Anneliese Emmans Dean promotes learning through laughter, rhythm and rhyme with her award-winning science-meets-poetry books for children: ‘Buzzing! Discover the poetry in garden minibeasts’ and ‘Flying High! Discover the poetry in British birds’. She brings these books to life in interactive, edu-taining shows (for children and for grown-ups) at events, schools, festivals and theatres nationwide….
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Bird Fair 2018 – more thoughts on gender balance.
Authors’ forum: I hear from Duncan MacDonald of Wildsounds (the ‘official’ Bird Fair booksellers), some interesting news on the Authors’ Forum speakers for this year and next year. Duncan has to be thanked for putting a lot of effort in to attempting to redress the gender imbalance in the Authors’ Forum with some success this…
Bird Fair speakers – what would you like?
This short questionnaire about Bird Fair celebrity speakers is acquiring some fascinating suggestions. There are close to 100 responses after just a few hours. If you would like to hear more female celebrity speakers who would they be? A long list is growing with some favourites emerging. If you would like to hear more female…
Some thoughts on the 2018 Bird Fair – how about some real debate?
I say this every year so, for consistency, I’ll say it again now. The Bird Fair ought to be used as an opportunity to influence the future of wildlife through influencing politicians and not simply through raising money. I reckon that it would have been possible to get around 15,000 signatures over the three days…
Some thoughts on the 2018 Bird Fair – my lists of people
Who did you see at the Bird Fair? Here are five lists of my sightings: People who I saw and spoke to properly (an incomplete list – partly because I can’t remember everyone and partly to preserve others’ career prospects if speaking to me might endanger them): Lord (John) Randall – birder, former MP, former…
Some thoughts on the 2018 Bird Fair – the gender balance issue
This was a clumsily worded post. But I’ll leave it here because I think one has to live with one’s mistakes not hide them. If you have thoughts on which male celebrity speakers could make way for female celebrities in the main events, and if you’d like to suggest who those female celebrities might be,…
Some thoughts on the 2018 Bird Fair – the numbers game
The Bird Fair is great; it’s always great, and it was great over the last three days too. But great doesn’t mean perfect. And great doesn’t mean invulnerable. I think, but I might well be wrong, that the Bird Fair was a little quieter this year than last year, and it was a little quieter…
Bird Fair asks Iceland’s Prime Minister to end whaling
I spent some, by no means all, of my time at the Bird Fair getting signatures, on bits of paper, to ask the Icelandic Prime Minister to bring an end to whaling in her country. I’m amazed by the total: we got… 1,320 signatures. Thank you to all who signed (and see some more acknowledgements…
Bird Fair Day 3
Over a thousand good things about the Bird Fair: This petition, on bits of paper, at the Bird Fair over the three days, raised over 1,000 signatures asking the Prime Minister of Iceland to put an end to whaling in her country. Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British Birdwatching Fair…
I’m at the Bird Fair yet again
Day 3 of the Bird Fair and I have a lot of conversations to finish among all those which I haven’t even started! Here in east Northants it’s a bit of a cloudy blowy start to the day and it looks as though that’s what it will be like at Bird Fair too. It won’t…