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Nature Speaks
Fri 4 & Sat 5 Sep | Timings TBC | Tump53 Nature Reserve, Water Lily Walk, Thamesmead SE28 8AS
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Enter a hidden natural world for a two-part immersive storytelling experience celebrating our relationship with trees and giving voice to nature itself.
A former munitions storage site, once part of the Royal Arsenal, is now a much-loved nature reserve, which plays host to this two-part immersive storytelling experience. You’ll be guided through a woodland glade to experience a ritual fusion of imagery, music, sound and storytelling before entering a meadow, in which you’ll be confronted with the voice of nature itself.
A ritual fusion of storytelling and ingenious design creating an immersive “forest-bathing” experience, in celebration of our deep and ancient connection with trees.
The powerful relationship between humanity and our oldest neighbours, trees, is explored in this immersive experience.
Follow a woodland trail featuring ingenious design, storytelling, sound and music featuring the voices of over 500 contributors including local children, young people, ecologists, artists and musicians.
This enthralling outdoor installation gives voice to nature itself.
Nature speaks. Are you ready to listen?
This impactful open-air installation gives voice to nature within the extraordinary hidden landscape of Tump 53, a former ammunition store and now a wildlife reserve.
Words appear. Thoughts surface. Questions linger. Epic in ambition and its sweeping perspective back into deep time and the future, I Have No Name is a contemporary oracle, translating what nature has to say to us in a tone that shifts between the intimate and the prophetic.
As day fades and perception shifts, the installation quietly turns the gaze back on us, asking not how we see nature, but how we are seen in return.
Tump53 Nature Reserve, Water Lily Walk, Thamesmead SE28 8AS
For exact location please click on ///vibes.beats.heat. What3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. What3words is available to download as an app or access on the web.
Public Transport: Elizabeth Line and Bus
Find out more about the artists involved on I Have No Name and Canopy
Promotional photography will take place at this event.
If you do not wish to be featured in our content, please ask one of our volunteers (easily noticeable in their pink t-shirts) for a “no photography” sticker.
Find out more info on Your Visit.
Nature Speaks is supported by Peabody, The Royal Borough of Greenwich, Global Streets and Arts Council England.
ACCESS
- Show Access
- Site Access
- Easy Read Guide
Individual show access information available on Canopy and I Have No Name
Free to attend. Just show up.
Assistance Dogs Welcome.
This show is relaxed. This means you can come and go as you please, move around and make noise.
Level Access
There is level access at the site.
The site is a nature reserve with woodland. There are areas of grass, soil and narrower paths. GDIF has made adjustments to ensure wheelchair users can access the installations and performance.
There will be an access map available on site and online coming soon.
This will all be marked on an access map available on site and online coming soon.
Access Viewing Area
A staffed access viewing area for disabled audience members will be marked with a sign or flag. Space for wheelchair users, companions and seating with and without arms will be available.
The viewing area will have volunteers and staff available throughout the event.
Accessible Toilets
There will be Accessible Toilets on site.
Blue badge parking
Available in surrounding residential roads
Contact
For Accessibility questions contact: [email protected] // 07899 893 935
Full access information coming late June.
