Creative Climate Club
A free, monthly meeting for people who care about nature and are interested in responding creatively to the world around us.
Creative Climate Club is a free, monthly meeting for people who care about nature and are interested in creatively responding to the world around us, our local environment, and wider climate issues.
The monthly meetings will involve creative activities which can help us care for the environment, such as:
- Creative opportunities with artists, such as painting, collage, sketch-booking, and photography
- Opportunities to learn with local community experts, such as bee foraging walks, pond ecology, and talks about the River Tyne and its health
- The chance to make a connection with local nature, wildlife, and planting of urban spaces, such as a ‘garden crawl’ to local community gardens
Upcoming Dates:
Sat 23rd May
Creative Climate Club: Embroidering Hope
14:00 - 16:00
Free, booking advised
Join Baltic artist Cath Campbell and learn how to sew your own patches (sewn badges) with stimulating messages of hope, symbols and statements inspired by climate change, climate action and nature connection.
All materials provided, just bring yourself and your ideas.
As usual, help yourself to free refreshments from the Front Room trolley throughout the session.
Sat 27th June
14:00 - 16:00
Creative Climate Club: Seeing With Care - Designing for Humans and More-Than-Humans_ Whose Garden Is This?
Led by Stef Leach and Scott Matthews, landscape architects from Newcastle University's Architecture, Landscape and Planning department, this workshop invites us to imagine and design a ‘front garden’ for Baltic. We'll look at the city through the eyes of plants, insects, birds, and other more-than-human neighbours using drawing, tracing, collage, and simple making activities. We'll be encouraged to think about who a garden is for, what different beings notice or need and how small outdoor spaces can support care, life, and curiosity.
Stef Leach is a landscape architect, lecturer in landscape architecture and Programme Director for the Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) at Newcastle University. Her teaching, research, and creative practice explore how landscapes are shaped through relationships between materials, humans and more‑than‑human life. Her work is grounded in site‑based enquiry and creative methods, using experimental drawing, print and photography to understand landscape as a living, active process. Stef’s research focuses on materiality, Care‑full Landscape Practice (Ruiz-Arana, 2025), and sympoietic approaches to design - making landscapes with existing ecologies, histories, and communities. She is currently involved in a number of collaborative live projects, including the Spaces for Nature garden at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Scott Mattews is a landscape architect and founder of Hyem Landscape, a practice rooted in experimentation, practice through learning and inclusive design. Scott has over 25 years experience working in built and non-built environments and leading in cross-disciplinary design work in a wide variety of contexts including design of public realm, city dwelling spaces and urban environments. Based in Newcastle, Hyem collaborates with communities and institutions, including Newcastle University, to reimagine public spaces as catalysts for wellbeing and belonging. Scott’s work explores how landscape architecture can shape more equitable, responsive environments, and his current focus includes the role of nature in urban recovery and resilience.
2026 upcoming dates:
More details coming soon
27 June
25 July
22 Aug
26 Sept
24 Oct
28 Nov
Over time, members of the club will collaborate to develop our next steps, identifying practical tasks like litter picks, gardening and tree planting that we’d like to collectively participate in, new places we’d like to visit and people we’d like to hear from, and creative activities we can respond with.
Held in our Front Room for ages 13+. Please book a free ticket before attending, donations warmly welcomed.
Creative Climate Club is part of Birds, Bees, Bikes & Trees, a three-year partnership between Baltic, North East Young Dads & Lads (NEYDL) and Newcastle University , funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
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The young dads creating a buzz about climate action on Baltic’s rooftop
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