Peatland Exhibition and Cinema - part of the IUCN UK Peatland Programme Conference 2024, featuring Art and Energy’s Naomi Wright with The Mossy Carpet artwork.

5pm – 7pm - Poster and exhibition session

Join our sponsors and exhibitors from across the peatland community to learn more about the research, restoration and engagement taking place across the UK. Try your hand at Peatland ACTION’s digger simulator, explore biodiverse soundscapes from different peatland habitats, or find out more about the amazing technologies being used to measure and monitor peatlands. 

6pm – 7pm - Peatland Poetry and Cinema (Auditorium, open to the public) 

Featuring the premiere of ‘Sphagnum Portraits’, a short film jointly commissioned by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme, this eclectic mix of sound and vision takes you on a journey through the special peatlands and people that make the UK such a wonderful place. 

Welcome: Jane Akerman, IUCN UK Peatland Programme 

The most important plant in the world (2024)’ from the series Sphagnum Portraits’ introduced by Caroline Vitzthum

‘Connecting communities through citizen science and the arts’ introduced by Lucy Lee and Beth Thomas, Yorkshire Peat Partnership 

'The Special Blanket' poetry reading, Roxane Andersen, University of the Highlands and Islands 

‘The Mossy Carpet’ introduced by Naomi Wright, Art and Energy 

‘STACKS’ and ‘Curlew, Curlew, Curlew!’ introduced by Rose Ferraby, University of Exeter