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Inspired by the landscape transformation of The National Forest, Timber is a weekend camping festival celebrating the social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of trees and forests on our lives. For a weekend folk come together to be inspired by artists and environmentalists to reimagine our relationship with the natural world.
This year CIVIC SQUARE has been invited to curate the Here is Hope area. We have invited Portland Inn Project and WeCanMake as our core partners and will be hosting a weekend of making, doing, listening and generally inspiring festival attendees with the proof of possibilities for our homes, streets and neighbourhoods.
Timber Festival — Fall under nature's spell
Here is Hope is one of ten areas of the Timber festival site, with a focus on knotty ideas becoming tangible, showcasing and further activating the power of neighbourhood organising.
Our invitation in the wider Timber programme for this area is framed thusly: