What is Creative Climate Action?

Our series of event and activities is designed to spark creative climate action through the arts, culture, and community collaboration. These programmes are delivered in partnership with Angus Climate Hub, with a focus on the urgent issue of coastal erosion.

Our Journey So Far

In September 2024, LandxSea hosted the Coastal Erosion Summit at Montrose Playhouse. Over 80 local residents, scientists, artists, and community leaders came together to share knowledge and experiences about the visible impacts of erosion on our coastline and the places we love. One of the most resonant themes was the need not just for information, but for creative action.

That momentum carried forward with support from Culture for Climate Scotland into the SPRINGBOARD Montrose Assembly in May 2025, a hands-on, half-day workshop focused on generating artistic responses to coastal change. With facilitation by Northeast artist Eve Mosher, the workshop sparked early-stage ideas for public artworks, installations, community interventions, and place-based storytelling projects. Through film, collective imagination, and collaborative planning, participants began to shape a vision for how Montrose can respond creatively to its changing coastline.

What Happens Next?

The ideas sparked through SPRINGBOARD are just the beginning. In summer 2025, we plan to:

• Host a creative lab or informal summer meet-up to further develop project ideas

• Support working groups to design and deliver art interventions leading up to the LandxSea Film Festival in September

• Pilot the first installation or event - such as a human chain, projection mapping, or storytelling walk - as a creative public demonstration of what coastal loss looks like and what matters to the community

Get Involved

Are you a local artist, maker, activist, climate worker, student, or resident with a story to tell or an idea to explore? We want to hear from you. Whether you'd like to join a working group, share your perspective, or help bring a project to life, there’s space for your voice in this work.

To express interest or stay informed about upcoming activities, email [email protected] or sign up to our newsletter.

Join us in imagining and building bold, creative responses to the climate challenges facing Montrose, and bringing them to life.