Creative Climate Fest – Partners

With only three months to go before our first Creative Climate Festival at Scolton Manor, we’re delighted to have a great collection of partners for the occasion. It will be a busy and action filled weekend on July 5th and 6th, but much of its content and message will remain for the following summer months on display in the Green Barn exhibition area. So just a few words about some of the generous partner groups and individuals who will all be contributing to the event – there are quite a few of them, so two blog posts would do them better justice than  a single crowded one!

The wonderful site of Scolton Manor Country Park (https://scoltonmanor.co.uk) will be hosting the festival, 60 acres of rolling meadow and woodland, with the fine old country house and gardens situated at the top of the grounds. The gardening team will have presentation and demonstration stalls, showcasing the fascinating skills and growing projects at the grounds. The woodland team will be demonstrating management skills, with input from the bio-diversity teams and Pembrokeshire Bee-Keepers, based also at the park.

The excellent Popty Press printers collective of Haverfordwest (https://www.popty.press) will be contributing prints and workshop activities throughout the weekend. Co-ordinated by Heidi Baker, Popty is a wonderful professional printing company with a generous community approach to its engagement with the local area. We’re lucky to have their input for the weekend, and the collective’s work will be on display throughout the event.

The Cleddau River Project (https://thecleddauproject.org.uk) is a highly successful Pembrokeshire initiative, originally begun as a means of monitoring water quality in the famous Cleddau rivers. Before long it grew into a wider environmental pressure group, focused on a holistic approach to whole landscape around the rivers themselves. It keeps a careful watch on untoward developments in the water catchment zones, but has also had great success with school centred community projects, particularly last year’s Cleddau River Project, involving a multitude of schools and local artist Fran Evans. It will be presenting the vital work it’s done with some of the lovely artwork created by the schools at its stall in the show.

Grwp Resilience (https://grwp.org) is a Pembrokeshire based CIC which focuses on community support, food and sustainability projects and the environment, and will be among the stall holders at the festival. It’s a dynamic local initiative which builds strong connections between smallholders, organic food growers and people who want to make a constructive difference in their communities.

Adult Learning Wales (https://www.adultlearning.wales) is a national adult course provider and an organisation for which  I’m currently providing art courses. It’s a forward thinking institution which shares a belief in the sustainable and community led engagement programmes underpinning the Creative Climate Fest. We’re delighted to provide a platform for their wonderful adult education work, which covers an extraordinary range of subjects.

So a brief overview of some of our partners – more to follow about our other ones, every one a valued contributors!