Cabinet of Curiosities

 I'm looking forward to the exhibition in the Buttermarket next weekend.  It's called The Cabinet of Curiosities, and it is being staged by Botany and other Stories.  

The idea behind the exhibition is to portray a combination of Beauty and Science, inspired by quotations from Rachel Carson, who is most famous for her book Silent Spring.  It's about appreciating the beauty of nature and trying to demonstrate why it needs to be preserved.

Botany and other Stories has been working with local artists to fill boxes, in their Travelling Botanical Box Project.  Some of these boxes have already been on display in the window they used to rent in the middle of Hay.  The boxes have been filled by painters, stained glass makers, ceramicists, wood carvers, printers, weavers of wool and weavers of words.

There will also be information about the danger the natural world is in - which is very timely as COP 27 will be starting soon in Cairo, to discuss the world's response to climate change in a year when the evidence for the changing climate is undeniable, with rivers drying up all over the world while there are devastating floods in other countries, such as Pakistan and here in the UK there were the highest summer temperatures ever recorded.

The Buttermarket will be open from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 17th September and from 10am to 2pm on Sunday 18th September.