The Loving Earth Project
celebrates some of the wonderful things threatened by growing environmental breakdown: people, places, creatures, and other things we love. It is helping people to engage creatively and constructively with these issues, without being overwhelmed. It’s also a way to share positive examples of change and why people have taken action for the sake of love.
This video introduces the project.
Whatever our starting point, our actions affect the wider environment. Using simple questions and activities, we invite you to explore some of the issues and how we might each help care for the world we love.
A community textile project is a central part of the Loving Earth Project. Making a textile panel creates space for creative reflection too. We have online resources and events to help get you started. Over 500 textile art panels have been made by a variety of people , and our gallery shows many of them. Four little books and an art calendar based on the Projet have also been published. Details are available on our shop page.
Everyone can join in, whether by making a panel, helping organise an event, or in other ways. The project is suitable for school groups, craft groups, faith groups, environmental groups, and others, as well as individuals.
The project started in 2019 and was listed among “the best cultural events in Scotland for COP26”. Dozens of exhibitions have taken place sine then , in many countries and a variety of venues. They have given people “great joy and hope” as well as being “thought-provoking”, “empowering”, “inspiring” and “a warning”. Learn more about how the project was set up here.
We had planned to wind the project down in 2023 but due to demand we are continuing to loan panels for exhibition until the end of 2025. . Please contact us at the earliest opportunity, and before June 2025 at latest. if you’d like to organise a local exhibition. If you are interested in offering a permanent home for some of the panels from 2026, please get in touch .
Details of Loving Earth publications can be seen at our online shop, but are now only available via the Quaker Bookshop , except for. wholesale orders or exhibitions.
Do contact us with any queries. The Quaker Arts Network holds this project, and further news of it will be available them. You can join QAN and receive their newsletter by emailing quakerartsuk@gmail.com. You can also connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
Climate breakdown and extinctions are happening all over the world. Since the Loving Earth Project was set up the urgency has only increased, and we need to adapt ever more urgently to this reality, inspired and supported by Love.