Women in Nature: Textures and Patterns of Mulligans Flat

Landcare ACT's Women in Nature program invites you to connect with and care for nature through WELLSPRING - a series of nature connection activities set to run weekly throughout the spring season (Sept/Oct/Nov) including guided walks, talks, nature-based art sessions, and hands-on conservation activities. 

Explore the colours, textures, and patterns of Mulligans Flat through a guided forest therapy walk and felting session led by Julie Armstrong from Canberra Forest Therapy, accompanied by Nature Connection Facilitator Sally Holliday from Landcare ACT. 

An experience in two parts: first a gentle forest therapy walk in the reserve, after which the group will make its way over to the nearby Wildbark Visitors Centre to translate what we have seen and experienced into nature-based art. You are invited to play with colour and texture to create your own beautiful artwork using natural wool fibres; bringing the strands together using a wet-felting technique. This part of the workshop will take place outdoors. 

The session will conclude at 12:30pm (just in time for lunch at the Wildbark cafe, should you wish to stay on). 

Access and What to Wear/Bring

We will meet at the Yellow Box Gate 9:30am. Please note this is accessed from the Mulligans Flat Playground off Eric Wright St, as opposed to the Amy Ackmann carpark. Look out for the Landcare ACT A-frame sign. Please allow enough time to find a park and make your way to the meet point for a prompt start so we can make the most of our time together. 

We will begin the walk via a step-through the fence. The remainder of the walk will be on unsealed tracks. Following the walk, the group will migrate to the nearby Wildbark Vistors Centre located on Rosenberg St, Throsby ACT 2914.

Please wear enclosed shoes suitable for walking, dress for the weather conditions, be sunwise and bring a water bottle to keep hydrated. 

Landcare ACT's Wellspring series will run alongside the Canberra Festival of Nature, this year's theme being Glorious Grasslands. The program celebrates women actively caring for nature across the Canberra region, whilst inspiring others to engage in citizen science and environmental stewardship. Landcare ACT's Women in Nature program welcomes all women, including those who identify as cis, trans, and non-binary.

Visit the Landcare ACT Humanitix page for more information on events in the WELLSPRING series. 
With support from ACTEWAGL's Community Grants Program, registration is FREE! Places in this walk and felting workshop are strictly limited. 

Keen to learn more about Forest Therapy? Visit the Canberra Forest Therapy website: https://www.canberraforesttherapy.com.au/