Tree Stories: Heart, Mind & Soul
A conversation with Tracy Chevalier and Jonathan Drori
Ticket Information
Tree Stories: Heart, Mind & Soul
Date: Wednesday 19th May
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Location: Online Zoom event
Tickets: Free, booking essential (donations welcomed)
Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Last Runaway) discusses trees, literature and life with Jonathan Drori (Around the World in 80 Trees, Around the World in 80 Plants). Tree lovers both!
A Q+A will follow.
Further information will be sent on booking. The event is being hosted by the Arboricultural Association.
In partnership with the Arboricultural Association, the Urban Tree Festival is delighted to bring you a free webinar with best-selling authors Tracy Chevalier and Jonathan Drori.
The joy of trees lies where science, culture and folklore meet.
From their sofa, Tracy Chevalier and Jonathan Drori explore the world of trees through their different lenses. How does a novelist capture their essence and use trees as observers and characters? And how can non-fiction create an emotional, as well as intellectual link to these amazing organisms?
Our relationships with trees range from sacred to profane, and from practical to downright bizarre. But what can their secret lives tell us about the wider world and our place in it?
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is the author of 10 novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, and At the Edge of the Orchard, which explores American settlers’ relationship to trees. Tracy grew up in Washington DC and moved to the UK in 1984. She and her husband Jonathan Drori divide their time between London and Dorset. She is a Trustee of the British Library and the Dorset Museum, and is an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust.
Jonathan Drori
A former documentary film-maker, Jonathan Drori CBE is author of the bestseller Around the World in 80 Trees (2018, now in 18 languages), and Around the World in 80 Plants, (at least a quarter of them are trees!) which has just been published globally. A Trustee of The Eden Project and Cambridge University Botanic Garden, he spent nine years on the boards of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and The Woodland Trust. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Forest Research at Birmingham University.
(Twitter: @jondrori Insta: @jondroriuk Web: www.jondrori.co.uk)
