Climate Action Hub Exeter is hosting a weekend of science, craft, poetry and film on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 April to coincide with Earth Day 2023.
The event will feature science activities facilitated by Exeter Science Centre and Buglife, a national charity dedicated to conservation of invertebrates.
It will also include a screening of River, a documentary written by nature author Robert Macfarlane with narration by Willem Defoe and music by Radiohead.
At lunchtime on Sunday there will be a deep ecology talk by Stephan Harding, author, scientist and co-founder of Schumacher College. His latest book Gaia Alchemy was published last year.
A discussion will follow led by Exeter Living Lab systems convenor Kate Jago and Peter Lefort of the University of Exeter Green Futures network.
Stephan Harding, author, scientist and co-founder of Schumacher College.
“The Great Imagining” is a programme of events taking place in Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Rochdale and Kampala, Uganda.
The Exeter event is being coordinated by Kate Jago, Exeter Science Centre and Melissa Fayad of Schumacher College.
It will mark this year’s Earth Day, an annual event which demonstrates support for environmental protection which was first held in 1970 and now takes place in nearly 200 countries.
“The Great Imagining” will take place from 11am-4pm on Saturday 22 April and from 11am-3pm on Sunday 23 April 2023 at Climate Action Hub Exeter.
Climate Action Hub Exeter opened in November last year in a vacant Princesshay retail unit in Bedford Street to offer events, film screenings and drop-in climate crisis information, advice and support.
It is open from 10am-4pm most days and also provides meeting space for local environmental and social justice groups.
All events are free to attend. Book your place for Stephan Harding’s talk via Eventbrite.
There will also be a vigil at 5pm on Saturday in support of “The Big One”, a mass gathering in Parliament Square on 21 April which is expected to begin four days of climate action in Westminster involving 100,000 people.
