The Flow

AMY-JANE BEER

THE FLOW

4.15 – 5.15pm Saturday 19 Nov Kendal Town Hall Chambers Tickets £7.50

From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation. Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is an immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature. Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist turned naturalist and writer based in North Yorkshire. Amy will be in conversation with Sophie Pavelle.

“The perfect commingling of deep research with sparkling observation and quiet eddies of feeling, helmed by a lifelong kayaker, biologist and all-round adventurous soul...” Melissa Harrison

RAYNOR WINN

LANDLINES

5.15 – 6.15pm Saturday 19 Nov Brewery Arts Maltroom Tickets £7.50

We’re delighted to welcome to Kendal global bestselling author Raynor Winn with her latest work Landlines. Join Raynor and her husband Moth on their remarkable 1000-mile walk from Scotland to the South West Coast Path in this powerful account of our country’s land, and the people that make it.

Available to watch on Kendal Mountain Player

This event has now sold out but you can also see Raynor on Friday:

WILDERNESS TRACKS WITH RAYNOR WINN

11.30am – 12.30pm Friday 18 Nov Kendal Town Hall Tickets £7.50

We’re delighted to welcome back Wilderness Tracks, presented by BBC Radio 4’s Geoff Bird. What are the pieces of music that you associate with nature? In this special session of the ‘Wilderness Tracks’ Raynor Winn will join Geoff Bird on stage to share the music that connects her most closely with the world around her, and most particularly the landscape.

Available to watch on Kendal Mountain Player

Wilderness Tracks is presented in association with Timber Festival - a beautiful weekend of music, forests, art, and ideas set in the heart of The National Forest.

ZOFIA REYCH

BORN TO CLIMB

6.15 – 7.15pm Saturday 19 Nov Kendal Town Hall Chambers Tickets £7.50

A celebration of climbing’s eclectic past - from rock climbing pioneers to Olympic athletes. Anthropologist and climber Zofia Reych shares with us the fascinating cultural history of rock and competition climbing with a fresh perspective on some of the pivotal moments and outstanding individuals of the sport, from eighteenth-century exploratory forays on rock, via the rise of climbing legends such as Emilio Comici, Wolfgang Güllich and Lynn Hill, to the limelight of the Olympic arena for the stars of today – Janja Garnbret, Adam Ondra, Shauna Coxsey and more. Zofia will be in conversation with Immy Sykes.

“A compelling read... the perfect addition to any backpack!” Sasha DiGiulian

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ZAFFAR KUNIAL ENGLAND’S GREEN

6.30 – 7.30pm Saturday 19 Nov Waterstones Kendal Tickets £6

We welcome Zaffar Kunial to Waterstones Kendal, to share his beautiful poetry about the English landscape. In this exciting event we are invited to look at the place and the language we think we know and made to think again. Through his work, Zaffar will share with us - migrations, memories, little transgressions and disturbances, summoned and contained in small gestures – a hand held, the smell of a newly bred rose or the scratch a limpet makes to mark its home.

BRIAN HALL

HIGH RISK

9 – 10pm Saturday 19 Nov Brewery Arts Studio Tickets £7.50

The golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid 1970s to the ‘80s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny budgets and high ambitions they pioneered light and fast Alpine style expeditions on mountains such as Jannu, Nuptse, Everest, and K2. In High Risk, Brian Hall recalls the outrageous adventures of eleven of his climbing friends who risked, and too often lost, their lives to stand on the world’s highest peaks at a turning point in mountaineering history.

JESSICA EMSLEY

WILD DRAWING WORKSHOP

10.30am – 12.30pm Sunday 20 Nov Scout Scar Tickets £7.50

We welcome artist, Jessica Emsley to Kendal for this outdoor art workshop focusing on deeper observation, and how we might engage with nature through creativity. Explore the area of Scout Scar and look closer at this local landscape. Participants will be led through a series of experimental drawing exercises, casting vision out into the distance before bringing the focus back to those things nearby, and ultimately ourselves in the landscape. Jessica Emsley is an artist and walker, and an advocate for engagement with nature and the outdoors through creativity.

“Zaffar Kunial is a poet whose work thrills me, who makes you return to the origins of things, places, language and people again and again.” Jackie Kay “A riveting insight into a remarkable climbing era.” Mick Fowler

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