Intervention No.5 - Saturday 15th June 2024
at Dukes at Komedia Picturehouse, Brighton
#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK
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Trees are generally felt to be precious. On the 15th June 2024, we are inviting people to come together to ‘Notice This Tree’ in our 5th Intervention at
Dukes at Komedia Picturehouse, Brighton.
(You can see what happened in a previous Intervention here)
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The Intervention is in three parts:
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NOTICE
Notice a tree at risk, a tree that has been lost – or simply one you love.
We invite you to walk from a tree of your choice in any way you choose, alone
or with others, to the Dukes at Komedia Picturehouse, Gardner House, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN, to reach the cinema at around 4pm.
In the lead up to this event, you are invited to join our WhatsApp group and liaise with people who are organising walks from trees - either arrange to join them on their walk and/or to let others know if you have a tree in mind to notice, and whether you would like them to join your walk.
WhatsApp invite link is here.
CONNECT
At 4pm we meet at the Dukes at Komedia Picturehouse. Here we invite people to contribute to our ever-evolving Mycelium Mundus tapestry, share stories of trees, and listen to a specially created audio work which will play as people enter the auditorium to watch Katy McGahan’s documentary The Happy Man Tree (75mins, 12a, starting at 4.45pm) The central protagonist is a Hackney street tree and the film charts the attempts on the part of the local community to save it from developers.
Watch the trailer here
Buy tickets to the screening here
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REFLECT
After the screening you are invited to join a reflection about the impact of the loss of mature trees in towns and cities across the UK. Here we ask the question 'Where Now What Next?'
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Press Release
#noticethistree Intervention no 5 ‘Protest and Loss’
Duke's at Komedia Picturehouse, Brighton
The ‘Happy Man Tree’ documentary (75mins) shows the highs and lows of the campaign to save one 150 year old London Plane tree from developers. Director Katy McGahan started filming at the very beginning of the campaign. She has created a unique insight into the people who came together and created a singular community around this street tree in North London.
The film is touring the UK in a series of special events called Interventions. Intervention no 5 invites people to walk from trees at risk or lost or simply loved to the cinema, and tell their own stories of trees before the screening of the ’The Happy Man Tree’ film.
The event begins around 4pm with the film screening around 4.45pm. After the screening there is an invitation to reflect and ask ‘what now’? The director and people from the campaign will be part of the reflection. For more details please visit www.noticethistree.org and join the Whatsapp group for Brighton tree walks and latest information on the event https://chat.whatsapp.com/J9rjwwCNQr618LkrKiRNCw
