David Oakes, Iain Ballamy & Elliot Galvin | We Are Nature

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 celebrated and sought to understand the mysterious world around us. We’re thrilled to have such a stellar line-up for this gala where human creativity reflects back the creativity of nature.

Iain Ballamy is an internationally feted composer and saxophonist. His latest album Riversphere blurs genre divisions and boundaries between composition and improv. Recently he’s been working with the multi-instrumentalist Elliot Galvin on a new project, Instant Nature.

David Oakes is a leading English actor of the stage and screen. But he’s also an increasingly prominent ecologist and conservationist, having obtained a Masters in Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology from the University of Exeter, and is the president of The Wildlife Trusts. He is the host and producer of the natural history podcast Tree’s a Crowd.

This special evening will be hosted by actor, bookseller and festival co-director Tina Gaisford-Waller.
£3 of every ticket sale for this event will be donated to Friends of the River Frome.

This very special event is kindly sponsored by Brook Street Pottery
www.brookstreetpottery.co.uk

The event takes place in our beautiful venue for the weekend, RISE.

Please note: there is no parking at the venue itself, but there is plenty of long-stay public parking within close walking distance to the venue at Cattle Market Car Park or Merchants Barton Car Park. We are pleased to say the venue is fully accessible for wheelchair users.

This event is part of the Consider the Wondrous | nature, wonder, books & us festival.