Climate Gathering 2026
Hosted by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival & OutdoorArtsUK
Fri 4 Sep 2026
- 1 – 3pm: Climate Gathering
- 3 – 5.30pm: Nature Speaks programme as part of GDIF 2026
At The Moorings Social Club, London, SE28 8BG
BSL interpreted + wheelchair accessible venue. Contact access@festival.org for access requirements.
Join the Conversation on Climate-Conscious Creation & Touring in Outdoor Arts
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and OutdoorArtsUK invite you to an industry gathering exploring how artists and presenters can reimagine the future of outdoor performance in response to the climate crisis. Bringing together a panel of international and UK artists, we will explore how work created for public spaces and natural landscapes can embrace more environmentally conscious ways of being made, shared and experienced. Through presentations and open discussion, we’ll exchange ideas, inspire new approaches and reflect on how creative practice can work more consciously with the places and communities it inhabits.
Speakers include:
- El Conde de Torrefiel (Catalonia): sharing their artistic practice of creating work for natural landscapes and their approach to concept-touring with I Have No Name;
- Lorna Rees (UK): reflecting on her collaborations with ecologists and audience engagement models in Canopy to discuss the climate crisis in locally-relevant ways;
- J D Swann (UK): Speaker for the Living at Three Rivers, the UK’s first Zoöp, will introduce the organization’s model and his role in translating the interests of the ecosystems at Tump 39, a rewilded Victorian ammunition store in Thamesmead.
Following the Climate Gathering, attendees are invited to Nature Speaks at GDIF 2026 (3 – 5:30pm) featuring El Conde de Torrefiel’s I Have No Name and Lorna Rees Company’s Canopy in Thamesmead’s much-loved Tump53 Nature Reserve.
This event is kindly supported by Peabody.
Image credit: Canopy by Lorna Rees Company.
