A Three Day Celebration of Our Local Environment
Thursday 20th to Saturday 22nd June
Various indoor and outdoor venues across Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge Nature Festival is returning for 2024! We are so excited to bring back this celebration of our local environment over the summer solstice weekend in June.
Together with a range of creatives, projects and organisations in the town and surrounding area, we are busy co-creating a programme of events and workshops starting in April that culminate in a three-day festival (June 20th - 22nd) to celebrate the natural world and our place within it.
Building on all the good things we ignited last year - we are planning even more creative, fun and inspiring opportunities to participate and take action for nature in our town. Expect guided nature walks and boat tours, great talks and film screenings, outdoor wellbeing and movement sessions, food, music, art, poetry, storytelling and lots of community connection.
Our theme this year is all about pollinators - why are they so important and what can we do to help them thrive?
Keep your eyes peeled for an exciting programme of creative workshops in the lead up to the festival - we’ve got costume making, community drumming with Drum Devon, plastic junk band making, block printing, and a samba procession to organise! It will be so much fun and we cannot wait. Details of all our community workshops coming soon and keep your eyes peeled for updates to the programme on our website
Want to get involved?
Are you a whizz with a sewing machine and fancy getting involved with some costume making? Have you ever wanted to join a samba band and would love to come along to our upcoming community drumming workshops? Could you help us engage with our local schools, or volunteer some time helping steward or run activities on the day?
We are also looking for local businesses or individuals who may be willing to make a donation to sponsor the festival. Our aim is to keep as much of the programme as we can free to attend and accessible to all, which takes a lot of funds!
Can you help?
Check out some of our photos from last year's festival - a tiny snippet of what we got up to!
Our Festival Partners:
Festival Programme
Our programme is ever evolving!
We will add events and activities to each day as and when they are finalised.
Is there an event/activity your organisation or project would like to add to the programme? Get in touch at kbclimateaction@gmail.com and lets chat!
Most of the events throughout the festival are free to attend. Some specific workshops organised by our partner groups and businesses may require booking in advance and some may require payment.
We welcome donations for any of the events, this will support the cost of running the festival.
Pre-Festival Workshops
April to June 2024
Coming soon - details of creative workshops in the lead up to the festival!
Community drumming workshops, costume making, printing and more!
EVERYONE WELCOME
Thursday 20th June
Details Coming Soon!
Join us for a our opening ceremony and help kick off the festival! Plus a day of nature walks, talks, wellbeing and creativity.
Venue: Various venues across Kingsbridge
Thursday event details:
Friday 21st June
Details Coming Soon!
Dive into a day full of wellbeing, learning, creativity and nature connection. .
Venue: Various venues across Kingsbridge
Friday event details:
Saturday 21st June
Details Coming Soon!
Our big biodiversity day in the park! Everyone included, everyone welcome. Join in with nature walks, wildlife surveys, music workshops, storytelling, movement and eco crafts in the park. Find out what local groups and projects have been working on to support nature locally. Stay up late and join our bat walk. Become a citizen scientist and help us record as many species as possible in our local area. Get inspired to create habitat for wildlife in your garden. Find out about the overlooked "hero plants" in our urban areas and why they are so important.
We will be recording our sightings on the iNaturalist app and recommend you download it before the event if you would like to record what you find on the day.
Venue: Kingsbridge Recreation Ground 10am to 6pm
Saturday event details:
Food Vendors & Stallholders
Details Coming Soon!