EARTHWORKS Project Launch

EARTHWORKS launches at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 21 November, with two separate sessions running through the day. The first is a family workshop from 11:00am to 1:00pm, led by Radiator Arts team members Peter Quinell and Rebecca Child. It's a hands-on clay session for families with children aged seven and over, where you'll build a Bayeux Tapestry-style memory tableau. The second is a panel discussion from 2:00pm to 3:30pm, curated by the project's founder and poet Patricia Hope Scanlan.

That panel brings together a fair spread of voices: novelist Iain Sinclair, gallerist Kate MacGarry, collaborative leader Polly Gifford, actor and director Gopala Davies, and artist Mark Lawson Bell. They'll be talking through the ideas that underpin the project, and the conversation itself is documented in the pages of the magazine.

EARTHWORKS is a volunteer-led, non-profit eco-arts publication launched by Scanlan, who describes it as a new magazine that 'welcomes all voices'. It brings together emerging and established artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians to offer hopeful, creative and sustainable ways to see the planet not just survive but prosper. It's an inclusive international arts magazine centred on the climate crisis, and the launch day splits it into these two parts: the clay workshop for families in the morning, and the panel discussion for artists and thinkers in the afternoon.

Both sessions are free, so you can drop in for one or stay for the whole day. The workshop runs 11:00am to 1:00pm, and the panel discussion follows from 2:00pm to 3:30pm, both at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery.