Join one of Ellis Nature Centre’s gardeners for a tour of our gardens on Saturday, June 14 from 1-2pm! We’ll lead you through our gardens, talking about key features, how they support biodiversity, and the variety of plants within them. If you’ve ever wanted to know the secrets of the Ellis Nature Centre gardens, now is your chance! This tour is free, but pre-registration is encouraged as there are only 15 spots available.

Bring your dad and celebrate with nestbox building on the Ellis Nature Centre site! Our chickadee and bluebird nestbox kits will be for sale, and there will be space to build them on site with your dad. Additionally, we will have duck boxes and northern flicker nestboxes which can be built as well. Pay $15 to take your duck or flicker box home, or you if you leave it for us to put on the ENC site you can build it for free! We’ll also be selling popcorn throughout the day.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

All ages. Pay $7 at the counter and includes one free drink. The third Thursday of every month. Event often runs more than one hour. 

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with Ellis Nature Centre on Friday, June 20! This event will run from 7-11:30pm. We’ll have live music, craft beer, pizza for sale by the slice, crafts for all ages, and a goat photo booth set up. Join the festivities and bring in the summer season with a wonderful celebration. Tickets are only $10 per person, and only 75 are available. All ages are welcome!

Join us on Saturday, June 2 from 10:30am-12pm to make a jar of salve with plantain harvested on the ENC site. Plantain is used by many Indigenous groups as an excellent balm to heal cuts and clear up dry skin. We will combine pre-dried plantain with coconut oil, grape seed oil, and beeswax and you will also go home with plantain harvested during the workshop to make more at home! The fee for this workshop is only $5 and 30 spots are available.

Join Cree Metis artist Shelley Rose May on Saturday, June 21 from 1-4pm for a Medicine Doll Workshop. Shelley will share her knowledge about spirit, traditional native plant medicines, and art to help participants create their own medicine dolls with intention. The fee for this workshop is only $20 and 40 spots are available. Ages 12+ can participate alone, and younger children can join with an adult’s help.

Join our staff and purple martin experts for an inside look into the purple martin condos on our site! We’ll lower the condos so you can see how they’re laid out inside and the stages of the nesting process. These tours will be first come, first served and have no cost. They will also be dependent on weather and the nesting process, so keep an eye on our social media for the most current updates for these tours.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.

Join us on Saturday, June 28 from 1-3pm to paint your own birdhouse in a birch tree style! One of our staff members will guide folks through how to get the perfect birch bark trees and look. All ages are welcome to attend (younger children may need adult help) and the fee for this workshop is only $35 per person. Only 10 spots are available so don’t wait to register!

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Join us the first Thursday of each month for Queer Neighbours Society of Red Deer's Art Club! You don't need experience, just enthusiasm! Bring the project you are working on or wanting to start, and create among friends. Allies always welcome, and parents with children too!

Join us by the big windows at the far end of the library.

Join our staff and purple martin experts for an inside look into the purple martin condos on our site! We’ll lower the condos so you can see how they’re laid out inside and the stages of the nesting process. These tours will be first come, first served and have no cost. They will also be dependent on weather and the nesting process, so keep an eye on our social media for the most current updates for these tours.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Join our staff and purple martin experts for an inside look into the purple martin condos on our site! We’ll lower the condos so you can see how they’re laid out inside and the stages of the nesting process. These tours will be first come, first served and have no cost. They will also be dependent on weather and the nesting process, so keep an eye on our social media for the most current updates for these tours.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Join our staff and purple martin experts for an inside look into the purple martin condos on our site! We’ll lower the condos so you can see how they’re laid out inside and the stages of the nesting process. These tours will be first come, first served and have no cost. They will also be dependent on weather and the nesting process, so keep an eye on our social media for the most current updates for these tours.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Our Young at Heart events have proven to be vital to our communities to allow our more senior community to get out, learn new things, discover new ventures and businesses, connect with the community, and have some fun with friends and family alike!

Mark your calendars for July 30, 2025! The Pidherney Curling Centre in Red Deer, Alberta, is the place to be from 11 AM to 4 PM.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Join us the first Thursday of each month for Queer Neighbours Society of Red Deer's Art Club! You don't need experience, just enthusiasm! Bring the project you are working on or wanting to start, and create among friends. Allies always welcome, and parents with children too!

Join us by the big windows at the far end of the library.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

Calling all stitchers! We invite you to join Ellis Nature Centre’s new craft group Fibers & Firs, focused on the art of stitching. All fiber art mediums are welcome – embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, knitting, etc. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm from May 20-August 26 to work on current projects, get tips from other stitchers, and build community. Please note that this is not an instructional workshop, but time for folks who love fiber arts to get together and work on their projects surrounded by the beauty of the Ellis Nature Centre site. If weather permits, we will work outside! Light refreshments (non-alcoholic) and baked goods will be provided for the first few sessions, with the hope that as we build a steady group everyone will be willing to contribute occasionally to the selection of baked goods.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.

Join us the first Thursday of each month for Queer Neighbours Society of Red Deer's Art Club! You don't need experience, just enthusiasm! Bring the project you are working on or wanting to start, and create among friends. Allies always welcome, and parents with children too!

Join us by the big windows at the far end of the library.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.

Join us the first Thursday of each month for Queer Neighbours Society of Red Deer's Art Club! You don't need experience, just enthusiasm! Bring the project you are working on or wanting to start, and create among friends. Allies always welcome, and parents with children too!

Join us by the big windows at the far end of the library.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.

Join us the first Thursday of each month for Queer Neighbours Society of Red Deer's Art Club! You don't need experience, just enthusiasm! Bring the project you are working on or wanting to start, and create among friends. Allies always welcome, and parents with children too!

Join us by the big windows at the far end of the library.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.

Join us the first Thursday of each month for Queer Neighbours Society of Red Deer's Art Club! You don't need experience, just enthusiasm! Bring the project you are working on or wanting to start, and create among friends. Allies always welcome, and parents with children too!

Join us by the big windows at the far end of the library.

We will play Dungeons and Dragons or whatever else you might request or bring. Parents, children, allies always welcome! Find us in the programming room at the GH Dawe Library the last Saturday of each month.