Baltic Creative Climate Club

Creative Climate Club is a free, monthly meeting for people who care about nature and are interested in creatively responding to the world around us, our local environment, and wider climate issues.

The monthly meetings will involve creative activities which can help us care for the environment, such as:

• Creative opportunities with artists such as painting, collage, sketch-booking and photography.
• Opportunities to learn with local community experts such as bee foraging walks, pond ecology and talks about the Rive Tyne and its health.
• The chance to make a connection with local nature, wildlife and planting of urban spaces, such as a ‘garden crawl’ to local community gardens.

Over time, members of the club will collaborate to develop our next steps, identifying practical tasks like litter picks, gardening and tree planting that we’d like to collectively participate in, new places we’d like to visit and people we’d like to hear from, and creative activities we can respond with.

Held in our Front Room for ages 13+.

Aware that the fast fashion industry has a huge environmental impact, but unsure what to do about it?

Join us to chat all things slow fashion, and bring along your holey, stained or not-quite-the-right-fit clothes and textiles for a gentle mending session. Alternatively, you can practice your sewing skills and pick up tips and tricks for how to mend at home, such as how to darn or patch a hole, turn up a hem when it's too long, or sew on a detail to make it feel more you.

Jenny and Rachael will share sewing and mending skills plus tips to help make your clothes last.

Materials provided, but feel free to bring your own along too (and don't forget to bring the clothing or other textiles you want to mend!)

Join journalist and climate campaigner Jemima Elliott for an exciting and imaginative workshop, where we will create a vision of a Newcastle and North East England where both people and planet thrive, and work out what steps we could take to make that vision a reality.

In this session we’ll seek to answer questions such as: What could a fossil free Newcastle look like? How can we make our city work for us? What does it mean to live in a green society?

You don’t need to have any experience or knowledge of the climate crisis to join in. This is a space for us to learn from one another, broaden our understanding of the issues that face us today, and come up with solutions together.

Jemima Elliott (she/her) is a freelance journalist, organiser and communicator. She works predominantly on climate justice issues such as fast fashion, oil and gas, and workers' rights. She has worked on a variety of campaigns, including successfully banned fossil fuel recruitment and fast fashion advertising at her students' union, campaigning against North Sea oil and gas fields Cambo, Jackdaw and Rosebank, and for a fairer fashion industry with Remake. She has written for publications including Sunday Times Ireland, Shado, Remake and Naked Politics, and hosts the video series What Can You Do? with Shado where she unpacks how viewers can take action on issues they care about. She can often be found next to her cat Tilly reading a book.

2026 upcoming dates:

28 Feb
28 March
25 April
23 May
27 June
25 July
22 Aug
26 Sept
24 Oct
28 Nov

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