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:
Creative Climate Club - Seeing With Care: Noticing The More-Than-Human Through Craft
Sat 25 April | 14:00-16:00
Free, booking advised
At this month's Creative Climate Club, you'll get the opportunity to take part in a free, nature-inspired craft workshop, alongside Baltic's first Green Community Market: Crafted Roots. Crafted Roots is a day of stalls, workshops, music and food, celebrating creativity and sustainability, featuring basket weaving and woodwork demonstrations.
From 14:00 - 16:00, join landscape architects Stef Leach and Scott Matthews to illustrate your own nature observation cards, create your own mini folded booklets, and craft "care tokens" - using drawing, collage, tracing and rubbing - all inspired by noticing our more-than-human neighbours. Together we will focus on paying close attention to the plants, animals, weather events and other overlooked presences around us, beyond the human, noting where each spends its time, what it needs and how it coexists with people. We'll display our small handcrafted artefacts together as a collective "field of noticing" and use them as a reference point for future Creative Climate Club workshops.
Stef Leach is a landscape architect, lecturer and Programme Director for the Master of Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University. Her work explores how landscapes form through relationships between materials, humans and more-than-human life, using experimental drawing, print and photography. She's involved in collaborative projects including the Spaces for Nature garden at Baltic.
Scott Matthews is a landscape architect and founder of Hyem Landscape. With over 25 years' experience, he collaborates with communities and institutions to reimagine public spaces as catalysts for wellbeing and belonging, focusing on nature's role in urban recovery and resilience.
May - info tbc.
Seeing With Care: Designing for Humans and More-Than-Humans_ Whose Garden Is This?
Sat 27 June | 14:00-16:00
Free, booking advised
Led by landscape architects Stef Leach and Scott Matthews from Newcastle University's Architecture, Landscape and Planning department, this workshop invites participants to imagine and design a 'front garden' for Baltic. We'll explore 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 consider 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 and Programme Director for the Master of Landscape Architecture at Newcastle University. Her work explores how landscapes form through relationships between materials, humans and more-than-human life, using experimental drawing, print and photography. She's involved in collaborative projects including the Spaces for Nature garden at Baltic.
Scott Matthews is a landscape architect and founder of Hyem Landscape. With over 25 years' experience, he collaborates with communities and institutions to reimagine public spaces as catalysts for wellbeing and belonging, focusing on nature's role in urban recovery and resilience.
23 May - details coming soon
27 June - details coming soon
25 July - details coming soon
22 Aug - details coming soon
26 Sept - details coming soon
24 Oct - details coming soon
28 Nov - details coming soon
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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