Meet The Changemakers : Black History Month (Black Environmentalists)

Join us for an afternoon of climate-themed activities, workshops and family fun led by local Black led organisations to mark Black History Month.

For this edition of Meet the Changemakers, we’ll be joined by

• Black Girls Hike
• Peaks of Colour
• Afrocats
• Manchester Museum Curators - Diana Arzuza Buelvas, Curator of Entomology (the study of insects) and Njabulo Chipangura, Curator of Living Cultures.
  

Drop in between 12pm and 4pm to discover new and different ideas and get involved in free creative workshops and activities for all ages.

Manchester Museum’s Top Floor is a space for learning, connecting, and inspiring change, and Meet the Changemakers is our quarterly event that gives you the chance to meet the communities, charities, activists, and artists shaping a more sustainable and fair future for Manchester.

All activities apart from the City Walk and Nature Writing workshops are drop in, just come along on the day, no need to book. More information on these workshops to come.

As part of our commitment to building understanding between cultures and a more sustainable world, the museum is developing a programme of work around Environmental Justice led by the Social Justice and Environmental Action managers.

‘Environmental Justice’ means that everyone – regardless of race, gender, sexual identity, economic status, or ability - has the right to the same environmental protections and benefits, as well as meaningful involvement in the policies and action that shape their communities. However this has rarely been a reality for many marginalised communities, who are also at the greatest risk of being impacted by the environmental emergency we’re facing. At the same time, these voices and lived experiences have often been underrepresented in and excluded from climate and environmental action groups/movements.

This series of work aims to increase awareness and understanding of environmental injustice and its root causes through events and collaborations that give space and priority to marginalised voices. Many of these events and opportunities will be open to all, whilst some will prioritise or only be available to people from marginalised communities to take part in. This is so they can engage with the topic in a 'safer' space where for example, racism or ableism present within wider movements that make them inaccessible is less likely to be present.

• Greenpeace : Environmentalism Crosses Everything - link here

• Ella’s law: Clean Air For All - link here

• Greenpeace: Racism Report Sumamry - link here

• RACE report - link here

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