Green Cafe warmly invites you to our next event: a game played in nature to encourage us to observe and understand the intricate connections that nature offers us and see ourselves as a part of it. The game is played outdoors in nature and is an interactive, detective-like workshop where participants explore the local ecosystem by finding traces/evidence, taking pictures of it and working with the facilitator (chief inspector) to connect this evidence on the map to reveal ecological relationships. During this interesting Escape Room-like adventure in nature, we will be guided by a game facilitator, and an experienced IVN guide who can explain a lot about the nature we are in and the species we are seeing. We will play this game in the Philips de Jongh park, which is very rich in biodiversity and history.

The event is based on a game developed by Luna Snelder, who will be your facilitator. The game is called EcoSystem Investigation (ESI) and was created from a collaboration with IVN Veldhoven-Eindhoven-Vessem, Nieuw Zwanenburg, Phood Farm and Brabants Landschap.

IVN
Since 1960, IVN has been connecting people with nature by helping children and adults to experience how fun, healthy and important nature is.

Practicalities
• Meeting point: Philips de Jongh park, Hoek oirschotsedijk, bezuidenhoutseweg, zwaanstraat 5651GA Eindhoven (bike parking place). We meet at one of the corners of the park, at the end of Zwaanstraat. We will gather at 10:15, but the event will start at 10:30. Please be on time.
• Bring walking shoes (paths might be muddy if it has rained recently) and wear weather-appropriate clothing (sun, wind, rain), consider sunscreen if it’s sunny. Please also wear long pants (cover the full leg) to avoid getting ticks.
• Feel free to get some tea/coffee for yourself in a thermos flask to enjoy a short break during the game (optional).
• Please bring a smartphone with whatsapp, to send the pictures of evidence to the facilitator, These will be printed on a picture during the game (optional).
• Install Obsidentify app on your phone to identify the flora/ fauna you see around you (optional)

About the organizer
The Green Café is a collaboration between Trefpunt Groen Eindhoven, Eindje Groen (Katja Lumme), with individual contributors: Annemarie Voorsluys, Audrey Pepin, Chloe Baldasseroni, Giedre Liutkeviciute, Mayra Ortega Maldonado and Zubin Nayak. It organizes various activities on sustainability for the international community of Eindhoven. For example, lectures, workshops, city tours and film sessions on the themes of nature, environment and sustainability. Green Cafe is supported by the Eindhoven Library and the Holland Expat Center South.

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During some of the events of the Library Eindhoven, pictures are taken for the potential publication on social media, online- or printed media. At lectures, mainly the speaker and the location as a whole, are photographed. Please inform the photographer, if you do not wish to be photographed.