Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Venue: York Museum Gardens

Learn about the initiatives and interventions York Museums Trust’s Gardens Team have made to make their busy public garden more wildlife friendly. Take a tour around over 10 acres of grounds, discovering inspiration for your own garden or workplace green spaces.

You’ll learn about climate change and biodiversity, discover the importance of insects for the food chain and how to manage your green space throughout the seasons to create wildlife habitat, and adopt a new perspective with some native weeds.

Suited to people aged 12+ with an interest in making green spaces more wildlife friendly. Under 16’s must be accompanied by and adult.

Meet on the hard standing in front of the entrance to the Yorkshire Museum.

Booking required. A booking link will be made available soon on the York Environment Festival website. Curious & Creative Gardening Tour: Wildlife-Friendly Museum Gardens – York Environment Festival

Please note: This event is weather dependant. If adverse weather conditions cause this event to be cancelled, ticket holders will be notified.

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Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 2:00 pm-2:30 pm
Venue: York Art Gallery

Joanne Coates is a visual artist from North of England whose work explores rural working class identity, ecological change, and class politics. Her practice is grounded in photography, installation, and collaboration with communities across the UK. Coates has received international recognition including the Jerwood/Photoworks Award, the Hopper Prize, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art’s Vasseur Artist Award. In 2024, she was appointed Election Artist by the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art for the House of Commons. Her work continues to focus on a gendered perspective of overlooked voices in rural Britain questioning the visibility, labour, and power.

Talk is included in General Admission.

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