The Awbury Wellness Team would like to invite you to a weekly hour of winter walking on Mondays starting on January 4th.  Please park and meet at the entrance to The Farm at Awbury (6336 Ardleigh Street) at 7:00 am.

Mask up, wear sturdy shoes, dress in layers, and let’s take a walk together and get to know our Awbury community! There is no cost to this event, but donations are welcome. No registration is required. Each week we will offer a theme: how to deal with stress, the history of Awbury, the birds of Awbury, etc. We will be keeping a safe but welcoming distance from one another. Winter Wellness walks will be led by Megan Do Nascimento, a yoga instructor known for her outgoing personality and inclusive teaching style.

Please note that no restrooms are available at this time.

*To stay up-to-date about cancellations due to weather and other details, please visit the Awbury Arboretum Wellness Facebook Group.

Don’t put that tree out by the curb! Instead, donate it to become goat food or wood chips for the goat area at the Philly Goat Project!

Express or Safari Drive-Thru options available on two different dates: either stay in your car and let PGP unload your tree, or drive through to see the goats.

Dates: Saturday, Jan 9 and Jan 23
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: The Farm at Awbury (6336 Ardleigh Street)
Donation: $20 will help support the goats

The Awbury Wellness Team would like to invite you to a weekly hour of winter walking on Mondays starting on January 4th.  Please park and meet at the entrance to The Farm at Awbury (6336 Ardleigh Street) at 7:00 am.

Mask up, wear sturdy shoes, dress in layers, and let’s take a walk together and get to know our Awbury community! There is no cost to this event, but donations are welcome. No registration is required. Each week we will offer a theme: how to deal with stress, the history of Awbury, the birds of Awbury, etc. We will be keeping a safe but welcoming distance from one another. Winter Wellness walks will be led by Megan Do Nascimento, a yoga instructor known for her outgoing personality and inclusive teaching style.

Please note that no restrooms are available at this time.

*To stay up-to-date about cancellations due to weather and other details, please visit the Awbury Arboretum Wellness Facebook Group.

Heritage Storytime Episode 2:

Philly has a Dream for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Join us for the second episode of Heritage Storytime, where we’ll hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspiring “I Have a Dream” speech, read from a book with beautiful illustrations by Caldecott Honor winning artist Kadir Nelson. Dr. King’s powerful message of freedom and equality for all people will be explored further with a virtual tour of the Johnson House, presented in partnership with History Hunters. We’ll learn all about the people who fought for racial justice in Philadelphia in this Underground Railroad Station and House Museum. We’ll also present opportunities for service-learning during the MLK Day of Service and provide additional teaching resources and ideas for exploring the episode’s themes.

Registration link: https://igfn.us/e/d1tg7Q
FREE to Register!

Audience: Children in grades 4-5, families, teachers

“The House Beautiful” – The Aesthetic Movement and the American Home

ZOOM illustrated talk: Between November and May 1876, ten million people visited the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Some of the most prominent members of the British Aesthetic Movement participated in this international event introducing Aesthetic ideas to the American public. Aestheticism was an artistic movement that originated in Great Britain in the 1850s and 1860s as a reaction against the perceived excesses and deceitfulness of mid-nineteenth-century art and decoration. The artists and designers associated with the movement held strong views about the place of art in everyday life and sought to reform the domestic environment by introducing art in home design and decoration. The decoration of one’s home was the source of much preoccupation in the 1870s and 1880s in England and America. How could the average homeowner be expected to have the artistic sensibility required to recognize and create the beautiful and truthful? In this lecture, we will explore the origin and evolution of the “artistic” interior and identify its main elements, reflecting on evolving notions of taste and beauty and their impact in transforming how people lived and the spaces they called home.

Saturday, January 16, 2021, at 1:00 pm – Cost: $6

MAKE RESERVATIONS ONLINE

Ticket holders will receive the ZOOM sign-in information on Friday, January 15, and then again on Saturday, January 16

Literary Parlor – The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House – two novels by Emily Eden – via ZOOM

If you’re a Jane Austen fan, you’ll enjoy Emily Eden’s comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859), and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather petulant) Lady Blanche Chester, newly married and pregnant, is being installed in a suburban house while her husband is away. Her encounters with her neighbors, and the intrigues of the neighborhood, soon come to absorb and annoy her.

Join 19th-century bibliophile, Kate Howe, for a lively discussion.

Sunday, January 17, 2021, at 1:30 pm

Cost: $6 Once you register for The Semi-Attached Couple and  The Semi-Attached House via ZOOM, the Mansion will email you the login information for the Zoom Literary Parlor.

Reservations are required.

MAKE RESERVATIONS ONLINE
or call 215-438-1861

The Awbury Wellness Team would like to invite you to a weekly hour of winter walking on Mondays starting on January 4th.  Please park and meet at the entrance to The Farm at Awbury (6336 Ardleigh Street) at 7:00 am.

Mask up, wear sturdy shoes, dress in layers, and let’s take a walk together and get to know our Awbury community! There is no cost to this event, but donations are welcome. No registration is required. Each week we will offer a theme: how to deal with stress, the history of Awbury, the birds of Awbury, etc. We will be keeping a safe but welcoming distance from one another. Winter Wellness walks will be led by Megan Do Nascimento, a yoga instructor known for her outgoing personality and inclusive teaching style.

Please note that no restrooms are available at this time.

*To stay up-to-date about cancellations due to weather and other details, please visit the Awbury Arboretum Wellness Facebook Group.

Don’t put that tree out by the curb! Instead, donate it to become goat food or wood chips for the goat area at the Philly Goat Project!

Express or Safari Drive-Thru options available on two different dates: either stay in your car and let PGP unload your tree, or drive through to see the goats.

Dates: Saturday, Jan 9 and Jan 23
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: The Farm at Awbury (6336 Ardleigh Street)
Donation: $20 will help support the goats

The Awbury Wellness Team would like to invite you to a weekly hour of winter walking on Mondays starting on January 4th.  Please park and meet at the entrance to The Farm at Awbury (6336 Ardleigh Street) at 7:00 am.

Mask up, wear sturdy shoes, dress in layers, and let’s take a walk together and get to know our Awbury community! There is no cost to this event, but donations are welcome. No registration is required. Each week we will offer a theme: how to deal with stress, the history of Awbury, the birds of Awbury, etc. We will be keeping a safe but welcoming distance from one another. Winter Wellness walks will be led by Megan Do Nascimento, a yoga instructor known for her outgoing personality and inclusive teaching style.

Please note that no restrooms are available at this time.

*To stay up-to-date about cancellations due to weather and other details, please visit the Awbury Arboretum Wellness Facebook Group.