About this Event
Ali Vowles hosts her very own chat show, which includes chatting to characters from around Bristol’s harbourside.
Guests to be announced!
Gangplank opens at 7pm and guests will be introduced at 7.30pm. There will be an interval followed by a Q& A where you have the opportunity to quiz the guests.
Ali is a multi-skilled freelance journalist, presenter, and facilitator who loves meeting people and uncovering their stories. With over 30 years of experience at the BBC, she is now excited to apply her expertise in the commercial and charity sectors. Hosting events and conferences for a diverse range of clients, including universities, charities, and businesses, she also conducts interviews with keynote speakers.
Thriving on the challenge of immersing herself in a topic for TV and radio, she adeptly grasps the heart of a story. She puts people at ease and her warmth and friendliness brings out the best in others.
Our first guest is Natalie Fée. Natalie is an award-winning environmentalist, singer-songwriter, author of How to Save the World for Free and Do Good, Get Paid, speaker and founder of City to Sea, a UK-based organisation running campaigns and behaviour change initiatives to stop plastic pollution at source. Natalie set up City to Sea in 2015 and it's gone on to become one of the UK's leading environmental organisations combatting plastic pollution at a global level, through award-winning behaviour change campaigns, legislative change and community mobilisation.
In 2019 Natalie won the Sunday Times Volvo Visionaries Award for her campaign work with City to Sea, and in 2018 she was listed as one of the UK’s ‘50 New Radicals’ by The Observer / Nesta. In the same year the University of the West of England awarded her the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of her services to the environment. She won the Sheila McKechnie Award for Environmental Justice in 2017 for City to Sea’s #SwitchtheStick campaign and was named Bristol 24/7’s Woman of the Year for 2018.
Natalie is currently releasing singles from ‘Daughter of Nature’, her debut album, due for release in Spring 2025.
Bandele Iyapo is a professional artist who has been involved in numerous creative ventures in Bristol and in fact he’s been involved with every major institution in the city over the years. Presently he is completing a body of over 100 pieces of work including textile, oil paintings, photography, a 10ft mahogany sculpture completed during his lockdown in Trinidad, installations and film for a world tour. Immigrating to the UK in 1988 he opened his batik painting exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in London, alongside a commission for UK Amnesty International addressing the apartheid situation in South Africa, this exhibition opened at the prestigious Kings College Chapel Cambridge.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The MV Balmoral, Outside MShed, Bristol, United Kingdom
GBP 6.00
