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Monthly Park Meeting | May 11

Clay Cemetery 31 Clifton St NE, Atlanta, GA, United States

Join Park Pride on the second Thursday of every month at 7:30am as community leaders and park advocates from throughout Atlanta and DeKalb come together for education, networking and strategy for advancing the parks movement.

Closing Celebration of Atlanta Bird Fest 2017

Manuel's Tavern 602 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA, United States

Join Atlanta Audubon Society and author Dr. J. Drew Lanham on Sunday, May 21 at Manuel’s Tavern from 3:30 to 5:30 PM for the Closing Celebration of Atlanta Bird Fest 2017. Author of the book The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, Drew Lanham fascinates readers with the connection of freedom and nature and the contraction of being black in the rural south even up to modern times. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, Dr. Lanham defines himself as a birder, a naturalist, and a hunter-conservationist. This event is free and open to the public.

Mayor’s Summer Reading Club Kick-Off Event

Woodruff Park 91 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA, United States

The Mayor’s Summer Reading Club is a program for children up to eight years old and their families that take place in locations throughout the city of Atlanta over the summer.

Visit an Old Growth Forest Remnant, Herbert Taylor Park with Eco-A

Herbert Taylor Park & Daniel Johnson Nature Preserve 1343 Pasadena Ave NE, Atlanta, GA, United States

Herbert Taylor Park was inducted into the national Old Growth Forest Network on April 25th, at the Discovering Atlanta’s Original Forest event featuring environmental author Joan Maloof. Several champion trees, a high diversity of tree species and uncommon native plants can be found in this forest that holds the confluence of Rock Creek and the South Fork of Peachtree Creek.

Park Design Workshop

TBD

Park Pride invites you to participate in our Park Design Workshop. During this two-hour clinic, you will have the opportunity to speak one-on-one with a landscape professional about your park or greenspace, and you will get insights on how to move your idea forward into a buildable project!

$5

Film Screening: Flight of the Butterflies

Midtown Art Cinema 931 Monroe Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, United States

Monarchs Across Georgia is hosting a film screening of Flight of the Butterflies on Saturday, June 17, 2017 at Midtown Art Cinema from 11 - 11:45 A.M. Your price of admission is a donation to the Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia. Native milkweed plants will be available for the sale in the theater foyer after the showing for $6 each.