Fertile Ground: Conservatory Day

12.15pm–1pm: Jemma Foster – Dreaming with Plants  
Conservatory Well 
Be guided through the practice of dreaming and world building with the more-than-human at this ritual performance.  

3.40pm–4.55pm: WORMS at the Barbican – A Literary Ecosystem 
Conservatory Well 
Join a line-up of boundary-pushing writers, poets and thinkers as they burrow deep into language and unearth stories that tangle, twist and thrive in unexpected directions. With Zara Joan Miller, Rose Higham-Stainton, Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Phoenix Yemi, Lu Rose Cunningham.

5.15pm–5.45pm:  Entangled Slimifications 
Conservatory Well 
Visual artist and PhD quantum physicist Libby Heaney will read a slippery stream of consciousness intertwining quantum phenomena and nature, inviting audiences to think about various entanglements through a common sliminess. The audience are invited to massage slime, while a layered video montage, edited using entanglement data from IBMs quantum computers, weaves connections between humans and non-humans. 

6.15pm–6.45pm: SEED Syllables 
Conservatory Well 
‘SEED syllables’ are sound symbols contained within mantras, which rather than having a literal meaning encompass the absolute as primordial cosmic vibrations; tapping beyond conceptual language, mantras are believed to protect the mind, germinating karmic seeds for evolution of consciousness.  

Marija Bozinovska Jones initiates chants in call and response towards cultivation of interbeing together with a Buddhist sangha community she regularly practices with. 

7pm–8pm: bones tan jones  
Conservatory Well 
bones tan jones presents their living praxis ‘optimystic dystopia’ as a spiritual practice. an eternal storyteller, alternative realities are explored through alter egos, retellings of ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating;  symphonies/operas/psalms/triptychs/sigils/stele/installations/interventions/inter-active workshops.