Becky Burchell

She/her

Becky is a curator, storyteller, collaborator and convenor. Her work is at the intersection of the arts, environmentalism and community and she takes a holistic response to the multiple challenges we currently face.

Becky has over 20 years of experience as a visionary producer and organiser, working within festivals, charities, arts venues and communities. She has a passion for combining different art forms, ideas and people to co-create extraordinary gatherings and experiences including multiple land-based celebrations, a play set in 2050, a storytelling pilgrimage in the dark, environmental short films to inspire young people, and women's circles for local residents. She launched the environmental organisation CHANGE Festival in 2019 to elevate people, ideas and narratives that celebrate bold new ways of regenerative living, where humanity and the natural world are both able to thrive.

She lives with her family in a small village in Dorset, where she is co-creating with the land, the community and the ancestors to lay cultural foundations for the future. 

Why I'm involved

“SWN is a rare experience that meets many of our deepest and most ancient needs: gathering together in community to share nourishing food, hear stories and music around a dancing fire, to be immersed in the abundance and beauty of springtime and to feel the purest awe and wonder, as one of nature's greatest artists duets with human kin in the dark.”

Favourite Nightingale Experience

“In May 2024, Baroque Violinist Conor Gricmanis dueted sublimely with a nightingale, as we gathered between the blackthorn and hazel hedges in Sussex. Above us, the dark sky radiated with purples, then pinks, then blues, then greens of the aurora borealis. An incredible, once in a lifetime moment I will never forget.”