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SUMMARY:Poetry workshop
DESCRIPTION:Poetry workshop with Forestry England centernary poet Zakiya McKenzie\nSunday 18th July (9.45am – 12.00pm) \nWe are excited to have the wonderful opportunity to welcome renowned poet Zakiya McKenzie to Leigh Woods this summer to help us enjoy the beauty of our local woodland. We start with an introduction from Zakiya with readings of poems & excerpts of tales about forests. We’ll learn about folklore & myths and also about the flora & fauna of Leigh Woods. Then we set off on our moving workshop through the summer woodland gaining inspiration and focussing on the beauty of summer nature.\nWe end up at our Green Barn where Zakiya will give us a presentation\, a group discussion & focus on nature poetry. It’s then your chance to have an individual exploration & the chance to partake in your own writing exercise under Zakiya’s guidance. Here there is an option for children as well as a sketching exercise.\nTowards the end of our session we will have a hot drink around our fire pit\, a chance to reconvene & share your own creations if you wish.\nPlease note: this event is weather-dependent and for safety reasons we will not be able to continue in heavy rain or high winds; a reserve date will be advised. This session is suitable for adults and families with children aged 10 plus accompanied by a responsible adult.\nThis session is run by your outdoors tutor from My Green World who is DBS checked and First Aid qualified. We have covid safe measures in place including hand sanitisation\, hand washing\, and limited numbers.\nFAQs\nWhat are my transport/parking options getting to the event? Enter Leigh Woods at the Forestry England/ Leigh Woods sign on Abbots Leigh Road A369\, almost directly opposite the Clifton College sports complex. There is plenty of parking in the main Forestry England car park at the bottom of the long tree-lined humped avenue. Forestry England charge £2.00 to park in their car park. Meet your My Green World tutor by the sign boards next to the car park.\nWhere can I contact the organiser with any questions? Contact Anna at info@mygreenworld.co.uk or on 07941 379660.
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SUMMARY:The Company of Birds - London Review of Books
DESCRIPTION:The eerie first weeks of lockdown life were defined\, for many\, by birds: hearing their song undisturbed by road noise for the first time; watching them flourish from the windows we sat by for weeks\, then months\, then a whole year. \nThis conversation is presented in partnership with The Willowherb Review\, which published Zakiya Mckenzie’s account of taking note of the birds around her for the first time. She’ll be joined by three enthusiasts for the company of birds: Jon Day\, who races pigeons; lifelong birder Tim Dee; and\, calling in from Hawaii\, Paul Theroux. \n  \nhttps://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/2021/5/the-company-of-birds-jon-day-tim-dee-zakiya-mckenzie-paul-theroux \n 
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SUMMARY:Rough Trade In-Conversations with Garden Museum
DESCRIPTION:This conversation will explore the necessity and urgency of bringing a decolonial lens to the practice of horticulture – from the stories we tell about it to the language we use within it\, how that shapes us as growers and gardeners and the dialogue around the gardens and land we grow in. \nThe idea of ‘the garden’ is a complicated\, curious thing. They loom large in the imagination—a locus of desire\, aspiration\, colonisation\, care\, effort\, property\, land and ownership\, loss and literature. Roughtrade have created a set of pamphlets that examine all of these ideas and more\, with a group of writers and gardeners generating new work inspired in some way by our notions of all things green and pleasant\, or perhaps less so. Has there ever been so much rich thought around the radical potential of gardening\, with so much urgency surrounding how we maintain our little bits of earth\, of the meaning that plants carry. \nHorticultural Appropriation is a conversation between an organic food grower and an artist about the possibility and necessity of bringing a decolonial lens to the practice of horticulture. Taking place within West Dean College of Arts and Conservation\, the exchange explores how attempts to decolonise collections and spaces currently happening in arts and cultural institutions might inform the interrogation of the colonial history at the heart of Britain’s gardens and gardening. \nTestimonies on The History of Jamaica Vol.1: Or a General Survey on Things That Have Been Said About The Ancient and Modern State of That Island. English historian Edward Long became infamous for his 18th century polemic titled The History of Jamaica\, a collection published in three volumes starting in 1774. Coming from one of the longest standing colonial familes established in Jamaica\, Long’s books are riddled with justifications for exploiting slave labour and extracting value from plantations. Testimonies on the History of Jamaica is a piece of historical fiction exploring some of the environmental implications of Europe’s bloody venture into the ‘New World’. Set in Jamaica but speaking to all the Caribbean\, the story follows what happened to land and native people when the Spaniards occupied\, when the British invaded in 1655 and when the indigenous knowledge was removed from the island. \n\n\nSpeakers\n\n Claire Ratinon \n Sam Ayre \n Zakiya McKenzie \n Sui Searle
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SUMMARY:Leeds 2023 Presents – Forest as Research
DESCRIPTION:A workshop exploring understandings of forest ecologies through research practices. Part of Leeds Digital Festival.\nRegister – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forest-as-research-with-invisible-flock-registration-149113016045\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nYorkshire based interactive arts studio Invisible Flock will lead a workshop exploring understandings of forest ecologies through research practices. \n  \nThis workshop will look to build conversations on ways in which we can learn and understand forests through multiple research practices from mapping and data capture\, immersive relationships and long form experimentation. \n  \nWe are delighted to welcome presentations exploring this question from four unique perspectives\, taking us from the Arctic Circle to the Amazon via English woodlands and the Yorkshire Dales. \n  \nWriter and poet Zakiya Mckenzie will open the workshop\, sharing insights and writing from a year as writer-in residence for Forestry England and how the UK’s nature sector must look outside the old guard to focus on people and activities that are working in non-traditional ways. – http://zakiya.me/ \n  \nResearcher Riku Paavola will open up the methodologies observed at the Oulanka Research Station in Northern Finland and how a collective of artists and scientists working at the edge of the Arctic facilities the meeting of environmental research and art. – https://www.oulu.fi/oulankaresearchstation/ \n  \nCurator and producer Lilian Fraiji based in the Amazon\, Brazil will lead us through LABVERDE\, an art immersion program and multidisciplinary platform that attempts to create new ways of existing and interacting with the natural environment\, while speculating on possible futures. – https://www.labverde.com/ \n  \nClosing the presentations will be Dominick Spracklen\, a Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds University who is currently leading a landscape-scale restoration of wildlife habitats around Ingleborough.
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Zakiya Mckenzie
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about environmental justice\, Caribbean Literary Heritage\, and the joys and complexities of writing about woodlands.
URL:https://zakiyamckenzie.com/event/in-conversation-with-zakiya-mckenzie/
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SUMMARY:Magic and Ecology Speaking Event
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