Intervention No.6 - Sunday 15th September 2024
at Cube Cinema, Bristol

#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK

On Sunday 15th September 2024, we are inviting people to come together to ‘Notice This Tree’ in our 6th Intervention at

Cube Cinema, Bristol

(You can see what happened in a previous Intervention here)

The Intervention is in three parts:

NOTICE

Notice a tree - it could be a tree at risk, or one 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 Cube Cinema, Dove Street South [off top-left of King Square] Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8JD, to reach the cinema at around 4pm.

Some of us will be gathering at 3pm at the Bearpit, St James Barton Roundabout, Bristol BS1 3LY, and will start walking to the cinema at 3.40pm to arrive at 4pm.

In the lead up to this event, you are invited to join our WhatsApp group and link 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.

Information about the event and confirmed walks will be posted on the NoticeThisTree Whassap group. Join group here

MAP OF TREE WALKS

Check the NoticeThisTree map to see which Bristol trees people have already pinned and/or pin your own tree here

Click here for an instructional video to show you how to add a tree to the map

See which trees others are walking from here

CONNECT

At 4pm we meet at Cube Cinema. Here we invite people to contribute to our ever-evolving Mycelium Mundus tapestry, share stories of trees, and listen to an ever-evolving created audio work which will play as people enter the auditorium to watch Katy McGahan’s film 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

REFLECT

After the screening you are invited to join a reflection on the issues that the film raises including the impact of the loss of mature trees and other natural landmarks in towns and cities across the UK. Here we ask the questions: Where Now? What Next?'

PRESS RELEASE

#NoticeThisTree: Intervention No. 6 in Bristol

Sunday 15th September 2024, at the Bear Pit (3pm)

and the Cube Cinema (4pm)

Press Release: For Immediate Release

#NoticeThisTree imagines a world that is truly connected to the impact of loss and the spectre of extinction. With this in mind we have created a series of Interventions across the UK in response to this continuing loss – with a special focus on the loss

of trees. (You can see what happened in a previous Intervention here)

In these Interventions we notice trees - a tree at risk, one that has already been felled, or a tree that we love. We walk from a tree (or trees) of our choice and connect with others before the screening of The Happy Man Tree documentary

(Katy McGahan, 75 mins, 12a). Afterwards we reflect on our experience, and consider the questions ‘Where now? What next?’ and ‘How shall we live going forward?

Intervention #6 takes place in Bristol on 15th September. People are invited to notice a tree and to walk from their tree to a Ceremony for Bristol’s Trees, meeting

at the Bear Pit (BS1 3LY) at 3pm. There are many trees currently at threat in Bristol including trees at St Mary Le Port, Bedminster Meadows and Baltic Wharf. Tree protectors will be walking from all these venues to raise awareness.

After the Ceremony there will be a slow March with the Red Rebels to the Cube Cinema where there is the possibility of adding trees that have been noticed to a mycelium tapestry which has already been contributed to by 100s of people from

4 UK cities. Similarly, an ongoing sound piece is added to at each intervention. Sounds are collected from the area around the trees – natural sounds, stories, and the general ambience - and played in the auditorium as people enter.

The screening of the documentary ‘The Happy Man Tree’ will be at 4.45pm

Losing a tree hurts and it’s difficult to avoid the blame game when one you love is

at risk, but here we’re more interested in dialogue – a dialogue we surely all

need – about how to look after and value our natural environment - and ourselves - in it. Throughout these interventions we seek insight, compassion and connection with everyone involved in the stories of our trees. After the film screening there will be a reflection in a sharing forum 6.15 to 7pm.

Notes to editors

#noticethistree is brought by members of the community who tried to save a London Plane Tree known as the Happy Man Tree (England’s tree of the year 2020)

Watch the trailer here

Buy tickets to the screening here

Details of previous interventions (Hackney, Haringey, Nottingham, Plymouth, Brighton) and Intervention #6 details www.noticethistree.org

Check our map to see which Bristol trees people have pinned and/or pin your own tree here

WhatsApp link to join the tree walks and sharing tree information is here

Contact 07767317382 info@noticethistree.org

For The Happy Man Tree film enquiries:

Planet Tuesday Films, magannina101@gmail.com

@noticethistree

@notice_this_tree