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Fossil-Festival-Programme-2019-10 fossilfestival.co.uk LYME REGIS Fossil Festival FRI 3rd - SUN 5th MAY 2019 LYME REGIS COAST + TOWN VENUES with thanks to our sponsors Discover over 300 of the fi nest Holiday Cottages along the Jurassic Coast Welcome to LYME REGIS Fossil Festival Welcome to the 2019 Lyme Regis Fossil walks over the weekend. The Fossil Festival Festival located on the world-famous Jurassic will also host some fascinating exhibitions Coast. Lyme Regis is blessed with some of the throughout the town centre including the 01297 44 33 63 most remarkable palaeontology and geology Natural History Museum, British Antarctic www.lymebayholidays.co.uk on the planet and we’re here to help celebrate Society, Palaeontological Society and lots of this with a weekend of science, discovery and local scientific organisations, as well as some fun. The history of fossil discovery is intrinsically thought-provoking and entertaining talks and linked to Lyme Regis and Charmouth through lectures in the Marine Theatre. The whole the incredible work of Mary Anning, soon to be weekend kicks off with a dazzling lantern Est. Over 30 years immortalised even further with the release of display along the seafront, which will be a sight the upcoming Hollywood movie “Ammonite” to behold. Join us at the Fossil Festival for an starring Kate Winslet, shot right here in Lyme adventure 200 million years in the making! Regis! Mary’s discoveries really shook the world of natural history; changing the way the Jon Doody, Dot Wood scientific community looked at prehistoric life and everyone at the LRDT team. and the history of the earth itself. Her amazing story continues to inspire generations of fossil hunters and you too could follow in her footsteps and discover new secrets locked away for hundreds of millions of years by joining one of the many guided fossil hunting fossilfestival.co.uk 3 Marine theatre Friday 3rd May 8.45pm – 9.30pm Lantern procession from the theatre along the seafront to the Harbour This year we have a new addition to the festival in a lantern procession that will take place along the seafront at dusk, 8:45pm, on Friday 3rd May. Local children have been busy making some superb tissue and willow ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs which when illuminated, we hope will provide a wonderful spectacle to kick off the annual Fossil Festival weekend. 7pm – 8.45pm Julia Hailes and Adam Rees Talk on Environmental and Marine current issues. Tickets £8. Book at www.fossilfestival.co.uk www.martindiplock.co.uk Julia Hailes MBE – Have the public gone Adam Rees PhD – Effective marine Telephone: 01297 445500 bonkers about plastics? protection : A success story from the Email: [email protected] Lyme Bay MPA. Pictures of turtles with straws up their nostrils and an albatross chick regurgitating a Coastal ecosystems are under increasing threat toothbrush have been key in galvanising public from over-fishing, pollution and climate change. 36 Broad Street attention to the very real problem of ocean Fortunately, the Lyme Bay marine protected plastics. So, you may be surprised to hear area demonstrates a number of success stories Lyme Regis that plastics are often the best environmental where local communities are being empowered option, in particular by saving energy and to manage, protect their coastal environment. Dorset tackling climate change. Julia Hailes is a Underpinned by world-leading research and DT7 3QF sustainability pioneer with over 30 years in facilitated by the Blue Marine Foundation, the green sector. She’s a campaigner, writer, lessons from Lyme Bay show us the power of 35 years unrivalled local property expertise speaker and consultant, who has written nine what can happen when scientists, communities, environmental books, including The Green policymakers and visitors work together. Consumer Guide, which sold over 1 million Dr Adam Rees is a marine ecologist at the copies. She will talk about how humans have University of Plymouth who has been working in We are pleased to support the become the most wasteful species on the Lyme Bay for the past 8 years. planet and what we should be doing about it. Tickets can be booked through Some of her conclusions may surprise you. www.fossilfestival.co.uk Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 4 fossilfestival.co.uk Marine theatre Saturday 4th May 2.50pm - 3.15pm Martin Maudsley See 1.30pm - 2pm for further details. 3.30pm - 4.30pm Huw Griffiths and Cath Waller British Antarctic Survey A talk about microplastics in the Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The sessions during the day will be free entry but we will ask for donations. The evening 2pm - 2.30pm 7pm - 8pm session with B sharp will be ticketed. The Great Debate; B Sharp and students 12pm - 1pm 1.30pm - 2pm the causes of the 1839 from local schools Spectacular fossils, Martin Maudsley Bindon Landslip present Evolution Rocks (a ticketed event £8. Available at and Illustrations of Story teller featuring work from ‘The teachers’ Ian Wood, Julia Lamb Wilson www.fossilfestival.co.uk) Prehistoric Life Woodroffe students and John Haylock alongside our local geologist Richard Edmonds plus students from Woodroffe Evolution Rocks is a concert by local young Maria McNamara and James Mckay Martin Maudsley is a professional School reenact the controversy around the people led by B Sharp (www.bsharp.org. storyteller based in Bridport and working ‘Becoming a fossil: a whirlwind tour of causes of the Bindon Landslip. Featuring the uk). Working with B Sharp music leaders, across the UK in schools, theatres, festivals geological time and spectacular fossils’ by Bindon Landslip Animation created by Woodroffe students from The Woodroffe School and and for a range of national organisations. Dr Maria McNamara. Maria is a Senior Lecturer year 7 and St Michael’s year 6 students. Mrs Ethelston’s CE Primary Academy, and His repertoire of stories consists of fresh in Geology at University College Cork. Her from B Sharp’s groups - Boombox, Hub re-tellings of traditional tales from local research focuses on the preservation of soft Jams and Bridport Jams, have created legends to magical myths, often combining tissues in the fossil record. One of her current 2.30pm - 2.50pm original songs and tracks on the theme of poetry and music to bring the stories to life. interests is the preservation of colour in fossils, evolution. Welcome to a journey through Martin has a particular passion for stories Meet Mary Anning & and the impact of colour on the evolution of life. time of light, sound and music! that connect with local landscapes and the “Trilobites, Dinosaurs and Mammoths – Charles Darwin! Based in Lyme Regis with over 12 years of natural world, and has been telling stories Illustrating the Prehistory of the British Isles” by Hear gems from the life of Mary Anning and experience delivering workshops, training, about the folklore of fossils since he moved James McKay, University of Leeds. James is an the voyages of Charles Darwin in a lively meet performances and gigs, B Sharp is a local to the Jurassic coast. Join him at the Fossil experienced palaeoartist, whose paintings bring ’n greet with two of Geology’s brightest stars! music and enterprise charity that seeks to Festival to uncover the magical stories prehistoric creatures and landscapes back to Play Guess the Fossil, see how far you can give children and young people the best behind Colpexies’ Fingers, Snakestones life. In this talk, he will show how he recreated stretch time and get answers to those questions possible start in life through music. and Fairy Loaves... the entire prehistory of the British Isles in a you’ve always wanted to ask: Why do giraffe’s B Sharp runs regular informal music series of stunning paintings, for an upcoming Martin has been working with students have long necks? Why does Mary love thunder making sessions for young people aged Palaeontological Association book. from Woodroffe to write a new story for storms? And why do they wear those hats??! 8 - 19, and runs workshops in local schools Both talks are suitable for a family audience. this years festival. (With Lizzie Hopley and Carl Salter). and early years settings. 6 fossilfestival.co.uk fossilfestival.co.uk 7 Marine theatre Sunday 5th May He was made a Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross by the President of Brazil 3pm – 4pm and received the Order of the Rising Sun 2pm – 3pm from the Emperor of Japan. He continues to Close of Festival talk The Great Landslide, be active in the conservation of the tropical by Sir Ghillean Prance and rainforest. He is a board member of the US Richard Edmonds Richard Lane National Tropical Botanical Garden, and until Is this the real thing? Is this just recently of the Exbury Gardens Trust. He 12pm - 12.30pm fantasy? Caught in a landslide....... Sir Ghillean Prance, former Director of The Royal is President of the Wildflower Society, The Botanical Gardens, Kew and Richard Lane, Bindon Landslip film no escape from reality........ Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Trust, Nature in ‘A new map and model of the Great former Director of Science at the Natural History Art and the International Tree Foundation. and Great Debate Bindon Landslide’ Museum will be hosting a discussion focussing (see Saturday 2pm for details) The tumultuous events of Christmas Eve on ‘Thinking like a scientist’ and how it has Dr Richard Lane OBE and Christmas Day 1839 near Bindon in shaped their fascinating and stimulating career A scientist with an interest in natural history the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs, paths. Travel, curiosity and inventiveness have and tropical diseases and recently retired shaped the careers of both Ghillean and Richard 12.30pm - 1pm created Goat Island and the Chasm, one of as the Director of Science at the Natural the most famous and celebrated landslides and they will be closing this year’s festival with History Museum.
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