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UK’s biggest free nature festival returns to Bristol for 2024
Mermaids, dinosaurs and “the smallest cinema you’ve ever seen” will all be featuring in the Festival of Nature when it returns for 2024.
More than 70 events and activities are set to take place across Bristol and Bath over the course of an action-packed week.
Back for its 21st year, the Festival of Nature is an annual festival produced by the Natural History Consortium, a charitable commission supported by 14 different organisations, local and national. The organisation is working toward a shared mission to engage people with the natural world.
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“We’re so excited to reveal this year’s festival lineup and it’s bigger and better than ever before – the nine days are jam-packed with activities and opportunities to take action for nature,” said Savita Willmott, chief executive of the Natural History Consortium.
“We want to see more people than ever come along to be inspired, try something new, visit a place they haven’t been to before and get involved with an environmental project.”
Mermaids, dinosaurs and “the smallest cinema you’ve ever seen” will all be featuring in the Festival of Nature when it returns for 2024
The festival, which is taking place from Saturday, June 1 to Sunday, June 9 promises a star-studded lineup with heaps of interesting activities to enjoy.
Bristol’s harbourside will feature ‘Wild Weekend’ on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2, with family-friendly events. Visitors will have a chance to meet a mermaid and interact with CBeebies star Andy Day, with a special meet and greet after the show too.
Each of these events will both entertain and teach visitors about what we can do as individuals to help our environment and wildlife.
The festival has events for all the family, young and old, but also for students, residents, and businesses. The vast majority of the events within the festival are entirely free, with opportunities to tune in to events being held online too.
People will be able to attend “the smallest cinema you’ve ever seen” on Milsom Street in Bath Saturday, June, and watch a screening inside a tiny 1940s-style caravan powered by renewable energy and featuring four short films from the BBC’s Our Planet Earth.
Each of these events will serve to teach visitors about what we can do as individuals to help our environment
The final day of the festival will bring the first Community Day, celebrating what the community is doing to help its environment across Bristol, Bath and beyond. Maps will be shared to show people new places within their communities which they can visit so as to become more involved in their community’s protection of the wildlife going forward.
See the full festival lineup via: www.festivalofnature.org.uk.
All photos: Ania Shrimpton
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