial Sales & Specials, Native Plug Workshop Sale and Seed Giveaway. 6/19/2019 5:00 PM US-14 Des Plaines IL 60016 www.lurveys.com/events Website: Let’s take a short hike at the Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center to http://fpdcc.com/nature- find pollinators as we celebrate National Pollinator Week. Afterwards centers/little-red-schoolhouse- plant your own pollinator friendly flower to take home! All ages. Please nature-center/ call the nature center at (708)839-6897 to register. Space is limited. Pollinator Party Registration closes at 5:00pm on June 21st. 6/23/2019 1:30 PM 9800 Willow Springs Rd Willow Springs IL 60480 Phone: (708)839-6897 Facebook page: 3rd Annual Pollinator Plant Sale- held by Little Turtle Chapter of https://www.facebook.com/LTA American Association of Zookeepers, Native plants provided by AZK/ Riverview Nursery, all proceeds donated to NE Indiana Native Plant email: Blooms for Bees Society to support pollinator habitat 6/16/2019 10:00 AM 5051-4101 Hoevel Rd Fort Wayne IN 46806 [email protected] In honor of National Pollinator Week, spend your evening with friends at ‘Bees & Brew’ which features a choice of honey wine or local honey beer and a sampling of local honey based hors d’oeuvres with an entertaining presentation about honey bees, how they help us and how we can help them. Take a personalized tour of the Botanical Conservatory’s gardens, sample raw honey, make DIY beeswax candles, Q&A with beekeepers; and for the adventurous, suit up for a beekeeping experience with live beehives.