Some up-coming arts events inspired by nature.
For more information on each event, click on the blue hyperlinks. Please use the contact form to suggest events for this list
For more information on each event, click on the blue hyperlinks. Please use the contact form to suggest events for this list
June 2015
The Many Sounds of a Tweet Poet James Giddings leads a fun exploration of poetry and birds in this family friendly drop-in workshop. James will be inspiring visitors to the RSPB Bempton Cliffs reserve to re-create the sounds of Bempton. Part of the Bridlington Poetry Festival 12-21 June.
13 June 11am-3pm, RSPB Bempton Cliffs. Free (entry charge to reserve for non-members).
13 June 11am-3pm, RSPB Bempton Cliffs. Free (entry charge to reserve for non-members).
East Neuk Festival, Fife 27 June - 5 July 2015 click the festival link for full programme
Littoral A programme of literary events celebrating our profound connections with nature, landscape and seascape, set in the beautiful surroundings of Crail and Cambo.
27-28 June various venues. Full Littoral programme to be announced in March.
John Luther Adams: From a Distance John Luther Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer whose works are usually inspired by, and often taken place in, nature. The beautiful gardens and grounds of Cambo Estate are the setting for a new work written for the Festival, featuring a huge number of horns ringing out through the woodlands.
5 July 4pm Cambo Gardens, East Neuk, Fife
27-28 June various venues. Full Littoral programme to be announced in March.
John Luther Adams: From a Distance John Luther Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer whose works are usually inspired by, and often taken place in, nature. The beautiful gardens and grounds of Cambo Estate are the setting for a new work written for the Festival, featuring a huge number of horns ringing out through the woodlands.
5 July 4pm Cambo Gardens, East Neuk, Fife
July 2015
John Luther Adams: From a Distance The beautiful gardens and grounds of Cambo Estate are the setting for a new work especially for the Festival, featuring a huge number of horns ringing out through Cambo’s woodlands. Part of the East Neuk Festival 27 June-5 July
5 July 4pm Cambo Gardens, East Neuk, Fife
Quartet for the End of Time The Grier Trio and Andrew Marriner perform one of Messiaen’s first “bird style” works.
6 July 2015 6.30pm King's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
Neck of the Woods Manchester International Festival invited Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud to create Neck of the Woods, a portrait of the wolf brought to life in “a startling collision of visual art, music and theatre”. Charlotte Rampling recites and performs the story of the wolf, written by New York-based novelist and playwright Veronica Gonzalez Peña. .
10-18 July 7.30pm (2.30pm on 12 July) HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place, First Street, Manchester M15 4FN
5 July 4pm Cambo Gardens, East Neuk, Fife
Quartet for the End of Time The Grier Trio and Andrew Marriner perform one of Messiaen’s first “bird style” works.
6 July 2015 6.30pm King's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.
Neck of the Woods Manchester International Festival invited Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud to create Neck of the Woods, a portrait of the wolf brought to life in “a startling collision of visual art, music and theatre”. Charlotte Rampling recites and performs the story of the wolf, written by New York-based novelist and playwright Veronica Gonzalez Peña. .
10-18 July 7.30pm (2.30pm on 12 July) HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place, First Street, Manchester M15 4FN
November 2015
New Networks for Nature Preview to come at a later date. Click here for programme details.
12-15 November Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
12-15 November Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire