The RHS Lindley Library has teamed up with Queer Botany for this special workshop.

Join designer and illustrator Edward Luke Thrush as we explore the connection between queer identity, environment, community and transforming spaces.

Discover how Queer Botany can open up different ways of seeing, appreciating and interacting with nature.

Queer Botany is hosting a botanical drawing session on Zoom with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature. Come and join us!

Let’s share our stories and experiences of the plants we find together.

You don’t have to be an artist! You don’t have to be a botanist! No prior skills, experience or knowledge needed. Everyone welcome.

Join Sixto-Juan Zavala, founder of Queer Botany, on a tour of the ‘Rooted Beings‘ exhibition, looking at the collection from a queer botanical perspective. We invite you to bring your own stories and experiences of plants to share. How can botany be queered and how can queerness be botanical?

Queer Botany is hosting a botanical drawing session on Zoom with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature. Come and join us!

Let’s share our stories and experiences of the plants we find together.

You don’t have to be an artist! You don’t have to be a botanist! No prior skills, experience or knowledge needed. Everyone welcome.

Explore the cultural, mythological, and scientific links that plants from the Royal Parks have with queerness and then try your hand at using these plants to create vivid cyanotype sun prints to take home.

Join Queer Botany on a guided tour of the outdoor plants growing across the Barbican estate. Take a walk through the Barbican estate stopping at plants and sharing stories from a queer perspective.

Join us for a unique one-off queer evening event. Make herbal teas for the immune system with herbalist Nat Mady (Hackney Herbal). Discover fascinating plant folklore with plant expert and Plant-Lore founder Roy Vickery. 

Queer Botany and local illustrator EL Thrush have teamed up to host illustration workshops around plants and art. The session will work with real plant samples exploring the media of ink and pen. ​

Explore the cultural, mythological, and scientific links that plants from the Royal Parks have with queerness and then try your hand at using these plants to create vivid cyanotype sun prints to take home.

The Platinum Garden is a queer-led project, inspired by LGBTQI+ gardeners, queer botany and alternative approaches to urban gardening. Rainbow Grow are working together with artist Daniel Baker, volunteers and local mental health groups to create a new queer garden project at Sutton House, a hidden gem of Hackney with over 500 years of fascinating history.

Organised in collaboration with Queer Botany, this workshop will bring together our shared scientific and cultural knowledge about plants in a participatory session exploring Walworth Garden. Beginning with an overview of queer ecological thought and how this can be applied to plants, and focusing on distinct and marginalised perspectives, we will fill in a Garden map template with plant locations, drawings, and stories. Attendees will be able to take their maps home with them, in the hope that the exercise prepares them to apply the same methods elsewhere, encouraging an uncovering of other spaces and their stories.

As a part of UAL Climate Emergency Network's Earth Day: Appetite for Justice, Queer Botany will be hosting a poetry reading during the Earth Night event at Central Saint Martin's Platform Theatre Bar. Featured poets are Carlos Mauricio Rojas and Cult Murphy. Earth Night is from 6pm–10pm and the poetry reading starts at 7pm.

As a part of A Dash of Lavender: Celebrating LGBTQ+ history month with Queer Botany, there will be a poetry reading at Chelsea Physic Garden. Following a long line of creative queers before us, Queer Botany will host a safe creative space to share writings about nature and plants from a queer perspective. This will take place indoors in the Garden’s gallery. There will be 4 guest poets, an open mic, and time to mingle.

As a part of A Dash of Lavender: Celebrating LGBTQ+ history month with Queer Botany, there will be a guided tour of the Chelsea Physic Garden. Take a walk through the Garden with Sixto-Juan Zavala, the founder of Queer Botany. We will be stopping at plants and design interventions and sharing stories from a queer perspective. As part of a less hierarchical experience, we invite you to bring your own knowledge and stories about plants to share as well.

As a part of A Dash of Lavender: Celebrating LGBTQ+ history month with Queer Botany, there will be a talk at Chelsea Physic Garden with Sixto-Juan Zavala. Zavala will share a presentation on the founding of Queer Botany, the project’s aims, and the process of working on A Dash of Lavender. There will be an opportunity for guests to ask questions.

As a part of A Dash of Lavender: Celebrating LGBTQ+ history month with Queer Botany, there will be a botanical drawing session at Chelsea Physic Garden with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature. Materials will be provided but you can bring your own preferred materials if you like. This will take place indoors in the Garden’s gallery. All skill levels are welcome.

Queer Botany is hosting a botanical drawing session on Zoom with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature. This event is hosted in partnership with Fringe! Queer Film Festival and presented alongside the screening of (Tending) (to) (Ta), directed by April Lin 林森.

A botanical drawing session hosted on Zoom with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature.

We’re looking for people to collaborate with and inform the project. Anyone from the northeast London LGBTQ+ community interested in plants & the outdoors can join the society.

Hosted in partnership with Elop, the east London LGBTQ+ mental health organisation, and their 18–25 year old group.

We’re looking for people to collaborate with and inform the project. Anyone from the northeast London LGBTQ+ community interested in plants & the outdoors can join the society.

A botanical drawing session hosted in partnership with Elop, the east London LGBTQ+ mental health organisation.

We’re looking for people to collaborate with and inform the project. Anyone from the northeast London LGBTQ+ community interested in plants & the outdoors can join the society.

A botanical drawing session hosted on Zoom with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature.

FREE. All skill levels welcome. A Zoom link will be shared to join the event.

Queer Botany is hosting a botanical drawing session on Zoom in partnership with Elop, an East London mental health organisation, and their LBT Womxn’s group. The session will focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature. All skill levels welcome.

Queer Botany is hosting a botanical drawing session on Zoom in partnership with Elop, an East London mental health organisation, and their 18–25 year old group. The session will focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature. All skill levels welcome.

A botanical drawing session hosted on Zoom with a focus on queerness and finding inspiration in nature.