The Treaty Signing

Part of The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025

Biodiversity is crucial in reducing the harmful effects of climate
change, and city parks have a huge part to play. But it’s not all about
us humans! Think like a dog, bee or even grass and help change the way
we all see and participate in our local urban green spaces forever!

It’s time to spark new ways of being, feeling and acting together!

Don’t miss September’s Treaty Signing Events!

Join us for fun with family and friends in Finsbury Park to connect with park life in fantastical new way

When 11am – 4pm, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 September 2024
Where Furtherfield Gallery, at the McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4

How can I Join In??

Book your free place for a Multi-species Meditation session led by Scirius the cockney squirrel, played by Human artist Max Dovey.
Use your imagination to transform into another species with a totally
different sense of what is important. Sessions daily at 11am, 2pm and
3pm.

Use the magical new Finsbury Park Sentience Dial app
to tune into all flora and fauna! Scan the park and meet up to 7 local
park species representatives, then make your pledge for bountiful
biodiversity!

? Watch Tracy Kiryango’s short docu-fiction film The Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park 2023
celebrating the cultures and talents of ALL Finsbury Park’s species,
and using camera, lighting and post-production effects to convey
multi-species-perspectives of the festival events.
? Join the Multisensory Mystery Tour to see, hear and smell the old forest through the sensory superpowers of squirrels, trees, and dogs…
? Hear the squeaks, squawks, howls and honks of the Multispecies Choir and their “songs” of lament, celebration and protest…
? Sample delicacies from Pass-The-Poop-Parcel, the multi-species gastronomy game…

Help shape the first-ever interspecies treaty of cooperation for bountiful biodiversity!

What if I can’t make it in September?

Don’t worry! From October 2024, you can scan the hoardings that wrap Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park to watch highlights from the 2023 Interspecies Festival. You can also access the the magical Finsbury Park Sentience Dial app to make a pledge that advances interspecies justice and blooming biodiversity!

More about The Treaty and the Pledges

The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 depicts the story
of the dawning of interspecies democracy. It’s a new era of equal rights
for all living beings, where all species come together to organise and
shape the environments and cultures they inhabit – in Finsbury Park, and
urban green spaces across the UK, the world, and beyond!

Based around a set of live action role play games – or LARPs – the
Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 is played from more-than-human perspectives
to encourage the blooming of a bountiful biodiversity and interspecies
political action.

Like many urban parks, Finsbury Park is fraught with environmental
issues from noxious gases and traffic noises to governance struggles and
financial sustainability. The pledges are based on research
collaborations and prioritised with participants. Find out more about
the story so far, the research, and the importance of biodiversity in
urban green space by visiting our FAQs.

Who is behind this?

The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 is a major collaborative project led by Furtherfield, exploring new ways to build empathy pathways to non-human lifeforms through play.

It represents a major undertaking to do long-term work exploring how
an arts organisation based in the heart of an urban green space can
support a deeper understanding of that green space and ALL its
inhabitants. Beginning in 2020 and spanning a minimum of 5 years, the
work was originally developed in collaboration with The New Design Congress. The first 3 years are being supported by CreaTures (Creative
Practices for Transformational Futures). CreaTures project received
funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No. 870759. The content presented
represents the views of the authors, and the European Commission has no
liability in respect of the content.

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