Upcoming events.
How to think like an ancestor workshop
This workshop is designed to allow you to take a step back from day-to-day delivery to look at the bigger picture.
Join RSA fellow and Amateur Ancestor Justine Boussard on a unique time-travelling workshop designed to expand your sense of agency when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Part museum tour of the Great North Museum: Hancock and part participatory workshop at the Farrell Centre, we will look for the roots of our current predicaments, before imagining futures worth longing for and our pathway to them.
This workshop is designed to allow you to take a step back from day-to-day delivery to look at the bigger picture. If you wish to explore what your and your organisation’s roles are in these urgent times, then this is the workshop for you. If you need reenergising in your own climate work, then this is the workshop for you too.
Get your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-think-like-an-ancestor-tickets-1976567664091
B Local Presents: Amateur Ancestor tour of the Great North Museum: Hancock
What if the key to your organisation having more impact was hiding in a museum? B Local North East are teaming up with Justine Boussard of the Amateur Ancestor Project for a special guided tour of the Great North Museum: Hancock followed by round table discussions exploring what it means to be good ancestors.
Justine will lead us through the galleries of the museum looking for the root causes of the extraordinary times we find ourselves in – as well as clues as to where we might go next. We will then regroup over coffee for dig deeper into the value of taking a long view on urgent challenges and opportunities.
Justine Boussard FRSA is a curator and storyteller with fifteen years’ experience working in the heritage and public art sectors. Her Amateur Ancestor Project reframes heritage as a lens through which to better meet the moment, helping organisations galvanise their teams around their response to the planetary crisis.
Schedule below:
Meet: 10am at the Great North Museum Hancock. Intro from B Local Co Chair and Amateur Ancestor Justine Boussard.
Tour: 10.15am– 11:45am
Coffee and discussion:11:45am – 12.30pm.
Tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/blocalnortheast/2023217
The Story of the Whale and The Steam Engine
Come hear the Story of the Whale and the Steam Engine at the Discovery Nights: Going Underground, Discovery Museum, Newcastle, 19 October 2025
Creatively Connected Conference
I will be doing some Amateur Ancestor creative facilitation at Northern Heartlands’ Creatively Connected conference, which celebrates a programme of artist residency in Teesdale and Swaledale, looking at High Nature Value Farming through an artistic lens.
Tickets available here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creatively-connected-tickets-1349676321209
Bodies of Water Symposium
What is the role of socially-engaged public art in the context of our accelerating environmental crisis? Join UP Projects on Thursday 11 September 2025 in Liverpool for a half day symposium exploring regenerative principles and practices. The symposium will bring together expertise and insights from artists, curators, and environmentalists. Co-curated by Justine Boussard and UP Projects, in partnership with the Liverpool Biennial.
For tickets and more information visit: https://upprojects.com/bodies-of-water-symposium-regenerative-art-practice
The Story of the Seeds
Where would we be without seeds? I will debut a new story exploring how seeds changed human life, and where we might go next. This will be part of an Unplugged night, where visitors will be invited to turn off their phones.
Tickets available on Discovery Museum website
Here is Hope Festival
Here is Hope is a festival curated by Wild Rumpus for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It will be a celebration of nature, creativity, and community, inviting participants to spend a fleeting weekend in the bright future, imagining what the park could become.
I will be taking part in a panel discussing what we can learn from trees and the shape of time. Exciting!