Friday 17 June, 7.30 pm
Nature’s Custodian celebrates stream-side walks with live music and film by Watershed digital story awards winner, Andrew Clarke.
Please note Bristol Ecoshow’s Peter Bruce conducts a public walk at Brislington Brook on 12 July.
Inspired by indigenous people the world over for a world future, Nature’s Custodian features Lele, a pygmy elder. Filmed by Steve Taylor of Green Heart Films, Lele invites humanity to realise its inter-dependence with Mother Nature.
Award-winning film makers, D-Media, bring Bristol community stories to life.
In Hartcliffe, Keith Way is campaigning to save Pigeon House stream from the proposed Valley Walk development in a Bristol park estate.
Daithi O Suilleabhain is walking four Australian Aborigine mud-mapping walks: one tracing the Pigeon House stream to its springs on Dundry slopes, one linking the Bristol Irish community, one with Sustainable Redland at Redland Brook, and one with allotmenteers and Malcolm X elders in Ashley Vale and Horfield Brook.
Contemporary classical and jazz composer, Knud Stuwe, uses trumpet, violin, piano and French horn to create the soundscape. Prize-winning poetry reciter, Auriol Britton, shares extracts from The Bridging Place.
Environmental theatricians, Kilter Theatre, re-imagine the Midsummer solstice.
The Hibernia Centre play traditional Irish music, celebrating our connection to land and lamenting disconnection through poverty and emigration.
The Gurt Lush Choir explores indigenous roots through Somerset songs and more, including call-and-response with a didgeridoo.
There’ll be refreshments in the cafe afterwards.
Oh yes, and the Green Man may put in an appearance!
Nature’s Custodian: Tickets £5/£4 conc. At door, or for reservations: 0117 955 9444
Part of Bristol’s Green Capital Good Living Week 10-19 June 2011
Image from University of Winnipeg Masters in Indigenous Development
