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Exhibition by Swale Friends of the Earth
Presenting a vision of a future in 20 years’ time in which the right environmental choices have been made.
Lovely World is an exciting and visionary free event, inspired by the film 2040, and the book by Jonathan Porritt, The World We Made. Find out how technologies and policies, behaviours and actions across the world, have the potential to transform the quality of our environment and of our lives for the better. Including energy, transport, food, employment, leisure, clothing and design, the built and natural environments, how communities could live; the event aims to bypass the usual doom and gloom; bringing together over 30 different organisations, from both commercial and voluntary sectors who are working to offer low-carbon, planet-focused, energy efficient solutions that will inspire us all!
Come and get a glimpse of a possible Lovely World, as if it just passed by… There is also a programme of talks, films, poetry and performances, a clothes swap and workshops taking place over the weekend.
A flowing programme of live events, including talks, films, new poetry and sound art commissioned especially for Lovely World from Faversham poet, Rebecca Lehmann, and sound artist, Ben Horner will run through the weekend. A clothes swap will run on both days – and there are several workshops taking place both days.
• A Pop up Clothes Swap – bring up to 3 items to swap and take home something
new!! Saturday and Sunday, all day
Workshops and Creative Sessions
• We’ve got Worms! Make a wormery for local community green spaces with Heart
and Soil – 12 pm and 3pm on Sat + Sun
• Make a design with material provided – or bring a T-shirt and print something
on itl Woodblock Printing Workshop – 11 -3pm Sat + 10-2pm Sun
• Join Declan Whiffen for Attention Seeking, a walk and write experience. Sat 24
at 1pm
Talks, Films and Performance Programme
Saturday 24 June 2023 | 11am – 5pm | The Alex | Talks, Poetry & Performance
• 11.00 am – Matihew Hatchwell: 2040 Vision of Westbrook Stream
•12.00 pm – Severn Trent Water: Wastewater Treatment and Resources 2040
•1.00 pm – Kensa: Ground source heat pumps – the Future of Heating
•2.00 pm – University of Kent Graphic Design: Lovely World Animations: The
Future of Food using snippets from Kew Gardens’ Unearthed podcast
•2.30 pm – Rebecca Lehmann poetry reading: This Lovely World (plus Poems to
Take Home as you leave and randomly distributed poems through the building)
•3.30 pm – Free Range: Earth to Earth to Earth – live audio performance
Sunday 25 June | 10am – 4pm | The Alex | Talks, Poetry & Performance
•10.00 am – Wild Streets – Reimagining future cities
•11.00 – Tim Stonor: Global Trends towards Cycling, Walking and Public Transport
•12.00 – Bumblebee Conservation Trust:
•1.00pm – University of Kent Graphic Design: Lovely World Animations: The
Future of Food using snippets from Kew Gardens Unearthed podcast
•2.00 pm – Hannah Temple – Organisations of the future: putting life at the centre
•2.30 pm – Rebecca Lehmann poetry reading: This Lovely World (plus Poems to
Take Home as you leave – and randomly distributed poems throughout the building
