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Climate Lab Pendle
How can we hold space for people to come together to learn and also share and process their feelings about climate change? We are hosting a series of Climate Fresks* and Talkaoke conversations around Pendle, and gathering a picture of barriers to climate action and engagement through audio documentation and commissioned writing from the community.
Lead by thinking around climate psychology, this programme has been co-developed by In-Situ and climate educator and activist Tom Deacon and is funded by Pendle Borough Council and will feed into Pendle's the climate action plan.
* Climate Fresks were developed by a University professor in France, as a way of making simpler for his students the hefty IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. Cutting out the report's main graphics, he asked the students to sort these into cause and effect. This has now developed as an open source activity takes groups on a journey starting with basic human activities like building and eating, slowly unfolding a picture of where we are heading. Millions of people around the world arnow taking part in Climate Fresks.
This is Nelson
This partnership programme between In-Situ, Building Bridges and Super Slow Way with Pendle Borough Council is taking place over the next 3 years, bringing artists to help us re-imagine Nelson, open up underused spaces, think sustainably and support ground-up community activism in the town.
Drawing on local people’s networks, ideas and community groups, This is Nelson responds to local people voicing a need, and is reactivating spaces such as the Pavillion Café, Hodge House and upstairs at 3B Systems as well as fostering a network of local voices, strengthening community decision-making now and for the future in the town.
The programme has been listening to the needs and wishes of community groups, drawing in on the expertise, skills, knowledge and feelings of individuals who have formed the This is Nelson Steering Group. Nelson residents are instrumental in deciding what and how activity is planned, and how the community works together to realise ambitions.
The overall aim to our approach is to embed art and artist's processes into civic decision making, for greater democratic engagement and to amplify and support community interests. This is with a radical intention for transparency, equality and sustainability. This is Nelson is the art and culture part of the Nelson Town Deal programme.
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Nelson Festival of Culture and Althams Image: Diane Muldowney
Nelson Food Strategy
Grow with us! Along with partner organisations including The Good Life Project, we are thinking about what a Food Strategy* might look like for Nelson.
We are re-activating an allotment site at Hodge House Community Centre and are running sessions about nutrition and herbalism, to learn about the many different uses of local plants.
Dana Olarescu, Experimental Food Festival Image: Diane Muldowney
* A Food Strategy is a co-authored action plan to improve the healthand wellbeing of local people, which values the knowledge ofeveryone: whether your relationship to food is professional (forexample, you run a catering business) or personal (you cook for your family at home).