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. We also showed a series of films on local coastal erosion and flooding in the aftermath of Storm Angus, produced by Angus Climate Hub. One of the most resonant themes from the Summit 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 and SEA CHANGE in 2025 are just the beginning. We plan to:

• Build on the success of SPRINGBOARD by hosting a Sea Change workshop: Climate, Community, and Creativity, led by Eve Mosher at LandxSea Film Festival 2025, where participants will hear about Sea Change project plans, take part in accessible, hands-on activities, and help shape a vision for Montrose’s climate-resilient future.

• Host creative labs or informal meet-ups to further develop project ideas.

• Support working groups to design and deliver art interventions leading up to the LandxSea Film Festival in September 2026.

• 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.

• Listen to our Montrose embedded artist Eve Mosher and Chris Platt from Montrose Community Trust welcoming broadcaster Mark Stephen to town to talk about the project on BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors. Listen to the segment (from 0:54:00)

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.

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