Precarity, Process, Place: Resilience Tools for Climate Change

Join us for a participative event, that turns an exhibition into something much more than a showcase of work. It is an invitation to gather, reflect, and discuss how we live together in a time of overlapping crises — climate, social, political, and economic. Let’s explore, together, what is possible in this place, despite and through precarity, by trusting in process.

Drawing on our 18 months on the Belfast Stories site — a partnership with Brink!, Grow NI and quarto — this exhibition and accompanying event trace what it means to act together in a place shaped by history, uncertainty, creativity, and hope. Together, we explore how a derelict city-centre site could become a garden, a cultural venue, and a commons for dialogue, and how communities can lead shifts toward ecological and social repair.

We will host a public gathering to celebrate the communities who shaped this work and to invite the citizens of Belfast into conversation about what meaningful action looks like on the ground in the face of climate crisis and social change. What should we be doing as a city? How do we support and empower community-led action? And how do we build connection rather than division?

This is a space for shared imagination, honesty, and hope — a chance to explore how collective creativity, care for place, and the stories we tell can shape a more just and sustainable future for Belfast.

Gawain Morrison and Paul Kelly formed Brink! to use culture, arts and citizen events to catalyse public conversations about climate crisis and begin to connect communities, organisations and institutions to act in solidarity on the most pressing issue of our time.

Grow NI is a small charity building communities through food gardens in Belfast, focusing on people managing on lower incomes, going through the asylum and refugee systems and experiencing other forms of marginalisation.

quarto comprises sisters Gemma and Bryonie Reid, who support communities and organisations to explore place, identity and the past in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

Accessibility – this event is taking place in the Bank of Ireland building on Royal Avenue. It has no heating so please wrap up warm. It is also a building earmarked for development, so it has steps, no lift, and no toilet facilities.

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Host or Publisher Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics