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** Wednesday, 21st June
Temperate House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 7pm (BST)
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5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each: Live at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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There are limited tickets left for a very special live event at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (https://www.kew.org/)  next week!

On the evening of the summer solstice, join 5x15 as we celebrate the wonders of the natural world.

Biodiversity is crucial to life, from the food we eat to the air we breathe. But human actions continue to threaten the earth’s incredible array of plant and animal species, and the consequences of biodiversity loss will continue to be seismic and far-reaching.

For this new collaboration between 5x15 and Kew Gardens, five fantastic speakers will speak for fifteen minutes on the theme of the event - what we stand to lose and why we must protect the precious and extraordinary variety of our planet’s ecosystems. We’ll hear about the forgotten temperate rainforests of Britain, the hidden universe of life in our own back gardens, and words for wildlife that have been lost and rediscovered.

Join us for a midsummer's evening of live storytelling in the beautiful setting of the Temperate House (https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens/temperate-house)  at Kew.

Tickets will allow guests early access to the Gardens (from 2pm on the day). A complimentary drink will also be provided on the evening, courtesy of Laithwaites Wines (http://laithwaites.co.uk/) . There are just a few more tickets available. Book now!

Speakers
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. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters and his work has been cited over 12,600 times. 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.

Thomas Halliday is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. His book Otherlands: A World in the Making was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Foyles Book of the Year 2022, and longlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He was raised in Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands, and now lives in London with his family.

Jackie Morris is an award-winning British writer and illustrator. Morris studied at the Bath Academy of Art and started her career as an illustrator by working for magazines including Radio Times, New Statesman, New Society and Country Living. She has illustrated over 60 books, and is best known for the stunning The Lost Words (2017), co-written with Robert Macfarlane – a love song to many increasingly rare words pertaining to nature and the natural world. These illustrations earned Morris the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2019. Morris and Macfarlane’s second collaboration, The Lost Spells, was published in October 2020, and they are currently working on a third, The Book of Birds. Morris is nominated for the 2024 Andersen Award by the International Board of Books for Young People.

Guy Shrubsole is a writer and environmental campaigner. He has worked for Rewilding Britain, Friends of the Earth, the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and New Zealand’s Ministry of Agriculture. He has written widely for publications including The Guardian and New Statesman. Both his first book, Who Owns England?, and his second, The Lost Rainforests of Britain, were Sunday Times bestsellers. The latter was also voted Sunday Times Science Book of the Year.

About Laithwaites Wine
Laithwaites Wine (http://laithwaites.co.uk/)  was founded in 1969, when Tony Laithwaite drove a van of Bordeaux wine to England to share with family and friends. Laithwaites has since grown to become one of the UK’s largest wine merchants, yet remains family owned and gives pride of place to smaller producers.

http://laithwaites.co.uk/

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** Alexandre Antonelli, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Thomas Halliday, Jackie Morris, Guy Shrubsole

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