Intervention No.6 - Sunday 15th September 2024
at Cube Cinema, Bristol

#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK

On Sunday 15th September 2024, we are inviting people to come together to ‘Notice This Tree’ in our 6th Intervention at

Cube Cinema, Bristol

(You can see what happened in a previous Intervention here)

The Intervention is in three parts:

NOTICE

it could be a tree at risk, or one that has been lost – or simply one you love. We invite you to walk from a tree of your choice in any way you choose, alone or with others, to arrive at around 3pm at the Bearpit, St James Barton Roundabout, Bristol BS1 3LY. We will be holding a ceremony for Bristol’s trees (lost, loved, at risk) We will start walking from the Bearpit at 3.40pm to arrive at the cinema at 4pm.

Information about the event and confirmed walks will be posted on the NoticeThisTree Whassap group. Join group here

See confirmed walks here

SEE NoticeThisTree MAP OF TREE WALKS

Check the NoticeThisTree map to see which Bristol trees people have already pinned and/or pin your own tree here

(Click here for an instructional video to show you how to add a tree to the map)

See which trees others are walking from here

CONNECT

At 4pm we meet at Cube Cinema. Here we invite people to contribute to our ever-evolving Mycelium Mundus tapestry and a participatory painting workshop; share stories of trees; and listen to an ever-evolving created audio work which will play as people enter the auditorium to watch Katy McGahan’s film The Happy Man Tree (75mins, 12a) starting at 4.45pm. The central protagonist of the film is a Hackney street tree and the film charts the attempts on the part of the local community to save it from developers.

Watch the trailer here

Buy tickets to the screening here

REFLECT

After the screening you are invited to join a reflection on the issues that the film raises including the impact of the loss of mature trees and other natural landmarks

in towns and cities across the UK. Here we ask the questions: Where Now?

What Next?'

PRESS RELEASE

#NoticeThisTree: Intervention No. 6 in Bristol

Sunday 15th September 2024, at the Bear Pit (3pm)

and the Cube Cinema (4pm)

Press Release: For Immediate Release

#NoticeThisTree imagines a world that is truly connected to the impact of loss and the spectre of extinction. With this in mind we have created a series of Interventions across the UK in response to this continuing loss – with a special focus on the loss

of trees. (You can see what happened in a previous Intervention here)

In these Interventions we notice trees - a tree at risk, one that has already been felled, or a tree that we love. We walk from a tree (or trees) of our choice and connect with others before the screening of The Happy Man Tree documentary

(Katy McGahan, 75 mins, 12a). Afterwards we reflect on our experience, and consider the questions ‘Where now? What next?’ and ‘How shall we live going forward?

Intervention #6 takes place in Bristol on 15th September. People are invited to notice a tree and to walk from their tree to a Ceremony for Bristol’s Trees, meeting

at the Bear Pit (BS1 3LY) at 3pm. There are many trees currently at threat in Bristol including trees at St Mary Le Port, Bedminster Meadows and Baltic Wharf. Tree protectors will be walking from all these venues to raise awareness.

After the Ceremony there will be a slow March with the Red Rebels to the Cube Cinema where there is the possibility of adding trees that have been noticed to a mycelium tapestry which has already been contributed to by 100s of people from

4 UK cities. Similarly, an ongoing sound piece is added to at each intervention. Sounds are collected from the area around the trees – natural sounds, stories, and the general ambience - and played in the auditorium as people enter.

The screening of the documentary ‘The Happy Man Tree’ will be at 4.45pm

Losing a tree hurts and it’s difficult to avoid the blame game when one you love is

at risk, but here we’re more interested in dialogue – a dialogue we surely all

need – about how to look after and value our natural environment - and ourselves - in it. Throughout these interventions we seek insight, compassion and connection with everyone involved in the stories of our trees. After the film screening there will be a reflection in a sharing forum 6.15 to 7pm.

Notes to editors

#noticethistree is brought by members of the community who tried to save a London Plane Tree known as the Happy Man Tree (England’s tree of the year 2020)

Watch the trailer here

Buy tickets to the screening here

Details of previous interventions (Hackney, Haringey, Nottingham, Plymouth, Brighton) and Intervention #6 details www.noticethistree.org

Check our map to see which Bristol trees people have pinned and/or pin your own tree here

WhatsApp link to join the tree walks and sharing tree information is here

Contact 07767317382 info@noticethistree.org

For The Happy Man Tree film enquiries:

Planet Tuesday Films, magannina101@gmail.com

@noticethistree

@notice_this_tree

Join a #NoticeThisTree walk in Bristol

Here's some of trees that people have chosen to walk to from.

Feel free to join one of these walks or choose a different tree

to walk from - to arrive at the Bear Pit at 3pm

St Mary le Port Church, Castle Park, BS1 2AN

See Bristol Tree Forum's website for more information on this campaign

See NoticeThisTree Map for location

"There are 28 trees, all growing in hard standing, on the proposed development

site. All but three of them plane trees. The Council is their custodian on behalf of

the citizens of Bristol – these trees belong to us. As well as having obvious public

amenity value, these trees also provide important ecoservices: they provide

nearly 6,000 sq. feet of canopy cover to shade us, mitigate rainfall and absorb

pollution. Over the last 60 years or so they have also sequestered the equivalent

of over 200 tonnes of carbon. If these trees are saved, they will continue to do so,

even as our city grows hotter and suffers more and more extreme weather events.

If they are lost, we estimate that some 336 new street trees2 will need to be

planted to replace them in order to provide these lost ecoservices once they reach

maturity, which will take at least 30 years. Sadly, there is little realistic hope that

this will happen" (Bristol Tree Forum)

Bedminster Green, BS3 3EL

Proposed ROUTE can be found here

For more info see:

Windmill Hill and Malago Community Planning Group

(WHAM) Facebook page

Bedminster Green Campaign Facebook page

See location on NoticeThisTree Map here

NOTE FROM: Windmill Hill and Malago Planning Group (WHAM)

"We are planning to walk through Bedminster Green to the Bear pit on

Sunday 15 September 2024. There will be a series of interventions each at

different places where trees have been cut down or where trees are marked

to be cut down, with little gain for the public, to facilitate more building with

no on-site replacement. This eroding of the green infrastructure network is

terribly sad to see as these trese lie close to bat commuter routes and are

spaces of tranquility that are much loved by the nearby residents.

The route we intend to follow highlights a series of trees that are under threat

or already gone from the area around Bedminster Green - a combination of development, traffic improvement schemes, infrastructure installations and f

lood alleviation proposals.

1:45pm

Meet at the Ash trees at the bottom of St John’s burial ground

These trees are under threat from being felled due to having ash dieback disease, however current guidance is that unless they are dangerous to the public they should not be felled.

1.55pm

Move on to the car park at little paradise

These birch trees are under threat from the proposal to build a multi storey car-park

2:05pm

Move on to Hereford Street Car park

These trees were felled by Highways as part of the works to widen Dalby Avenue. The nature garden, farm federation building with green roof and other planting

in the car park is under threat from the proposal for plot 5, part of the Bedminster Green Development

2.15pm

Move on to Bedminster Green (Providence Place)

The weeping willow on the corner of St Catherines House has been felled as part

of the regeneration work of St Catherine’s Court.

The eastern corner of the green is under threat from the river opening up works

The tall Lombardy Poplars are under threat from the river opening up works created as part of a flood alleviation scheme to facilitate further development around the green.

The Heat network will remove more trees as the pipes are run across the green beneath the River Malago

The development of 3 buildings on 3 sides of the green will block light from the remaining trees on the green

Proceed to the Bearpit to arrive at 3pm"

Bristol Zoo Gardens, Clifton, BS8 3HA

For more info see Save Bristol Zoo Gardens website here

See location on NoticeThisTree Map

Bristol Fountains, in between Neptune Statue, Central

Promenade, BS1, and Cascade Steps

For more info on campaign see Facebook page here

See location on NoticeThisTree Map

Brislington Meadows

Sandwiched between School Road and the Trading

Estate with Victory Park, BS4 4NE, to the bottom,

and Broomhill Rd at the top

For more information see Save Brislington Meadows website here

See NoticeThisTree Map link

ASHLEY DOWN OAK

Ashley Down, Bristol BS7 9BP

See location and infor on NoticeThisTree Map

A huge 100-year-old Holm oak in the grounds of Bristol Council owned Down

View flats. Saved from felling in 2021, after it was implicated in a subsidence claim, by STADO, a coalition of local residents, environmentalists and the

Bristol Tree Forum.