Sunday 10 July at Hay Castle, Hay on Wye from 12 noon. FREE!
Part of the #WyeJuly series of events. Join the Friends of the Upper Wye at Hay Castle and help to ‘LiftTheRiver’. Starts at 12 noon with a ‘Declaration on the state of the river’ from the Castle steps followed by an afternoon of poetry, music and performance culminating in a solutions stage where speakers will lay out a vision for protecting the Wye.
This family-friendly event will include an exhibition of creative 'river samples’ and an opportunity to learn more about the citizen scientists testing the river twice weekly throughout the catchment. Children can take part in a drumming workshop (Slapping Skins) or write their own river poems and spells with poet Jean Atkin. The Centre for Material Thinking (Aberystwyth University) will be running a workshop on river sounds. Musicians from far and wide will serenade the crowd in the castle gardens and illuminating speakers will lay out the crisis and its solutions.
The web of life in the River Wye and many of its tributaries is approaching collapse. WyeJuly is a series of events aimed at bringing together communities to learn about the crisis from the citizen scientists and volunteer groups that have taken on the monitoring of water quality.
Everybody is welcome. Come along, enjoy the activities, celebrate our precious river, meet the groups and individuals involved in the fight to save it and find out what you can do NOW to help! More stories