Join The Treaty Signing Events

Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 September 2024 Open 11- 4pm

Furtherfield Gallery at the McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4

Exhibition and Treaty Signing activities 11 - 4pm

Multi-species Meditation sessions - DAILY at 11am, 2pm and 3pm.

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

The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 is an immersive fiction that looks at what it would be like if other species were to rise up and demand equal rights with humans. What that means is you, as a human, can come and take part in the fiction only by playing for and as another species (so, like, NOT as a human ok?!).

Biodiversity is crucial in reducing the harmful effects of climate change and city parks have a huge part to play. It's time to spark new ways of being, feeling and acting together!

Be among the first to pledge your support for a cooperation agreement between ALL living species in Finsbury Park.

Treaty Signing events are open to ALL human people over the age of 7

How to Join The Treaty Signing Events

Book your free place on 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 Finsbury Park Sentience Dial app to tune into all flora and fauna and make your pledge for bountiful biodiversity! Scan the park and meet up to 7 local park species representatives with help from young human representatives from MyPlace Finsbury Park!

Visit the exhibition

⇨ 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: 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!

Check out more images of Interspecies Festival-goers

From October 2024 you can visit the park with your friends and family to access the magical Finsbury Park Sentience Dial app and tune into all flora and fauna. Scan the park and meet up to 7 local park species representatives before making your pledge for bountiful biodiversity!

Explore the park as another species, with new eyes, ears and totally new priorities.

*children should be accompanied by adults

What Will You Pledge for Bountiful Biodiversity in Finsbury Park?!

Will you…

LOOK - Observe insects for the UK Pollen Monitoring Scheme

LOVE - Connect with loving kindness to hidden park inhabitants

ZOÖPERATE - Campaign for all park species to have a say in park events

REDUCE - Remove 1 piece of litter every trip to the park

PLANT - Plant native species with the Finsbury Park Rewilding Group

LEARN - Learn about the rights of nature

MAKE - Find creative ways to celebrate park species

Decide Together

It’s urgent that we act now to love and care for the webs of life around us.

So as the songs of lament, celebration and protest finish their last chorus it is now time to decide together with our new Mentor Species what actions we can pledge to serve the bountiful biodiversity of the park as part of this interspecies cooperation agreement… This Treaty of Finsbury Park.