Climate change themed festival coming to Morecambe

A music and creative arts festival themed on climate change comes to Morecambe next month.

The Three Degrees Festival is a free community event and will be held in and around More Music in the West End on Saturday, July 5, between 12pm and 5pm.

The festival will feature live music, artwork, fun creative workshops for all ages and abilities, informative stalls from environmental organisations and much more, all themed on climate change and the small positive actions we can all make as a community to make a difference.

Organisations involved include Food Futures, Lancaster University, Ludus Dance, Natural England, Green Rose CIC, Escape2Make and Lancaster & Morecambe College.

A spokesperson from More Music, the music and education charity based on Devonshire Road, said: ‘’This year, our Eco Collective of young creative producers have been working with the More Music team to devise and programme the Three Degrees Festival, learning about climate change, how it relates to the music industry and the local environment.

‘’It will also feature music created with local primary school children as part of residencies at West End School and Sandylands School.

‘’If every person armed with a key message influences another person who then influences a third we can reach a huge amount of people very quickly. Working together, in this way, we can help tackle the climate crisis.’’

Find out more about the performers here

Live music will be provided by Filthy Laugh, Reem Anbar, The Balkanics, Unique Beatz and Rice, while a More Music Hour will feature young people from the  projects Bay Youth Voices, Stages, Sing It Out, Vocal Night and a special collaborative performance.

Schoolchildren from Sandylands Primary School and West End Primary School will be performing climate action themed songs written with More Music musicians over the spring and summer term.

There will be a Community Kitchen pop-up café, practical climate action ideas from Food Futures, A Word in Your Ear coffee and stories, learn more about the local flora and fauna with Lancaster City Council, design a new garden space with Eden Project Morecambe, JP Bakery and the chance to bring alog woodworks, fabrics and electrical items in need of repair for the Lancaster and Morecambe Repair Café.

Spoken word performances come from Emily Hennessey, Tenderfoot Theatre, Ned Longdon poetry, Folk O’Lune and a Seagull Cafe singalong, and a ‘creation station’ with sustainable costume design, crafting, poetry writing and paper flower making.

They’ll be plenty of activities and stalls in Alexandra Park too, featuring Walking Down The Street Gamelan for under 5s and their families, More Music workshops, merchandise with Molly Bland, Ludus Dance, Friends of Lancaster Library, Escape2Make, home energy advice with Green Rose CIC, Natural England, Lancaster and Morecambe College, Ancient Heart, have a pedal on the GoVelo smoothie bike and bubble bike, a nature scavenger hunt with Morecambe Bay Partnership, and handmade games, sustainable arts and crafts activities with Good Things Collective.

The event is supported by the Energy Saving Trust Foundation and Francis Scott Trust.