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Category: Open the Door 2020

Digital Poetry Slam Champion

Published on 22nd May, 2020 by Hannah Wright

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The winner of Open the Door 2020’s Digital Slam is Jenny Lester! Open the Door’s first spoken word event was brought to life by this year’s four shortlisted poets, who […]

Calm Slam Winner and Runner-Up

Published on 22nd May, 2020 by Hannah Wright

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Discover the winner and runner-up of the first ever GWL Digital Calm Slam.

Nan Shepherd Prize

Published on 21st May, 2020 by GWL

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The Nan Shepherd Prize team offer advice on nature writing, submitting books to agents, and opportunities to get your writing noticed.

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai – “Eco”

Published on 21st May, 2020 by Giovanna MacKenna

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By Gillian Burke ENVIRONMENTALISM is a movement tied up in multiple knots of complicated science, a shared concern for our shared home. The word ‘eco’ has become so overused that […]

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai – Environmentalism

Published on 21st May, 2020 by Giovanna MacKenna

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By Gillian Burke ENVIRONMENTALISM is a white, middle-class privilege. I hear this a lot. This is the fourth post in my takeover series about Professor Wangari Maathai who was […]

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai – Far from Home

Published on 21st May, 2020 by Giovanna MacKenna

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By Gillian Burke WHAT would it have been like for the young Wangari Maathai? Her home was a colony under British Rule that, by the late 50s, was brutally suppressing the […]

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai

Published on 21st May, 2020 by Giovanna MacKenna

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GILLIAN BURKE is a natural history television programme producer and presenter, and a voiceover artist. She has been a co-presenter of the BBC nature series Springwatch and its spin-offs since […]

Ecofeminist Reads with Rebecca Jones

Published on 19th May, 2020 by Hannah Wright

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PhD researcher Rebecca Jones introduces us to her research and recommends some ecofeminist reading as part of Open the Door 2020. Hello! I’m Rebecca Jones, and I’m the coordinator of […]

Birdsong Haiku

Published on 18th May, 2020 by Emily Ilett

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This Open the Door Festival, we’re inviting you to fill our Twitter with birdsong by writing your own Birdsong Haiku or sharing poetry you love on birds and their dawn chorus and afternoon chatter.

Braemarnia and Crossing Borders: Events with The Open University

Published on 18th May, 2020 by GWL

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As part of Open the Door 2020, Open University Scotland provided two films to be screened during the festival. Here we share the films (this will be updated as the festival progresses) and information about The Open University courses.