
Meet the festival’s contributors
Volunteers
Check out our team of dedicated volunteers helping to make the Urban Tree Festival happen!
Steering Group
You can find the bios of the Urban Tree Festival’s Steering Group here. The list of names include Paul Wood, Andrew Stuck, Mel Sutton, Simon Edwards, Peter Fiennes, Neil Sinden, Carole Wright, Greg Packman, and Peter Coles
Programme Contributors
Check out our programme contributors here! They’ve been involved in the individual events in the Urban Tree Festival 2020.
Canopy Authors
These writers are the winners from two competitions run by the Museum of Walking and Sampson Low Publishers whose works have been published in two illustrated anthologies: “Canopy” and “Autumn Colours”. The competition required writers to compose poems or stories of 250 words and under. This contributor list features writers from ‘Canopy’.
Autumn Colours Authors
These writers are the winners from two competitions run by the Museum of Walking and Sampson Low Publishers whose works have been published in two illustrated anthologies: “Canopy” and “Autumn Colours”. The competition required writers to compose poems or stories of 250 words and under. This contributor list features writers from ‘Autumn Colours’.
Natalia Jurkun
Natalia is one of our team of dedicated volunteers helping to make the Urban Tree Festival happen.
Rachele Markle
Rachele has worked in communications for Amnesty International and PEP the Hague before moving to Edinburgh to pursue her masters at Edinburgh Napier University,
Erica Cham
Erica currently works as the Entertainment and Events admin in the Edinburgh University Students’ Association, and is responsible for implementing events that attract a diverse international audience.
Alana Cook
Alana is a current postgraduate student at Edinburgh Napier University studying International Festival and Event Management.
John Humphries
John is one of our team of dedicated volunteers helping to make the Urban Tree Festival happen.
Natalia Starikova
My name is Natalia Starikova, I am from Ukraine, and I am currently studying at Goldsmiths University for Media & Communications.