Green Shift Festival 2025
Sustainable Clevedon’s 2025 Green Shift Festival March 20-23 with Curzon Cinema and Arts. The Riff Corner, Clevedon Schools and Community groups
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Live music @ The Riff Corner, 17 Old Church Road, BS21 6LU.
Opens 6pm, music from 8.00pm - 10.00pm
Suthering - evocative folk duo Julu Irvine & Heg Brignall.
Free entry, donations welcome.
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Green Shift Community Fair @ St John’s Hall, Hillside Road BS21 6NN
11.00 am - 4.00 pm Community stalls setting out what is happening locally to address the climate and nature crisis and how you can get active. A community sculpture - Hope Tree created by Paul Chinn, will grow throughout the festival. Home-made cake stall.
Free entry, donations welcome.
Climate and Nature in poetry and prose @ Clevedon Library, Waverley Room, 37 Old Church Road, Clevedon BS21 6NN
11.00 am - 12.30 pm Creating resilience in a time of climate uncertainty.
Free entry via the library
2.00 pm - 3.30 pm Workshop addressing potential emotional overwhelm: how to re-calibrate and develop capacity to live actively.
Free entry via the library - advance booking advised: please email sustainableclevedon@gmail.com
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Green Shift @ Curzon Cinema & Arts, 46 Old Church Road, Clevedon BS21 6NN
10.00 am - 12.00 pm School students from Clevedon demonstrate their work - showing how they understand, illustrate and engage with the crisis of climate change and nature loss through science, performance, film, art and craftivism.
Free entry for children and families.
FILM, MUSIC, FOOD, DISCUSSION
1.30 pm - 9.30 pm - Keynote: Peter Lefort, Exeter University, Green Futures Network, gives a perspective on climate and nature campaigns and talks to Jonathon Porritt and Mya-Rose Craig- ‘Birdgirl’. Lively intergenerational conversation on the history of, and the changes to today’s environmental movements.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Squaring up to the crisis - the challenges for society, locally, nationally and globally. Panellists Emma Geen (Disability Climate Justice) The Onion Collective, Peter Lefort (Green Futures)
Climate, Nature and all of us: converting passion into action for change. Panellists: Rob Hopkins (co-founder Transition Movement), Richard Lancaster (Greenpeace), Chloe Naldrett (formally Just Stop Oil and XR), Rheian Davies (Good Law Project). Host: Oscar Berglund ( Bristol University - School for Policy Studies)
SHORT FILMS
LIVE MUSIC
Touki - Renowned kora player Amadou Diagne and guitarist Cory Seznec. Their music draws together West African fables and personal stories focusing on climate change, environmental activism and spiritual matters.
Food and refreshments - The Oak Room bar will be open all day for drinks and home-made cakes. Home cooked supper can be booked separately.
£15.00 (£13.00) day/concessions
Pre-booking advised: Tickets
Farmers’ Market
The Farmers’ Market takes place in Queen’s Square on the fourth Saturday of the month. It is our opportunity to meet people face to face. Our supporters and others can see what our focus is for the month, whether it is the Green Shift Festival in the spring or the free tree giveaway in the winter. It also gives us a chance to hear people’s concerns about the everyday challenges of the climate crisis.
Green Drinks
We meet monthly for Green Drinks. Sometimes we have a speaker to tie in with the theme of the month and sometimes it’s just a chance to get together socially. The pub venue changes so see this website and Facebook page for the latest information.
