Artists and ecologists talk nature at the Old Market on Sunday

Talking of Nature, an afternoon of talks about art, science and the natural world, is at The Old Market¹ in Hove on Sunday 25 October, from 2pm to 4.30pm. Tickets are £5 plus a £2 venue levy, and on Thursday the box office showed 136 of its 176 seats still free.

It is part of Dreamy Place², the festival behind the Nova star sculpture in Pavilion Square this weekend. The talks look at what happens when artists, scientists and environmental specialists work together, taking in filmmaking, environmental DNA research and ecological restoration.

Alice Eldridge, Professor of Sonic Systems at the University of Sussex, chairs. Speakers include Ed Santry, co-programme manager of The Living Coast, the UNESCO Biosphere that runs from Worthing to Seaford. Artist Anna Dumitriu made the Black Rock Beachcombers, three permanent sculptures on Brighton’s East Beach, with Alex May. Martha Henson founded the Isle of Wight Biosphere Festival.

The festival’s page also lists the artist Gayle Chong Kwan. The venue’s listing adds Tsz Wai Pun and Coşkun Güçlü, whose work Bones of Our Land is at Gallery Lock In as part of Dreamy Place.

Doors open at 1.30pm and the programme starts promptly at 2pm, so the organisers ask people to arrive in good time.