EHC Lecture “Seeing Soil Live” by Dr. Vasilis Kokkoris and Annabel Howland – Thursday November 13 2025

FUNGI FIELD DAY:

PROGRAMME OF TALKS

All talks are held in the Botanic Garden Classroom. Entrance is from the Brookside lawn, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

10.30 – 11.15am: Arbuscular Time and Subterranean Weather AnnabelHowland(Artist,UKandNL)andDrJenMcGaley (DepartmentofPlantSciences,CambridgeUniversity)

12.00 – 12.45pm: Lichens: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

DrGothamieWeerakoon(NaturalHistoryMuseum,London)

1.30 – 2.15pm: Natural Allies: How Underground Fungi Support Crops in a Changing Climate DrJeongminChoi(CropScienceCentre,CambridgeUniversity)

3.00 – 3.45pm: Mycorrhizal mosaic: How fungal diversity sustains plant nutrition DrAlanWanke(SainsburyLaboratory,CambridgeUniversity)

FUNGI FIELD DAY: ACTIVITIES

10.00am – 4.00pm: The Fungi Marquees

Microscopes, games, crafts, facepainting and much more for all ages! Run by scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

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10.30am – 3.00pm: Guided Walks

Take a tour of the Botanic Gardens to see some of the fungi living here and learn about their lives.

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*2.00pm: special lichen walk: run by Dr Usman from Natural History Museum, London

1.30pm – 4.00pm: Fungi Artscaping and Finding Hidden Fungi

Drop-in to explore the magical world of fungi beneath our feet using art and science with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. Pre-booked only: Fungi sampling activity at 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm to uncover microscopic fungi in the Gardens.

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FUNGI FIELD DAY: GUIDED WALKS

10.30am – 3.00pm: Guided Walks

Take a tour of the Botanic Gardens to see some of the fungi living here and learn about their lives.

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2.00pm: *Special Lichen Walk*

Join Dr Usman, expert mycologist from the Natural History Museum, London to learn about the incredible world of lichens and meet some of the species living in the Botanic Gardens!

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On 13 March 2025, I’ll be giving a lecture about my work at Norwich University of the Arts, England, as part of their ‘Living in Changing Landscapes’ project.

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Really delighted and grateful to have been granted funding towards my new film work by the

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Screenings This Entangled Land

6 to 29 October at Emmetts Garden Fungi Festival, Kent, England.

Friday 6 October to  – Sunday 29 October

Emmetts Garden, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6BA, England

Finissage at Orangerie Park Studio
Zone2Source, Amstelpark (opposite Rietveld Huis)
Tuesday 18 July – 18:00-20:00

To round off my residency “Arbuscules and Constellations” at
Zone2Source’s Orangerie Park Studio, Amstelpark, Amsterdam

6 pm revealing of Arbuscules and Understanding cadavre exquis.
7 pm screening of This Entangled Land under the trees, weather permitting (otherwise indoors).

Zone2Source: Screening & lecture, Sunday, 25 June 2023, 5 pm
Subject: Film screening This Entangled Land (24’) by Annabel Howland, lecture by Malin Klein on mycorrhizal fungi in soil.
Address: Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam
Dates: Exhibition space is open from 1 pm on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June with work by Annabel Howland and Farah Rahman. Screening & lecture Sunday 25 June at 5pm

Arcam: INSIDE OUTSIDE expo & lectures 29 June 2023, 6-9 pm
Living Soil. A visual language for urban soil biodiversity
INSIDE OUTSIDE hosting an evening of presentations and talks around the wonders of soil life!
The evening will feature Inside Outside presenting their research-by-design project Living Soil, together with the micro-photographer Wim Van Egmond, and the artist Annabel Howland, who will present their scientific and artistic projects around soil life.
Address: Arcam, Prins Hendrikkade 600, Amsterdam
Date: 29 June 2023, 6-9 pm
RSVP through the link

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Zone2Source: Screening & lecture, Sunday, 25 June 2023, 5 pm
Subject: Film screening This Entangled Land (24’) by Annabel Howland, lecture by Malin Klein on mycorrhizal fungi in soil.
Artist Annabel Howland has been working with research into arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant-fungal interactions from Toby Kiers Lab at VU Amsterdam for more than a decade. Her film This Entangled Land is a visual and sonic tapestry of social, biological and cultural interactions. Its narratives weave their way along a logging road in Borneo, branch off into villages and languages, zoom in on fungal networks in the soil and zoom out to view their global impact. Annabel will also present new drawings in the exhibition space.
Malin Klein’s lecture will look at mycorrhizal fungi and their critical interactions with plants in the soil. She will talk about how scientists research fungal networks in the lab and in the field, showing some of the latest images from the Kiers and Kokkoris Labs (VU Amsterdam) and SPUN – Society for the Protection of Underground Networks. Malin is a PhD candidate in the Toby Kiers Lab at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam where she was previously a research technician. Exhibition space is open from 1 pm on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June

Arcam: INSIDE OUTSIDE expo & lectures 29 June 2023, 6-9 pm
Subject: Living Soil. A visual language for urban soil biodiversity
INSIDE OUTSIDE hosting an evening of presentations and talks around the wonders of soil life!
The evening will feature Inside Outside presenting their research-by-design project Living Soil, together with the micro-photographer Wim Van Egmond, and the artist Annabel Howland, who will present their scientific and artistic projects around soil life.

Location: Arcam, Prins Hendrikkade 600, Amsterdam
Date: 29 June 2023, 6-9 pm
RSVP through the link

Additionally, from 23 June to 2 July, you can visit the Exhibition ‘’Living Soil: A visual language for urban soil biodiversity’’, at Arcam’s gallery space.
All exhibitions during Architecture Month are free to visit!
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 13.00-17.00 hours

Read more about the speakers on:
Inside Outside www.insideoutside.nl
Wim van Egmond www.wimvanegmond.com/
Annabel Howland www.annabelhowland.nl/
The film This Entangled Land is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

My 24-minute film This Entangled Land (2021) is an Award Winner at the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival 2022, Germany and has been accepted for the International Art Film Festival 2022 in Birmingham, UK (online screenings 1-17 December 2022).