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SUMMARY:Guided Garden Tour - October 4
DESCRIPTION:Join a Garden Guide for a free tour on October 4\, 2025 at 10 am. Explore our living museum featuring collections of plants from around the globe! \nYou’ll hear the stories of selected plants in the Garden and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. Tours meet at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion at the northern end of the Garden and are given a grace period of 5 minutes. \n  \n  \nOur tours are free; become a member to support free public programming and access member-exclusive events.
URL:https://www.botgard.ucla.edu/event/guided-tour-october-2025/
LOCATION:707 Tiverton Dr\, 707 Tiverton Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, US
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SUMMARY:Fall Fest
DESCRIPTION:Fall for plants at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden’s annual Fall Fest on October 18\, 2025\, from 12-4 pm! \nThis event is completely free to attend\, no RSVP required! \nSpend an afternoon at the Garden with friends and family enjoying arts and crafts like weaving\, button making\, botanical illustration and more. Enjoy a talk from Assistant Director Allison Keeney about succulents and stick around to learn about basket weaving. \nAre you a new to campus and interested in learning more about what UCLA has to offer? We’ve got you covered! There will be UCLA clubs and organizations such as Plant Futures at UCLA\, Bruin Earth Solutions\, Bruin Birding Club\, Congo Basin Institute\, RefineLA\, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)\, Environmental Humanities Reading Group (EHRG)\, The Backpacking Club at UCLA\, and Radical Imagination Coalition (RIC) tabling at this event\, along with community partners Angel City Chorale and Alter Care Line. \nIf you joined us for our previous events like the Clarkia Flower Festival and last year’s Fall Fest\, you’ll know we always provide amazing live music performances! This event will be no different with amazing live music performances from artists like Fire Safety\, Jenna Rae\, Going Outside\, and Aidan Rockwell. \nNever been to the Garden before? Take a 45 minute tour of the Garden with one of our amazing guides and learn all about the Garden! Tours will be held every hour starting at 12 pm with our last tour taking place at 3 pm. \nMake sure to bring your wallet! Food trucks Rice Balls of Fire and Ciao Bella will be onsite and there will be a plant sale by Californica Nursery! We will also have art vendors like Margaret Gallagher\, Falk Ceramics\, Samal Tayag\, Kai Yung\, and Sunny Tran selling their work at Fall Fest. You can also support us and events like this by purchasing our merchandise. Stop by our table to buy our swag and learn more about upcoming events at the Garden this fall! \nContinue to check back in as we make more announcements about what to expect at Fall Fest. \nIf you have any questions about this event or would like to get involved\, please reach out to botanicalgarden@ucla.edu. \nWe can’t wait to see you there!
URL:https://www.botgard.ucla.edu/event/fall-fest-2025/
LOCATION:UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden\, 707 Tiverton Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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SUMMARY:Botany Brown Bag with Dr. Pam Soltis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new Botany Brown Bag Public Lecture Series! \nOur Botany Brown Bag series is continued by Dr. Pam Soltis\, who will give a talk titled “Using Natural History Collections to Address 21st Century Societal Problems” on Thursday\, October 30 at 12 pm. \nMake sure to bring your lunch! \nThis event is free and open to the public\, no RSVP required! \nPamela Soltis is a Distinguished Professor and Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. She is also Director of the UF Biodiversity Institute and Director of Research for iDigBio\, the NSF-sponsored National Coordinating Center for Biodiversity Collections. Her research addresses patterns and processes of plant evolution\, including phylogeny and polyploidy. This work spans genomic to landscape scales\, with applications for biodiversity assessment\, conservation\, and agriculture. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences\, where she recently served as Secretary of Biological Sciences.
URL:https://www.botgard.ucla.edu/event/botany-brown-bag-october-2025/
LOCATION:La Kretz Garden Pavilion\, 707 Tiverton Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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