Join authors Jules Pretty and James Canton talking about Jules’s latest book Sea Sagas, aspects of climate emergency, biodiversity loss and regenerative agriculture. Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. His book Sea Sagas of the North takes the North Sea and eastern North Atlantic as its palette and tells tales of ecological and cultural change in countries looking inward to the sandy shallow sea.
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Sea Sagas of the North: Jules Pretty Talk and Conversation
How Stories and Sagas Create Agency for the Climate Crises
Friday 24 February 2023 at Lansdown Hall, Stroud.
Continue reading Sea Sagas of the North: Jules Pretty Talk and Conversation Designing regenerative food systems: Workshop with Marina O’Connell
Saturday 25 February 2023 at Lansdown Hall, Stroud.
Continue reading Designing regenerative food systems: Workshop with Marina O’ConnellSea Sagas of the North: Talks & Events 2023
Jules Pretty will speak on Sea Sagas of the North at numerous events, from Britain’s most easterly point to the north of Iceland.
Continue reading Sea Sagas of the North: Talks & Events 2023WEB EVENT: Fairytales, Families & Forests at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Global Lab: Storytelling with and for Children – 24 October 2022 14:00
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is one of the biggest and best storytelling events in the world. At an online session on storytelling for children – “the next wave of storytellers” – Georgiana Keable and Dawne McFarlane will explain the approach of their forthcoming book Fairytales, Families and Forests, which we at Hawthorn Press are very excited about. They are joined by Ailie Finlay (on inclusive books) and Geeta Ramanujam (Tales of the World), as well as Festival Director Donald Smith.
Continue reading WEB EVENT: Fairytales, Families & Forests at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival
