Open Eye Gallery was shortlisted for the #CHWAAwards2022 Climate Award for the LOOK Climate Labs – LOOK Photo Biennial. Here’s what the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance said about the shortlist: Each application told its own story of how creativity, imagination and kindness can be radical. Each showed a different way to rise to meet the interconnected crisis we face. Together, they amplified the collective strength of the creative health movement – powered by people, committed to making change and better conditions for people, place and planet to thrive. The judges mentioned that LOOK Climate Labs and LOOK Photo Biennial build connections with a wide range of community partners from across the region and the world, drive collective action and creativity, and draw attention to well-being and system thinking.
From January to March 2022 our gallery spaces became everchanging LOOK Climate Labs featuring diverse projects: from Kenyian Rainforest to Scouse Flowerhouse; from WaterAid to Liverpool Network of Growers; from Energy House (EU retrofitting housing lab) to Climate Café, to name a few. The public actively engaged, from an up-cycling clothing workshop to cycling with Peleton group, to walks with B4Bio-diversity, to contributing to international research (designing environments, visualising air pollution, mapping industrial history sharing fossil fuel memories). LOOK Climate Lab developed into LOOK Photo Biennial – Climate which from July 2022 to Feb 2023, is showcasing work co-created with photographers, community and agency partners, in exhibitions which share insights across 8 locations in the North West of England.
Image: B4Biodiversity – Hive products workshop
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