We’d be happy to do a presentation for your group, but we do charge. Please remember that we don’t get city, state, or federal funding for our education programs. Presentations and programs are one way we fund our rehabilitation work.
Our Congress Avenue Bridge program (click to view the latest radar info and emergence times) has educated thousands of visitors over the last six years. We’re at the bridge almost every Friday and Saturday evening in March through October, and we often have a bat ready for release after the crowds thin out.
We can also bring live local bats to your talk. For large groups, we use a close-focus video camera to show the features of the tiny native bat species up close and personal while maintaining a separation of audience and wild animals. We supply the video camera (actually a document reader) that we will connect to your AV equipment and big screen through an HDMI port. We ask you to supply a projector and screen, as well as an IT person to hook up our laptop to your AV equipment.
We use a multi-media presentation to talk about the benefits of bats and how to live in harmony with these wonders of the natural world and can talk for up to an hour.
We charge $350 for this type of program for groups of under 100. Outdoor events usually don’t include tech equipment, but they have their own complications and start at similar rates. Discounts are available for under-served and under-funded schools. Corporate event fees may be $600 and up. Contact us for details.
Our calendar fills up fast in the fall season, so slots are limited at that time of year. But remember, bats are worth learning about at all times of the year, not just around Halloween.
Email info@austinbatrefuge.org to request an education program with ABR!
Please include:
- Contact name, phone number, and email address
- Name of organization or school
- Location address
- Type of venue or group (e.g., school, corporate event, or festival)
- If children will be present, their range of ages
- Preferred date, as well as alternate dates
- Any other details about the program
- Budget for presentation (see above)
Past programs
2020
27 programs
- Nerd Nite Austin
- Family Eldercare presentation
- Bat Night livestream with BatBnB
- Bat Happy Hour with Shoal Creek Conservancy
- Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) summer camp presentation
- Garden Club
- Spicewood Elementary presentation
- Dirt Divas
- Good Water Master Naturalists training
- Umlauf Family Day
- It’s My Park Day
- Elisabet Ney Museum’s Nature Day
- Central Texas Pig Rescue’s Pig Pageant
- TX State Bat Club
- Austin Cave Festival
- Darwin Day
- Migrations World Dance Festival
- BCI Bat Walk Training
- Austin Youth River Watch
- Texas Wildlife Day at the Texas Memorial Museum
- Science Night at Galindo Elementary
- Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting
2019
41 programs
- Congress Avenue Bridge information table, Fri & Sat each weekend
- Celis Brewery Bat Bridge
- Williamson County Juvenile Detention Center
- Presentations for Texas State Bat Club, UT Pre-Vet Club, and Texas A&M Vet Club
- Shell’s Powering Conservation Day
- Bi-annual Texas Wildlife Association (TWA) Distance Learning
- Whisper Valley presentation
- Monarch Festival
- Symphony Scare! at Waterloo Greenway
- Bats and Snakes! at St. Edward’s University
- Good Water Master Naturalists training
- Blair Woods Family Nature Day
- Wild Birds Unlimited presentation
- Nature Festival at Waller Creek
- Barton Springs University
- Wings Over Wimberley
- Mother Earth Day Festival
- Brushy Creek Bat Fest
- COA Yellow Bat Watch Party
- City of Austin Safety Conference
- Shoal Creek Conservancy
- Balcones Canyonlands Texas Master Naturalist presentation
- Nepris presentation
- Spicewood Elementary presentation
- Earth Day ATX
- Texas Night Sky Festival
- Planting at Town Lake with Shoal Creek Foundation 3/9
- Elisabet Ney Museum’s Nature Day
- Austin Cave Festival
- Darwin Day
- Texas Wildlife Day
- Migrations Tribal Convention
2018
17 programs
- Congress Avenue Bridge information table, Fri & Sat each weekend
- Brushy Creek MUD Bat Fest
- Good Water Master Naturalists training
- Blue Starlight Drive-In presentation for Batman Returns
- Native American & Indigenous Collective – Four Directions ceremony
- Volunteer Fair for Balcones Canyonlands Master Naturalists in Training at Concordia University
- Galaxy Movie Theater presentation for Hotel Transylvania
- “Bats & Mosquitos” interview with Nancy Semin Lingo, Exhibits & Collections Manager for the History of Medicine Gallery at the Texas Medical Association
- Trail Bridge at North Side Congress Avenue – work with Trail Foundation to make sure no bats were harmed
- Earth Day Austin
- Native American & Indigenous Collective Spring Pow-wow at Doris Miller Park
- KUT Spotlight
- Huntsville – Texas Department of Criminal Justice meeting
- Austin Cave Festival
- Cub Scout Pack 61
- WestCave at Blair Woods
- Wildlife Society – Texas State Chapter
2017
26 programs
- Congress Avenue Bridge information table, Fri & Sat each weekend
- Girls School of Austin
- TWA Distance Learning, Bats-A-Billion presentation, for 5,000 children
- Bertha Sadler Means Middle School presentation
- Texas Campaign for the Environment training
- Blair Woods Audubon Nature Days
- The Thinkery
- The Metropolitan Breakfast Club at Darrel K. Royal Memorial Stadium
- Wild Birds of Lakeway presentation
- Box presentation
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation WNS grant announcement in Houston
- The Round Rock Newcomers Club
- Rotary Club bat cruise
- AALAS 68th National Meeting – Committee for Technician Awareness and Development (600 techs and vets)
- Good Water Master Naturalists training
- Summit Elementary Day of Flight
- Austin Zoo Homeschool Day
- Austin Nature Center teacher development training
- Austin Nature Center Masters of the Night exhibit presentation
- Hot Science, Cool Talks tabling prior to Lemurs of Madagascar, at University of Texas Austin
- Bill Oliver’s Mother Earth Day Festival
- South Austin Rotary Club presentation
- Cub Scout presentation
- Brushy Creek Bat Festival
- Colorado River Alliance Board visit to ABR
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Nature Nights
- Nepris presentation, “All About Bats”