Caring for each other and the planet.
What if the only important work left is to care for each other and care for the planet?
Care + Climate is a new cultural space in Greenwich, South East London - a transitions space for holding communities in the now to the next, space for staying with the trouble* and to be in solidarity with one another.
*a phrase borrowed from Donna J. Haraway.
What happens in the space?
Skills, knowledge and practicesfor a climate altered world
We will be programming different kinds of events and workshops to equip our community to better respond to, take action and adapt to climate change. This might include skills around repair, maintenance, growing, planting, carbon reduction, adapting and reviving social infrastructure etc, alongside practices of organising, anticipating and sense-making.
Emotional support and presence in a climate altered world
We will be offering different sessions that cover healing, witnessing, testimony, exploration of thresholds, loss, mourning, climate anxiety, climate grief, care circles, and somatic practices for holding climate preparedness and anticipation of crisis in the body.
Culture-making to orient and entangle us in a climate altered world
We will be curating events, music, expert talks, poetry and writing sessions on topics such as the history and indigenity of the local context, narratives of the land, commitments to future generations, design of new community rituals, multi-generational endeavours, as well as hosting community storytelling, collective imagination practices, community dreaming and more.