The Starling Hotline by Jess Morgan

About Event

Cley Marshes Visitor Centre, Coast Road, Cley next the Sea, NR25 7SA

Over 14s (under 16s to be accompanied by an adult over 18)

please note: you must provide evidence of membership to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust upon entry when purchasing the NWT members ticket.

37 year old, self-made, single-Mum Mickey returns to her childhood home on the East Coast of England to sort through the possessions of her own deceased mother, reluctant to pick over the years of estrangement and neglect that characterised her own adolescence.

Instead, Mickey stumbles in on an obsessively compiled archive of voice recordings, documenting the movements of local murmurations of Starlings and the plight of the UKs fastest declining birds – kept over twenty-six years, and logged on more than a thousand non-recyclable C90 cassette tapes.

The show is about climate, community, and citizen science in a pre-internet age.