City safari (6+)

A real safari does not take place in a distant jungle. The most surprising nature can be found just around the corner, in your backyard or balcony, on the roof of your house or in the crevices of the pavement in your street and town. Biologist Luc Hoogenstein proves it in Ecolopolis: 'City Safari', a compelling theatre lecture by the makers of the cinema hits 'The New Wilderness' and 'The Wild North Sea'.

With never-before-seen nature images, Hoogenstein takes you on a journey through the hidden world of urban nature. Stories of fungi turning flies into zombies to ants keeping aphids as livestock, of spectacularly hunting peregrine falcons above the skyline to hedgehog families under the hedge. And of the more than a thousand species he discovered in his own little city garden in Utrecht.

'City Safari' is an afternoon full of wonder, humour and recognition. Afterwards, you will never look at your own street in the same way again.