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Zombie SFX workshop | Guest lecturer Duncan Cameron | October 2022

Lacock grounds and abbey // October 2022

An excellent first two days with Strode college lecturers, Oxfam staff and volunteers and current and former Strode students - at the first Glastonbury festival in three years. This terrific new initiative has been planned by textiles lecturer Alice Bowen as part of the joint charities work to raise attention to the climate crisis. Working with Oxfam, Greenpeace and Water Aid the crew are running workshops with festival goers through the event. Everyone is invited to write climate demands on card placards and waste material strips - donated by Bristol Cameron Balloons - to contribute to a wonderful banner that will form a centrepiece for the climate procession from the Greenpeace field to the park stage on Sunday morning. Wonderful slogans, drawings and other contributions from the many children and adults. The banner will then travel to COP27 in Egypt the autumn.

The Strode sustainability garden is looking terrific at the moment. The plants have been loving the summer rain and sunshine. The biology students have been fishing out some of the plants in the pond so that the water isn’t all lost to the advancing plant swamp. The pond and the garden is full of flowers and life, our own little re-wilding corner of the college campus.

The show is coming down fast. We hit the ground running this morning and most of the art is off the walls. Ages to put it up moments to get it down, it’s been a great show week. Well done everyone and a big Thank-you to technicians Martin and Dave.