Category: The Park

  • Tickets on sale for Much Ado About Nothing in Queen’s Park on 2nd July

    SITS logo-864x318Back in March QPARA made donations of £1,000 each to seven organisations supporting the local community. See this item for more information. One of the organisations is Shakespeare in the Squares, a not-for-profit touring theatre company that will stage a Shakespeare play in London garden squares for one night in each venue every Summer.

    The 2016 production is Much Ado About Nothing. 

    The production will be a creative, ambitious, site-responsive project that places this remarkable play at the heart of the communities to which it travels, in the great tradition of Shakespearean touring companies. The play will be set at the end of the First World War and the action transferred to the venues where it is performed. The sense of community within the play will be echoed by a night of music, celebration and food.
    The performance in Quuen’s Park will start at 7pm on Saturday 2nd July. Tickets are available now.

  • City of London awards Queen’s Park café contract to Minkies from Chamberlayne Road

    QP CafeThis article in the Kilburn Times gives the details.

  • Queen’s Park tree walk on Sunday, 14 June

    John Blandy Queen's Park 6.8.04

     

    Jonathan Meares, City of London Corporation’s Conservation and Trees Manager for Hampstead Heath and Highgate Wood will do a tree walk in Queen’s Park on Sunday, 14th June.

    • Meet:  Queen’s Park Cafe
    • Time: 11.00am
    • Duration: 90 – 120 mins

    Jonathan manages an Ancient Woodland site (Highgate Wood), and Conservation and Tree Management operations on Hampstead Heath. He has developed a particular interest in the historical and conservation importance of trees.

    Image courtesy of John Blandy.

    Read about Jonathan Meades’ work in this article from the Ham and High: Tree disease spreads to Hampstead Heath as staff braced for deadly ash dieback

     

  • Look out for Woodpeckers and Swifts on the QPARA Bird-walk on 23rd May

    Everyone is welcome to join the annual QPARA Bird-walk covering Queen’s Park and Paddington Cemetery. We are planning to start at the park cafe at 9.30am on Saturday, 23rd May. The walk will take about 90 minutes, but people can join or leave at any time.

    We will be looking out especially for Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Swifts. Please bring binoculars if you have them. We will also need a volunteer to make a note of the birds spotted.

     

    Male Great Spotted Woodpecker
    Male Great Spotted Woodpecker

  • Fritillaria in the Quiet Garden, Queen’s Park

    Many thanks to Robin Sharp for these photographs.

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    Fritillaria in the Quiet Garden, Queen's Park