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London's
Festival of Forests
A unique outdoor experience held in Sydenham Hill (SE21), Treemoot is a community-led festival of art and environmentalism. Our goal is to celebrate ancient woodland through forest-based culture from our home here in the Great North Wood, in Southeast London.
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Treemoot 2024
calendar
Saturday April 27th, 11:00-16:00
The Parliament of Trees, opening by Nic Salazar Sutil
Gog, Magog and the Guardians of London, by Janet Dowling
Me, The Tree by Dermot Daly
+ Woodland foraging and oak ceremony with Chris and Nadean Foster
+ Live music by Laonikos and Juniper Sparks / Kitsune no Yomeiri procession led by local children
Saturday May 18th, 14:00-16:30
Stories of the Atlantic Forest and the Kariri Xoco people (Brazil)
with Tawana Kariri-Xoco
+ Body painting workshop and ritual dance with Tawana
Saturday June 15th, 14:00-16:30
Tree Stories from Palestine and Lebanon
with Alia Alzougbi and Elias Matar facilitated by Nesreen Hussein
+ Peace prayer by Old Cedar of Lebanon and singing by
Rama Alcoutlabi
Saturday July 27th, 14:00-16:30
Gypsy and Romani Stories of the Woods
with Richard O’Neill, Damian Le Bas and Rhona Iris Oughton
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Saturday September 28th, 14:00-17:00
World Trees and Irish Travellers
with Laura Angela Collins and Donnachadh McCarthy
Saturday October 26th, 14:00-16:30
In partnership with Southwark Council Black History Month
African Tree Tales
with Mercy Ette (Nigeria, UK) Leonard Mindore (Ogiek land defender, Kenya) and Kamilu Hassan Hamza (Maguzawa land defender, Nigeria)
Saturday November 30th, 14:00-16:30
Bonfire
The Forest of Peace with James Berridge, Audu Bulama Bukarti and Nic Salazar Sutil
"Every leaf is a Hallelujah"
Ben Okri
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Sydenham Hill train station
Treemoot Camp, The Fort
How to get here
Treemoot Festival camp
The Fort
Grange Lane
SE21 7LH
Public transport
Nearest station is Sydenham Hill (Southern Trains), 13 minutes from Victoria
Parking is available at The Fort
All storytelling sessions will be held at the Treemoot Camp, and afternoon workshops will be held at the Tree Rescue Hub, across the road
About the Artists
Alia Alzougbi
Alia is a storyteller from Lebanon living and working in the UK. Her work lies at the intersection of art and social and environmental justice. She is the CEO of Shubbak Festival.
Emma Beard
Emma is a storyteller from East Sussex also Green Party Councillor for Horsham District and steward of Old Beard's Wood
Laura Angela Collins
Laura, mother of three, is an award winning human rights activist; author of 'The Tinker Menace: Diary of an Irish Traveller,' group leader of the 'Justice4All Women and Children' campaign and Partnerships Coordinator at the Traveller Movement.
Dermot Daly
Dermot is a British theatre director, film-maker and storyteller based in Leeds, Creative Associate of the Geraldine Connor Foundation and former Artistic Director of Freedom Studios.
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Janet Dowling
Janet is a storyteller, psychiatric social worker and family therapist, as well as Morris dance practitioner, based in Devon.
Chris and Nadean Foster
Sustainable living campaigners based in Kent, with profound knowledge of foraging, food and water activism, and yoga.
Kamilu Hassan Hamza
Kamilu is an historian and keeper of stories of the Maguzawa or Hausa animists, also founder and director of Al Fitra school in Kano, Nigeria
Nesreen Hussein
Nesreen is an Egyptian and British performance artist, author and researcher, working as Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Theatre at Middlesex University.
Tawana Kariri Xoco
Tawana is the spiritual and cultural
leader of the Kariri-Xoco Fulkaxo people of the Opara River in Northeastern Brazil, leader of Reserva Ecologica Fulkaxo.
Damian Le Bas
Damian is a writer from West Sussex. His book The Stopping Places, which described a year spent travelling around traditional Romany camping grounds, won the Somerset Maugham and Jerwood awards.
Elias Matar
Elias is a Palestinian storyteller, director, playwright and performer who grew up in Galilee where he founded Ibillin Theatre and El Bayet Centre for Performing Arts.
Leonard Mindore
Leonard is a land defender and community leader of the Ogiek people of Mau Forest, director of Program for the Heritage of Ogiek and Mother Earth (Pro-Home)
Richard O'Neill OBE
Richard is a master storyteller from Northeast England, brought up in the nomadic storytelling tradition, also a woodcarver and engraver
Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Nic is a Chilean and British human rights advocate and author, storyteller and community builder based in South East London.
Guardians Worldwide is a transnational organisation registered in the UK, Portugal, Kenya, Nigeria and with US fiscal sponsorship
Guardians UK is a registered Charity in England and Wales (Charity Commission Number 1214169)
Guardians Worldwide is a registered association in Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)
GWW Africa Ltd is a registered PLC in Nigeria (Reg No: 8272797)
ProHome-Guardians is a registered Community Based Organisation in Kenya (NCC/SD/CBO/008)
Our fiscal sponsor in the US is Buckminster Fuller Institute (EIN 95-3273023)
Guardians UK CIO
20 Grange Lane
Sydenham Hill
London
SE21 7LH
UK
Guardians Worldwide
Reserva Florestal Portelas
Caminho das Portelas Predio 394
Penamacor
6080-901
Portugal
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