Sat 11 July 2026, 5-7pm
FREE event – No need to book, just turn up
How might we listen more deeply to the lives that unfold beyond the human—and what kinds of knowledge emerge when we do?
Gathering voices from art, myth, folklore, and ecology, this panel invites a shared exploration of how we encounter animals, plants, and the natural world around us, opening up some of the themes of the exhibition Holy Animals Sacred Plants: Responses to Other Lives.
Moving between inner and outer worlds—dream, myth, artistic practice, and lived ecological work—the conversation explores how relationships with the living world are formed, remembered, and reimagined. How do we recognise voice where human language is not spoken? What kinds of knowledge arise through quiet noticing? And what responsibilities follow from these encounters?
This is an opportunity to consider how inner experience, cultural memory, other-than-human voices, and environmental action might intersect in a time of increasing ecological urgency.
45-minute panel discussion followed by Q&A.
With: artist Kate Walters, town councillor, Cultural engineer, and Evolutionary activist and facilitator, mentor, David Smart-Knight of Plan-it Earth, writer and mythologist Lucy Cooper, environmental leader Rachael Bice.
