Pregnant and looking for some time and space to connect with yourself, your baby and others going through pregnancy? These monthly sessions give you time to pause, tune into yourself and relax. No experience necessary - the simple meditations will be guided, you can sit in a chair, bring along a cushion or a yoga […]
Consider the Wondrous opens with festival Director Gareth Howell-Jones explaining how Consider the Wondrous came about, why it’s in Frome, what it is for, and what he hopes the project […]
“As cities grow, the danger is not only ecological but emotional... If we want a future that is not only liveable but meaningful, we must learn to care differently. That […]
Horatio has always been a lover and close observer of nature. In 2018 he had a mental breakdown; he was fully, psychotically delusional. He wrote about that experience with great […]
Join urban naturalist and Wild Pavements author Amanda Tuke for a pavement plant prowl and hear some of the fascinating stories behind the urban plants we can find on our very […]
Rosa grew up in Peru with the rainforest as her back garden, learning its lessons from her grandmother, a native healer in natural medicine. Now as a biologist and conservationist, […]
In Wilderlands, the archaeologist Eloise Kane takes us on a fascinating and unfamiliar tour through 12,000 years of our history. When the glaciers finally retreated at the end of the last […]
An unmissable conversation between two great bird enthusiasts. Jon Gower has loved birds since one of his collier grandfather’s canaries hatched in the palm of his hand. In Birdland, he travels […]
A gala evening of words and music inspired by the natural world. End the day with flowing jazz, beauty, poignancy and rapture. From earliest times, human art and music has […]
A family event, great for budding young nature enthusiasts aged 7+. “Do you yearn to climb oak trees, to get a bird’s eye view of the world, to feel the […]
In The Savage Landscape Cal Flyn goes in search of wildness "because I wanted to live my life more intensely... tap into a rawer, more authentic, more capable, part of […]
Nature-writing has boomed in the last twenty years. Books by two of our festival authors, Cal Flyn and Mark Cocker, recently appeared on The Sunday Times list of the most important non-fiction titles this century. The best books continue to inspire new generations with hope and with the love that great naturalists, storytellers and artists […]
