Urban Wild Festival
Week of nature themed events across Southampton at the end of May
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The Urban Wild festival is coordinated by Southampton National Park City.
Running from Monday 26 May - Sunday 1st June 2025.
Urban Wild is a city-wide festival celebrating local wild places and the connection, creativity, and community that surrounds them. The festival invites everyone to explore the city’s green and blue spaces through a dynamic programme of workshops, activities, walks, talks, performances, interactive experiences, and eco-inspired adventures.
As part of this event we are hosting and running several events.
THURSDAY 29th May
We are hosting a willow weaving workshop with Willow and Crafts.
Join us for a relaxing day of crafting your own large willow butterfly or dragonfly!
Start with a brown willow base, then decorate your creation with colourful willows or add your own details later using paint, thread etc
Southampton residents are eligible to attend for a reduced price of £45, (the full price is £50).
Thanks to the Southampton National Park City we can offer three further discounted spaces to residents in receipt of certain benefits for just £20.
For more details and to book a place follow the link.
FRIDAY 30th May
THE DARK SIDE
This is our biggest contribution to the festival. We've taken a lot of time to organise a full evening of activities themed around nocturnal animals. LINK
SUNDAY 1st June
The festival ends with a big event on the Common where you will find us making bird boxes.
To find out more about the festival which is taking place from the Monday 26th May - Sunday, 1st June,