Science festival in the West of England
The Festival of Nature is an annual science festival in the UK which describes itself as the UK's largest free celebration of the natural world. The festival takes place in June across Bristol, and Bath. Featuring events, including lectures, tours and film screenings on subjects of science, natural history and the environment.
The festival, run by Natural History Consortium, has taken place across the region since 2003.
Historically, the festival has held events at, We The Curious, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Zoo, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, though there are many other events across the cities, such as at Blaise Castle Estate and Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve.
Notable past speakers include broadcasters David Attenborough and David Bellamy, geneticist Steve Jones and primatologist Jane Goodall.
The Natural History Consortium also organises 'Communicate', a conference of scientists, environmentalists, broadcasters and journalists, who meet to discuss the issue of communicating conservation issues to the public, as well at the UK's BioBlitz network.
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- All Saints' Church
- Bristol Cathedral
- Bristol Community Church
- Broadmead Baptist Church
- Buckingham Baptist Chapel
- Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne
- Christ Church, Clifton Down
- Christ Church with St Ewen
- Church of All Saints
- Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells
- Church of Holy Trinity, Stapleton
- Church of Our Lady of Ostrobrama
- Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund
- Church of St John the Baptist
- City Road Baptist Church
- Cotham Church
- Counterslip Baptist Church
- Clifton Cathedral
- Crofts End Church
- John Wesley's New Room
- Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood
- Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym
- Horfield United Reformed Church
- Hope Chapel
- Ivy Pentecostal Church
- Kensington Baptist Church
- Lewin's Mead Unitarian meeting house
- Parkway Methodist Church
- Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles
- St Mary Redcliffe
- Redland Chapel
- Stapleton Road Congregational Chapel
- St Agnes Church
- St Anne's Church, Greenbank
- St. Augustine's Church, Whitchurch
- St Augustine the Less Church
- St George's Church
- St James' Presbyterian
- St James' Priory
- St John the Baptist
- St Jude's Church
- St Luke's Church
- St Mark's Church
- St Mary le Port Church
- St Mary on the Quay
- St Mary's Church, Henbury
- St Matthew's Church
- St Michael on the Mount Without
- St Nicholas Church
- St Nicholas of Tolentino Church
- St Paul's Church
- St Paul's, Clifton
- St Peter and St Paul
- St Peter's Church, Bishopsworth
- St Peter's Church, Castle Park
- St Philip and St Jacob
- St Stephen's Church
- St Thomas the Martyr
- St Werburgh's Church
- Temple Church
- Trinity Centre
- Tyndale Baptist Church
- Whitefield's Tabernacle, Kingswood
- Woodlands Christian Centre
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