Ailsa Wild - Follow Your Gut

Join author of Follow Your Gut - Ailsa Wild - at the South East Centre for Contemporary Arts for a conversation about this art/science collaboration.

Meet the ecosystem inside you … A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn human baby.

Follow Your Gut is a comic that ate a biology textbook. It’s an epic adventure set over the first three years of a new life, exploring one of the most important relationships you will ever have — the one with your gut microbiome.

Created by artists, scientists, and educators, this story is for anyone who’s curious about the human–microbe symbiosis, and what all those trillions of bacteria are doing down there in your intestines!

Inspired by the latest research, Follow Your Gut includes a fascinating and detailed appendix that explains the amazing science behind the story.

Follow Your Gut By Ailsa Wild, Lisa Stinson, Briony Barr and Gregory Crocetti
Illustrated by Ben Hutchings

This is a free event, with registration required. Ailsa will present a workshop for young people at 12noon - separate bookings required.

Presented by Headland Writers Festival and South East Centre for Contemporary Art, Bega

Headland Writers Festival is presented by South East Arts, Candelo Books and Tathra Hotel. Supported by Regional Arts Fund and Create NSW