Remember Nature 2025: Day of Action
4 November, 11am-5pm
As part of the nationwide project Remember Nature 2025, Kettle’s Yard is collaborating with Cornelia Parker to ask children at primary schools in Cambridge to consider their hopes and dreams for the future through drawing and writing. Join us on 4 November when Parker will display their work throughout Kettle’s Yard, for one day only.
Against the backdrop of our present climate reality, and supported by teaching staff, around 800 children will respond to Parker’s 2023 film THE FUTURE (Sixes and Sevens) by drawing a picture of what they want to be when they grow up and writing a short letter (to whomever they choose – whether a person in power, a teacher, or their future selves) describing their hopes for their future.
On 4 November, these letters and drawings will occupy Kettle’s Yard, offering a poignant insight into how the next generation imagines and questions the future. Visitors will also have the chance to watch a number of short films including THE FUTURE (Sixes and Sevens) at Kettle’s Yard and offer their own responses through a free drop-in workshop.
More information and timings to follow.
A new poster accompanies Cornelia Parker’s project and is available from the Kettle’s Yard shop.
About Remember Nature 2025
Remember Nature 2025 is an ambitious new staging of the visionary art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017).
To mark the 10th anniversary of Remember Nature on 4 November 2025, there will be a nationwide day of art action to stand up for nature, realising Metzger’s hope and belief in the future power of art to halt universal extinction.
Remember Nature 2025 is curated with Metzger’s original collaborators Jo Joelson and Andrea Gregson and 16 regional art partners across England: Art Gene, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, CAST, Castlefield Gallery, De La Warr Pavilion, FACT, Hatton Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Homotopia, Ikon Gallery, KARST, Kestle Barton, Kettle’s Yard, MIMA, Serpentine, Tate Modern, Turner Contemporary.
Lead artists are commissioned for each region and will work with the host partners and local communities and groups to create artistic and public interventions to “remember nature”.
About Cornelia Parker
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Cornelia Parker
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Access
- We have wheelchair accessible toilets on the lower ground (level -1), ground and first floor (level 1).
- Kettle’s Yard welcomes assistance and service dogs in all areas.
- There is a lift giving access to all floors, including the Clore Learning Studio (level -1), Research Space (level 1) and the Ede Room (level 2).
