As part of Carers Awareness week and in partnership with Devon Carers, the National Trust will be running a Mossy Carpet pompom making session at A la Ronde on Saturday 14th June, 10:30am - 3.30pm.

Everyone is welcome at this free activity.

Normal admission prices apply (free entry for carers registered with Devon Carers).

For more information please contact the National Trust at A la Ronde.

The volunteers with Plastic Free Okehampton are encouraging visitors to the Eco Fair to Tell the Tardigrade their short uplifting message for a brighter greener future. These audio messages will be added to The Mossy Carpet artwork. You can prepare a message in advance or be inspired by others on the day.

Head along to the Eco Fair on Saturday 14th June, 9.30am - 1.30pm at the Charter Hall, Okehampton.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN DELAYED UNTIL THE AUTUMN, KEEP AN EYE ON OUR WEBSITE FOR UPDATES.

The Mossy Story

Join Jay as he travels with his Nana on an unforgettable journey, venturing into tiny mossy worlds in search of big answers. A story reading with added magic, featuring a dancing tardigrade and a sleeping giant… A celebration of the small things we can all do to build a brighter, greener future!

The Mossy Story is an illustrated story book written by Exeter-based author Micha Colombo. The story has been inspired by the Art and Energy Collective’s project ‘How to Bury the Giant’, with themes of mosses, climate action, giants, all helping to share and celebrate tiny actions for the environment.

FarFlung CIC have choreographed a beautiful performance of The Mossy Story, using the Mossy Carpet artwork as their stage. This will be a specially adapted solo version by FarFlung's Charlotte Eaton. Costumes by the Sewcial Guild.

Please wear socks so that you can join Charlotte to take a celebratory walk at the end of the story telling!

Mossy Make

The Mossy Carpet is an epic interactive multi-sensory textile artwork made by thousands of people. It shares and celebrates the small actions we’re all taking towards a better world… and you’re invited to join in too!

Look closely and learn about the amazing role that mosses play in the environment… get creative and make your own textile tuft to add to the artwork… then tell the tardigrade about the small actions you’re taking to #BeMoreMoss

Come along to Bridging the Tamar Visitor and Learning Centre and make a mossy pompon to add to The Mossy Carpet.

Mosses play an essential role in reducing flooding. As rain falls on the moor the mosses absorb the water like a sponge, releasing it slowly down to the rivers and out to sea. Did you know… Sphagnum moss can absorb an incredible twenty times it's body weight in water!

Join Art and Energy to explore the amazing miniature world of mosses, discover the tiny creatures that live within, make a moss-inspired pompom to add to the artwork, and share the tiny moss-like actions you’re taking for a brighter,
greener future!

This is a free drop in event, no booking required.

Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th April, 10am - 3.30pm each day.

Come along to Bridging the Tamar Visitor and Learning Centre and make a mossy pompon to add to The Mossy Carpet.

Mosses play an essential role in reducing flooding. As rain falls on the moor the mosses absorb the water like a sponge, releasing it slowly down to the rivers and out to sea. Did you know… Sphagnum moss can absorb an incredible twenty times it's body weight in water!

Join Art and Energy to explore the amazing miniature world of mosses, discover the tiny creatures that live within, make a moss-inspired pompom to add to the artwork, and share the tiny moss-like actions you’re taking for a brighter,
greener future!

This is a free drop in event, no booking required.

Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th April, 10am - 3.30pm each day.

Art and Energy will be running The Mossy Carpet creative workshops at The Pioneers Project’s Café Connect Community Café on four Wednesdays this year.

Drop in any time (10am - 2pm) for these free creative workshops, everyone is welcome (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Café Connect meets at The Barn Children’s Centre in Plymouth and all are welcome each week.

Our workshops will run on the following dates:

Wednesdays: 5th February, 26th February, 19th March and 9th April.

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy are delighted to be joining this event with The Mossy Carpet artwork, sharing creative conversations, growing the artwork and recording messages of hope on our Tardigrade Telephone.

Our inspiring women - Chloe and Jenny will be on hand to share our work and be part of the conversation.

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Join us for an inspiring discussion that celebrates the incredible women shaping the future of clean energy. Sponsored by OWC and Turley and kindly hosted by Burges Salmon, this ReWiRE event brings together women working across all aspects of the offshore value chain, fostering connections and collaborations.

The offshore renewables sector is driving significant economic and environmental progress in the UK. The Crown Estate’s ongoing Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5 highlights this momentum, with plans to unlock up to 4.5 gigawatts (GW) of new floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea – enough to power over 4 million homes. This milestone reflects the promising trajectory of the offshore sector and its vital role in shaping the UK’s renewable energy future.

These projects represent more than clean energy – they promise new jobs, economic growth and social value opportunities for coastal communities. However, the offshore renewables sector must reflect the diversity of the society it serves to achieve its full potential.

Despite progress, the industry still urgently needs greater representation, particularly in achieving gender balance. This session will explore how an ambitious and collaborative approach can help unlock the potential of the south west. Together, we’ll discuss practical steps to build a more diverse workforce, with a special focus on increasing opportunities for women. As part of this, we’ll host a dedicated “How I Got Here” session, where women in the industry will share their personal journeys into the offshore sector and provide insight into their roles.

What to expect:

• An inspiring conversation: Hear directly from women leading the charge in offshore renewables as they share their skills, strategies and stories.

• Actionable insights: Explore what it takes to attract and empower a diverse workforce, while driving jobs and social value in clean energy.

• New connections all around: Meet and mingle with like-minded, friendly and supportive women in the industry.

Art and Energy will be running The Mossy Carpet creative workshops at Keyham Krafties on Tuesday 25th February and Tuesday 25th March 2025.

The group meet weekly 7-9pm at Keyham Green Places, everyone is welcome but these sessions are aimed at adults rather than children.

This is a group for people who enjoy crafting, does not matter what the craft is, who would like to join other crafters once a week.

Your first Keyham Krafties session is free otherwise they ask for a £2 voluntary fee .

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy will be running The Mossy Carpet creative workshops at The Pioneers Project’s Café Connect Community Café on four Wednesdays this year.

Drop in any time (10am - 2pm) for these free creative workshops, everyone is welcome (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Café Connect meets at The Barn Children’s Centre in Plymouth and all are welcome each week.

Our workshops will run on the following dates:

Wednesdays: 5th February, 26th February, 19th March and 9th April.

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy will be running The Mossy Carpet creative workshops at The Pioneers Project’s Café Connect Community Café on four Wednesdays this year.

Drop in any time (10am - 2pm) for these free creative workshops, everyone is welcome (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Café Connect meets at The Barn Children’s Centre in Plymouth and all are welcome each week.

Our workshops will run on the following dates:

Wednesdays: 5th February, 26th February, 19th March and 9th April.

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy will be running The Mossy Carpet creative workshops at Keyham Krafties on Tuesday 25th February and Tuesday 25th March 2025.

The group meet weekly 7-9pm at Keyham Green Places, everyone is welcome but these sessions are aimed at adults rather than children.

This is a group for people who enjoy crafting, does not matter what the craft is, who would like to join other crafters once a week.

Your first Keyham Krafties session is free otherwise they ask for a £2 voluntary fee .

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Join Micha Colombo at Exeter Library as she reads our new story book - The Mossy Story.

Storytime starts at 11am and everyone is welcome to come along to this free event. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Find out more about The Mossy Story.

More details can be found on the Exeter Library website.

Please Note! This event takes place in our temporary Pop-up Children's Library.

The Children’s Library at Exeter Library will be closed for a little while for essential roof works—but don’t dismay! This January, we’re popping up in Princesshay with a temporary space that's packed full of all the usual fun and activities you & your little ones love.

The Pop-up Children’s Library offers the full range of services from our regular Children’s Library, including borrowing, browsing, and returning books, along with a treasure hunt, colouring sheets, and our friendly library staff on hand to help.

Okehampton Community Garden are hosting a coffee morning on Saturday 15th February 2025 at All Saint’s Church Hall.

Their team of volunteers have a section of The Mossy Carpet and are encouraging everyone to come along and help make a big green pompom heart to add to the artwork.

Everyone welcome to come along and join in.

Art and Energy will be running The Mossy Carpet creative workshops at The Pioneers Project’s Café Connect Community Café on four Wednesdays this year.

Drop in any time (10am - 2pm) for these free creative workshops, everyone is welcome (children must be accompanied by an adult).

Café Connect meets at The Barn Children’s Centre in Plymouth and all are welcome each week.

Our workshops will run on the following dates:

Wednesdays: 5th February, 26th February, 19th March and 9th April.

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy will be at St Budeaux Library on Tuesday 4th February, 10am - 4pm for a free Mossy Carpet creative workshop.

No need to book for this free event, just drop in any time. All welcome, children must be accompanied by an adult.

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy are bringing The Mossy Carpet to St Budeaux Library’s Community event day to celebrate their 5th birthday!

Everyone is welcome to come along during the day (10am - 4pm) for a tea party, rhyme time and story telling.

The Mossy Carpet will be on display and we’ll be offering a free creative workshop to all.

No need to book for this free event, just drop in any time. All welcome, children must be accompanied by an adult. More details can be found here.

Thanks to North Yard Community Trust for their funding to allow us to offer The Mossy Carpet creative workshops free of charge to the local community.

Art and Energy are teaming up with Far Flung CIC and Sewcial Guild to bring two moss inspired creative performances to Theatre Royal Plymouth on Thursday 31st October 2024.

Featuring performers from Far Flung CIC and costumes made by Sewcial Guild and inspired by Art and Energy’s The Mossy Carpet and A Mossy Story.

The event will be open 12.30 - 4pm and performances will be at 1pm and 3pm.

Find us in The Nook, a pop up library space upstairs in Theatre Royal Plymouth.

This event is free of charge but booking is essential.

Please note that children under the age of 14 must be always accompanied by an adult.

Further details and the booking link.

Find out more about the wider week of activities at Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Finding Common Cause: collaborative approaches to delivery on common land.

As well as sustaining a thousand years of living cultural heritage, commons have a vital role to play in addressing biodiversity and climate crisis. But commons are complex, contested, multi-interest spaces, where typical approaches to conservation can falter.

Through the Our Upland Commons project, the Foundation for Common Land and others have been developing people-centred, collaborative approaches to unlock commons’ potential for nature recovery, flood management and carbon sequestration.

This conference brings together key voices from commoning and conservation, to look towards an uncertain future, to share and explore collective approaches to the challenges we face. The conference will help shape the future work of FCL and others working on commons, as well as giving you practical insights that will help your organisation, common or farm business.

The day will comprise off a mix of panel talks, short lectures and workshops. The day will be start from 9:30am, opening speeches will be at 10am. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Art and Energy’s Naomi Wright will host a Mossy Carpet workshop:

Creative collaborations on Dartmoor commons with The Art and Energy Collective.

A workshop to explore how creative engagement can help tell the story of the commons.

Naomi Wright describes ‘How to Bury the Giant in Moss and Moor’, a project with its origins on the commons of Dartmoor. She will include stories from collaborations, events and activities on Dartmoor including The Mossy Carpet mass participation artwork and small moss-scale restoration and repair with local schools and community groups.

There will be an opportunity to get hands-on with fleece and sphagnum, and make some small restorative mossy blankets, as well as add your voice to the Mossy Carpet.

This event has been made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Mossy Carpet – Discover and Make!

Saturday 12 October, 10.00 a.m.–12.00 p.m. and 1.00 p.m.–3.00 p.m., Wells Cathedral Education Room

Did you know that mosses are climate superheroes? Join us on a mossy adventure when we’ll learn about this tiny but hugely important plant.

Watch a short film, look at mosses under the lens and get creative with wool to help us make a mossy carpet! Suitable for all ages and abilities.

Admission; Free with adult entry to the Cathedral; Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Only assistance dogs are allowed at this activity.

More details can be found here.

Art and Energy and The Mossy Carpet will be part of the Futures: A Festival of Discovery, pop-up Curiousity Shop of Science & Culture on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September.

Drop in any time for free family friendly creative activities, 10am - 2.30pm.

Find us in Princesshay as part of the wider University of Exeter event.

More details can be found here - https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/publicengagement/eventsandfestivals/futures/popupshops/

The event is suitable for all ages, and accessible for neurodivergent families with a quiet space available – for any questions about accessibility and to preregister for an accessibility guide please get in touch. 

Art and Energy and The Mossy Carpet will be part of the Futures: A Festival of Discovery, pop-up Curiousity Shop of Science & Culture on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September.

Drop in any time for free family friendly creative activities, 10am - 2.30pm.

Find us in Princesshay as part of the wider University of Exeter event.

More details can be found here - https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/publicengagement/eventsandfestivals/futures/popupshops/

The event is suitable for all ages, and accessible for neurodivergent families with a quiet space available – for any questions about accessibility and to preregister for an accessibility guide please get in touch. 

The North Devon Craftivists will be hosting Mossy Carpet creative activities at the South Molton Eco Fair on Sunday 22nd September, 11am - 4pm at South Molton Pannier Market.

Art and Energy’s Jenny will be taking The Mossy Carpet along to this Food Plymouth event on 20th September.

Ready to be part of an exciting Food Conversations and Celebrations event this September?

Join the city's sustainable local food partnership Food Plymouth for a host of interactive and celebratory activities at Sherwell United Church on Friday 20th September 2024.

• Share your views on food as part of the national #FoodConversation in small group discussions in the morning

• Gather for a lunch celebrating 30 years of Fairtrade as part of Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

• Join a meeting of the Food Plymouth Partnership and Network - new faces are welcome alongside familiar ones!

Come for all or as much of the time that you can manage - everyone is welcome! You can let us know when you'll be joining us as part of registering for your (absolutely free) ticket here on Eventbrite.

Food Plymouth is grateful to have received a grant from the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission to support the Food Conversation element of this event.

Peatland Exhibition and Cinema - part of the IUCN UK Peatland Programme Conference 2024, featuring Art and Energy’s Naomi Wright with The Mossy Carpet artwork.

5pm – 7pm - Poster and exhibition session

Join our sponsors and exhibitors from across the peatland community to learn more about the research, restoration and engagement taking place across the UK. Try your hand at Peatland ACTION’s digger simulator, explore biodiverse soundscapes from different peatland habitats, or find out more about the amazing technologies being used to measure and monitor peatlands. 

6pm – 7pm - Peatland Poetry and Cinema (Auditorium, open to the public) 

Featuring the premiere of ‘Sphagnum Portraits’, a short film jointly commissioned by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme, this eclectic mix of sound and vision takes you on a journey through the special peatlands and people that make the UK such a wonderful place. 

Welcome: Jane Akerman, IUCN UK Peatland Programme 

The most important plant in the world (2024)’ from the series Sphagnum Portraits’ introduced by Caroline Vitzthum

‘Connecting communities through citizen science and the arts’ introduced by Lucy Lee and Beth Thomas, Yorkshire Peat Partnership 

'The Special Blanket' poetry reading, Roxane Andersen, University of the Highlands and Islands 

‘The Mossy Carpet’ introduced by Naomi Wright, Art and Energy 

‘STACKS’ and ‘Curlew, Curlew, Curlew!’ introduced by Rose Ferraby, University of Exeter 

The British Bryological Society Autumn meeting and AGM

Art and Energy and The Mossy Carpet will be at the 2024 AGM and paper reading meeting of The British Bryological Society (BBS), held in the Reed Hall, University of Exeter on Saturday 7th September.

We’ve been working with members of the BBS to learn more about mosses and bryophytes and to share our love of these tiny plants with a wider audience. We’ll be going along to the AGM to share our moss inspired creative activities including The Mossy Carpet.

Further details of the wider BBS Autumn event:

There will be the usual field meeting on Sunday 8th, but there will also be field meetings on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of September, probably including visits to Dartmoor.

If you would be interested in attending please contact the meetings secretary Philippa Thompson: philippabryology@outlook.com

Join us to contribute to Art and Energy's Mossy Carpet collaborative art work, which celebrates the actions we're taking for our planet.

Everyone is welcome to drop in and help us grow The Mossy Carpet. We'll be sewing on woolly pompoms and other textile pieces to the artwork. You can also make more pieces, including knitted and crocheted creations. No experience is necessary and we'll provide all the materials needed.

This is also a great chance to drop off any pompoms or textile pieces you've been making and you can also donate any spare wool or yarn.

Book to join in with this free event at 10.30-11.30am and/or 1.30-2.30pm

Details can be found here.

Please email parkeevents@nationaltrust.co.uk

Meeting point

In the grassy old tennis court area, next to the National Trust car park.

What to bring and wear

This sew-on is held outdoors so come prepared for all weathers. There is a small gazebo for shelter.

Accessibility

The old tennis court area is accessed downhill on a stone path towards the cafe and then over a rough grass area. Two bench tables are designed to accomodate wheelchairs and pushchairs.

Other

Car parking is free for National Trust members or £3 for 2hrs. Every car park ticket helps to support Parke.

Contact info

Parke Events

01626834748

parkeevents@nationaltrust.org.uk

Meldon Wildlife Festival

The National Trust, Dartmoor will be attending the Meldon Wildlife Festival with Mossy Carpet activities for everyone! Come along and learn more about mosses and make moss inspired woolly pompoms for The Mossy Carpet.

More details about the Festival:

Come along to Meldon Old Quary for a wild day out celebrating Dartmoor's unique and beautiful wildlife. A free fun-filled, event for all the family!

There will be lots of wildlife activities to help you get closer to nature and nature crafts to take home. Spend the day in a beautiful part of Dartmoor.

No need to book for this free event.

Facilities

Free parking, toilets, and refreshments available to purchase.

Getting there

From Okehampton: Follow the B3260 uphill and look for Meldon Quarry sign. Turn left just before Betty Cottles. Follow road over A30, through the woods, under viaduct and look out for car park entrance to Meldon Old Quarry on right.

From Tavistock & A30 Cornwall: Follow signs to Okehampton leaving the A30 via slip road. Turn left onto B3260 towards Okehampton until you see Betty Cottles on your left, take next road on right marked Meldon Quarry. Follow road over A30, through the woods, under viaduct and look out for car park entrance to Meldon Old Quarry on the right.

More details can be found here.

The Mossy Carpet will be at Sideshore, Exmouth on Tuesday 20th August, 10am - 3pm.

Drop in any time for free moss inspired creative activities for all the family.

The South East Devon Wildlife team will also be on hand to share their local wildlife knowledge with you.

For further details please contact info@sideshore.co.uk