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Message from Willow Gallery, Oswestry.
View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/2e98afb1a369/presenting-the-first-oswestry-festival-of-nature-at-willow-gallery-with-shropshire-wildlife-trust?e=fc60fd651d) ** Oswestry Festival of Nature 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ Hen harrier/Photo by Mark Hamblin - GOOD NEWS FROM THE WILLOW - Our SUMMER ART show this year has the theme of NATURE. At the same time this summer sees the grand opening of the first OSWESTRY FESTIVAL OF NATURE, organised by the Willow in collaboration with Shropshire Wildlife Trust - and, throughout July and August, some of Britain's most renowned naturalists will be giving evening talks at the gallery on the state of wildlife, from local to global. The talks are being generously sponsored by Country Gardens & Woodlands, Northern Industrial Battery Services, Stan's Superstore, Stokes of England Blacksmithing Company and Shropshire's own Treflach Farm. Book Now on our Website (https://willowartgallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71eae61552062c89a78e57454&id=f84a540dc1&e=fc60fd651d) or call us on 01691 657 575 for tickets Full Festival Ticket ú45 for 6 evening talks or ú8 for each evening event. PROGRAMME We open our festival with a drinks reception on Friday July 5 (6.30pm), a glass of fizz adding a touch of sparkle. This will be followed at 7.30pm by legendary author, poet and Shropshire countryman PAUL EVANS [https://www.paulevanswenlockedge.com/] in conversation with wilderness writer and rock climber JIM PERRIN. [https://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Jim_Perrin (https://willowartgallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71eae61552062c89a78e57454&id=0acaa1c223&e=fc60fd651d) ]. Both are Guardian Country Diarists, acclaimed authors and BBC natural history broadcasters. Tickets ú8 Mon-Sat, 6 July-24 August æEARTH, AIR, FIRE & WATERÆ EXHIBITION This important conservation-themed exhibition will be raising awareness through art of environmental issues and the damage that consumer culture is causing to the natural world. So, on Saturday July 6, please join us for this free event (7-9pm) for the opening night, enjoy a complimentary drink and meet some of the artists. For further information/call for entries, please visit our website (https://willowartgallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71eae61552062c89a78e57454&id=f9406bfa0c&e=fc60fd651d) . On Tuesday July 16 (7.30pm) we welcome BBC Springwatch presenter and radical conservationist IOLO WILLIAMS. Iolo [https://iolowilliams.co.uk/], who is from Lake Vyrnwy and knows Oswestry well, will talk about his early days as a RSPB warden and more recent times as one of Britain's most outspoken naturalists. Tickets ú8 On Saturday July 27 (7.30pm), David Attenborough's favourite Arctic cameraman DOUG ALLAN comes. Doug is a biologist [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4pDXNwKSbL933jk4fHqN2Hw/doug-allan] who has filmed for Blue Planet and nearly every great natural history TV programme in the past 20 years. Says Attenborough: 'Doug is not as other men. He cheerfully endures conditions more uncomfortable than anyone I know and has an uncanny understanding of animals.' Unmissable. Tickets ú8 KEITH OFFORD is from the Ceiriog Valley and one of Britain's most respected raptor and biodiversity experts, leading tours all over the world and monitoring breeding curlews, buzzards and other wildlife on the Berwyns. Keith [http://www.keithofford.co.uk/] will be talking on Friday August 2 (7.30pm) about a secret, inspiring wood that he knows near Oswestry that used to shelter a hermit and is full of the most extraordinary old trees. Tickets ú8 PENNY METAL and ALISON BENJAMIN will together give the view of nature from the cities on Friday 9 August (7.30pm). Penny [https://insectinside.me/category/penny-metal/] spent five years recording the bugs, beetles and insects in her local green patch in South London and found an astonishing 550 species. Alison, whose new book on bees is out soon, is co-founder of Urban Bees [http://www.urbanbees.co.uk/who/who.htm] that works with communities, companies and charities to help bees in cities. Tickets ú8 Lastly, Guardian writer and acclaimed natural history author PATRICK BARKHAM [https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/patrick-barkham-1] comes on Friday August 16 (7.30pm) from his native Norfolk to talk butterflies. Patrick is best known for his two books on the British islands, but will talk about how he set off to locate all 59 varieties of British native butterfly. Tickets ú8 On Friday August 23 (7.30pm) Guardian environmental editor DAMIAN CARRINGTON will chair a discussion/debate about the steep decline of the natural world and what we as individuals can do. Entry is free for this evening event, but you will need a ticket. Full Festival Ticket ú45 for 6 evening talks or ú8 for each evening event. Book Now on our Website (https://willowartgallery.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71eae61552062c89a78e57454&id=25e0cd60e0&e=fc60fd651d) or call us on 01691 657 575 for tickets Hope to see you there! John Vidal [Festival] Anthony Smith [Willow Gallery] Sarah Gibson [Shropshire Wildlife Trust] Full programme on our Book online, by 'phone or at the gallery. When booking tickets, please let us know if you require wheelchair space or have any other specific requirements Endangered Bees ~ Watercolours by TERESKA SHEPHERD ============================================================ Copyright ® 2019 The Willow Gallery All rights reserved You are receiving this email as you've signed up to the Gallery's mailing list Our mailing address is 56 Willow Street, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 1AD, United Kingdom Want to change how you receive these emails? You can ** update your preferences (https://willowartgallery.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=71eae61552062c89a78e57454&id=5957f07d2a&e=fc60fd651d) or ** unsubscribe from this list (https://willowartgallery.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=71eae61552062c89a78e57454&id=5957f07d2a&e=fc60fd651d&c=b3771007c6) This email was sent to yoland@eleventowns.com (mailto:yoland@eleventowns.com) why did I get this? 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