Remember Nature 2025

Event

04 November 2025

Across Manchester and Hulme Community Garden Centre

Join us in standing up for nature on 4 November 2025! Take part in free artist-led city walks, nature-aware gatherings, and share your treasured aspects of the natural world for others to discover.

In 2015 artist Gustav Metzger called on art schools and students of all disciplines to “Remember Nature” and “make a stand against the ongoing erasure of species”. Tuesday 4 November 2025 marks a decade since that call, and partners across England are coming together, bringing ethics into aesthetics, for Remember Nature 2025. You can find out more about all national programmes, artists, and partners here. Castlefield Gallery is delighted to be one of the 17 regional arts partners across England contributing to this significant moment, working with artist Yu-Chen Wang to mark the anniversary in Manchester and the city region.

See bottom of page for access, filming and photography information

How to get involved

Remember Nature 2025: Nature Remembered Walk

Led by artist Yu-Chen Wang
Tues 4 Nov 2025 12:30pm – 3:00pm
Across Manchester city centre and Hulme (free)

Take part in a slow, nature-aware, mindful walk through the city of Manchester led by artist Yu-Chen Wang. We will meet at Manchester Art Gallery’s Derek Jarman Pocket Park. Following a warm welcome and orientation, we will set off down the canal towpath towards Castlefield where there will be a brief stop before we continue to our final destination of Hulme Community Garden Centre. Those on the walks will be invited to explore Manchester’s ever-changing landscape: the natural environment, layers of histories, and the legacy of industry – all deeply intertwined. Together, attendees will seek to discover these interconnections, to gather stories, share reflections, and spark ideas.

Find out more and to take part, book your free ticket here

Remember Nature 2025: Nature Remembered Gathering

Tues 4 Nov 2025 3:00 – 5:00pm
Hulme Community Garden Centre (free)

Gather with artist Yu-Chen Wang, event collaborators and partners. Explore the garden centre whilst experiencing a programme of activities brought together to inspire and enable ideas and skills sharing. A range of cultural and community groups and their representatives, will join the gathering, as well as environmental scientists, campaigners, artists, and more. Activities will include ‘ask a scientist’, presentations, discussion and information swap sessions, performance, hands on creative climate activities, pop-up displays and screenings. All brought to you by partners, collaborators, and invitees, including Venture Arts and Unity Radio / Manchester Hip-Hop Archive, through to Mums for Lungs, Grass Routes, Ethical Consumer, RSPB, Save Ryebank Fields/Ryebank Fields Community, Your Home Better, and many more. Free, warming hot refreshments will be served!

Find out more and book your free ticket here*

*Please note if you wish to take part in both parts of the day, you still need to book tickets separately due to different capacities for the walk and the garden centre.

Remember Nature Walk from Platt Fields led by Jane Morris

Tues 4 Nov 2025 10:00am – 4:00pm

Also happening on the day is a Day of Action to remember nature initiated by artist Phil Barton at Platt Hall in Platt Fields Park. The day includes a walk from Platt Fields to Hulme Community Garden Centre, led by local eco-activist Jane Morris.

Find a programme of the walks and workshops and book a place here

If you wish to join the Remember Nature 2025: Nature Remembered Gathering at Hulme Community Garden Centre from this walk, please book your ticket for the gathering here

Contribute to the Remember Nature Map

As part of Remember Nature 2025 in Manchester, we have created a public map for anyone to share pictures and information about an aspect of nature in Manchester, or beyond, that is of interest or importance to them. If you would like to contribute to the map, please complete the form here

If you need any support with your submission, please contact kacey@castlefieldgallery.co.uk (please note Kacey Stonnell’s working days are Wednesday to Friday and Sunday).

ACCESS

The walk will be suitable for some wheelchair users; There is wheelchair access to the Derek Jarman Pocket Park from Nicholas Street.

You can read a detailed wheelchair access guide by Sally Hirst here
There is also an easy read version available here

We envisage that the walk from the Derek Jarman Pocket Park to Hulme Community Garden Centre will take around two hours. We will offer a toilet break around halfway along the walk. The route is step-free with some slopes of up to 8 degrees. Part of the route is along the canal towpath.

Please note that it will go dark while we are Hulme Community Garden Centre; there is lighting but it is not super bright.

We will be using covered outdoor spaces – we will do our best to make them warm and dry but please dress for the weather!

If you have any questions, please get in touch with kacey@castlefieldgallery.co.uk.

FILMING

Please note parts of the Nature Remembered Walk and Gathering will be livestreamed and recorded. There will also be photography. Film and photography may be uploaded to partner websites and archives, and shown at public events, including the Remember Nature 2025 website.

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