Creative Climate Cafe Programme Launch Event @ The Rampion Visitor Centre

Magnetic Ideals are a collective of self-employed artists, researchers and activists running projects and providing support, consultancy, research and training, for organisations and individuals working in the arts for community interest and for social sustainability.  We run projects that use creative and artistic ways of bringing communities together to create social change, campaign for social justice and find ways of locally and nationally challenging the climate crisis.  Regarding activist work, we have provided specialist consulting and training for Students’ Unions and Research Students, and other campaigning bodies, including coaching, setting up student-led research teams, officer training, campaign support, events management, research and analysis, and running workshops for activists on collective care.

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Creative Climate Cafe Programme Launch Event - Combatting Eco-Anxiety and Promoting Affordable Sustainable Living!

Rampion Visitor Centre

Reconnect! Eco, Arts and Confidence Building

Free training and skills sessions to develop new skills and help build community through creativity, eco-arts, sustainability  and confidence building.

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Creative Climate Cafe Programme Launch Event - Combating Eco-Anxiety and Promoting Affordable Sustainable LivingJoin us for the launch of the Brighton and Hove Creative Climate Cafe Programme 2023/24 will take place on 20 Oct at the Rampion Windfarm Visitor Centre. The Creative Climate Cafe initiative will help address fuel poverty and fuel conservation for vulnerable groups by running ten intergenerational, family-friendly Creative Climate Cafes that also address the cost of living crisis. These workshops will be hosted by experienced facilitators and community leaders with backgrounds in sustainability, mental health, eco-anxiety and community empowerment. At these creative climate cafes, people will engage in healing artistic pursuits, and build community while learning to save money sustainably in the cost of living crisis. Each cafe will address a different cost of living issue, from home fuel use, water use, food, social life and connections, sustainable purchasing, and empowering people to ask for change.This approach builds on the Climate Psychology Association model of Climate Cafes as open, inclusive spaces for discussing climate change. Cafes allow a forum that can encourage action and educate in cost saving. Research indicates that these collective experiences can lead to better mental health outcomes and be better for the planet, as people move from anxiety to action.The project will improve support and awareness of marine ecology, nature conservation and environmental improvements through community outreach. Sessions will run in the Rampion Visitor Centre and others at the Cornerstone Community Centre.The launch event will feature talks for project partners gluten-free and vegan, refreshments. Entertainment will be provided by award-winning comedian Lorelei Mathias (from comedy collective <a href="http://www.meloncomedy.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Melon Comedy</a>) and Phil Johnstone, a songwriter and musician in the Bedford Celts. Lorelei is a resident mermaid protestor in Brighton, has made comedy shorts about the plastic crisis in our oceans and has been featured in the Guardian and the BBC. There will also be a soundscape from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@rememberglaciers" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Remember Glaciers</a>, a project that aims to recover stories of glaciers from the past like bubbles of air trapped in ice cores and to share them as fragments of memory echoing and fading into glacially slow generative ambient soundscapes. This project is funded through The Rampion Community Benefit Fund at Sussex Community Foundation and is a partnership between <a href="https://www.magenticideals.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Magnetic Ideals</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ArtsforLife22" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Arts for Life</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/EcotopiaNow" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ecotopia Now! </a>and the Rampion Windfarm Visitor Centre.

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