Talk: Plant Stories from the Highlands and Islands

Using artefacts in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery collections as inspiration and drawing on research carried out as part of the UHI ‘Precious Persistence’ project.

It will consider the importance of botanical writing and recording in seeking to mitigate shifting baseline syndrome where knowledge is lost between generations leading to an incomplete understanding of how nature is changing. The ‘Precious Persistence’ project funded by the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities in collaboration between the Institute for Northern Studies and Centre for Mountain Studies at UHI with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Tickets are available from the Perthshire Box Office website.