Our greatest living nature writer, Robert Macfarlane is both the author of prize-winning bestsellers including Underland, Landmarks, and The Old Ways, and an artistic polymath whose collaborators include many of the most distinguished artists, musicians, and poets of our time, including Olafur Eliasson, Johnny Flynn, and Jackie Morris.

He joins How To Academy with a single, transformative idea: are rivers alive? Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young ‘Rights of Nature’ movement, Macfarlane will takes us on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.

Transporting us from the miraculous cloud-forests of Northern Ecuador to the wounded rivers and lagoons of Southern India; and from north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river – the Mutehekau or Magpie – is being defended from death by damming in a river rights campaign, to the fragile chalk stream that rises a mile from his house and flows through his years and days, this is a magical and radical night that will make you rethink what you think you know about rivers and about the nature of life.

Booking information

To book tickets, please visit the How To Academy website.

This event has not been organised by the Society. If you have any questions or require assistance with your booking please contact the event organiser, How To Academy, via contact@howtoacademy.com

Venue information

 

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

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Open to all
2 May 2025, 7.30pm-8.45pm
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

In-person
From £30.00
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