Upcoming events
Watch Peatlands – COP30, Climate change and peatland connections for a brighter future: Peat-Fest South-West online broadcast
Watch Peatlands – COP30, Climate change and peatland connections for a brighter future.
Friday 28th November, 11.30am-1pm, online via Teams.
Join Art and Energy and guest speakers for our final online broadcast session for Peat-Fest South-West.
This broadcast will feature speakers sharing their expertise on the impact of COP30 and the climate agenda on the ways peatlands will be managed in the future. We’ll hear from speakers who work on the ground to care for the Somerset Wetlands and the Dorset Heathlands and Mires.
Climate Change for peatlands – has COP30 made a difference about the way ahead in managing our peatland connections: Steve Mewes, LNP Coordinator & Advocacy Manager - Somerset Wildlife Trust
What is the Peatland Code, and how does it affect the management of peatlands for a changing climate in the future. Garance Wood-Moulin - Peatland Code Development Lead - IUCN Peatland Programme
How did COP 30 affect the future management of peatlands. Cisca Devereux, volunteer with RE-PEAT and the Peatland Justice Campaign.
Peatland restoration work in Somerset and Dorset (in conversation). Louise Treneman - Senior Reserve Manager/Senior Officer for Peat Restoration at Natural England & Grace Hervé - Dorset Peat Partnership Project Manager
Making change in response to the climate and ecological emergencies at community scale. Jenny Ayrton - Art and Energy
All welcome to join us, this is a free event thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
This will be an online session hosted via Teams, the session will be recorded and the recording will be shared publicly and form part of the lasting legacy of Peat-Fest South-West.
The online Teams link will be shared with all attendees in advance.
Please book your free place to join us.
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Peatland Stories: Peatlands, our heritage, and the role of creativity: Peat-Fest South-West online broadcast
Art and Energy will host an online broadcast session as part of Peat-Fest South-West, join us for Peatland Stories: Peatlands, our heritage, and the role of creativity.
We will have a range of voices reflecting our peatland heritage from across the country and within the South-West region, these voices will tell the stories of our heritage below the peatland surface and nature and peatland specialists who use art to support and strengthen their knowledge.
Speakers include:
Ben Totterdell from Exmoor National Park sharing how young rangers help to enrich the heritage of the peatlands of Exmoor
Jane Akerman, IUCN UK Peatland Programme – an overview of the heritage of peatlands, and how various artists have revealed different ways of understanding
Chloe Uden, Director and Founder, Art and Energy - the role of creativity in making change for a better future
Rachael Milliner, RE-PEAT, sharing how RE-PEAT uses creativity to make the case for peatland justice
Rose Ferraby and Melanie Giles – How the art of archaeology or peat tells stories and opens up the imagination – a conversation
Additional speakers to be confirmed.
Join us for an early lunch break to hear peatland stories and stimulate new ways to think about, and engage with, our peatland landscapes.
All welcome to join us.
This will be an online session hosted via Teams, the session will be recorded and the recording will be shared publicly and form part of the lasting legacy of Peat-Fest South-West.
Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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