Blue Futures Gathering

Blue Futures Gathering, part of SeaScapes Co/Lab

Wednesday 29 November, 10am - 6pm

The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, Market Place, South Shields, NE33 1JF

This in-person and free event will be a gathering of diverse perspectives and experiences to share environmentally-conscious creative practices that deepen understanding of our relationship with our natural world.

We hope to examine the inherent value systems, shifting roles and developing working practices and protocols that foreground care and equity with water and the sea through art-making and curatorship. In doing so, we hope to collectively question how we can co-develop common values and sustainable ways to live with our blue environments.

Curated by Dr Suzy O’Hara, University of Sunderland, the event forms part of the Blue Futures exhibition at The Word (20 July – 1 December 2023).

A lunch buffet and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided for attendees throughout the day and we will have presentations from regional, national and international curators, artists and thinkers.

Find out more and book your place by visiting the Eventbrite page.