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Forest of Imagination 2023 ran from 14 June – 14 July

Assemble in the Forest

Forest of Imagination is free to all. No booking required for general admission, just come & explore!*

‘Assemble in the Forest’FOI 2023.event guide.thmb150 is an invitation to come together at a festival full of adventure, to enjoy culture, to celebrate beauty and biodiversity and to showcase the imagination of our community. As the world struggles with a climate emergency, COVID aftermath, injustice – this is the time to collectively and creatively imagine how things can be different.

The spectacular Bath Assembly Rooms will be the venue for the 2023 Forest of Imagination where we will celebrate 10 years as a contemporary arts event in Bath. For 2023, the National Trust invited Forest of Imagination to the Bath Assembly Rooms while the charity uncovers the history of the building, tests and finalises plans for the future and undertakes building work ahead of opening a Georgian experience in 2026.

*Due to limited spaces, workshops, talks and performances will require booking.

View the 2023 FOI event guide >

Updated FOI 2023 event guide from Saturday 24 June

Forest of Imagination 2023 will continue to embed Forest into the longer term identity of the city.

Our ambition is to establish Forest of Imagination as a showcase for the creativity of the city, whilst inviting internationally significant artists and designers to help raise the international profile of Forest and Bath as a city of creativity.
Forest of Imagination is free to all.

Forest of Imagination 2022

Keeping communities connected with creativity

The Living Tree Mirror Maze was at the Egg Theatre from 17 June- 3 July 2022 and a free family fun forest took place on Sunday 24 July at the American Museum and Gardens.

In 2022 Forest of Imagination continues its radical response to the global environmental crisis through creativity & research. 2021’s event was hybrid with the Travelling Forest located across the city as well as virtual offerings.

The award-winning arts event is bringing the Forest work of multi-sensory array of participation art installations, workshops, architecture, sculptures and audio experiences online and invites everyone to participate.  Adapting to the current situation, however our ambition remains the same: to connect communities with creative activities and inspiring events.

Working with artists, collaborators, architects, musicians, writers, sponsors, businesses, local and global organisations, Forest prepares to reveal it’s roots as a Landscape City and Creative City popping up in multiple virtual locations and reaching out to the diverse community of Bath and beyond…

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Trusting the child – François Matarasso

Please read the beautiful and generous thought piece written by François Matarasso. Here is an excerpt: “…the House of Imagination shows just what can be achieved by adapting flexibly to changing conditions when you have a diamond-sharp vision of what you want to achieve.” Read here >  

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Forest of Imagination 2023 event guide is live!
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Forest of Imagination 2023 event guide is live!

Bookings are open!    Please use our FOI 2023 event guide PDF and click the “book” buttons, you can also visit our Eventbrite page for a full listing of our FOI 2023 events and workshops.         Bookable events listed elsewhere are as follows: RSA George Monbiot in conversation with Andrew Grant – Thursday 15 June, 6-7pm, Online via Zoom Rob Hopkins – Thursday 22 June, 6-7pm, Bath Assembly Rooms...

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We believe that creativity can enhance wellbeing and transform lives, communities, cities and economies.

The natural world is a powerful generator of childhood curiosity and those early sparks of imagination are often at the heart of our life-long creativity.

Andrew Grant (Grant Associates) and Penny Hay (House of Imagination, formerly 5x5x5=creativity, and Bath Spa University) - #
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