Nature Calling Conversation #6: Becca Gill and Sita Brahmachari

Becca and Radical Ritual’s Nature Calling commission

Dorset National Landscape Partnership commissioned Becca and her company Radical Ritual to create ‘Consequences’. Radical Ritual worked with around 200 people from community groups in Yeovil to create a monumental new creature, inspired by the mystery of the Cerne Abbas Giant. The artwork was based on the game Consequences - where you take it in turns to draw a head, body, legs and feet whilst folding the paper and passing it on.

The giant was unveiled next to its ancient sibling at Cerne Abbas on 6 September at an event combining music, poetry, and ritual, before touring to Yeovil and Corfe Castle as part of Activate Performing Art’s Inside Out Dorset Festival.

As part of the National Landscapes Association’s Nature Calling arts programme, six artists commissioned to produce pieces in collaboration with National Landscapes teams and local communities will be talking about their practice with specialists from other fields for a special webinar series: Nature Calling Conversations.

The sixth and final Nature Calling Conversation will be between Becca Gill, artistic director of Radical Ritual, and author Sita Brahmachari.

Nature Calling Conversation #6: Becca Gill and Sita Brahmachari

Becca Gill is an artist and producer working in outdoor arts, community engagement, and mass participatory events. She has held senior creative producing roles as Head of Programme at Trigger (The Hatchling, PoliNations, Ground, Teabreak) and with Total Theatre, Kaleider, Pages of the Sea/14-18 NOW, BBC New Creatives and South West Creative Technology Network. She has created acclaimed works including Forever Me, Wonderfolk and Heartfelt and has presented at and been commissioned by many partners including Brighton Festival, SIRF, Appetite, Mayfest, Shift Happens, Woodhorn Museum - Creative People and Places and Green Man Festival.

Sita Brahmachari writes novels, plays and short stories rooted in community and empathy. Her debut novel ‘Artichoke Hearts’ won the Waterstones Book Prize. Since then, Sita’s stories have been honoured by national and international awards, including seven Carnegie Medals, translated into many different languages and endorsed by Amnesty International. Earlier this year, Sita was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Sita worked as part of the Radical Ritual company to develop the Consequences Giant.

Nature Calling is delivered by National Landscapes Association and executive creative partners Activate Performing Arts. It is funded by Arts Council England and Defra via the Protected Landscapes Partnership and England’s National Landscapes.

Through contemporary conversations about what landscape means to us today inspired by artists working with communities, ‘Nature Calling’ is encouraging and inviting new audiences to make a connection with natural landscapes when there is a current and pressing need to secure nature’s future.

Nature Calling events took place throughout the summer of 2025 in National Landscapes, with larger scale projects in the six hub locations: Chilterns, Dorset, Forest of Bowland, Lincolnshire Wolds, Mendip Hills and Surrey Hills.

20-minute versions of all past Nature Calling Conversations are available on all good podcast streaming platforms if you’ve missed one or want to listen again, and you can watch them all again in full on the National Landscapes Association’s YouTube channel.

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