Join us for free tea and cake and enjoy a friendly, social morning in our gallery overlooking City Park.
At 12.00pm we will give a short talk about Everything in the forest is the forest, a photography exhibition with sustainability and environmental consciousness at its creative heart. For the past five years, Clare Hewitt has worked at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) within a circle of twelve 180 year oak trees, which were acorns when photography was first invented.
The exhibition presents fourteen bodies of work, celebrating the trees’ remarkable ability to nurture and communicate. It offers valuable insights on how we can learn and gain from the unity, communities, and relationships found within the forest.
Much of the work has never been seen before and includes long exposure photographs captured over six months to four years within ‘birdbox’ pinhole cameras affixed to the oak trees; three hundred individual oak lumen prints made by exposure to the sun on the forest floor; videos created in subterranean root environments; and photography by workshops participants, working remotely with Hewitt, during the Covid lockdowns.
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We are also doing a call out for family photographs…
Help us to unearth Bradford’s cherished family photos and to preserve the stories behind them with Bradford Young Curators as part of a major new project with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. The Bradford Young Curators are creating an online family album that will serve as a powerful tribute to the people and communities of Bradford.
If you would like to take part you are invited to bring a selection of your family photos to this Time for Tea or speak to us about it when we see you.
More information can be found on our website by clicking here.
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Thursday 19 June, 11.00am to 1.30pm, free, drop in.
We look forward to seeing you.
Time for Tea is our free regular event for the over 60s, all welcome.
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