Amitav Ghosh live at Kew! Plus world-famous Orchid Festival

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5x15 and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in partnership with Rathbones

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** Thursday, 8th February
Cambridge Cottage, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 6pm (GMT)
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** Amitav Ghosh
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** In partnership with Rathbones, 5x15 returns to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in February for a unique live event with acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh, in conversation with Kew's Director of Science, Alexandre Antonelli. Don't miss this rare UK appearance by one of the world's leading voices on the environmental legacy of colonialism.

Tickets also include access to the Gardens on the day, as well as Kew's iconic annual Orchid Festival. There are a limited number available, so we recommend booking early!

In his new book Smoke and Ashes, Amitav Ghosh traces the history of the opium plant, and explores how the opium trade was engineered by the British Empire and became essential to its financial survival. Moving deftly between horticultural histories, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant had in the making of our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.

Join us in Cambridge Cottage (https://www.kew.org/venue-hire/cambridge-cottage)  at Kew for a fascinating discussion about plants and the history of colonialism.

Tickets will allow guests early access to the Gardens (from 2pm on the day, last entry 4pm) to see Kew's annual Orchid Festival (https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/kew-orchid-festival) , which is this year inspired by the beauty of Madagascar. Cambridge Cottage will be open for guests from 5pm, with a complimentary drink, and the event will begin at 6pm.

Speakers
Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. He holds two lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2015, he was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Professor Alexandre Antonelli is the Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is also Professor in Biodiversity and Systematics at the University of Gothenburg and Visiting Professor at the Department of Plant Science at the University of Oxford. Antonelli’s passion is nature, and his mission mirrors that of RBG Kew’s: to understand and protect biodiversity for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth. To this end, he studies the distribution, evolution,threats and sustainable uses of species and develops methods to speed up scientific discovery and innovation. He was named on the Web of Science/Clarivate 2020 and 2021 ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list, which identifies pioneering researchers in the top 1% of their field. His first book, The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity, was published in 2022.

Amitav Ghosh, Alexandre Antonelli

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