"How Animals Heal Us" Jay Griffiths

Newport Rising Hub, 170 Commercial Street, Newport, NP20 1JN
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Saturday 21st March 18:00 - 19:00

About "How Animals Heal Us" Jay Griffiths

Jay Griffiths explores how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective, guiding us in how we might create societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder. Wolves may be teachers of ethics; monkeys and dogs can object to unfairness and bees take collective decisions. Animals are irresistible medicine for a healthy culture, animating the arts with spectacular vitality and verve, as poetry knows.

Jay Griffiths is the author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time; Wild: An Elemental Journey (winner of the inaugural Orion award and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize); Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape; Tristimania and Why Rebel. Her fiction includes Anarchipelago, and A Love Letter from a Stray Moon with a foreword by John Berger. She has written for The Future Library, Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company and created a short film with Mark Rylance. Her most recent book is How Animals Heal Us. She is a wild skater, whenever the Welsh lakes freeze.

This event is part of the Newport Festival of Words (20th - 22nd March 2026)

Website https://www.newportwordfest.co.uk/