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🌍✨ Earth Week 2025 — More-Than-Human Stories

From weaving forgotten voices and crafting seed bombs, to mending clothes, swapping plants, walking with fungi, and telling soil stories — we came together to reimagine our relationship with the Earth and each other.

With workshops, sound meditation, zine-making, storytelling games, and a giant tapestry inspired by London Doughnut Economics — we embraced a week of radical care, creativity, and connection.

Thank you to all who dreamed, made, and acted with us. The climate crisis demands courage — and community. It’s a collective story in motion. 💚

Design by Cara Lloyd, Tika Sufyan and Climate Emergency Network

Photos by and

🌎 Happy Earth Day! 🌏

It’s the first of our four days of events marking Earth Week across London and .

Our theme this year:

More-Than-Human Stories: New Myths in the Making

🍩 It’s the first day of London Doughnut Economy Coalition’s residency at Central Saint Martins too - come say hello in the Platform Bar and book for tomorrow’s Step Into the Doughnut workshops - a brilliant, embodied format and introduction to the Doughnut for collective thriving within planetary boundaries.

🕯️And this evening join us for our Opening Ceremony, drawing on the deep power of story, ritual and myth to transform us.

Find out more about these events and so many more at the link to the full programme in our bio

During at Central Saint Martins a vast array of beautiful events will take over the College across four days, including...

🍩 London Doughnut Economy Coalition residency & Step Into the Doughnut Workshops with .marino.seeds .co

🔥 Opening Ceremony

🪱 Soil Stories with Compost Collective .co

💥 Earth Night curated by  


🔍 Mossibilities with Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes  

🦠 Encountering Cyanobacteria with Karen Tang (Living Systems Lab)
Breathing

🤲 Get Your Hands Dirty with BA Culture, Criticism and Curation  

📚 Storytelling with Materials and Objects - with Sarah Campbell from the CSM Museum & Study Collection & Billie Coxhead from our Materials and Products Collection

♉️ Earth symbols with

🪴 Plant Cuttings Swaps with Ilenia Bombardi at the Platform Bar

📖 Libraries of the More-Than-Human workshops with our Library teams

✨ Witch Crafting with

🌱 Gaia Bomb and Seeds for the Future with Alice Burns

🕸️ Weaving Forgotten Voices with .co

🎲 Eco-Koselig with

🏺 Vessels and Reciprocity with and Jessica Ball

🧱 Building Through Breathing with

🐾 Finding Wildness: Multi-Sensory Drawing with

✏️ Writing MicroFiction for Climate with Olivia Pinnock

🌳 Roots to Sky - A Sound Meditation for Body & Planet with Freya Shi

Link to FULL programme of events across in bio

During , our workshops, events and displays are taking place all across London - from King’s Cross to Camberwell, East Bank to Chelsea.

Featured here:

Bricks & Tales of Camberwell - playground site (Tues 22 April)

A hands-on workshop where storytelling meets earth-building. Through the ancient craft of adobe brick-making, we’ll explore the connections between material, people, and place.

Participants will embark on a journey through Camberwell, uncovering local stories and collecting artefacts that capture the essence of the area. These discoveries will be embedded into adobe bricks, made from natural materials—earth, clay, water, and hay. Using a brick press, we will shape and texture each brick, creating a tactile archive of Camberwell’s history and community.

This interactive workshop invites you to engage with the land, blending storytelling with sustainable building techniques.

Building through Breathing - CSM The Street (Thurs 24 April)
Cyanobacteria, often called blue-green algae, have thrived on this earth for over 3.5 billion years. Through photosynthesis, they breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, transforming Earth’s atmosphere and ecosystems. Through biomineralisation, they have built stromatolites — layered rocks— demonstrating their inherent capabilities as natural architects.

Get Your Hands Dirty - CSM Platform Bar (Thurs 24 April)

students present an immersive exhibition exploring our relationship

🔗 in bio to full programme and booking

with nature in the age of the Anthropocene. Through art, zines, podcasts, websites and soil and themes from AI to ancestral traditions we invite you to engage, reflect, and reconnect.

As part of , the brilliant .co will be running Soil Stories workshops at both and !

Register for their events and explore our full programme via 🔗 in bio


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With fifty events to choose from across this Earth Week, here are some of our main events - not to be missed!

Start the week on with a grounding ritual held by Sam from and Kay from .
Join experiential workshops led by expert facilitators on Wednesday.
Share your hopes, questions and and shed your human PoV at our More-than-Human Assembly on Thursday, then release it all at Earth Night, curated by / of Colour Association.
On Friday, start the day with our Research community for Ecological Knowing, Sensing and Storytelling and round off the week by joining one of our guided Story Walks - with groups leaving from every one of our College campuses.





Tues 22 April - 6-8pm -
Opening Ceremony 

Wed 23 April 
London Doughnut Economy Coalition - workshops
 
Thurs 24 April - 2-4pm -
More-Than-Human Assembly
 
Thurs 24 April - 6-8pm
Earth Night (Bass Tone Regeneration)
 
Fri 25 April - 2-4pm
Ecological knowing, sensing and storytelling: Research within Urgency
 
Fri 25 April - 2-4pm - All Colleges
Time in Nature: Story Walks

Link to full programme in Bio.
Image: Ecological Sending, Storytelling and Knowing: Research within Urgency - / .lloyd

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Our EARTH WEEK Programme is now LIVE!
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We are beyond excited to reveal our full programme for Earth Week 2025
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We will be offering 50 (!) vibrant, inspiring and stirring events taking place across UAL, led by students, staff, alumni and friends - including an opening ceremony and more-than-human assembly, all kinds of workshops, talks, displays, experiences, walks, rituals, performances and much more.
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In the midst of huge turbulence across our shared planet, we look forward to carving out this time and coming together in the spirit of a thriving and just future for all.
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Link in bio




📸 Encountering Cyanobacteria, Karen Tang / Living Systems Lab Research Group, CSM

🌍 Earth Week is just a month away! 🌍

🌎 We’ve been overjoyed (and a little overwhelmed...) by the proposals we’ve received from students, staff, alumni and friends - and we’ll be launching our (very!) full programme NEXT WEEK 🌎

🌏 Sign up to the newsletter to be the first to hear what’s coming up: shorturl.at/OuUkW 🌏

Watch this space... 💚

📣 FINAL CALL: EARTH WEEK Proposals 📣

More-Than-Human Stories: New Myths in the Making

🎓UAL students, staff, alumni and friends:

📆 Get your project proposals in by this Friday 28th Feb!
(alums you get an extra week!)

📚 🌊 📝 🕸️ 🎶 🪱 🔍 🌱 🎭 🦞 🎤 🧶 🎬 🌏 🐖 ✏️ 🗺️

📚performance | workshop | screening | debate | installation | demo | walk | skillshare | conversation | your project here 🎬

Explore the brief in our newsletter (link in bio)

📜 Stories shape how we understand the world 📜

For centuries, human-centred myths have placed people above nature, justifying extraction, destruction, and inequality. But we are not separate from the ecosystems we depend on. We are part of a larger story, one that includes plants that grow, animals that roam, rivers that carve their path, and landscapes that come alive in the golden light of the horizon.

What if we told different stories? 📝

Ones of reciprocity instead of dominance. Tales of belonging instead of ownership. Stories of renewal instead of depletion.

🌍 Earth Week 2025 🌱 is an invitation to rediscover these more-than-human stories through art, movement, words, and action.  

What stories will you bring? Whether through mediums of performance, writing, installation, or conversation, we want to hear how you’d contribute 📢

📅 Deadline: 28 February 2025
🔗 Submission Form Link in Bio