Mattie Matter

The Bees of Bensham Podcast

Arts EN ↓ 6 episodes

Bees of Bensham, a two-year arts and citizen science project led by Gateshead based community arts organisation Dingy Butterflies CIC and artist and beekeeper Barbara Keating. Bees of Bensham worked across Bensham and Saltwell to re-enchant the resident humans with the local wild bees and pollinators. The project involved working with community groups, residents, environmental organisations and academics to collate data on bees in the local community, find out about them, what habitat needs they have, and how we benefit by supporting them. This podcast series, created by Mattie, includes inter...

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Mattie Matter

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The Bees of Bensham Symposium 13.07.2024 31:20

Mattie interviews some of the speakers and attendees of the Bees of Bensham symposium. This took place on Friday 26 April 2024 at the Café under the Spire in Gateshead.  Interviewees include key speaker and bee enthusiast Brigit Strawbridge; Dr Mark Goddard, from the department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University; Federica Paradiso, PhD researcher in Geography and...

Interview with Mark Welfare, Freelance Naturalist 13.07.2024 43:52

In this Bees of Bensham podcast, Mattie interviews Mark Welfare. Mark is a freelance naturalist who led a number of nature walks around Bensham & Saltwell and Thornley woods for Bees of Bensham, exploring both flora and fauna. Here they discuss, amongst other things, the merits of leaving things to grow with little management, hoverfly and bee identification and what online groups and sites ar...

Interview with Phil Macari: Ecology and Community Rewilding Director, Climate Action North and Director of Wildcraft 13.07.2024 54:42

Mattie interviews Phil Macari. Phil led on several nature and wellbeing walks around Bensham & Saltwell during the project and ran accredited training courses on nature and rewilding for Bensham residents. Phil and Mattie discuss--amongst other things--identifying and naming flora and fauna, nature and wellbeing, ways to explore nature and more about dandelions! Mattie also finds out about dia...

Interviews with members of the Bees of Bensham residents group 13.07.2024 56:27

Mattie interviewed a number of local people and residents who engaged with the project over the last two years, taking part in walks, talks, training and volunteering at events. The interviews cover the benefits of connecting to nature for health and wellbeing; the Bees of Bensham seed collecting events from Brownfield sites that took place in the community in late 2023; and the myths we are told...

Interview with Barbara Keating, Lead Artist of Bees of Bensham 13.07.2024 1:09:44

Mattie interviews artist and beekeeper Barbara Keating. Barbara was the lead artist on two-year arts and citizen science project Bees of Bensham, running workshops, walks and community events. They talk about Bees of Bensham, habitats and recording and all things bees! Some of the websites mentioned: https://www.dingybutterflies.org/bees-of-bensham/ https://irecord.org.uk/ https://www.inaturalist....

Interview with Ben Jones, Director of Dingy Butterflies CIC 13.07.2024 49:19

Mattie interviews Dr Ben Jones, Director of Gateshead-based community arts organisation Dingy Butterflies CIC. They discuss how Dingy Butterflies CIC came into being; how Bees of Bensham developed and took a number of years to come into fruition; and the community and creative sector in Gateshead and how austerity and various government localism policies over the last 14 years has affected the com...