Birdsong Returns To The Hills of Bemolanga: Artist Talk with Roger Thorp

Join us for a special community talk exploring storytelling, connection, and creative ways of experiencing the world around us.

Roger Thorp is an artist working across moving image, poetry, music, and form. He is also the founder of the Olive Network, a platform that curates and shares global stories that encourage long-term, positive thinking and collective social action.

In this talk, Roger will share elements of his creative practice, including a selection of his film-poems and the aims and background of his work with the Olive Network, which sits between arts and activism. The network offers an antidote to doom-scrolling and the pressures of endless growth culture — presenting new media for a kinder, more thoughtful era.

Drawing on the idea of the Earth as a shared garden, Roger reflects on the interconnectedness of all living systems and invites audiences to consider storytelling as a way of deepening our relationship with place, community, and the natural world. He will explore how we encounter stories through sensory experience — through the texture of living, through sound, light, and atmosphere — and how these encounters can allow us to feel something new, and in turn, think and act in new ways.