Meet the Changemakers: Environmental Justice
Drop in between 12pm-4pm to discover new and different ideas and get involved in free activities for all ages.
Manchester Museum’s Top Floor is a space for learning, connecting and inspiring change, and Meet the Changemakers is our quarterly event that gives you the chance to meet the communities, charities, activists and artists shaping a more planet friendly and fair future for Manchester. This autumn we’re highlighting the connections between planet and people and how we can take action together.
Workshops
12-1.30pm, Museum Meeple: Games Corner
Have you got a passion for points? A craving for cardboard? Are you bird-brained for board games? Join us for tabletop gaming, with a range of games to get you looking at the Museum’s collections in a new light.
12-4pm drop in, Make Your Own Pangolin Puppet
A family-friendly workshop where you can build and decorate your own Pangolin using recycled materials, led by artist Lydia Meiying. Don’t miss out the parade of all the wonderful pangolins made at 3pm!
What’s a Pangolin you say? Click here to view the Pangolins in your Museum’s collection and listen here to a soundtrack made by children at Olympias Music Foundation, entitled ‘If a Pangolin Could Speak’.
Activities
Listen-In The Tiger Widows
Join Robin from Ergon Theatre for an exclusive listen-in of their new radio drama which explores stories of women from Bangladesh dubbed ‘Tiger Widows’ following the death of their husbands through human-tiger contact. Click here to read more about how the climate crisis is contributing to creating more human-tiger conflict and some of the consequences that follow. This activity is for audiences aged 12+.
One World Together
“Imagine it’s the year 2060. The world is fair and kind to everyone. What do people’s lives look like in your town, in your country, or all around the world?”
Join One World Together to imagine the equitable future we want to see and build together.
London Mining Network and Conflict Minerals Campaign
How much does your mobile phone really cost? Meet members of Conflict Minerals campaign and join the London Mining Network to see their game depicting the lifecycle of a smart phone. Focusing on phones is a tangible way to transform the dark, often abstract, world of extractivism into a relatable problem with potential solutions.
And a chance to see up close the minerals in your mobile phone with Daniel Ryczek researcher from University of Manchester.
“Do you know what your phone is made from? Phones amongst other types of handheld technology contain on average 25 different metals up to 40 different metals, depending on the make and model. These metals can be found throughout nearly all aspects of a phone including things like the touch screen, cameras, battery, circuitry, and casing. These metals are extracted from ore minerals mined for their varying amounts of a single metal or combination of metals from mines all over the world. The minerals on display are the primary ore minerals typically mined for all 40 of the different metals that may be in your phone!”
Stalls and engagements from:
- Friends of the Earth
- Future Direction’s Green Superheroes
- Pinc College
We’ll also be joined throughout the day by organisations from the Silent Skies exhibition closing event, taking place around the Research Studio Gallery. Organisations joining on the day include:
- Mum’s For Lungs
- MCA (Manchester Climate Alliance)
- Let’s Talk Clean Air Whalley Range
- Trees Not Cars
- Save Ryebank Fields