For an international community project in 2023 we invited everyone to write a message on a postcard.
We asked: What does ‘evergreen’ mean to you?
The words round the edge of our printed postcard relate to evergreen plants across the world.
There’s the Madagascar periwinkle flower too, which you can read about in Sauma Afreen’s ‘Sadabahar’ exObjects story.
Karthika Sakthivel Zoomed postcard advice to us from Karnatika, south India.
Sauma Afreen posted a personal letter to pupils at Werrington School from Uttar Pradesh in the north of India (via the Leek Town Council offices).
Messages were shared through Leek Repair Cafe, Moorlands Climate Action and other community groups in Staffordshire.
Artificial Silk set up stall at the HuG green arts festival run by Moorlands Climate Action.
In the garden at Foxlowe Arts Centre we wondered what words might be written about climate change on our blackboard – which started out blank.
We asked everyone the same question: What ‘evergreen’ means to them.
Young people Sauma Afreen and Devasiachan Benny wrote about climate change.
Below are some of the ideas that were shared at the HuG festival…
Shinie Antony, director of Bangalore Literature Festival, and Sauma Afreen took part in the writing workshops via Zoom.
The Sadabahar: Evergreen Leek project was part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
