Wild Witness

FOR NATURE. FOR EACH OTHER.

Join artist Lucy Wright and Castlefield Gallery for Wild Witness.

Join us for an artist-led journey through Manchester combining walking, creative interventions and collective experiences. Designed to explore the city’s often overlooked natural environment and iconic cultural landmarks, the day will end with a community gathering.

Across the day, we will join together to:

• Explore and celebrate the cultural, social and ecological fabric of Manchester
• Spark connections and conversations
• Catalyse collective action
• Stand up for nature, and for each other!

Manchester’s streets are made for parading. From protests to Pride, and from carnivals to brass band contests, processions have long brought communities together to celebrate, demonstrate and lay claim to public space.

Wild Witness continues this tradition, inviting us to experience the city differently and recognise the more-than-human life already thriving alongside us, from plants emerging through cracks in the pavement to wildlife inhabiting disused sites and rewilded spaces.

Growing from the national and regional programme Remember Nature 2025, inspired by Gustav Metzger’s call to stand up for nature, Wild Witness is both a celebration of our natural world and a call to take action.

Wild Witness Walk: 10.30am to 3.00pm, beginning at Castlefield Gallery

Wild Witness Gathering: 3.00 to 4.30pm, at Hulme Community Garden Centre

More information coming soon.

Booking opens August 2026.

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