BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11508@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20260123 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20260330 DTSTAMP:20260211T163900Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/look-climate-lab-2026/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: LOOK Climate Lab 2026 DESCRIPTION:Launch: 22 January 2025 / 6–8pm / RSVP\n\nLOOK Climate Lab i s a biennial programme exploring how photography can be a relevant and pow erful medium for talking about climate change.\n\nWe are transforming the gallery into a lab\, bringing together researchers\, activists and artists to test their ideas\, and encouraging our audiences to discuss systematic changes needed for dealing with the climate crisis.\n\nLOOK Climate Lab 2 026 will take place from 23 January 2026 to 29 March 2026\, with this year ’s programme focusing on gardens and how people connect with green space s. From memorials to places to hang out with friends\, from horticultural perfection to an accidental hedge near your house or a tree that brings b ack memories\, we examine the role plants play in our lives\, and how our lives shape theirs.\n\nLOOK Climate Lab 2026 projects include:\n\nMy Natur e Connection. Photographer Stephanie Wynne has been collaborating with vol unteers for Whitby Park Community Garden exploring the positive impact of nature connections\, developed in partnership with Chester Zoo as part of their Networks for Nature programme.\n\nPansy Project. Paul Harfleet has been planting pansies at sites of homophobic and transphobic abuse since 2 015. Through this quiet yet powerful act\, the ongoing project gently conf ronts hate crime and brings visibility to LGBTQ+ experiences that often go unreported.\n\nSeeds of Change is a live project reimagining urban green spaces at the University of Salford. Three students and graduates\, Nia H offman\, Fariba Najafi Barzegar and Frances Veltkamp\, have been working i n collaboration with university staff\, Open Eye Gallery and landscape arc hitects Planit to design a series of multi-sensory and sustainable artwork s and planting interventions for the space. The project transforms the spa ce into a vibrant\, welcoming\, and ecologically rich ‘green doorway’ for the campus.\n\nEmergence. A socially engaged project between volunteer s at Victoria Park Butterfly House and visual artist Anna Wijnhoven. Throu gh a series of photographs and collaborative work\, it celebrates the ofte n unseen efforts of those who sustain this unique urban sanctuary. Part of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Cultural Events Programme.\n \nOFFSHOOT is a collaboration between University of Salford Art Collectio n\, RHS Garden Bridgewater and Open Eye Gallery. Socially engaged photogra phers Fiona Robinson\, Anoosh Ariamehr and Liz Lock have been working at R HS Garden Bridgewater and with different groups from the Salford community \, including youth groups\, wellbeing and community groups. Meanwhile\, a rtist Yan Wang Preston embarked on a memory gathering process in response to the oldest tree at RHS Bridgewater. This magnificent sweet chestnut tre e\, estimated to be 300 years old\, stands on the historical grounds of RH S Bridgewater. If trees are memory keepers\, what might this tree recolle ct from the past three centuries?\n\nTreeStory Wigan. The Story of Wigan T hrough its Trees was launched in 2025 by Open Eye Gallery and dot-art in p artnership with Wigan Council\, celebrating Wigan’s 50th anniversary. Mu ch of Wigan’s green space has been reclaimed from post-industrial sites\ , transforming former coalfields into thriving natural habitats. Through p hotography\, creative workshops\, school visits and outdoor adventures\, l ed by socially engaged photographers Lizzie King and Andy Yates\, the proj ect is bringing together local schools\, community groups\, and residents to share their personal TreeStories and connect with Wigan’s unique natu ral and industrial heritage.\n\nVeterans’ Oaks is a nationwide\, commun ity-led initiative to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two – historically marked as the ‘oak anniversary’. Through the symbolic act of planting oak trees across the United Kingdom\, the initia tive commemorates\, remembers and celebrates the courage\, sacrifice\, and resilience of the generation who lived through the war – both military personnel and civilians – and pledges to safeguard the nation’s enviro nmental future in our struggle against climate change.\n\nRoam\, River\, R oam is a practice-as-research project by artist and producer Liz Wewiora\ , which forms part of her wider current PhD in collaboration with the Univ ersity of Salford and Open Eye Gallery. Liz has been working as a photogra phic artist in residence with different communities located at the points where various rivers meet. The residency explores individuals’ relations hip to their local river and its surrounding public green spaces.\n\nThe e vents programme includes workshops\, talks\, open meetings and more – to be announced soon!\n\nPartners: British Academy SHAPE programme\, Chester Zoo\, High Peak Community Arts Project eARTh group\, Homotopia\, Many Han ds Craft Collective\, Planit\, RHS Garden Bridgewater\, Salford Youth Serv ice\, Stockroom\, TreeStory Wigan\, Veterans’ Oaks (in partnership with   the Forestry Commission\, Duchy of Cornwall\, Cobseo\, M&\;C Saatchi World Services\, dot-art\, Royal British Legion\, England’s Community F orests) \, University of Salford\, University of Salford Art Collection\, Victoria Park Butterfly House and Garden\, Wigan Borough Council.\n\nWith support from: Arts Council England\, Chester Zoo\, Forestry Commission\, L iverpool City Council\, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority\, Nationa l Lottery Heritage Fund\,  National Lottery through Arts Council England \, Royal Horticultural Society\, University of Salford\, Wigan Borough Co uncil. 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