Are you a crafter? Do you wish you were a crafter? How does crafting while helping out the ecosystem in your community sound?

Join John Gillum Branch (formerly North Village) and other Crafty Adults as we create Bird Seed Balls at our monthly crafting program! We'll learn the basics, the ins and outs, and then we'll let loose!

Participants will not only learn about what bird seed and impact for the environment, we'll get a chance to take some home and share with the community. Learn with us!

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

Join us for an exciting and educational event at the Austin Nature & Science Center, featuring D'Andra from Healthy Hive, the non-profit organization behind Me and the Bees Lemonade, and Konrad Bouffard, the founder of Round Rock Honey!

They'll be presenting all about the fascinating world of bees. Learn about these incredible pollinators and their vital role in our ecosystem. Enjoy hands-on activities like seed ball creation and a pollination simulator, get creative with art activities, and craft your own pollinator masks and antennae! Plus, take home a sapling and educational materials to help you care for your new plant! This event is free and open to the public and we'll have bilingual staff present for the outdoor activities.

Únase a nosotros para un evento emocionante y educativo en el Austin Nature & Science Center, con D'Andra de Healthy Hive, la organización detrás de Me and the Bees Lemonade, y Konrad Bouffard, el fundador de Round Rock Honey.

Presentarán todo sobre el fascinante mundo de las abejas. Aprenda sobre estos increíbles polinizadores y su papel vital en nuestro ecosistema. Disfrute de actividades prácticas como la creación de bolas de semillas y un simulador de polinización, sea creativo con actividades artísticas y cree su propias máscaras y antenas de polinizadores. Además, llévate a casa un retoño y materiales educativos que te ayudarán a cuidar tu nueva planta. Este evento es gratis y abierto al publico. Tendremos personal bilingüe presente para las actividades al aire libre.

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the Central Branch for two sessions that look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the University Hills Branch for a look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year!

Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art! And parents, take home a free baby tree sapling to raise with your family!

Come to the Terrazas Branch and make your very own ecosystem in a jar!

Learn about plant and environmental stewardship by making a beginner terrarium. A terranium is a glass container containing soil and plants that can be opened for maintenance to access the plants inside. You'll get to make your own terrarium to take home with provided supplies and plants, plus take home a baby tree sapling to plant, courtesy of City of Austin’s Community Tree Preservation!

*This is event is limited to 15 Adults (1 terrarium per household) and is first come, first serve.

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the Yarborough Branch for two sessions that look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

Session 1: 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Session 2: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Join us at Yarborough Branch for a morning of imaginative play! Designed for young learners, Imagination Station encourages learning through play. Discover the arts, practice your motor skills, and start your STEM exploration.

This month, learn about a variety of native pollinators, build a mushroom-based world-wide web, learn how trees carry water, learn to be a tree ID hero, and more!

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

Join Red Salmon Arts/ Casa de Resistencia Books for a Roots & Wings Festival Event Series!

Cafe Librito: 2024 Dia de los Muertos Festival, Oct. 26th 7pm- 9pm Join us for an evening of honoring our ancestors and cultura! Bring the family to enjoy live music food & drinks, BIPOC vendor market, bilingual kid’s storytime, kid’s crafting, and a guided fungi UV night walk with Central Texas Mycology!

Guests will hand pick flowers from our very own Resistencia Community Garden. Together, the community will build an altar to our ancestors with cempasuchiles, mano de leon, and amaranth flowers.

Everyone is encouraged to leave pictures (copies) and offerings for their loved ones! Goodie bag giveaways include the books, “Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock” and “Lotli”, native pollinator seed mixes, & cempasuchil flowers for family altars at home.

• 7:00pm: Opening Ceremony

  • Guests can bring their ofrendas for the altar andcut fresh flowers from garden for altar

  • Goodie Bag Giveaway: children books, native pollinator seed mixes, and zines

• 7:30pm: Kids Bilingual Storytime (inside) with Lotli Illustrated Book about the origin of the Monarch Butterfly & “Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock”

• 8:00pm: Bilingual Fungi UV Night Walk guided by Central Texas Mycology Jesus Garcia

• 8:30 - 9pm: Open Mic poetry

  Ongoing Activities!

BIPOC Vendor Market - Live Music - Arts & Crafts Tables - Mariposa Wings & Seedball Making - Painting Paper Mache Skulls - Baby Tree Giveaway!

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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month, November 2nd, 8:30am-11:30am: During Native American heritage month, our Native Roots program activities will center around The Three Sisters/Milpa, (currently growing in our Resistencia Community Garden). We will intertwine indigenous storytelling centering, celebrating corn, harvest songs, and craft corn husk dolls in partnership with Central Texas Cherokee Township!

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

Join us at the Southeast Branch to celebrate our urban forest ecosystem, with a special focus on butterflies! We will have butterfly crafts, snacks, and activities!

Participants can also take home a tree sapling to plant in their yard! Children and families of all ages welcome!

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

Join us at the Hampton Branch for a morning of imaginative play! Designed for young learners, Imagination Station encourages learning through play. Discover the arts, practice your motor skills, and start your STEM exploration.

This month, learn about a variety of native pollinators, build a mushroom-based world-wide web, learn how trees carry water, learn to be a tree ID hero, and more!

Session 1: 10:00 - 10:45 am

Session 2: 11:00 - 11:45 am

Join us at Brush Square in downtown Austin for "Page Turner Butterflies"! Craft your own origami butterfly from recycled book pages and take home a complimentary packet of pollinator-friendly seeds to plant in your garden or ours.

While you're here, take a glimpse into early Austin's history by exploring both the Susanna Dickinson Museum and the O. Henry Museum.

ArtSmart is a series that looks at different forms of art and storytelling to deepen audiences' connection to their artistic creations. Join the Milwood Branch for a look at how butterflies influence many designs and artforms you see throughout Hispanic and Latino cultures, especially during the Dia de los Muertos time of the year! Come ready to create and appreciate the beauty that butterflies bring to art!

Are you a crafter? Do you wish you were a crafter? How does crafting while helping out the ecosystem in your community sound? Join Spicewood Springs Branch and other Crafty Adults as we create Bird Seed Balls at our monthly crafting program! We'll learn the basics, the ins and outs, and then we'll let loose!

Participants will not only learn about what bird seed and impact for the environment, we'll get a chance to take some home and share with the community. Learn with us!

Join us in planting for pollinators! Austin Davenport, local gardening guru and native plant pro, will provide a hands-on workshop where attendees get to plant their own pollinator garden with native seedlings grown right here in Austin! Each attendee gets their own grow bag and gets to select and plant fall blooming seedlings to support local pollinators.

Join us for a day celebrating mushrooms, worms and birds! Central Texas Mycological Society will host their scarecrow mushroom cultivation workshop and bucket tek workshop. Enjoy a presentation by the Travis Audubon Society to learn which native plants attract birds to your yard along with a fun craft activity to take home. Then discover how red wiggler worms help the soil and composting with hands on activities presented by Keep Austin Beautiful throughout the day.

10am – Central Texas Mycological Society

Lo-tek Mushroom Cultivation Scarecrow Workshop

Join us for a workshop that combines a bunch of spooktacular things we love about fungi! First, fun with fungi while learning basics of mycoremediation growing mushrooms outdoors, and creating a scarecrow to protect your garden. Since it’s okay to decay, we will be building scarecrow together that will decompose over the fall and winter with the help of recycled oyster mushroom blocks.

11am – Travis Audubon Society

Gardening for Birds with Native Plants

Do you want to attract more birds to your yard or neighborhood greenbelt? In this talk you will find out how native plants help birds, and get acquainted with several easy to grow native plants that appeal to birds and other wildlife.

12pm - Central Texas Mycological Society

Bucket tek Workshop (Registration Required)

Learn how to recycle mushroom blocks to build healthy soil, sequester carbon, increase water retention and divert organic matter from the waste stream. *The Bucket tek Workshop requires registration and for you to bring your own container.*

10am-2pm – Keep Austin Beautiful

Wormy Composting

We will bring our vermi-compost bin and youth will have the opportunity to explore the wonders of our red wiggler worms!

Click here for more information and to register for Bucket tek!

Get ready to celebrate live oaks (Quercus fusiformis), pecans (Carya illinoinensis) and cedar elms (Ulmus crassifolia) — Texas Arbor Day is Saturday, Nov. 4!

We’re offering FREE admission all day and special activities from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Texas Arbor Day Schedule

In addition to ongoing events like Fortlandia and Power the Migration: A Monarch Exhibition, Texas Arbor Day guests are invited to: 

9:30 a.m. — Meet our friends from organizations like Bartlett Tree Experts and the Texas Military Environmental Department as well as members of our Science and Conservation Department, in house arborists and horticulturists in the Courtyard.

10:30 a.m. — Take a garden tour with Bartlett Tree Experts and learn all about cultural practices and structural pruning for young trees.

10 a.m. — Learn how to age trees at an extra-special Drop-in & Discover

11:45 a.m. — Enjoy a tree planting demonstration with Bartlett Tree Experts

TBD a.m. — Tour the Arboretum with Kelsey, one of our skilled Wildflower Center Arborists.

1 p.m. — Learn how evolution influences the form and structure of trees at our Morphology of Oaks and Trees class (FREE! Space is limited, pre-registration is encouraged but not required)

Any Teenagers in the House?

Bring them to come celebrate our local flora and pollinators during Carver Branch's Teen Social! Join us as we learn and explore the intersection of art and nature!

What's Your Nature Dates: 10/19, 10/24, 10/26 & 11/2

Learn about the Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos with this fun storytelling program of flannelgraphs, shadow puppet show, La Catrina song and dance, followed by butterfly puppet and skull mask-making crafts.