Green Pledge Project update
The Green Pledge Project is now into its second year. We’ve started the new year with lots of exciting new events, exhibitions and podcasts in the pipeline.
The Green Pledge exhibition is ready to tour venues across our area. The eight pull up panels display a rich mosaic of stories about the environmental heritage in our area, including global warming, changing landscapes and lifestyles, species loss and campaigning.
On Saturday 11th January the Green Pledge Open Archives event explored flooding. There were brilliant speakers as well as an exhibition in the foyer of the work of Ebb and Flow, a collection of artists who are campaigning about pollution in the River Wye. You can see the exhibition until the beginning of February.
Over the coming months we will be working with several artists including Natasha Housego, who is sculpting a piece of ash into a ‘Pledge Hog’. This will be the receptacle for people to make their pledges for the environment. Natasha has been working in freezing temperatures in the garden at Nature in Art at Twigworth. She’ll also be at Stroud Museum in the Park and Folk of Gloucester, so if you wish to see her, pop along, have a look at hedgehog related documents and drop a pledge into the pot. Find out more here
The Green Pledge Learning and Outreach Team also attended a wassail at the Folk Museum, taking with them documents about the tradition, the fascinating orchard book and correspondence between apple growers from the 1800s.
Our podcast series with people who work for nature and the environment continues, with new episodes from George Peterken about the grasslands and his work as a specialist woodland ecologist, and Mollie Meager talking about her life as a environmental campaigner.
There are lots of opportunities to volunteer with the project and you can catch up with us at Stroud Museum in the Park in half term.
To find out more please sign up for updates on our webpage