Green Week – What’s On
What’s On
St Andrews Green week is packed with events and activities aimed at taking positive local action on our environment.
Saturday 9th March
| Compost Making Workshop | 10am – 12noon | Botanic Gardens (click for directions) Free event but advance booking required – phone 0770 458 7310 |
| Zero Waste Treasure Trail | 10am – 4pm | Botanic Gardens – Running all week |
| One World Community Dinner (click for more information) |
6.30pm | Episcopal Church |
Sunday 10th March
| Botanics Open Day INCLUDING free drop-in at Glass Class – green activities |
10am til 4pm | Botanic Gardens |
Monday 11th March
| Red Squirrel Talk | 9am – 11.30am | Botanic Gardens – Free but advance booking required – 0770 458 7310 |
| Cycletricity | 9am – 5pm | Church Square |
| Meat free Monday | Evening Meal | Catered halls accross the University |
| Film Screening: ‘Trashed’ | 7pm | Medical School Building, Main Lecture Theatre |
Tuesday 12th March
| St And Reuse Swap Shop | 12noon – 4pm | Mansfield Car Park (opp Students Union), St Marys Place |
| Guess the Veg – Fun competition | 2pm – 4pm | Outside Students Union |
| Transition Open Forum | 5.30pm – 7.30pm | St Mary’s College :T205 – Lecture Room 2 |
Wednesday 13th March
| Dune Action Morning | 10am – 2pm | West Sands |
| Albany Park Starts Diggin’ (The very first garden session of the Albany Park Garden- be part of history!) |
10am – 4pm | Albany Park Garden The open area to the very north edge of albany park boundary |
| Bike Maintenance and Sustainability Fayre | 12noon – 4pm | Outside University Library |
| Tree planting 600 trees for 600th | 1pm – 3pm | Fife Park |
| Canoe Club Beach Clean | 2pm start | East Sands Slipway |
| Community Garden Session | 2pm – 4pm | Community Garden |
| SD Seminar Series – Grill an Environmentalist | Evening | School 1, St Salvator’s Quad |
| Greenpeace Open Mic | 8pm – 10.30pm | Venue 2 Students Union, St Mary’s Place |
Thursday 14th March
| Glass Class activities – Garden Science workshop | 10am – 12noon | Botanic Gardens |
| Tour of Hamish the Composter | 1pm -2pm | University Grounds Staff HQ(behind new hall at the bottom of the path up to the sports centre |
| Green Week Pub Quiz | 8pm | Upstairs in The Rule (pub), South Street |
| St And Reuse AGM | TBC |
Seminar room 2,
University Arts building |
| BioSoc Film Screening: ‘The End of the Line’ |
7.30pm | School 2, St. Salvator’s Quad. |
Friday 15th March
| Staff Bike to Work Breakfast | 8am – 9am | John Burnett Hall |
| Fish for Today, Fish for Tomorrow – The Global Sustainable Seafood Movement | 10am – 12noon | Irvine Lecture Theatre, Irvine Building |
Saturday 16th March
| Junior Hortus Spring Bulb Prizegiving and Spring Plant Sale | 10.30am – 12noon | Botanic Gardens |
| Orchard work day | 1pm – 3pm | Community Orchard – behind Macs papershop on Lamond Drive (park on Lamond Drive) |