Remember Nature 2025: Nature Remembered Gathering Line-Up

We’re excited to share the line-up for the Nature Remembered Gathering, part of Remember Nature 2025 — a nationwide day of artist-led action.

Join us on Tuesday 4 November from 3pm as artists and organisations come together at Hulme Community Garden Centre for an afternoon of conversation, reflection, and creative exchange.

Remember to book your free ticket here.

Main Marquee 

Welcome: From the hosts of the Nature Remembered Gathering; artist Yu-Chen Wang and Castlefield Gallery Director & Artistic Director, Helen Wewiora. 

Performance: Sound and environment artist Helmut Lemke, who listens, responds and shares with the environment, will perform a song from More Than Us, a performance of words and sounds that tell of his concern for, and awe and love of, the natural environment. Expect voice, drum, and creating sound poems.

Circular City and Pathways to Land: Hear from Nicola Scott of Circular City and the Pathways to Land project, with opportunity for Q&A. Circular-City CIC works towards changes in local decision-making and strategy to bring about systems change needed to address the climate/biodiversity crises and build sustainable/healthy communities. It’s current focus is on getting allotment policies in all GMCA boroughs to protect biodiversity. Through her Pathways to Land project, Nicola also works with Landmatch England’s scheme in the North West, to help landseekers to access land to grow sustainable food. She has a particular focus on helping to diversify who farms in England by supporting marginalised community food growers/landworkers e.g. on how to set up farm collectives, reduce food miles by growing more sustainable, culturally appropriate food, and create community wealth – not just monetary, as well as reconnection to counter historic land dispossession.

RSPB Dovestone, Oldham: We are pleased to welcome Miriam Biran & Sarah Branson, RSPB, Dovestone, Oldham, to the gathering. They can offer planting/activity sessions to groups (especially if children/families) and arrange visits to the site. They will be bringing their apple press along to the gathering – if you’ve any apples you’d like juicing?!

Mariam is Lead Project Officer for the Ella’s Kitchen/RSPB partnership working particularly with children and families to raise awareness of pollinators. Sarah is a freelance Forest School Leader and Outdoor Wellbeing Provider, working on Ella’s Kitchen and with groups and on environmental arts projects. Both are Forest Therapy Guides.

Tudor Baker, Manchester City Council Climate Change Neighbourhood Officer: Tudor will share some of the work the council is doing to stand up for nature, and ways that people can get involved. Tudor will bring along Climate Action in Hulme booklets that incorporate work by artist Len Grant.

In Our Nature: Sophie Jones will be giving a brief introduction to In Our Nature and its work, a programme delivered in partnership between Manchester Climate Change Agency, Hubbub, Groundwork Greater Manchester, Amity, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research and Manchester City Council. In Our Nature works with communities across Manchester to connect the climate crisis to practical actions we can all take. There are lots of top tips at the In Our Nature Resource Hub.

Movement Migration Manchester,  Grass Routes Movement CIC & University of Manchester: Presentation and poems from Sajida Ismail, Ingrid Hanson and Ghada Soliman (both University of Manchester) about Movement, Migration and Manchester, a collaboration between the University of Manchester students and staff, local communities who have experiences of migration to the city of Manchester, Grass Routes Movement CIC, Manchester Museum, and Castlefield Gallery. The project centred around urban walks and creative sessions, with those taking part sharing experiences and reflections on the right to roam on domestic and bordered land.    

Mums for Lungs: Talk with Mums for Lungs, which raises awareness of the health impacts of air pollution and champions effective solutions for tackling it across the UK to safeguard the health of children. The organisation was started in Brixton in 2017 by a group of people on parental leave who, when walking out with their babies, became aware of the toxic levels of air pollution on the UK’s streets. They came together to do something about it.   

 

South Tunnel 

In the South Tunnel, you will find lots of people to get around the table with, and different activities happening throughout the gathering. Below are some of the activities you can get involved with, people, and groups you can meet and swap ideas with. 

Ethical Consumer: Learn how to use your spending power to help change the world for the better. An Ethical Consumer researcher will be on hand to answer any questions about the impacts of the things we buy and there will be information to take away. 

Mums for Lungs: Join the group to access information and resources. Families, children, anyone, can get involved with Mums for Lungs children’s activities which will include willow work! 

Scott Pedley: Scott Pedley is a senior lecturer in ecology at MMU, specialising in peatland and saltmarsh restoration. His peatland research takes place at Dovestone, near Oldham, and he has a particular interest in spiders. He has worked with land managers and conservation practitioners to establish methods to improve biodiversity; these methods have been incorporated into UK conservation policy.

Dr. Antony Hall (MMU/ SODA Future Media Production): Get up close and personal with moss with Dr. Antony Hall! Antony Hall is an artist and academic working at the intersection of science and art. His work encompasses installation and participatory practices. Hall’s research has traversed a broad range of subjects, from the communication signals of electrogenic fish and the phenomenology of hallucination, to listening to the sound of moss and ecological surveys. BRYOMANIA (2021-ongoing) is a research project which explores Bryophytes (moss and the places of moss), and investigates the capacity of pop up interventions and mobile actions (walking) to heighten awareness of biodiversity. Antony has created a moss map and runs moss walks and terrarium workshops. 

Circular City and Pathways to Land: Expect biodiversity focused interactive activities.  

 

Open Space Table

Got a burning topic and want to find people to share knowledge or make plans with, or an activity or skill you’d like to share? On the day, upon arrival at Hulme Community Garden Centre book one of the slots on our Open Space Table via the Open Space board in the South Tunnel. Slots available are between 3.30-4.30pm and Your Home Better is already confirmed for the space. 

Your Home Better deliver Home Retrofit Assessments and education within the local community. They will be sharing samples of materials made of natural fibres that they use in their retrofits to show ways nature can be repurposed to help with carbon reduction within people’s homes and communities. 

There will also be a short Q&A with Charlie Baker of Your Home Better, providing a great opportunity to access advice on lower carbon living and ways to save energy, particularly in homes. Charlie Baker has designed many things from furniture to housing co-operatives (such as Homes for Change) to large urban masterplans, always with a focus on sustainability. He is an expert in low carbon refurbishment and energy supply and has authored several reports on retrofit standards and finance. Your Home Better won the Retrofit Award at the North West Regional Construction Awards 2025.

And more….

 

Also joining for the gathering will be:

 

Northern Roots: a new Urban Farm and Eco Park across 160-acres of stunning green space in the heart of Oldham. Opening in 2026, Northern Roots is creating a unique community hub and visitor destination. Born in Oldham, Northern Roots is using regenerative land management techniques to transform uncared for space into a destination that is ‘of’ the local community, but for everyone; creating inspirational spaces, moments and opportunities for people to connect around food, growing, nature, learning, creativity, sport, work and play.

Vegan Organic Network (VON): session to be led by Cherry Chung from VON. 

Film Screening at Studio 53, Venture Arts: Don’t miss this beautiful film screening of artists’ film and video over at Studio 53 (Venture Arts, opposite Hulme Community Garden Centre, just a minute away). Drop in or catch the full screening, to experience nature and climate aware works made by artists and projects including Venture Arts’ Emelia Hewitt and Malik Jama, as well as artists Jocelyn McGregor, Gregory Herbert, Katy McGahan and Let’s Talk Clean Air, Whalley Range. 

You can catch more of Jocelyn, Gregory and Malik’s work over at Castlefield Gallery, as part of the exhibition It Requires Getting Lost (2 November 2025 – 22 February 2026), and along with works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Noémie Goudal, Pierre Huyghe, Leon Kossoff, Wolfgang Tillmans.

Pop-up exhibition

Nature Narratives: BA Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University: Students on the BA Photography programme at Manchester Metropolitan University will present a range of photographic works and materials that explore human connections and interactions with nature, highlighting the importance of nurturing environmental awareness. Work includes Land Matters, an ongoing collaborative project by BA Photography students and staff on the programme. During a week-long April residency in Edale, participants researched, reacted and responded to the Peak District landscape and their place within it. Through communal making and low-impact analogue practices — including camera-less and traditional formats — work was generated in dialogue with environmental and ecological concerns and the Anthropocene, while experimentally pushing photographic boundaries in a slow, symbiotic process.

Works include publications, digital prints (considering methods of production that include re-use and recycling), analogue prints, and cyanotypes. Materials are exhibited in multiple settings, considering the life and value of physical works. The materiality of the environment is communicated through the inclusion of artefacts found on residency in Edale, staff and students’ custodians of materials to be returned on subsequent Land Matters visits.