Four bee-lining experts share anecdotes, best practices, hazards, and takeaways during the kickoff event of the 2024 Honey Bee Watch Symposia Series.

Honey Bee Watch’s third symposium (and last in 2023) features Hannes Bonhoff, M. Alice Pinto, Fabrice Requier, and Michael Joshin Thiele discussing the difficulties and importance in defining “wild” and its relation to honey bees. 13 December. Free and open to all. www.HoneyBeeWatch.com/events

Honey Bee Watch’s second symposium features Roger Dammé from Honey Bee Wild in Luxembourg, Paolo Fontana from Bee Wild in Italy, and Noa Simón Delso from BeeLife in Europe, talking about collaboration, data rights and sharing, plus other challenging topics. 28 September. Free and open to all. www.HoneyBeeWatch.com/events

Seeking volunteers to help The Ambeessadors build insect hotels for the facade of ZK/U, the Center for Arts and Urbanism, which is adjacent to our educational pollinators’ garden in Moabit.

Honey Bee Watch’s kick-off symposium features Thomas Seeley, Filipe Salbany, Grace McCormack, and Jovana Bila Dubaić sharing stories about, experiences with, and monitoring protocols on free-living honey bees. 28 June. Free and open to all. www.HoneyBeeWatch.com/events

Closing the BEES, DREAMS & MEDICINE series, Hanifa Nayo Washington dives into a controversial side of sacred healing that has recently exploded onto the mainstream: the use of psychedelics. We’ll learn about the science, medicine, and psychological effects of this potent healing tool, and how to best integrate experiences for personal growth and stable mental health.

Ancient followers of Dionysus ran amok atop mountains, gyrating to the rhythm of the frame drum, sometimes induced by mind-altering concoctions. Dionysian scholar Chiara Baldini takes us there, relaying the rituals and significance of those who worshipped the Greek god of fertility, wine, and pleasure.

Queen whisperer Melanie Kirby approaches apiculture through an interdisciplinarian lens that weaves together science, indigenous cultures, art, land stewardship, biodiversity, conservation, and more. Her storytelling introduces us to the past and present of beekeeping as well as paints a future vision of inspired reciprocity between bees, humans, and Nature as a whole.

Starhawk‘s seminal book, The Fifth Sacred Thing, envisioned an ecotopian world in harmony with Nature, where human diversity is valued, and art, fun, and life embedded in the day to day. Not merely fiction, Starhawk has endeavored in real life to realize such a paradise through her work and teachings in permaculture, ecofeminism, activism, community-building, and empowerment for all. Awaken your inner courage and imagination!

Blockchain technology. Cryptocurrency. Environmental activism. Bees and art. BeeDAO – Beecoin brings together bees and humans to make collective decisions in order to preserve and improve our shared landscapes.

As part of a day of hands-on learning about Nature, gardening, and the importance of pollinators, The Ambeessadors leads two workshops to make seed bombs and to convert a section of grass lawn into a wildflower meadow. Bring gloves!

Members of TreeSisters have contributed to the planting of more than 26 million trees throughout the tropics. Its founder Clare Dubois had a vision to transform our behavior from consumers to restorers, leaders, and doers, and on Sep 15 she’ll share observations and gained wisdom along this 12-year, Earth-loving journey of self-discovery, leadership, and reforestation.

As part of the Barrels & Bees program by Aberfeldy Whisky, The Ambeessadors hosts a series of formal honey tastings, paired with a flight of their whiskies, in four German cities this summer.

As part of the Barrels & Bees program by Aberfeldy Whisky, The Ambeessadors hosts a series of formal honey tastings, paired with a flight of their whiskies, in four German cities this summer.

Blockchain technology. Cryptocurrency. Environmental activism. Bees and art. BeeDAO – Beecoin brings together bees and humans to make collective decisions in order to preserve and improve our shared landscapes.

Steve Rogenstein presents a talk on Honey Bee Watch, the global citizen-science study on surviving honey bee colonies, during Apimondia 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.

As part of the Barrels & Bees program by Aberfeldy Whisky, The Ambeessadors hosts a series of formal honey tastings, paired with a flight of their whiskies, in four German cities this summer.

As part of the Barrels & Bees program by Aberfeldy Whisky, The Ambeessadors hosts a series of formal honey tastings, paired with a flight of their whiskies, in four German cities this summer.

Herstorian extraordinaire Max Dashu drops us into the world of the seer, dreamer, oracle, prophetess, taking us on a visual journey through the ages and across continents, where we’ll meet and hear powerful messages from women who do more than “predict the future,” but rather speak sacred truths and communicate profound insights about the realities around us.

Blockchain technology. Cryptocurrency. Environmental activism. Bees and art. BeeDAO – Beecoin brings together bees and humans to make collective decisions in order to preserve and improve our shared landscapes.

Matthew Shepherd from Xerces Society has been working towards invertebrate conservation for decades. We’ll learn about the diversity of bees, some issues clouding their future, and steps we can take to ensure they have a safe environment. Along the way, we’ll also hear about monarch butterflies in North America.

In celebration of World Bee Day, The Melissae (May 19) bee priestesses offer a glimpse into their personal discoveries, spiritual studies, and ritualistic practices surrounding the honey bee. As a group we’ll have an opportunity to join in on a ceremony of offering, forgiveness, and love to and for our pollinator family.

Capitalism and other patriarchal systems have brought us to the brink of environmental collapse. Dr. Elsa María Cardona Santos sees hope in metaphorically “calculating” the economic value of Nature and advocates for “rewilding” to connect us deeper to the non-human world around us.

The world’s foremost expert and practitioner of apitherapy, Dr. Stefan Stângaciu, launches the BEES, DREAMS & MEDICINE 2022 series on Apr 7. Using honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, bee stings, and even beehive air to prevent and cure thousands of patients’ ailments, he has amassed countless personal and professional stories of bees’ intelligence, communications, and medicine. Join us to hear an insider’s scientific and mystical perspectives on bees.

Concluding the year, Michael Joshin Thiele leads us on a spiritual journey into the inner wisdom of the apian being, where intimacy, interconnectivity, and the oracular open hearts and minds, and whereby we gain stillness and gratitude grows.

We trek to the High Andes to learn about the mystical practice of “illumination,” a wisdom carried by the elders of Incan descendants. Dr. Gabrielle Francis regales us with stories of these mountaintop shamans and demonstrates how we can practice a chakra-cleansing ritual in the comfort of home.

Priestesses of the College of Melissae share rituals and practices that honor and celebrate the bee, and which help to deepen one’s connection to these venerated creatures, ourselves, and society at large.

Ancient Rome, Anatolia, and the route to Mecca all share an incredible, albeit controversial, storyline: a meteor that fell from the sky became one of the most widely worshipped deities of all time. Andrew Gough weaves a fanciful tale through these lands that also includes the Holy Grail and Great Mother.

Experts from apiculture, conservation, forestry, and art convene to discuss the most pressing issue of our time: the Climate Crisis