Programme
12pm–1pm: Hackney Herbal Workshop*
Garden Room
Join Hackney Herbal to learn more about ecological gardening with a focus on urban spaces, covering the basics of growing plants in an eco-friendly way.
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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.
1.15pm–2.15pm: Wild Alchemy Lab: Shared Horizons Workshop*
Garden Room
Investigate humanity’s relationship to ecological consciousness at this guided visualisation through a biotherapeutic soundscape, followed by a discussion and response session.
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2.30pm–3.30pm: 10 Years of Hackney Herbal*
Garden Room
Celebrating 10 years of work that has helped to shape community, join Hackney Herbal at this panel talk to discuss community herbalism and how it can help to nurture us collectively.
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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.
4.30pm–5pm: Slime Making Workshop*
Garden Room
Explore the art of making slime in preparation for Libby Heaney’s Entagled slimifications where you will bond with your slime over the course of the work.
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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.
*Events marked with an asterisk (*) are ticketed events, and some have an entry fee. Reserve your ticket in advance of your visit. Tickets to these events also include entry to the conservatory.
Conservatory
Concrete Garden
Concrete Garden: Spring at the Barbican
Chiming in with the time of the year, join us for a series of events inviting you to retreat from the noise of the city with a season of growth and transformation.
