Popular Forest of Imagination festival returns to Bath this week

The Forest of Imagination festival returns to Bath this week.

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The free festival sees the former Entry Hill Golf Course again transformed into a free immersive landscape of art, nature and community.

Themed ‘Imagining the Future of the Forgotten Land’, the festival includes interactive and creative installations, sensory trails, outdoor performances and hands-on workshops for all ages – each one inviting collective ecological imagination in response to the climate and nature emergencies.

Running from Tuesday 23rd September until Sunday 5th October, the festival is a group effort led by Bath-based landscape architects, Grant Associates, House of Imagination, Bath Spa University and architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, along with many other local communities, businesses and individuals that help to make it happen.

Easily accessible by walking or cycling for local residents, visitors can wander through a landscape of creative installations on each of the old golf course’s ‘greens’.

The annual event was conceived in 2012 by Andrew Grant, founder of landscape architects Grant Associates and Dr Penny Hay, Professor of Imagination at Bath Spa University.

Other partners involved in this year’s Forest of Imagination include Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bathscape, The Egg Theatre, Bath Preservation Trust, Bath Community Kitchen, Avon Wildlife Trust, local schools, residents’ associations and volunteers.

You can find out more about this year’s festival by visiting their website at https://www.forestofimagination.org.uk/