Day Two Programme
Saturday 14 September
11am – Richard Fortey – Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms
11.15am – Workshop: Sarah Corbett – A Craftivist Workshop (At Tetbury Malt House)
1pm – Eleanor Barraclough – Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
3pm – Sarah Corbett in conversation with Katy Bevan – Craft, Community and Changing the World
5pm – Ben Masters: The Flitting
7pm – Concert: The Bookshop Band – Emerge Return
All events except the 11am workshop take place at The Goods Shed. The workshop is at Tetbury Malt House
11am at The Goods Shed. Tickets £8.50
Richard Fortey – Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

Richard Fortey is the UK’s foremost palaeontologist. He enjoyed a long career at the Natural History Museum, as well as being a professor at the universities of both Oxford and Bristol. He has published more than 250 research papers and appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes.
Richard has spent much of his lifetime searching for rare and extraordinary fungi, in a quest to understand the importance of ‘the forgotten kingdom’ in the web of nature.
He takes us on his journey to meet luminous brackets, stinkhorns and stranglers, and many other bizarre and wonderful mushrooms and toadstools, ranging from the ugliest and strangest species to the beautiful silky rosegill.
This is a celebration of fungi in all their different roles – both in the natural world and in our own lives.
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Doors open at 10:30am. Talk starts at 11am.
11.15 am at The Malt House. Tickets £16
Workshop: Sarah Corbett – A Craftivist Workshop

Activism often conjures up quick, reactive, transactional signing of petitions, clicktivism, loud and aggressive ways to demand justice. There is a need for these types of activism. There is also a need for slower, quieter and more gentle forms of protest.
Sarah Corbett, founder of the global Craftivist Collective will host a craftivism (craft + activism) workshop offering the opportunity to ‘slow down and stitch’, completing a tangible craftivism project to take home to keep as a form of ‘Gentle Protest’.
Join this hopeful workshop providing a safe space with soothing smells, sounds and create a physical tool to encourage you to be the best global citizen you can be each day and how to be a gentle protester.
Stitch by therapeutic stitch, as you reveal the face of your chosen changemaker on a beautifully made letterpress printed card to keep: Reflect on the values threaded through them and their lives to help you reflect on how you can be part of the positive change you wish to see in our messy world. End with making a small papercraft craftivism project to send out out into the world to support the Fashion Revolution.
Limited to 15 adults per workshop. All craft resources supplied and ethically sourced. No craft skills needed. Adult workshop (suitable for 14+).
Sarah P Corbett is an activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK, she worked at Oxfam GB before founding the global Craftivist Collective in 2009. Corbett calls her unique methodology ‘Gentle Protest’ and her work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. Collaborations include Save the Children, The Climate Coalition, Fashion Revolution, Tate, V&A, Helsinki Design Week and Secret Cinema amongst others.
Doors open at 10:30am. Workshop starts at 11.15 am.
1pm at The Goods Shed. Tickets £8.50
Eleanor Barraclough – Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Introducing her new book, Embers of the Hands, where you’ll meet the real Vikings. Eleanor blows back to life their vast, rich and complex world – not just kings, raiders and saga heroes, but first and foremost ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, slaves, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world.
Looking at the material traces the Vikings left behind – from love-notes to children’s toys – Eleanor recreates the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate.
Eleanor will be in conversation with Dr Hattie Soper, who teaches Medieval Literature at Bristol University, and has published on Old Norse writing.
Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, writer and broadcaster, and the author of Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas. Now based at Bath Spa University, she has previously held positions at the universities of Oxford and Durham. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a BBC New Generation Thinker.
Doors open at 12:30pm. Talk starts at 1pm.
3pm at The Goods Shed. Tickets £8.50
Sarah Corbett in conversation with Katy Bevan – Craft, Community and Changing the World

Sarah founded the global Craftivist Collective in 2009. Corbett calls her unique methodology ‘Gentle Protest’ and her work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. She has co-written several books, including this year’s Craftivist Collective Handbook. In conversation with Katy Bevan, she will talk about her new book and the art of ‘gentle protest’ – how craftivism can be a transformational tool for personal wellbeing and community cohesion.
Making something with your own hands is a reflective process, encouraging you to slow down when the pace of life feels too fast: there is a joy in creating something that is unique, tangible evidence of your time and labour.
Sarah P Corbett is an activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK, she worked at Oxfam GB before founding the global Craftivist Collective in 2009. Corbett calls her unique methodology ‘Gentle Protest’ and her work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. Collaborations include Save the Children, The Climate Coalition, Fashion Revolution, Tate, V&A, Helsinki Design Week and Secret Cinema amongst others.
Katy is a Trustee of Heritage Crafts and publisher at Quickthorn Books. Quickthorn publish craft books with an emphasis on making, and personal agency: making empowers us to be more self-sufficient and take control over the way we consume.
Doors open at 2:30pm. Talk starts at 3pm.
5pm at The Goods Shed. Tickets £8.50
Ben Masters – The Flitting

In March 2020, Ben’s father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was never happier than when outdoors, and spent his free time chasing butterflies. Despite his attempts to share this passion with his son, Ben had always been resistant.
But as his father spent his final months confined to the house, unable for the first summer of his life to follow the butterfly cycle, Ben became his connection to the outside world.
Blending memoir with nature writing, literary biography and pop-cultural history, this is an absorbing story of loss, grief and butterflies.
Ben is a lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham and will be in conversation with Matthew Oates, naturalist, author and butterfly expert
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Doors open at 4:30pm. Talk starts at 5pm.
7pm at The Goods Shed. Tickets £8.50
The Bookshop Band: Emerge Return

The Bookshop Band, composers Ben Please and Beth Porter, play songs based on their own response to books they have read. Their new album, Emerge Return, features songs inspired by books by authors including Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Shaun Bythell, Yann Martel, Robert Macfarlane, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Aldous Huxley and many others.
It was produced by Pete Townshend, who says:
“I am enchanted. Such variation and delicacy… such latent power; really great work. It reminded me of my days listening to Sandy Denny and Fairport [Convention] and The Incredible String Band. A great discovery and inspiration.”
Doors open at 6:30pm. Concert starts at 7pm.
Directions to The Malt House
The Malt House is accessed through a door in the south east corner of The Chippings Car Park in the centre of Tetbury, immediately to the left of Martin & Malthouse Deli and Cafe. Go through the door and along a short corridor and the entrance to The Malt House is on your left. There will be a sign by the path leading from the car park. The What3Words location is ///padding.fuses.organisms.