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Creating Change: Climate Action Night

Join us for an evening of creativity, conversation and climate action.

West Entrance on Queen’s Gate
Thursday 26 June, 18.30–21.30
Free, booking required

This London Climate Action Week discover how science, nature and creativity can help tackle the climate crisis.

Meet scientists, artists and community voices passionate about creating positive change. Slow down and reconnect with the natural world on a sensory walk through our gardens. Explore the collections we care for up close and learn how nature-based solutions can help protect the planet. Learn how to upcycle your clothes and find even more practical steps you can take to make a difference.

This event is part of London Climate Action Week.

Explore our Creating Change: Climate Action Night programme below.

Accessibility information

If you’ll be using a wheelchair, let us know in advance so we can make appropriate arrangements.
Seating is available in the event space.
A dedicated quiet area is available during the event.
There are accessible toilets across our Ground Floor. We also have a Changing Places toilet in our Blue Zone.

Visiting information

This event is recommended for ages 16+.
Enter using our West Entrance on Queen’s Gate.

Climate Action Night programme

Greenery surrounds our ponds at the Nature Discovery Garden, with Waterhouse building in the background

Noticing Nature: Mindfulness and Nature Journalling

Slow down and reconnect with urban nature in our Nature Discovery Garden. Join us for a guided sensory walk, mindfulness moments and nature journalling in a space to explore, reflect and reconnect with nature in your own way.

Nature Discovery Garden
Meet at the ponds

19.00–20.00 and 20.00–21.00

Drop-in, 15 people per session

Art of blue mushrroms over a picture of a burnt woodland

Generation Hope: Untold Stories of Climate and Empire

How is the climate crisis connected to colonial history, and what can the collections we care for tell us about it? Explore surprising stories that uncover the hidden links between climate, empire and the systems shaping our world today. Discover how rethinking the past can help us imagine a fairer, more sustainable future and how you can be part of it. 

Attenborough Studio

19.15–20.00

After the event, there will be 30 minutes for you to chat to the speakers and each other.

Drop-in, short talks and stories

Speaker biographies

Dr Hohee Cho

Hohee is a Research Associate at the Faculty of History and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She specialises in environmental history, medical history and the British Empire in the Pacific Islands. She’s currently working on multispecies history and disease ecology in the Pacific World.

Dr Isabel Davis

Isabel is a Research Theme Leader in Collections and Culture. She supports different arts and humanities researchers to conduct research on our specimen, library and archive collections. A particular priority is to surface the colonial histories and legacies of the collections we care for. She’s a cultural historian and author of Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present. She’s particularly interested in the environmental questions in histories of human fertility and infertility. 

Dr Rohan Deb Roy

Rohan (PhD, FRHistS) is a historian of science, medicine and environment in British India and Associate Professor in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He’s the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India (Cambridge, 2017). His current work explores the history of how British imperial power and insects interacted in South Asia.

Larissa Pinto Moraes

A black woman from the Brazilian Amazon region, Larissa’s one of the heads of Engajamundo, a youth-led organisation working with social and environmental issues. In her climate justice activism, she’s interested in discussions about the impacts that the climate crisis has on marginalised groups. She’s also interested in the power of resilience these communities have on withstanding and protecting the environment.

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Re-defining Fashion: Future Threads Workshop

Does your wardrobe need a glow-up? Are you looking for ways to take action for the planet whilst learning a new skill?  London-born sustainable fashion designer Melissa Simon-Hartman will be in conversation with our scientist Krisztina Lohonya. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the impact of fast fashion on the planet and practical ways to advocate for the environment through your fashion choices. Melissa’s work is inspired by her Trinidadian and Ghanaian heritage and was featured on Beyoncé’s visual albums Black Is King and Renaissance.

Nature Activity Centre, West Garden

19.15–19.45, 20.00–20.30 and 20.45–21.15

Drop-in, 30 people per session

Mushrooms are the Future: Cultivating Connections

Join a heart-led conversation with friends, growers, educators and healers Sal Chebbah, the Cayley Brothers and Kalpana Arias. Together, they’ll explore how mushrooms inspire radical solutions to today’s ecological challenges. Set in a growing space full of lived experience and wonder, the panel will delve into fungi’s role in food, healing, and justice. They’ll dig into the threads linking climate care, soil regeneration, wellbeing and grassroots action. Come and uncover what fungi can teach us about resilience, connection and the power of growing local futures.

Attenborough Studio

20.30–21.15

Drop-in

Moss safari

From creating soil to retaining water, mosses are some of the most intrepid organisms in reclaiming space for living things. Explore these remarkable organisms and micro-habitats, and never look at moss on a wall in the same way again.

Darwin Centre Atrium

18.30–21.30

Drop-in

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Pop-up stations

Visit our pop-up science stands to explore how we can understand our impact on the planet through specimens from the collections we care for. Meet our scientists and discuss how their work tackles the planet’s biggest crises.

Across the Museum

18.30–21.30

Drop-in