Flying seeds

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  • Location: Botaniska trädgården The Botanical Garden, Villavägen 6
  • Website
  • Organiser: The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala
  • Contact person: Per Erixon
  • Utställning, Kulturevenemang

Site built art outdoors around Linneanum. A collaboration with artists invited from Hokkaido. The pieces of art are created on site in the garden.

Participating artists

Nobumichi Achi, Hiroshi Kakizaki, Masako Suenaga, Yoko Tamura, Naoko Yako and Ikuo Watanabe.

Curators

Kajsa Haglund and Narek Aghajanyan.

Programme

preliminary: 19/5 at 18.00-19:30 Three of the artists talk about their art (in the Orangery - in Japanese, interpreted to Swedish)

23/5 at 18.00-19:30 The remaining three artists talk about their art (in the Orangery - in Japanese, interpreted to Swedish)

24/5 Inauguration of the exhibition (Swedish)

2/6 at 18.00 Curators Kajsa Haglund and Narek Aghajanyan talk about and show the exhibition Flying Seeds (Swedish)

10/9 Culture Night – Workshop for children and youths, based on the exhibition (Swedish)

Exercise – recreation – culture

Ride your bike to Linnaeus' Hammarby or wander in the cultural reserve there.Give Qi Gong, Yoga, Taiji or boules a try in the Botanical Garden.

Buy tickets for a theatre performance or concert. Enjoy art works, beautiful flower beds and silence. Study, read a book or enjoya tea or coffee break. In our gardens there is room for both rest and exercise!

Workout in the gardens in 2023

For current information, contact the organizers.

Boules greens in the baroque garden: Singelklubben and Upsala Pétanque Club practice boule in the Botanical Garden Sundays May–September, and Mondays and Thursdays May–August, respecively. Contact them if you want to try your hand at pétanque. 

Qigong at Sorbusplan (corner Norbyvägen-Villavägen, at the Nordic Africa Institute):  Mondays 12 June – 31 July, 17:30–18:30. For up-to-date information see the website of the organizer Biyunföreningen Gröna Draken.

Summer yoga in the Botanical garden: usually Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, May – August. For more information, on the Facebook page Sommaryoga i Uppsala.

Utställningar Uppsala linneanska trädgårdar

Last modified: 2023-09-15