In 2021 Forest of Imagination will create a radical response to the global environmental crisis through creativity & research. This year’s event is hybrid with the Travelling Forest located across the city as well as virtual offerings.
This year, the award-winning arts event is bringing the Forest work of multi-sensory array of participation art installations, workshops, architecture, sculptures and audio experiences online and invites everyone to participate. Adapting to the current situation, however our ambition remains the same: to connect communities with creative activities and inspiring events.
Working with artists, collaborators, architects, musicians, writers, sponsors, businesses, local and global organisations, Forest prepares to reveal it’s roots as a Landscape City and Creative City popping up in multiple virtual locations and reaching out to the diverse community of Bath and beyond…
This year’s hybrid event sees the Forest appearing virtually and in a variety of locations throughout the city of Bath, each unique place, reflecting the culture and character of the city. These ‘Pop-Up’ Forest workshops, installations and research will take place during these events gathering research and ideas which will continue to generate the seeds for Forest of Imagination events in the future.
In The Egg this September for you to explore 11–18 September The Egg Theatre If a tree falls in the forest… we need to listen. Why are we cutting down trees at a time when we need them most? The balance of nature is in danger, yet we carry on with our traditions while the world burns around us. The trees we fell for our...
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Saturday 3 July, 10am-4pm The Holburne Museum Join Oliver Lark of Patchlarks and discover a great adventure in the miniature worlds of moss and lichen. Combining joyful storytelling, self-directed explorations, and meditative investigations we’ll complete tasks and challenges, uncover scientific secrets and build our mossy mythology entangled in the little things that grow all around. “You may know what the mini-beasts are but have you heard of...
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Saturday 3 July, 10am-4pm The Holburne Museum Discover the benefits of the doodle! With pen and paper and easy conversation participants might be given the headspace for reflection, tools for relaxation, and a pathway for reconnection with one another. Beth’s interest in the psychology of the everyday stirs a curiosity to know how the combination of verbal and non-verbal communication, and the expression of a personal...
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The natural world is a powerful generator of childhood curiosity and those early sparks of imagination are often at the heart of our life-long creativity.
Andrew Grant (Grant Associates) and Penny Hay (House of Imagination, formerly 5x5x5=creativity, and Bath Spa University) - #
