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"River Avon bride Meg Ruth-Trump spotlights the silent chokehold of water pollution across UK rivers. Drawing from personal pilgrimages and a ritual “wedding” to her beloved Avon, she performs new poetry exploring ecological grief and the murky boundaries of agency in an age of environmental uncertainty."
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A event held at PRSC on Monday 8th September. The event starts at 19:30.
In partnership with the People's Republic of Stokes Croft's School of Activism, Meg will share campain updates on UK water pollution, perform new poetry and some from her 2025 collection 'My Avon' and ultimately attempt to answer the question - is the river safe to swim in?
After her wedding to the river Avon in Bristol in June 2023, Meg has now been on four pilgrmages up and down her beloved's banks, from source to mouth. She has toured with the documentary film Rave on for the Avon (Guardian, 4 stars) throughout the UK and won a scholarship to the Earth Law Centre where she learnt about the Rights for Nature movement - the fastest growing legal movement in the world.
She is gathering information from lawers, politicians, scientists and academics as she travels and channels them into her writing and other artistic endevours such as Avona - Bristol's giant river-spirit puppet.
She swims in the Avon regularly and is aware of the risks, she wants others to be aware too, and to understand the power of the autonomy in their decision making.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
After her wedding to the river Avon in Bristol in June 2023, Meg has now been on four pilgrmages up and down her beloved's banks, from source to mouth. She has toured with the documentary film Rave on for the Avon (Guardian, 4 stars) throughout the UK and won a scholarship to the Earth Law Centre where she learnt about the Rights for Nature movement - the fastest growing legal movement in the world.
She is gathering information from lawers, politicians, scientists and academics as she travels and channels them into her writing and other artistic endevours such as Avona - Bristol's giant river-spirit puppet.
She swims in the Avon regularly and is aware of the risks, she wants others to be aware too, and to understand the power of the autonomy in their decision making.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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