NEW LEAF 🍃🍂

One hundred leaves, many hours searching, foraging, photographing and watching. And here we are! The life cycle of a leaf. A celebration of nature and our planet.

A short film for Medicine Unboxed

How has the mass drowning of people become in any way normalised? ⁦Sally Hayden⁩ irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…

15/6/23 - all the names of the sun

Tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Our new research shows that 84% of social housing high rises still don't have sprinklers and 88% don't have block-wide fire alarms.

What happened to 'never again'?

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20/5/23 - nocturn

So happy to share this news. Benedict Cumberbatch is going to star in Dylan Southern’s adaptation of my first book. Thanks to everyone involved for their ambition and love for this project. Intense cinematic crow experience incoming!

Awed, inspired and mind full from Medicine Unboxed this weekend - thank you @samirguglani

Thank you to our speakers, audience, & team for bringing MATTER to life on Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you again at Medicine Unboxed, but until then …here’s the spring we opened with ~
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So many highlights from Medicine Unboxed yesterday, but particularly talks from Sally Hayden Peter Apps @[email protected] Max Porter Hayley Campbell Gavin Francis Sarah Perry richard horton Tim Dee. Huge thanks to @samirguglani & the #MUmatters team!

Had time to reflect on yesterday's brilliant Medicine Unboxed - here's a thread of my highlights! #MUMatter

“I never do this but I’m going to do this now. Everyone should read this book. It’s a moral obligation”.

Sam Guglani, interviewing Sally Hayden about her prize-winning book, MY FOURTH TIME, WE DROWNED, at the Medicine Unboxed festival today at the Guardian’s King’s Place.

Other highlights: amazing talks from Nick Lane, Anil Seth, Chamkaur Ghag, Richard Horton, Sally Hayden the lovely & fearless @[email protected] & (as if that wasn’t enough) amazing performances from Max Porter. All that & music (piano, tabla!) & dance (Bharatnatyam) too!!

So wonderful to hear these two astonishing poets read their magical work Medicine Unboxed yesterday 🙏🏽💙🌸🏏

And so wonderful to connect with the lovely Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan & hear more about her work as well as my Imperial Medicine colleague Giskin ! Thank you again to @samirguglani & the entire Medicine Unboxed team - you have outdone yourselves! 🙏🏽❤️✊🏽

Only George bloody Saunders on storytelling, ageing and the malleability of the mind, moving it always towards kindness and patience Medicine Unboxed - wonderful.

Enriching day yesterday Medicine Unboxed

Much to think about consciousness, the future of medicine, our planet and poetry…
#MUMatter
Thankyou @samirguglani as ever

This was such a lovely event in London yesterday & a lovely audience.

Fun being the only person to watch Maxim Peter Griffin’s word’s & pictures performance for Medicine Unboxed live just now! Here’s my exclusive backstage photo. Looks like he’s talking about Don Van Vliet & electric scooters here… I liked it.

Medicine Unboxed was absolutely wonderful today. So grateful