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  • Storytime with Animals

    Meadowside Nature Center 5100 Meadowside Lane, United States

    (MD) (Montgomery Parks) Meet one of Meadowside Nature Center’s animal ambassadors and sit down with them to listen to a story! Ages 0 to 6.

  • Nature Journaling: Art of Birds

    Locust Grove Nature Center 7777 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD, United States

    (MD) (Montgomery Parks) Learn how to connect with the natural world through the art and science of nature journaling in this monthly series for adults. Join a naturalist in a nature journaling session and learn how to observe the flora and fauna around you . Nature walks will be apart of this program. November's focus is birds . Please make ...

  • Native Plant Book Club: Abundance

    Birch Tree Bookstore 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA, United States

    (VA) (Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy) In collaboration with Watermark Woods, Birch Tree Bookstore and Loudoun County Public Library, join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy for the next Read! Plant! Grow! book club meeting at Birch Tree Bookstore in Leesburg. At this meeting we’ll discuss the book Abundance by Derek Thompson & Ezra Klein. Abundance posits that our problems today are not the results ...

  • EcoBook Club

    Cleveland Park Library 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, United States

    (DC) (DC Public Library) This monthly adult book club discusses books on human ecology, sustainable living, environmental justice and post-fossil fuel futures. Books can be nonfiction, fiction or poetry.

  • 55+ Nature Book Club

    Sligo-Dennis Local Park - Activity Building 10200 Sligo Creek Parkway, Silver Spring, MD, United States

    (MD) (Montgomery Parks) Become part of a community that celebrates the beauty of literature and the outdoors! Explore a range of books centered around nature, wildlife, conservation, and environmental issues. Our meetings take place every third Tuesday of the month at a Montgomery Parks locations, mostly in-person. This month's meeting is a holiday book swap!

  • Winter’s Colors: A Reflective Writing Workshop (Virtual)

    (DC) (Smithsonian Associates) Discover the power of reflective writing guided by the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s Writing Salon, Mary Hall Surface. Experience new ways to contemplate the gifts of winter inspired by the vibrant Winter Landscape by Wassily Kandinsky, an artist who embraced the transcendent power of color. Designed for writers of all levels, and for the curious, ...

    $40 – $50

  • The Natural World of Winnie-The-Pooh (Virtual)

    US Botanic Garden 100 Maryland Ave SW, Washington DC, United States

    (DC) (US Botanic Garden) A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories have enchanted generations with their whimsical characters, gentle humor, and deep connection to the natural world. Join Kathryn Aalto, historian, teacher, speaker, and New York Times best-selling author as she transports audiences to the real-life Ashdown Forest, the inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood, through her book “The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh.”

  • Earthly Love: A Conversation (Virtual)

    (US) (Yale School of Environment) The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and Orion Magazine present Orion contributors and award-winning authors Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. The event centers on themes of love, community, commitment, responsibility, and communication, exploring the intimacy and promise of humans’ moral, spiritual, and cultural relationships ...