Now and Next - Eden's event diary
From live music to great food, imaginative children's play to thought provoking exhibitions, find out what to see, do, eat and drink at Eden, now and in the coming months...
SEPTEMBER
Harvest at Eden
We’re celebrating food this autumn with our own Eden Harvest Festival! You’ll find events, workshops, tours, demonstrations, Ask the gardening experts sessions, talks and beautiful autumn displays highlighting the colours, tastes and stories of the season.
Autumn Bulb Planting Workshops
Join us in the The Garden and find out how to plant bulbs successfully! Apparently there’s more to it than getting them the right way up!
Where: The Garden
When: Monday to Friday 17th October
How: Just turn up!
Book a tour of one of our Biomes
An interesting and sometimes alternative view of Eden with one of our very own story tellers The Pollinators.
Where: Rainforest or Mediterranean Biomes
When: 12pm or 3pm every day from September 8th - October 25th
How: Tours are free but spaces are limited so please book at least 24 hours in advance by phoning our Box Office on (01726) 811972.
Workshops, Talks and Gardeners Questions
You’ll have the chance to ask members of our Green Team about their tricks of the trade on weekdays between 2.30pm and 3.30pm. The workshops and talks will be based around celebrating local sourced and home grown food - find out about the plants that feed us and how to grow your own, chat with local allotment communities and discover how to join one, or find out about Eden’s local and international gardening programmes.
Where: The front of the Link Building (between the Biomes)
When: Monday - Friday 2.30pm - 3.30pm
How: Just turn up!
Sunday lunches and the Sunday Bandstand
We’re offering delicious Sunday lunches at just £7.95 throughout September and October which will be served in our Zzub Zzub restaurant between the Biomes. After lunch listen to live music in the Citrus Grove, we'll have everything from community choirs to live bands between 1.30pm & 2.30pm.
Sunday Lunches:
Where: Zzub Zzub Restaurant, between the Biomes
When: Every Sunday in September and October
How: Just turn up!
Sunday Bandstand:
Where: The Citrus Grove, Mediterranean Biome
When: Every Sunday 1.30pm - 2.30pm
How: Just turn up!
Great Eden Ale Festival
Saturday September 20th and Sunday September 21st September
Our first ale festival will feature beer from 16 local breweries, delicious local cider and some wonderful locally sourced harvest-themed food specially selected to compliment the various ales. You can sit back and enjoy live music and start sampling from 11am until 8pm on Saturday or until 6pm Sunday.
Where: The Arena
When: Saturday September 20th and Sunday September 21st
How: Standard admission prices apply but your first pint is FREE if you book your adminssion tickets in advance!
Book your advance admission ticket online now and get your first pint free
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Exhibition: Living on the Edge
Paul McGowan
Now -
2009
Acclaimed British artist Paul McGowan stages Living on the Edge in the Mediterranean Biome as part of a 12-month residency.
The first installation will feature two huge paintings suspended from the Biome’s roof structure and 12 new works on easels.
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Exhibition: Earthly Delights by Trevor Ashby
12 September – 1 December
An exhibition of high quality, hand-printed and toned black and white photographs using plant material gathered from Eden’s Biomes.
Trevor lives close to Eden and is fascinated with the structures of fallen leaves on the paths around the Biomes. The images are beautifully crafted, carefully designed and resolutely executed. There is a strong sense of design, a sense of order in the natural world which makes the unfamiliar familiar. These compelling images have sense of beauty and voluptuousness that transforms the decay of organic materials. The commonplace is appreciated for their exquisite shapes, patterns and textures and strong sense of composition.
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Oasis gig at Eden
Saturday September 27
Oasis are to play a special curtain-raiser to their UK tour with an exclusive show at the Eden Project on Saturday September 27.
The gig, which will be Oasis’s first ever in Cornwall, will be filmed for global broadcast by MTV.
Tickets for this event WILL NOT be available through the usual outlets. Instead applicants will have to register online at www.oasisinet.com to go into a draw for the chance to purchase up to two tickets for this very special concert. Registration opens at midday Friday August 29 until midday Friday September 5.
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www.oasisinet.com
Horticulture courses: do you have green
fingers?
Eden has
teamed up with the University of Edinburgh to offer a series of one day practical
gardening courses. There are eight courses on offer
which can be enjoyed individually or as a complete
course culminating in a RBG Edinburgh Certificate
in Practical Horticulture.
Whether you would like to work towards a career in horticulture or are
a keen amateur, these courses are open to anyone who wants to learn
some basic horticulture skills.
Each one day course is £50 and all take place between September 2008
and May 2009.
For more details or to book contact us on 01726 811972.
Courses and dates:
Understanding Plants - Sat 20 Sept 2008
Soils and Growing Media - Sat 25 Oct 2008
Planting and Potting - Sat 8 Nov 2008
Plant Care - Sat 6 Dec 2008
Plant Maintenance - Sat 14 Feb 2009
Seed Propagation - Sat 7 Mar 2009
Vegetative Propagation - Sat 28 Mar 2009
Plant Health Problems - Sat 9 May 2009
Practice Day - For those who have completed all eight) Fri 29 May 2009
Assessment - For those who have completed all eight) Sat 30 May 2009
Where: Eden Project
When: All courses take place between September 2008
and May 2009
How: Each one day course is £50, for more details or to book contact us on (01726) 811972
A Garden for Eden
ITV offered West Country gardeners the opportunity of a lifetime: to design and build a new eco-friendly front garden here at Eden in a new competitive gardening series for the ITV West and West Country regions.
The competition is now closed but watch out for the TV series on ITV from September this year.
OCTOBER
Supper Club - with guest Tim Smit
Saturday October 4th
We’re introducing a new kind of event which we’re calling the Eden Supper Club where we’ll have a theme, a special guest and live music. The first takes place on Saturday 4 October with a Harvest theme and our special guest will be Tim Smit.
Where: The Citrus Grove, Mediterranean Biome
When: Saturday October 4th
How: Tickets £25. To book please call us on (01726) 811 972
Green Food Bible Talk - Judith Wills
Thursday October 16th
Journalist and author Judith Wills is an extremely informed nutrition and diet expert. Her new book, published by Eden Project Books, presents all the facts about ‘eating green’ and the relationship between what we eat and environmental problems.
Where:The Gallery
When: Thursday October 16th, talk at 7pm,
Cornish Tapas (from £2) available from 6pm
How: To book please call us on (01726) 818 878
Half Term
October 25th to November 2nd
Visit Eden if you dare for an eerie Halloween experience including stories, potion workshops, a trip on our themed Halloween train and of course our now infamous ice skating rink.
More information coming soon
NOVEMBER
Ice skating
From November 3rd
Throughout this period and until February Half Term we will be offering skating lessons, toddlers time on the ice, curling and a new Friday and Saturday ice evening where we open until 11pm
More information coming soon
Winter wonderland
28th November to 4th January
The full festive winter wonderland experience runs from 28th November to 4th January complete with a Christmas market, choirs, an alternative father Christmas, roasted chestnuts and mulled wine.
More information coming soon
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