Manchester Festival of Nature 2021: Pollinator Portraits competition

Posted on June 27, 2021 Updated on June 27, 2021

Manchester Festival of Nature (MFoN), Sunday 27th June 2021

It’s been a strange time for festivals and events. Following 2019’s scorchingly hot event at Heaton Park, 2020’s Festival of Nature went entirely online with some great digital webinars and workshops, oh, and me with my first attempt at live-streaming some plant pressing. Best leave it to the professionals!

This year we again have some wonderful online content for everyone to enjoy, and we started early this year with twitter takeovers throughout the month of June.

If you missed the brilliant Youth Panel twitter takeover week earlier this summer, don't worry you can catch up now! https://t.co/42Bjp43caZ

— #MFoN (@MancNature) June 25, 2021

https://twitter.com/i/events/1391444989322874883

On the day of the Festival, you can get to all the new content on our ‘main stage’ twitter account @MancNature. Also, if you are lucky enough to be taking a Sunday stroll through Heaton Park today, you might spot the Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s gazebo and chat to them about wildlife in the park.

This year, the Museum has supported the Manchester Nature Consortium Youth Panel to deliver their art competition for the Festival. Taking inspiration from the bee and insect themes of the Festival, the young people launched a Pollinator Portrait competition earlier this year. They must have faced a tough choice voting for the winners as the quality of entries was really good. The Youth Panel loved the Museum’s Beauty and the Beasts digital exhibition, so we decided to create an online exhibition to display all the works.

Head on over to our online gallery to see for yourself……..