Daily Archives: May 12, 2025

Tuesday, May 20, 12:00 noon Eastern – Tumult in the Vase: Radical Florists in Conversation, Online

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Emily Thompson, Wagner Kreusch, Frida Kim, Françoise Ozawa & John Lim of This Humid House will be in conversation with Shane Connolly at The Garden Museum in London on May 20 at 12 noon Eastern time, during the week of the Chelsea Flower Show. All are playing a part in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, where their radical floral installations showcase the future of floral design.

These artists are connected by a shared commitment to the natural world, and are led by nature to create designs that embrace the sometimes chaotic, aggressive, and subtle aspects of the living world, turning the flower vase on its head. Still, they are rooted in the great traditions of floristry.

Hear them discuss their work, the exhilaration and challenge of the medium, and their aesthetic connections with one another, and be inspired. Book the livestream (£10) at gardenmuseum.org.

Tuesday, May 20, 12:00 noon Eastern – Babylon, Albion, Online

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Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons. Join The Garden Museum and debut author Dalia Al-Dujaili in conversation on May 20 to celebrate the launch of her debut book, Babylon, Albion. In this striking exploration of identity and place, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. Tracing the rich heritage of both the oak and the date palm, Iraqi marshes and Loch Ness monsters, Al-Dujaili marries Arab and Islamic mythology with the English and Christian pastoral. She draws from a rich array of sources to consider in a new light the communal lush, wild – and, at times, dark – places we share.

Dalia Al-Dujaili is an Iraqi-British writer, editor and producer based in London. She is the online editor of The British Journal of Photography. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Dazed, GQ, WePresent, Aperture, Atmos, It’s Nice That, Elephant Art and more. She is the founder of The Road to Nowhere Magazine and in 2023 she was the Producer of Refugee Week. Dalia holds an MA Hons in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.

A love song to Britain, Iraq and the body of earth we hold in common, Babylon, Albion is an urgent reimaging of what it means to be native. £10 Livestream. Register at gardenmuseum.org.uk