Acts of Imagination
Acts of Imagination: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
We will be powered by words and imagination.
Join poets, authors and activists to imagine a future where we have renewed our relationship with nature and, perhaps, overcome the ecological crisis.
Inspired by Amber Massie-Blomfield’s book exploring the power of art to change the world, a fascinating group of voices, alongside yours, will imagine the reforesting that needs to take place – in our cities and riverside communities.
Peppered through the afternoon, Apples and Snakes poets Bhumika Billa, Eileen Gbagbo, Adjei Sun and Anneliese Amoah perform poems connecting us with nature and wider climate issues.
This interactive event will gather around a long-table, centre-stage at OT, and as a finale take a walk and share our ideas with the river.
Apples and Snakes supports the development of extraordinary poets, hear the freshest new voices and be inspired to see how your voice and ideas can help create change.
This event is part of the Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival 2025 (13-29 June), exploring the theme Cultural Reforesting.
Pay what you can and join us on Sunday 15 June!
Book now for the accompanying workshop with Laurie Bolger
About Amber Massie-Blonfield
Amber Massie-Blomfield is a theatre producer, arts consultant and writer, working at the meeting point of climate & culture. Formerly Executive Director of Complicité and Camden People’s Theatre, she has worked for clients including Actors Touring Company, tiata fahodzi, Barbican, Pro Helvetia, English PEN, Free Word Centre and China Plate. Her first book, Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die, was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize and recipient of the Society of Authors’ Michael Meyer Award, and her second book, Acts of Resistance, published in 2024, received the Gladstone Library’s Political Writer-in-Residence Award and an Arts Council England Project Grant. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and as an activist, she has been involved with Writers Rebel and Extinction Rebellion.
The Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival is supported by the British Council.
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