9th August 2024
(In)audible Presences is an ongoing, long-term exploration of the documentation practices associated with wildlife sound recording. Via an exhibited archive of typewritten A5 pages, the project challenges established approaches to sonic cataloguing, querying institutionally driven preferences for logical categorisation and notational accuracy. It calls for a creative renormalisation of how we document other species' sounds, encouraging experimental approaches to natural history archiving through the use of typewriter, paper and ink. By deliberately foregrounding inefficient/outdated methodologies for the description and transcription of wildlife sounds, (In)audible Presences seeks to destabilise the ‘digitised precision’ of current field-recording practice, drawing attention to the ambiguous, the incomplete, the unknown. And what better source materials for this process than the mysterious ultrasonic vocalisations of bats? Inherently inaudible to humans, propagating in darkness and lending themselves to myriad perceptual distortions, the rhythmically complex echolocations of British and Irish bat species (recorded using a handheld ultrasound detector) serve as a creative foundation for the archive, acting as aural scaffolds for textual rhythm and the articulation of field experience on paper. This is a free event.
Bat Walk with Evesham Bat Care and Gloucestershire Bat Group for International Bat Night
23rd August 2024
Come and join Evesham Bat Care and Gloucestershire Bat Group for a bat walk to celebrate International Bat Night! The walk will begin just after sunset. Warm clothes and sturdy footwear are advised and a torch/head torch would be useful but not mandatory. This event is charged at £5 per person.
Bat Walk with Evesham Bat Care and Gloucestershire Bat Group for International Bat Night
24th August 2024
Come and join Evesham Bat Care and Gloucestershire Bat Group for a bat walk to celebrate International Bat Night! The walk will begin just after sunset. Warm clothes and sturdy footwear are advised and a torch/head would be useful but not mandatory. This event is charged at £5 per person.
European Protected Species for Foresters – Presentation & field walk
10th September 2024
This course is designed to raise awareness of European Protected Species and Bats when undertaking forestry operations. There will be a classroom-based presentation led by industry experts & then you will be taken on a field walk to further raise awareness of species habitat indicators, field signs and management challenges. Tom Fairfield and BCT (Sonia Reveley) will act as speakers for the event. Guest speakers from The Forestry Commission & Natural England will also be in attendance to provide an update on EPS legislation and good practice guidance.
European Protected Species for Foresters – Presentation & field walk
11th September 2024
This course is designed to raise awareness of European Protected Species and Bats when undertaking forestry operations. There will be a classroom-based presentation led by industry experts & then you will be taken on a field walk to further raise awareness of species habitat indicators, field signs and management challenges. Tom Fairfield and BCT (Sonia Reveley) will act as speakers for the event. Guest speakers from The Forestry Commission & Natural England will also be in attendance to provide an update on EPS legislation and good practice guidance.
