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Climate Carnival Arts Workshops

Come together for Weston’s Climate Carnival to show solidarity for climate action and shine a light on how creativity and community can play their part in spreading a positive message for a sustainable and hopeful future world. This year we will be celebrating what connects us and how we can work together to make change.

The Climate Carnival leaves from Tropicana at 11am on Saturday September 9th.

The community-led procession parades down the seafront with a kaleidoscopic display of environmentally-themed carnival arts finishing at Whirligig at the Italian Gardens at 12pm.

Spectacles will include carnival outfits, music, protest posters, sea creatures, bugs and more – all created out of reused materials and made at Climate Workshops led by local artists throughout the summer, with the theme of Climate Justice at the forefront of everyone’s mind.

Throughout the Summer we will be holding Climate Carnival Arts workshops.

 

Climate Carnival Arts Workshops

Workshop sessions that creatively explore environmental topics and sustainable themes, using reclaimed, re-used, ethically sourced materials to create spectacular flags, banners, costumes, headdresses, props, instruments for the climate carnival.

An opportunity for the wider Weston community to create together, whilst debating ideas, developing wider perspectives and creative solutions to action on climate change.

The sessions will be facilitated by local artists alongside larger-scale carnival workshops to work towards the climate carnival and procession event, when you can join in and party along in a finale filled with music and spectacle on September 9th.

These free community art workshops for all ages take place throughout summer: Come along to just one workshop or all of them; the choice is yours.

Carnival Arts: The world in your hands

Saturday July 29th, 11am-3pm

Drop-in

Come and help create a large globe of the Earth which will be carried aloft in the Carnival procession. We will also be creating smaller worlds which explore the earth from different perspectives changing how we see the world.

Led by local artist and art-activist Bev Ashmore.

Workshop participants are invited to bring along their creations and take part in a procession as part of our Climate Carnival on September 9th.

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Carnival Arts: Wicker Bugs

Saturday August 5th, 11am-3pm

Drop-in

Reach for the skies and create incredible insects that explore the significant role that insects have in connecting us with the natural world.

The workshop is led by master wicker artist. Jeremy Hughes

Workshop participants are invited to bring along their creations and take part in a procession as part of our Climate Carnival on September 9th.

 

Carnival Arts: Eel Migration

Saturday August 12th, 11am-3pm

Drop-in

Come and make your own articulated eel, to join the carnival and celebrate the amazing European eel that makes one of the most astonishing migrations observed in nature.

They start in the Saragossa Sea near Bermuda and travel across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, into many Bristol Channel rivers.

The workshop is led by Karen Barry

Workshop participants are invited to bring along their creations and take part in a procession as part of our Climate Carnival on September 9th.

Carnival Arts: Wild Wearable Flowers

Saturday 19th August, 11am – 3pm

Drop-in

Create stunning colourful flowers to wear or carry in the carnival.  All made from re-cycled and re-purposed materials – these flowers will remind us of the connection between flowers and insects and the importance of re-wilding, as we go wild in the carnival!

The workshop is led by Astra Beck

Workshop participants are invited to bring along their creations and take part in a procession as part of our Climate Carnival on September 9th.

 

Carnival Arts: Making Waves

Saturday August 26th, 11am-3pm

Drop-in

Here in Weston Super Mare we are connected to the rest of the world by the sea and the waves which ebb and flow against our shore.

This workshop is all about making waves from different materials to animate in the carnival. We will also consider how we can ‘make waves’ and change how we do things in response to climate change.

The workshop is led by Karen Barry 

Workshop participants are invited to bring along their creations and take part in a procession as part of our Climate Carnival on September 9th

 

Carnival Arts: Cicada Percussion

Saturday August 26th, 11am-3pm

Come and create your own bug shaker or instrument and join the band of cicadas, crickets, bees and flies in the carnival procession. Insects are a vital part of our eco-system and we want to make a noise about it!

This workshop is led by Laura Jones

Workshop participants are invited to bring along their creations and take part in a procession as part of our Climate Carnival on September 9th.

 

Carnival Arts: Preparation Day

Saturday September 2nd, 11am-3pm

Drop-in

As carnival day draws near – this is a workshop to finish anything off and get all our banners, puppets, props and instruments ready for the big day Saturday September 9th!  

Come and help the team for the whole day or part of the day. 

The workshop is led by a team from Art Space.

 

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