🗓️ Friday 28th March 2025
🕐 19:30
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Cl, Bournville. B30 1UA
🎤 Richard Lindsey
A Night of 1’000 Hives
Richard Lindsey started beekeeping at the age of 10 and by the age of 27 he had become a master beekeeper. His passion for beekeeping has grown into a commercial enterprise and he now keeps 1000 hives scattered around Staffordshire, Shropshire and Warwickshire.
🗓️ Friday 26th September 2025
🕐 19:30
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Cl, Bournville. B30 1UA
🎤 Gavin Wade-The Exotic Triangle Garden(as seen on Gardener’s World!)
The talk will be about the art, design and plants of our “Exotic Triangle Garden” Gardeners World said “A couple in Birmingham share their experimental garden which has been curated like a living art gallery with cacti, ferns and air plants at the heart of its design.” There are lots more plant species than that!This gives you a good feeling about the garden.
Gavin Wade is an artist-curator and pragmatic utopian. His practice combines upcycling, re-enactment and developing exhibiting structures for ‘supporting’ the work of others. Gavin is a serial collaborator working on many projects from founding and running ‘artist-run multiverse Eastside Projects’ in Digbeth, since 2008. He is a maker and curator of world-class public art, exhibition making, writing, music and publishing over the last two decades; to collaborating with his horticulturist wife Adrienne Wade on creating the “Triangle Garden” an exotic garden at their home in Birmingham
🗓️ Friday 31st October 2025
🕐 19:30
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Cl, Bournville. B30 1UA
🎤 TIM VIVIAN-“The Rooftop Beekeeper” part 2
The second and eagerly awaited follow up to Tim Vivian’s talk about his triumphs and tribulations of keeping bees on the roof tops of Birmingham city centre buildings.
In Tim’s previous talk, he left us with a teaser of what was to come in part two… This was a black and white slide of an image of a bees head as shown through an electron microscope.
Tim has an abundance of slides showing various interesting features of the honeybee including several of bees legs! (without going through the name of all the segments!) It’s a fascinating talk as many people have never seen a bee’s body under a microscope(and just as fascinating if you have!) Tim will also include some work he has done trying to replicate what a honey bee sees through her compound eye.
🗓️ Saturday 29th November 2025 (Please note this is on Saturday)
🕐 10:00 – 11:30
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Cl, Bournville. B30 1UA
🎤 Rhona Toft “Seeking varroa resistant bees”
Rhona’s talk will look at her experiences since stopping varroacides in 2007, the mechanisms of Varroa resistance and suggestions of how to select for Varroa-resistant traits in your own bees.
