North West Community Planning Partnership Area, Creative Climate Action in Garnethill

Building on Garnethill’s legacy of activism, creativity, and social justice, this project is exploring how communities can respond to the climate emergency through multidisciplinary art forms, participation, and joyful activism. Activities will include singing, performance, food events, and growing projects.

Taking inspiration from a permaculture model, Join the Dots artist collective - Jude Williams, Kirstin Taylor, Rose Cunningham and Sadie Smith - seeks to utilise what is available locally—organically and sustainably—to nurture creativity and connection and join the dots between people, place and possibility.

Garnethill is a unique pocket of the city: a microcosm, a village in the centre of Glasgow - slightly set apart by its hill and one-way systems. It is home to lifelong residents including Glasgow’s oldest synagogue, a strong Chinese community, the Tenement House museum, a public school, multi-cultural centre, and Food Hub, and serves as the first home for many newly arrived refugees.