Timber Festival

Starting in 2018, we partnered with the National Forest to create Timber Festival in Feanedock, Leicestershire. A celebration of the biggest regeneration project in the UK, the National Forest Company have increased forest cover from 3% to 21% in 20 years.

The festival is a mixture of music, art, outdoor theatre and ideas. We want to highlight the undeniable benefits of trees and promote behaviour changes in our audience regarding sustainable practices.

Writers, thinkers and scientists come to Timber to share their experiences with nature and how it influences their work. Here, The Quietus editor, Luke Turner, talks about his book, Out of the Woods.

For the inaugural edition of Timber, Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon was nestled between the trees to create a bewitching spectacle.

Musician Hannah Peel and poet Will Burns performed an incredible live version of their joint album, Chalk Hill Blue.

Hinako Omori performs against a woodland background at the Eyrie Stage in 2019.

In 2019, B-arts brought their stunning theatre piece, Forest of Dreams to Feanedock. It is an immersive theatre piece set in an imaginary temporary refugee camp in a forest somewhere in Europe.

We've partnered with Red Fox Cycling so audience members can cycle from Birmingham to the festival for all those bike-aficionado's out there.

Each festival, Geoff Bird records three episodes of the Wilderness Tracks - where a guest chooses six tracks which soundtrack their relationship with nature.

Head over to 'As The Crow Flies' for live music and storytelling from all manner of performers. Seen here: Ian Douglas

Electro-pop troubadours, Stealing Sheep headlined our mainstage, Field Notes for a rousing performance.

Our festival site at Feanedock is a breathtaking example of regenerating the landscape from former coal-mining industry to new woodland. We created the Hollow Way Look-out, a viewpoint which overlooks the festival and beyond to the landscape-in-development.

Our aims with Timber: we want people to enjoy new experiences amongst trees, re-examine their own relationship with nature and hopefully explore radical new ways of thinking about sustainability in our ever-changing world.