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Wild About Life

Thu 13 Aug

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The Margate School

The future depends on what we do now, we must leave a better tomorrow.

Wild About Life
Wild About Life

Time & Location

13 Aug 2020, 10:00 – 20 Aug 2020, 16:00

The Margate School, 31 High St, Margate CT9 1DX, UK

About the Event

Our aim is to highlight how human presence places an extraneous burden on our planet, we need to respect our earth with all its native species.  The world's population has doubled since 1970, threatening 1m species with extinction.

Since 1980 more than half the increase in food production has been at the expense of intact forests.  We are producing a mountain of waste and plastic pollution has increased ten-fold.  Live wild life trade increases the chances that virus can jump from one species to another and ultimately from animals to humans.  Some are now biting back (Bat Conservation Trust).

 Marylin Orpin:

I am an environmental artist with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Creative Arts at Canterbury.  Up until now my main focus has been on beach combing and collecting plastic to make my artwork but during the Covid 19 outbreak and self isolation I have ruminated…

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The Margate School

31 - 33 High Street

Margate

CT9 1DX

Registered office

17 Roxburgh Road,

Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, CT8 8RX 

© The Margate School Ltd.

A not-for-profit company 

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01843 838421

The Margate School CIO 

A charity registered with Charity Commission 

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The Margate School's key partners are renowned French art school, Esä, l’École Supérieure d’Art Dunkerque-Tourcoing. It is a member of CHEAD,  associate member of ELIA. It is also a RSA South East Fellowship Co-working Hub.

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