Dear City: Water & Nature in Cambridge

​These free tickets will give you attendance to the event but not the catering.

​Join us for a day of discussion, walking, hands-on activity and film to learn about and connect with water in our city and the whole of the river Cam catchment.

​Throughout history, the rivers in and around Cambridge have been the focus of pilgrimage, healing, enjoyment, and community. These waters connect all bodies inhabiting the city – both human and non-human alike.

​But today, our rivers are in crisis, facing the challenges of pollution and over-abstraction from ongoing rapid development and demand. Watercourses struggle through low flows and algal blooms, stresses which echo across the ecosystem. At the same time, many beings across the city are excluded from access to local rivers.

​This workshop brings together academic and practitioner knowledge and relations with water to think about how we might reimagine extraction, access, conservation and a better future for these waterways.

​We will hear from water-attentive academics and practitioners in diverse fields, view artistic responses to the River Cam, walk along a local water course and reflect on the ways that water connects us in our city. The day concludes with a screening of a film that invites viewers to look more closely at the waters around us.

​This event is a collaboration between CRASSH,  Water Sensitive Cambridge, and the Cambridge Interfaith Programme.