Category Archive: The Telling of the Bees

Recording with the Boothorpe Bees

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Here’s a short film to share the day in 2020 that we recorded the Boothorpe bee hives with David the Bee Farmer for our installation The Telling of the Bees. We edited this… Continue reading

The Telling of the Bees

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Footage of our 2021 project at Timber Festival

Film-making with Electric Egg

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We’ve been documenting The Telling of the Bees project as it developed. We also asked Steve and Neil from Electric Egg to help us film the finished installation and interview each other and… Continue reading

The Telling of the Bees at Timber 21

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After lots of pauses we were so excited to share our night-time audio visual installation at Timber Festival in July – and got some great feedback! Here’s a little clip of the piece… Continue reading

Our Print’s Ready!

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Hot off the press our rizo leaflet (and free poster) – using the vector images we made with Bec Smith. We can hand this out to the audience at Timber next weekend and… Continue reading

Hive, Flight, Orientation and Swarm

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Over May and June we had some making to do! Rebecca guided us to shape the audio files we’d collected into a soundscape to represent the different states of bee behaviour we’d been… Continue reading

Collaborating with the Boothorpe Bees

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National Forest beekeeper and educator David the Bee Farmer took us on several visits to the two hives at Boothorpe – situated just half a mile from the Timber Festival site at Feanedock.… Continue reading

Workshopping with artist Bec Smith

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We met digital artist Bec Smith from Urban Projections at Nottingham Light Night and invited her to do some workshops with us to share how she researches and builds a project – she… Continue reading

Our 2020-21 project!

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Earlier this week, youth landscapers met to discuss the future of this year’s Timber project and begin to make some exciting and ambitious plans. We decided on making a night-time installation involving projections… Continue reading

Visit to Light Night

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Inspired at Nottingham Light Night On Friday the youth landscapers team visited the Nottingham Light Night. We saw lots of different light installations all of which where amazing. We went to the light night… Continue reading