Competition

#makemoreinsects – Pestival’s summer 2021 art competition!

Calling all insect-loving creatives to #makemoreinsects. Help us swarm all over Instagram this summer with insect-inspired arts, raise awareness of their precarious plight and put in our best effort to combat their rapid decline.

The insects need our help so let’s make more by any means necessary.

Stunt

Beecab

Got the knowledge?

The Beecab is a London taxi specially customised by Pestival and London’s beekeepers, complete with a working beehive in the front seat

Broadcast

Insecterviews

Celebrity anthropodcast

Founder Bridget Nicholls has been busy chatting with a celebrity swarm of chatty anthropods

Events

ARUP Workshop

Inspiring a new generation of engineers

Inspiring the next generation in biomimicry and how we can learn from insects for more resilient future cities and architectures

Competition

Characters

Animated Pest Friends

Welcome our three planet saving insect characters, a collaboration with prestigious design agency Pentagram

Competition

Pimp My Hive

Blinged up insect homes

Create your own insect hotel, beehive or anthropod haven and help Pestival Make More Insects

Events

Bee Symphony

Honey harmonies

We commissioned Cabaret Voltaire’s Chris Watson to create a new interspecies work for bees and humans

Social

Who Knew? Hashtag Campaign

Eye opening facts

Broaden your knowledge with our myriad of weird and wonderful insect facts and figures

Events

Termite Pavilion

Beautiful Biomimicry

Termite mounds inspired engineers and architects to create this incredible live activation for a UK tour

Events

Nordic Food Labs x Pestival

Exploring the deliciousness of insects

World-renowned culinary research institute, Nordic Food Lab’s insect inspired joint venture with Pestival to help combat our global food crisis

Events

Entomophobia

Face your fears

Pestival and Wellcome Collection joined forces to create an exhibition addressing insect phobias

Broadcast

Who’s The Pest?

Exploring our complex relationship with insects

A month long series of debates, installations, walks and workshops to challenge our perception of insects

Events

Pestival the Festival

One huge insect celebration

50 free interactive events, 200,000 visitors and one mission: to celebrate the insects

Events

Pestival on the move

Animated Logo

We challenge the award winning design agency, Leagas Delaney to bring our Pestival logo to life

Events

ARUP competition

Insect Engineers

Insect inspired architecture and technologies from the engineering artisans at ARUP

Events

Am I Attractive

Collaboration with Susana Soares

Do you attract or repel mosquitoes? Susana Soares explored this notion for Pestival

Events

Stewart Lee at Pestival

"I need this, I need Pestival"

Stewart Lee describes his idea to perform as an insect, costume and all, after being asked to appear at Pestival

Competition

#makemoreinsects – Pestival’s summer 2021 art competition!

Calling all insect-loving creatives to #makemoreinsects. Help us swarm all over Instagram this summer with insect-inspired arts, raise awareness of their precarious plight and put in our best effort to combat their rapid decline.

The insects need our help so let’s make more by any means necessary.

Stunt

Beecab

Got the knowledge?

The Beecab is a London taxi specially customised by Pestival and London’s beekeepers, complete with a working beehive in the front seat

Broadcast

Insecterviews

Celebrity anthropodcast

Founder Bridget Nicholls has been busy chatting with a celebrity swarm of chatty anthropods

Events

ARUP Workshop

Inspiring a new generation of engineers

Inspiring the next generation in biomimicry and how we can learn from insects for more resilient future cities and architectures

Competition

Characters

Animated Pest Friends

Welcome our three planet saving insect characters, a collaboration with prestigious design agency Pentagram

Competition

Pimp My Hive

Blinged up insect homes

Create your own insect hotel, beehive or anthropod haven and help Pestival Make More Insects

Events

Bee Symphony

Honey harmonies

We commissioned Cabaret Voltaire’s Chris Watson to create a new interspecies work for bees and humans

Social

Who Knew? Hashtag Campaign

Eye opening facts

Broaden your knowledge with our myriad of weird and wonderful insect facts and figures

Events

Termite Pavilion

Beautiful Biomimicry

Termite mounds inspired engineers and architects to create this incredible live activation for a UK tour

Events

Nordic Food Labs x Pestival

Exploring the deliciousness of insects

World-renowned culinary research institute, Nordic Food Lab’s insect inspired joint venture with Pestival to help combat our global food crisis

Events

Entomophobia

Face your fears

Pestival and Wellcome Collection joined forces to create an exhibition addressing insect phobias

Broadcast

Who’s The Pest?

Exploring our complex relationship with insects

A month long series of debates, installations, walks and workshops to challenge our perception of insects

Events

Pestival the Festival

One huge insect celebration

50 free interactive events, 200,000 visitors and one mission: to celebrate the insects

Events

Pestival on the move

Animated Logo

We challenge the award winning design agency, Leagas Delaney to bring our Pestival logo to life

Events

ARUP competition

Insect Engineers

Insect inspired architecture and technologies from the engineering artisans at ARUP

Events

Am I Attractive

Collaboration with Susana Soares

Do you attract or repel mosquitoes? Susana Soares explored this notion for Pestival