Description
Join us for an inspirational evening of story telling and music to celebrate the remarkable life and natural history of the Eurasian cuckoo.
Essential Information
Date: Thursday 3 April 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Location: Clore Suite, Ground Floor, Great North Museum: Hancock.*
* Please access the museum via the side entrance on Claremont Road.
Event cost: £8 NHSN Members, £10 Non-Members, Non waged £6.
About the Event
Join us at GNM: Hancock for an evening with Malcolm and Josh Green as they use story telling and music to celebrate the amazing history and life of the Eurasian cuckoo.
"It’s shortly after dawn at RAF Fylingdales and a cuckoo is having a transmitter strapped to his back. A few weeks later he will have flown thousands of miles across Europe and over the Sahara Desert to equatorial Africa. For millennia, the cuckoo’s call has inspired songs, stories and poems. Does he bring the spring? Tell our fortunes? Was he the shapeshifter that became a hawk? He certainly fools the reed warblers who feed him as a changeling baby. Now the voice of the cuckoo is fading - where has it gone?"
With a blend improvised music-making from Josh and Malcolm's spellbinding gift for telling tales, the evening promises to bring humour and joy to the profoundly serious message about the loss of British wildlife.
Gone Cuckoo is a love song to the most celebrated bird of the northern summer and critics such as Mark Cocker have lauded this wonderful night as a 'tour de force of environmental art.'