Date: Saturday 1 March
Start time: 1.30pm
Duration: 1.5 hours
Age range: All ages
Location: Yarm Wellness Centre, High Church Wynd, Yarm on Tees, TS15 9BQ
Price: £10 full price /£8 concessions. Concessions available for those in full time education, anyone receiving Universal Credit and or Disability Living Allowance.
Film Info: A giant screen film unlike any before…All life on Earth is connected by a great mystery we are only just beginning to unravel. Hidden between the world of plants and animals, another world exists…Fungi: Web of Life. We’ll begin in the mysterious world of the forest floor, where fungi are the central players in nature’s story of birth, death, and rebirth to discover that life as we know it simply would not exist without them.
Join acclaimed British biologist, Dr. Merlin Sheldrake, on a quest to find an incredibly precious blue mushroom, against the backdrop of Tasmania’s ancient Tarkine rainforest. Merlin will show us some the grandest and strangest organisms ever discovered, showcased through jaw-dropping time-lapse cinematography, in a landscape largely unchanged from the time of the dinosaurs. Fungi have important lessons to teach humanity about survival through cooperation. Indeed, these incredible lifeforms may hold the key to solving some of humanity’s most urgent problems. With millions more species to discover, our journey into the secret world of fungi has only just begun.
Presented with support from BFI, Cinema For All and Film Bank Media.
Fungal Forays Talk: Join Catherine Gillie for a brief foray into the beautiful world of Fungi, what Fungi are, how they live, reproduce and why they are vitally important to life in and on Earth.
Looking at the many different habitats that you might expect to find certain fungi in, where and when to find them and a little about how to start to identify them.
Access: Yarm Wellness Centre is wheelchair accessible, with groundfloor disabled toilets. High Church Wynd is cobbled which can be a bit slippery when wet. If you have mobility issues, we do recommend they access the Centre from the West St end. If you have any further questions regarding access support, please email Kirsty@festivalofthrift.co.uk
Parking: Parking is available behind the Centre on West Street for up to 1 hour. There are 2 Long stay car parks off of West St which is £3.50/full day and free from 5pm and on Sundays; The Old Market car park (TS15 9BX) West St car park (TS15 9BU)
There are 2 further long stay car parks on the opposite side of the High St (price and timings per the other long stays):
Yarm Wharf Car park (TS15 9AB) Castle Dyke Wynd car park (TS15 9DE). You can park on the High Street for up to 3 hours, for £1.50 and free from 5pm and on Sundays.
Public transport: Bus routes: Arriva North East Route 7 (Stockton High St to Yarm), Stagecoach North East Route 57, Arriva North East Route 6 (Stockton High Street to Darlington Town Hall, passing through Yarm and Eaglescliffe), Arriva North East Route 17 (Middlesbrough to Stockton, Thornaby, Ingleby Barwick, Yarm, and Stockton)
