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 Rive 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
Visualising Nature | 23 Nov, 14:00
In this month's varied session, we'll visualise what a 'nature-rich North' could look like based on real data around green spaces with Mandy from Nature North. We'll then visit our Heartwood exhibition in our Level 5 viewing box for a short tour about the prints made from the felled Sycamore Gap tree. We'll finish with a mindful, artist-led drawing exercise, inspired by the trees we have seen and imagined during the session, all with a hot drink in Front Room.
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Waste Not Want Not | 28 Dec, 14:00
Join us in Front Room to shake off the festive over indulgence in a positive and proactive way. We'll be heading out on a community litter pick to reset the Quayside to its best, a place that provides natural habitats for our wildlife & plants. We welcome you back to Front Room for a warming mug of vegan hot chocolate, and join the all-day Swap & Share Gift event. Got any unwanted gifts or items from your pre-Christmas clear-out? Bring them along, drop them off and have a browse. Nothing to donate? Totally fine, you're welcome to take a look and pick up anything that takes your fancy. As the winter weather sets in, today we'll also have a community coat rail, knit your own scarf and a mending station, learn how to sew and mend, with tips on mending your clothes and other textiles so they last longer.
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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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