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 27th June
14:00 - 16:00
Artist talk and workshop with Henna Asikainen
This month, join artist Henna Asikainen to learn about her artistic practice, and then take part in a practical making activity inspired by her work. As usual, help yourself to free hot and cold refreshments in our Front Room throughout the session.
Henna is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist working across installation, textiles, video, sound, and temporary interventions in landscape, often incorporating foraged natural materials and participatory place-based processes. Her work explores our intimate entanglements with the living world, particularly in relation to migration, belonging, ecological grief, and the displacement of both human and other-than-human lives.
Much of this work has been developed in collaboration with people with lived experience of forced displacement. These projects are shaped by an ethos of radical hospitality and an eco-social approach in which environmental justice and social inclusion are understood as deeply interconnected.
Working collaboratively with diverse communities, Henna creates projects that weave together multiple voices, personal narratives, environmental concerns, and collective imaginaries of belonging. What matters to Henna is creating work that does not shy away from the injustices of our time, but instead holds grief gently while making space, above all, for beauty, tenderness, and the fragile possibility of hope and repair.
Through materials such as uprooted tree roots, ethically contested waste from the down and feather industry, anti-bird spikes, and found bird nests—some woven entirely from synthetic human debris—her work brings human and more-than-human experiences of loss, care, displacement, grief, and wonder into relation.
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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