Event Host Resources

Welcome to the resources page for event hosts! Check back often as resources will be added as they become available.

Below, you’ll find:

What activities will you host at your event? We’ve gathered some possibilities to get you started!

Event Activities

  • Play the City of Austin's Arborama! A Tree Game at your event to create a gaming experience highlighting Central Texas native and climate-resilient trees! Visit us to learn more about the game, determine organization eligibility, and request the game set!

  • Make your neighborhood Roots & Wings Festival event a Block Party! Block Parties are one-time closures of a single block to allow residents to hold small, locally-focused events. Visit the City of Austin Living Streets Program for more information or email Margaret.Rapuano@austintexas.gov.

  • The Austin Recycle and Reuse Drop-off Center has free mulch available for pick-up. Visiting the Drop-off center is by appointment only. You must load the mulch yourself. Mulch is free for everyone.

  • The Seed Collection is a joint project of the Austin Public Library and the Central Texas Seed Savers to establish a seed exchange of landrace, heirloom, locally adapted and native varieties of fruits and vegetable and other useful plants in Central Texas region. Request Seeds from the Seed Library.

  • Request your own tree-centric education and outreach materials through the Urban Forest Materials Request Form.

  • Feature tree seedlings to plant and/or to give away at your event!

    Request seedlings on your Roots & Wings Festival application. Species to be announced in September!

    • Keep Austin Beautiful Generation Zero Waste: Activity Kits

      Learn more about these all-inclusive activities for up to 30 youth!

    • Austin Parks and Recreation Department’s Loose Parts Lending Kits

      Learn about how to borrow these kits, including fort building materials, nature items, exploration materials and small world creation figures!

Event Materials

  • Invite the Urban Forest Youth Program out to your event to host a Super Sapling activity for the littles!

  • Invite Urban Forest Steward Stephanie Simmons to your event for a talk and/or walk on tree identification basics!

  • Help Attendees Learn the Life Cycle of a Butterfly! The City of Austin Urban Forestry Youth Program can come to your event to lead this educational activity!

    Use familiar cooking ingredients to create a colorful art project that details the lifecycle of a butterfly. This activity typically lasts 45-60 minutes and is appropriate for children K-5. Contact the Youth Forest Council for more information.

  • As the Horticultural Specialist at The George Washington Carver Museum’s Sunken Garden, Harvé Franks teaches a variety of classes to the community. As a long-term garden and arts educator, Harvé can offer gardening demonstrations and lectures on health and wellness, farm to table and food sustainability, and the indigenous farming culture of Central Texas.

    Contact Harvé about speaking at your event or sharing her expertise through activity!

  • Katherine Tombs is a Capital Area Master Naturalist at Keep Austin Beautiful. She looks forward to sharing information and resources about KAB’s Vermicomposting program: Composting with worms!

    Contact Katherine Tombs for more information.

  • Ready to learn about bats? Invite Erin Cord of Bat Conservation International to join your community event.

    Contact Erin Cord for more information.

  • Invite Central Texas Mycology to your event and encourage your community to learn about growing their own mushrooms!

  • Vicki Blachman is an experienced and enthusiastic Texas Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. As co-chair of PollinATX and a member of Austin’s Bee City USA initiative, Vicki is eager to teach your community about insects, pollinators, and more!

    Contact Vicki to see about having her speak at your event.

  • Ashleigh Alvarez, MHA has been working with families with special needs children for almost a decade. She is willing to be a guide for Event Hosts in creating sensory-inclusive events. If you'd like to chat with her, drop Ashleigh an email!

  • Interested in reducing wildfire risk associated with wildland and natural areas impacting City of Austin? Cody Chappel from AFD can help cultivate a lasting culture of collective effort and awareness for both residents and City departments to be ready for the inevitability of wildfire by providing technical assistance and context for all things related to the fire environment and fire ecology in wildland ecosystems. 

Community Experts

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