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Action for Silk Stream - River Action Day
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
Join us for our Action for Silk Stream monthly volunteering days. They will be held on the last Thursday of each month.
Scrap Freak
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
Fashion exhibition exploring sustainable approaches to fashion, styling and set design. Features a retrospective of various collections of fashion brand ‘Typical Freaks’. Features interactive workshops on fashion illustration and punk fashion.
Retreat: the UK’s first climate refugees
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
‘Retreat' is an exhibition of artwork and research surrounding the village of Fairbourne, North Wales. In 2021, government officials declared that by 2052, it would no longer be safe or sustainable to live in Fairbourne due to rising sea levels, making the residents the UK's first climate refugees. This exhibition comprises a collaboration between artist Georgia Clemson and Landscape Architect Daniel Shaw.
We are plants, we are grass, we are Hackney Marshes 4 screens video installation
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
We are plants, we are grass, we are Hackney Marshes is an immersive audio-visual installation that takes you on a journey of being landscape through the embodied eyes of filmmaker Dominique Rivoal and the sensing body of movement artist Claire Loussouarn. It invites to slow down and attune our sensate bodies and felt sense to the incredible spectacle of nature.
Business Breakfast Briefing – Sustainability support
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
At this in-person Barnet Breakfast Briefing, local businesses will hear from the council leadership about what the council's net zero targets means for business owners and the benefits of becoming more sustainable. They’ll have the chance to meet with organisations from Barnet and beyond providing free advice and support for businesses to become more sustainable.
Reimagining our High Streets exhibition
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
An exhibition of Middlesex University MA Interior’s work, that reimagines the opportunities of existing buildings for sustainable redevelopment. Marks and Spencer Marble Arch flagship store, on Oxford Street, has become central to the debate around adaptive reuse and retrofitting our existing buildings. Rather than demolishing and building anew, the work on display looks at alternatives. The student proposals explore minimising the carbon emission impact when re-imagining our high streets.
Barnet and Beyond! 'NetWalking' for a Zero Carbon Future, Together
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
Frances Fogel is a local resident and a carbon-literacy-qualified Art Historian, community host and Story Strategist. Frances is hosting a free "NetWalking" event for fellow Barnet residents, who will be comfortable taking a two hour walk. The walk will commence at 10:30am outside "picturesque" Kenwood House and will focus on tackling Climate Change through an art history lens. It will end near to Wildwood Road, with relatively easy access to Golders Green station (the group might pick up a bit of litter along the way, so please do bring a little bag).
Medans Empowerment Event: Dancing Towards Sustainable Change
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
Join us for an exhilarating and empowering event that combines the joy of Mediterranean dance with the mission of sustainability and women's empowerment. Step into the vibrant world of MEDANS®: "London Sunniest Mediterranean Dance Workout"! Get ready to experience the MEDANS METHOD®, an innovative fusion of fitness, breathwork, and the mesmerizing rhythms of Mediterranean dances like flamenco, belly dance, pizzica, taranta, sirtaki, and more.
Coppetts Wood Festival
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
Coppetts Wood Festival is a family friendly festival located in a glade in Coppetts Wood local Nature Reserve. There will be a range of family friendly activities taking place across the afternoon, including arts and crafts, face painting, tombola, clay modelling, a puppet show, music, Morris dancers, and food and drink available.
Supporting Sustainability and Environmental Education in Secondary Schools Conference
Last updated: 3 May, 2024
The summer conference is looking to design a programme which will support knowledge exchange of ideas and approaches to teaching interdisciplinary sustainability and environmental education and also provide an opportunity to create networks and partnerships across London schools.