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Wed 25 Mar, 2026 11:03 AM
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Every year on 22 April, Earth Day brings people together to celebrate and support the environmental movement and the ongoing effort to protect our planet's natural resources for future generations.
Earth Week runs from 20–26 April, giving us a chance to explore what we can all do to help tackle the climate crisis. Whether you're already passionate about sustainability or just getting started, it's a chance to get involved, learn something new and take action.
This year focuses on the Fault Lines we stand on, not just as pressure points, but as places for mending, repair and transformation.
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Exploring fault lines helps us find opportunities for change within existing systems.
💚 Halls Life Earth Week event
Earth Day Switch Off Showcase
📅 Date: 29 April
⏰ Time: 7-11pm
📍Location: The Costume Store
✨ Open to all UAL students ✨
Step into an environment free from digital distractions. Slow down, switch off, and reconnect. Expect soft, twinkling lights, a warm community feel, and the simple joy of shared experience without screens. 🙌🕯️
🌍 UAL Earth Week events
Monday 20 April
📍Location: Central Saint Martins
- Carbon Literacy Training Course for UAL Students | 9.30am – 3.30pm
- CSM Swap Shop x ReCreate UK: Stretching the life of exhibition materials | 1 – 3pm
- Transformation and challenge in materials and objects | 1 – 2.30pm
- Bio-ceramics: Shells as Biomaterials | 1.30 – 3pm
- Ecotechnic-metabolics: prototyping biosensors for urban gardens | 2 – 4pm
Tuesday 21 April
📍Location: Camberwell, Chelsea & Wimbledon
- Repair and the Climate Circle | 1.30 – 3pm | Camberwell
- Polyester Protest | 2 – 4pm | Chelsea
- Working With Nature: A Natural Materials Workshop | 2 – 3.30pm | Wimbledon
Wednesday 22 April
📍Location: London College of Fashion
- Fibre Frequencies: Spinning Fashion Back to Land | 1 – 2.30pm
- Futuring a Garden of Beehives at LCF | 1 – 2.30pm
Thursday 23 April
📍Location: London College of Communication
- See your Waste Become Soil at the LCC Community Garden Launch | 1 – 2.30pm
- The Carbon Walk | 1 – 2pm
- Samoota: EN1SE | 2 – 3pm
- Field Notes | 3.30 – 5pm
- Climate Art & the Crises of AI + Afterparty | 6 – 7.30pm
Friday 24 April
📍Location: High Holborn
- Lines of Flight – an EARTH research symposium | 10am – 4.45pm
🌱 Useful links
Take a photo of any wild species (plants, fungi, insects, animals) you see on a UAL campus, upload it onto the app and it will identify what you’ve captured.
If you want to see what others have captured at UAL in the iNaturalist app, go to Menu → Projects, search for ‘University of the Arts London’ and join the UAL Campus Biodiversity Network Collection Project.
Not only is it a fun, hands-on way to get outdoors, you’ll also be making a meaningful contribution to conservation at UAL as all campus observations support our long-term biodiversity monitoring.
👉 Shop second-hand near your hall - find out about charity shops near you.
👉 How to separate waste correctly in your hall.
👉 Zero waste beauty and healthcare products.
📸 Photograph credit: Earth Week 2025: Mini Terrarium workshop | Tika Sufyan
