A modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
‘Exquisite and inspiring, beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief.’ Sir Mark Rylance
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, using only the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also the medicine that helps him survive the death of his wife, which leaves him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.
'Grasping the Nettle' is at the heart of it. Making a dress this way becomes devotional, with every thread representing hours of loving attention. Over seven years Allan is transformed by the process as much as the nettles are.
The challenge of making zero carbon clothing means re-learning ancient crafts: foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing. Finally the dress is worn by one of his daughters, back in the woods where the nettles were picked.
A modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
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XR Nottingham Book Club will be reading and discussing Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Future by Merlin Sheldrake.
A bit more about the book: Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.
This meeting will be to discuss our thoughts after reading the book.
All welcome – join the book club chat here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FEFnTISVzS92VEA7xRDP5M
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A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Notice This Tree comes to Nottingham with their Intervention No. 3.
People are encouraged to walk from local trees of their choice to the the cinema. Join the NoticeThisTree WhatsApp group in advance of the screening to find out if someone is planning the same walk as you!
Walk from a local tree to Mammoth - A Climate Action Cinema
7PM Join us, contribute to the Mycelium Mundus tapestry-making and engage in the creative workshop
7:45PM Screening The Happy Man Tree (75mins)
"When a group of neighbours in Woodberry Down, Hackney, find out that the Council have given a property developer permission to chop down a much-loved 150-year-old local street tree - which even has its own name, the Happy Man Tree - they rally to save it.
Katy McGahan’s film charts the ups and downs of a heated nine month battle from the point of view of the brave activists."
9PM Reflective space /discussion after the film
Notice This Tree is brought by members of the community who campaigned to save a London Plane Tree known as The Happy Man Tree in 2020. Notice This Tree imagines a world that is truly connected to the impact of loss and the spectre of extinction. With this in mind the community is creating a series of Interventions across the UK in response to the continuing loss – with a special focus on the loss of trees. In these Interventions they invite people to notice trees - a tree at risk, one that has already been felled, or a tree that they love and walk from that tree to the cinema where they can connect with others before the screening of The Happy Man Tree documentary (Katy McGahan, 75 mins, 12a). After the screening there will be space to reflect on our experience and to consider the questions ‘What now?’ and ‘How shall we live going forward?
Join the WhatsApp Group at http://tinyurl.com/4ajj6umc
Check out the previous interventions at http://www.noticethistree.org
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The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.
Our farmers will have to navigate a broken food system, farm in a landscape degraded by industrial agriculture and learn how to reconnect people with the soil, where their food comes from and how it is produced.
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At the foot of the waterfall once known as the Mexican Niagra, the people of El Salto dream only of crystalline waters. Fish, colorful birds and swimming in the river are now just memories of the fishermen who lost their world when the train and industry arrived. Resurrection is an eye opener upon the ruins of the present. The exemplary fight for survival of a family, which goes hand in hand with the destiny of a river.
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