Forest Walk: Learning to be Better Lovers
08.6 klo 13:00
The event is fully booked.
Katie Holten’s Learning to be Better Lovers (Forest School) includes forest walks on Vallisaari Island, guided by experts. The walks offer an introduction to the island’s nature along with guidance on how to observe the environment. The monthly walking tours are open to everyone.
Time: Sun 8 June from 13 to 15
Place: Katie Holten’s artwork site (number 28 on the map), Vallisaari Island
Learning to be Better Lovers. A walk with Katie Holten.
What is the language we need to live right now? How can we learn to be better lovers of the world?
Join Katie Holten for a forest walk to explore these questions and reflect on the significance of human connection with the more-than-human world as we collectively face the sixth mass extinction.
Katie will share her Forest Alphabet for Finland, a bespoke font made especially for the Helsinki Biennial.
The walk will begin with forest breathing and tree drawing exercises. Katie will use her book The Language of Trees to lead us on a journey into Forest Thinking.
We will have some paper and pencils on hand, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite drawing tools.
Rain or shine!
Katie Holten is an Irish-born artist and activist who interweaves ecology, environmental activism, language and literature in a career now spanning over two decades.
Language: English
Photo: Anna Vihanta / HAM / Helsinki Biennial