Climate Action Festival 2024
A week-long festival dedicated to climate action returns to Lincoln this month to get people thinking and acting green.
The fourth community-focussed, Climate Action Festival (CAF) aims to inspire residents to take positive steps to protect the environment both in the city and further afield.
Led by the University of Lincoln Festival activities will celebrate this year’s themes of Climate Education, Nature Positive, and Community, all intrinsically linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals which were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015 to work towards a better world for all.
The CAF strives for quality education and lifelong learning opportunities, the protection, restoration and promotion of sustainable land use, and working together to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient for the people who live there.
Attendees of the festival are offered the opportunity to learn how to survey wildlife, watch cult environmental film Silent Running at Southside, and take part in a city-wide litter pick, along with a full schedule of other ways to join the climate conversation across the city.
Climate Action Festival 2024 runs from Monday 18 November – Saturday 23 November. For more information of how to get involved and full event schedule visit www.estates.lincoln.ac.uk/sustainability/projects/caf/
SCHEDULE
Monday 18 November – Friday 22 November
9am – 5pm
Project Space+, Peter de Wint Building, University of Lincoln
Nature Positive Lincoln Exhibition
Monday 18 November – Friday 22 November
8.30am – 6pm
Lincoln Arts Centre Café
Community Clothes Swap
Monday 18 November
12pm – 1.30pm
Hartsholme Country Park
Fungi with Fungiary (Booking essential)
12.30pm
Lawress Hall, Riseholme Park Campus
Riseholme Autumnal Tree Walk
2pm – 3.30pm
MB2306, Minerva Building, University of Lincoln
Bitesize Carbon Literacy Training
6pm – 8pm
Lincoln Arts Centre Café
Craft & Coffee (Booking essential)
Tuesday 19 November
10am – 1pm
Project Space+, Peter de Wint Building, University of Lincoln
Climate Action & Ecological Justice in Diverse Contexts: A Research and Scholarship Showcase (Booking advised)
2pm – 3pm
Outside Ross Lucas Medical Sciences Building, University of Lincoln
Wildlife Photography Workshop (Booking advised)
5pm – 7pm
Project Space+, Peter de Wint Building, University of Lincoln
Wild Lincolnshire, A Panel Talk (Booking essential)
6pm – 8pm
The Horse & Groom, Carholme Road
People Planet Pint – Informal Networking (Booking essential)
Wednesday 20 November
12pm – 3pm
Outside Students’ Union, University of Lincoln
Green Goodies & Herb Garden Pop Up
12pm – 2pm
University of Lincoln’s Library Freezone
Sustainability Café
1pm – 3pm
Alfred Tennyson Building, University of Lincoln
Using UN Sustainable Development Goals – Development Workshop
Please be advised this workshop is focussed for academics and teachers
6:45pm
Southside, Colegrave Street, Lincoln
Silent Running Film Screening
6pm – 9pm
Lincoln Arts Centre Café
Eco Night Market
Thursday 21 November
8.30am – 12pm
Riseholme Park Campus
Introduction to Wildlife Surveying (Booking essential)
4.30pm – 6pm
The Swan, Campus Way
Feel Good Thoughtful Thursdays: Fabric Painting
2pm – 4pm
Project Space+, Peter de Wint Building, University of Lincoln
Pigment Paint Workshop
Friday 22 November
Lincoln Cathedral
Bring and Share Lunch at the Table for the Nation
12pm – 3pm
Brayford Campus, University of Lincoln
Autumn at the Kitchen Garden (Booking advised)
Saturday 23 November
The Big City Litter Pick - Details of each meeting point TBC