Join us for a talk with Marlene Creates, as well as good conversation and food.

All welcome. Cost £1.50

Marlene Creates's theoretical and studio research interests include photography, ecology, and poetry. Underlying all her work, spanning over 35 years, is an interest in place — not as a geographical location but as a process that involves memory, multiple narratives, ecology, language, and both specialized and vernacular knowledge. For the past decade, she has held multi-sensorial public performative events in the six acres of boreal forest she inhabits in Newfoundland, Canada, which she has named The Boreal Poetry Garden. These events have included collaborations with nature poets, boreal ecologists, geologists, wildlife and bird biologists, acoustic sound artists, and contemporary dancers — all serving as facilitators to connect people to the boreal forest ecosystem through walking, listening, observing, touching, tasting, and exchanging knowledge.