The Loving Earth Project
celebrates some of the wonderful things threatened by looming environmental breakdown: the people, places, creatures, and other things we love. It can help people to face up to this creatively and to take action without being overwhelmed. By focusing on one thing we love , we can explore how our own activities influence their future, and choose to act accordingly. It’s also a community art project that has linked people from communities in many parts of the world, through making and displaying over 500 textile art panels, sharing our love for the world and many things we are doing to care for it.
This video introduces the project. It starts from some simple questions and offers ways to explore them creatively especially through making a textile art panel. Our Resource page offers meditations to help reflect on these questions and practical guidance on making the textile panels. Many of the panels that people have made can be seen on the Gallery page, and we also have photos illustrating the variety of exhibitions and workshops that people have organised. You can still borrow some of the textile panels to organise an exhibition or other events.
The Loving Earth Project was organised by Quaker Arts Network working with many other groups.. It has given people “great joy and hope” as well as being “thought-provoking”, “empowering”, “inspiring” and “a warning”. More about the history and organisation of the LEP is here .
Climate breakdown and extinctions are happening all over the world. The urgency of action and adaptation to this reality has never been greater. Let us be inspired and supported by Love.