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
Marine Ecosystems with Michele Allen and Rob Smith
Sat 22 Nov - 14:00 - 16:00
Meet on Level 4
Join us for a deeper exploration of our current Level 4 exhibition,For All At Last Return, and meet two of the artists exhibiting in this major group show.
For All At Last Return explores different ocean habitats, considering our relationships with these fragile environments and their dependent communities. Featuring the work of British and international artists for whom the health of the ocean is an enduring concern, this immersive exhibition journeys through underwater worlds from the ocean’s surface to the seabed, examining the impact of human activity on marine habitats and aquatic life.
Michele Allen is a photographic artist and researcher based in North East England. Her artistic and academic work is broadly concerned with sense of place, and is created in response to specific locations incorporating photography, video and oral history. Rob Smith is a visual artist and researcher whose work explores human relationships with marine environments and the ways digital technologies can materialise these remote and inaccessible places.
In this session, Michele and Rob will each share about their work and the research behind it, with the Level 4 exhibition. Focusing on habitat and biodiversity restoration, After taking in the exhibition, we'll move to Front Room for a hands-on potato battery activity led by Rob.
Make It Last: Mending skills to extend the life of our clothes
Sat 27 Dec 14:00 - 16:00
Aware that the fast fashion industry has a huge environmental impact, but unsure what to do about it?
Join us to chat all things slow fashion, and bring along your holey, stained or not-quite-the-right-fit clothes and textiles for a gentle mending session. Alternatively, you can practice your sewing skills and pick up tips and tricks for how to mend at home, such as how to darn or patch a hole, turn up a hem when it's too long, or sew on a detail to make it feel more you.
Jenny and Rachael will share sewing and mending skills plus tips to help make your clothes last.
Materials provided, but feel free to bring your own along too (and don't forget to bring the clothing or other textiles you want to mend!)
This session will take place in Front Room where you can help yourself to free hot and cold drinks.
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.
Read More about Birds, Bees, Bikes & Trees
The young dads creating a buzz about climate action on Baltic’s rooftop
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