During the summer of 2024, I worked with the Bristol-based charity Many Minds, a mental-health charity that works with individuals to engage with their creativity, improve confidence, self-esteem and build social skills and networks. They run weekly workshops in theatre making skills to devise and create high quality contemporary performance.

I worked with them to present ‘Bloombox’, a new immersive performance made by Many Minds members in partnership with Windmill Hill City Farm that stimulated the senses and shared stories of human-nature connection. I worked with the members to biosonify the different areas of the farm, creating mini soundtracks that were used as an accompaniment to the theatrical performance.

This process was accompained by a workshop where I delved into the power of this work, centred around deep listening practises, forest bathing and biosonification as a route to connecting with the natural world.