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This informal event is for anyone who is making a textile panels to contribute to the international community textile project. If you’d like to make a panel, have got started or need more help with design or techniques, come and share your questions and ideas and meet other panel-makers. It would also be lovely to hear reflections from those who have finished your panels, and discuss possible or actual actions to help us live more sustainably in future.

You çan get started on your panel on your own, using resources on the Loving Earth Project website or with others at a “getting started” workshop  or a Loving Earth Project course – displayed elsewhere on this calendar.

Please email lovingearthproject@gmail.com to book your place and receive the Zoom link.  The meeting will start promptly at 7.30 GMT.

Celebrate a place you love today. It could be where you live now, in a distant land, a place of natural beauty, a building, or another place that is precious or sacred to you. Life is threatened everywhere by the growing climate crisis, and radical changes are needed to avoid the worst effects.

We will help you prepare to make a textile panel expression your love for this place, and/or what you can do to help care for its future. Your panel can then be sent to join our travelling exhibition. We hope that panels celebrating beloved places all over the world will be shown in Glasgow at the time of the United Nations climate conference COP26 in November, and that the exhibition will tour widely thereafter.

Anyone is welcome to join this event. If you or your group includes young people under 18 please let us know their names and ages when you book.

Part of the time  will be spent in discussion in small groups. If you are willing to be part of a group with people whose first language is not English, please let us know any languages you are willing to work in. (The main language will be English.)

We hope participants may to celebrate a variety of places around the world so that these can remind people seeing the exhibition of some of the different places whose future is at stake, and of the many different things people are doing to care for their future.

Led by Jasmine Piercy and Linda Murgatroyd

Free: Advance booking essential  Book your place early if possible, by emailing us at lovingearthproject@gmail.com . When you have booked you will be sent further details and a little optional preparation.

This event is part of  a Quaker-led initiative inviting everyone to celebrate a place that is precious to them, and help us reflect on the implications of climate change as we prepare for COP 26.

As part of the Quaker-led Journey to COP26, the Loving Earth Project invites you to join us on a spiritual and creative journey to your sacred spaces. Using visualisation and creative practices we will explore and share our sacred spaces and reflect on how they are being affected by the climate crisis and how we can care for and love them.  It will include an option to start creating a textile panel to contribute to the Loving Earth Project’s travelling exhibition which we hope can be displayed in Glasgow at the time of COP 26.

The course will be running on Zoom, starting at 10 am UK time. All are welcome, wherever your are, and whatever your faith affiliation (if you have one).

£20.  More details and booking at https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/product/journey-to-cop26/