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Great Big Green Week

A film screening with Q&A, plant swap, climate cafe, litterpick, open mic night, repair cafe, wildflower seed ball workshop and more.

Leigh Curtis

This year’s Great Big Green Week takes place from Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 June at venues across Exeter, offering a range of events including a film screening, plant swap, climate cafe, litterpick, open mic night, repair cafe, wildflower seed ball workshop and more.

On Saturday 10 June Exeter Picturehouse is screening of FINITE: The Climate of Change, a documentary following protestors fighting to prevent the construction of new coal mines in Germany and England.

After the film there will be a Q&A with the director Rich Felgate, Eddie Whittingham from Just Stop Oil and Dr Raffaele Vinai from the University of Exeter Global Systems Institute.

On Wednesday 14 June Maketank and the Devon Ukrainian Association will host a plant swap at the Conversation Cafe on Paris Street from 10am to 4pm.

Also on Wednesday, Exeter Climate Cafe will meet at Exeter Phoenix from 10.30am to 12pm and there will be a People, Planet, Pint litterpick which will meet at Climate Action Hub Exeter at 5pm then move on to the City Gate Hotel for a drinks and conversation.

On Friday 16 June Extinction Rebellion Exeter is hosting its second open mic night - a summer edition - at Climate Action Hub Exeter. Performances will include poetry, music and readings loosely themed around diversity, nature and the climate.

On Saturday 17 June an Exeter Repair Cafe will take place from 10am to 1pm at Climate Action Hub Exeter, where it will be followed by a wildflower seed ball workshop hosted by the Exeter Extinction Rebellion biodiversity group from 1.30pm to 4pm.

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For full details of what’s on in Exeter from Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 June visit the 2023 Great Big Green Week website.

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