Loving Earth comes to Friends House
'The Loving Earth project was started by Quakers in 2019 to help people engage with the challenges of the environmental crisis without being overwhelmed.'
A Quaker-led textile exhibition about the survival of the planet launched last week at Friends House.
The exhibition features art panels illustrating loved habitats, plants and creatures threatened by environmental change.
‘The project aims to help people engage creatively and constructively with loss and environmental breakdown, without being overwhelmed,’ said Linda Murgatroyd, one of the project’s founders.
More than 500 panels have been made by people from across the UK and beyond, with some recently displayed in parliament at the request of Lindsay Hoyle MP, speaker of the House of Commons.
The Loving Earth project was started by Quakers in 2019 to help people engage with the challenges of the environmental crisis without being overwhelmed.
The exhibitions this autumn began in Merton libraries, with larger displays to follow at St John’s Church in Waterloo, and Applecart Arts Centre in Newham.
A new poetry book, Out of Excuses, inspired by the artworks, was launched at Friends House, together with a Loving Earth book for children: Caring for the World We Love.
The exhibition runs Monday to Friday until 22 December.
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Details are available at http://lovingearth-project.uk/events-2/ .
The Friends House exhibition id in the north and west ground floor corridors and the Quaker Centre. NB The Quaker centre is open on weekdays until 4pm.
Please check other venues for opening times.
All venues are also organising associated events.
By Linda Murgatroyd on 12th October 2023 - 15:15
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