Networks for Nature Exhibition
An exhibition about wildlife in town and city,
part of New Networks for Nature in Stamford
Exhibition ends 21st November
Stamford Arts Centre
27 St Mary's Street
Stamford
Lincs.
PE9 2DL
Germaine Greer in conversation with Ruth Padel, New Networks for Nature
Thursday 12th – Saturday 14th November
Stamford Arts Centre,
Stamford, Lincolnshire
Nature Matters: Place and Belonging
Exploring the diversity of responses to the natural world
Thursday 12th November 6.30pm – 9.30pm [Theatre]
18.30 – 20.00 Drinks and a chance to meet friends and colleagues
in the Exhibition Space
Exhibition: ‘Concrete Nature’
20.00 – 21.30 Germaine Greer in conversation with Ruth Padel,
including questions from the audience
Friday 13th November – 08.30 arrival for 09.30am
start [in Theatre] Introduction to the day (09.30 – 0.940)
Prologue (09.40 –10.00)
John Aitchison. A film-maker and broadcaster looks at how
people connect with nature through particular places.
Session 1: (10.00 – 11.00)
Poetry and Pattern: nature poetry today. Chaired by Ruth Padel
“Hack and rack the growing green,” wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins,
mourning poplars felled a hundred and twenty-five years ago.
Today nature faces worse threats everywhere. Three prize-winning
poets read their poems on nature, wildlife and conservation, and
discuss ways in which poetry can address nature without
overwhelming the poem - and the reader - in fury or lament.
Contributors: Ruth Padel, Jo Shapcott, Pascale Petit
Coffee break (11.00 – 11.45)
– opportunity to buy books from authors
Session 2: (11.45 – 13.00)
Debate:
The Real Value of Nature. Chaired by Jeremy Mynott
Should we justify and defend the value of nature by the benefits it
brings, or by its intrinsic qualities?
Debating: Tony Juniper and George Monbiot
Delicious Organic Lunch (13.00 – 14.15) locally sourced brainstimulating
nutrition! – and opportunity to buy books from authors
Musical prologue BarronBrady(14.15 – 14.30)
Session 3: (14.30 – 15.30)
Invertebrate Delights. Chaired by Stephen Moss
Some thoughts about the more overlooked of our companions on
the planet.
Contributors: Peter Marren (butterflies), Helen Smith (spiders),
Matt Shardlow (bugs)
Tea break (15.30 – 16.00) – opportunity to buy books from authors
Prologue (16.00 – 16.15) Esther Tyson: a visual artist presents some
of her images and relates the processes by which they are reached.
Session 4: (16.15–17.30)
Sound, story and place. Chaired by Geoff Sample
Sound has a strangely intimate connection with landscape and our
sense of place. It may be the sound of the place itself and its sensual
impressions; or it may be the way we express our bonding with a
place in music, poetry or lyrical prose.
Contributors: Malcolm Green (story-teller) and Jo Joelson
(fieldworks).
18.30 until late @ the Tobie Norris
Saturday 14th November
– 09.00 arrival for 09.30am start [in Theatre]
Introduction to the day (09.20 – 09.30) Carry Akroyd
Prologue (09.30 – 09.45) Matt Howard: a reading
Session 5: (09.45 – 11.00)
The Science of Place. Chaired by Tim Birkhead
Ecology is essentially the study of organisms ‘at home’, that is, in
their natural contexts. A palaeontologist and two zoologists present
some case-studies.
Contributors:
Richard Fortey 'From the Natural History Museum into the Woods';
Elspeth Kenny ‘Feathered friends: relationships on the cliff-face’;
Hannah Mumby, ‘When and how is an elephant human?’
Coffee break (11.00 – 11.30) – buy books, meet authors
Session 6: (11.30 –12.30)
Spirit of Place. Chaired by Carry Akroyd
How do we explain our emotional response to places?
Contributors: Mary Colwell, Matthew Oates, Andrew Forster
Delicious Organic Lunch (12.30 – 13.45) – opportunity to buy
books from authors
Prologue (1345-14.00) Rebecca Jewell: a visual artist shows work
and reflects on extinction.
Session 7: (14.00 – 15.00)
The Media and the Message: Communication and Conservation
Chaired by Barbara Young
Four journalists and opinion-formers form the panel in any ‘Any
Questions’ format.
Panellists:
Simon Barnes, Mike McCarthy, Louise Gray, Germaine Greer
Saturday 14th November continued:
Tea (15.00-15.30)
Session 8: (15.30 – 16.15)
Music finale Barron Brady
Review of the conference, comments from the floor.(16.15-16.40)
One of organizers.
Looking forward to 2016 (16.40-16.45) One of organizers.
Ticket prices and booking for the conference
Thursday evening only – £20
Day ticket Friday £45*
Day ticket Saturday £45*
Two-day ticket (Friday and Saturday) £80*
Three-day ticket (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) £90*
* includes refreshments (Tea/coffee/lunch – as last year, we are using locally sourced,
organic catering)
Tickets can be purchased through our website
or by sending a cheque
(payable to ‘New Networks for Nature’), together with a completed booking form (available on
our website), to New Networks for Nature, c/o M Howard, 66 Salisbury Road,
Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 1TU. If you have a query about the event, about your
booking or about New Networks for Nature itself then please email
info@newnetworksfornature.org.uk.
Places are limited and tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Founded by Tim Birkhead, Mark Cocker, John Fanshawe and Jeremy Mynott
in 2009, ‘New Networks for Nature’ is a wholly voluntary organization run by
a steering group currently consisting of Carry Akroyd, John Barlow, Tim Birkhead,
Jonathan Elphick, John Fanshawe, Matthew Howard, Gill Kerby, Harriet
Mead, Stephen Moss, Jeremy Mynott, Derek Niemann, Kate Risely and Mike
Toms.
www.newnetworksfornature.org.uk Twitter: @networks4nature
