Artist Heather Matthew is tearing up old cotton clothing to make handmade paper worlds
during Tweed Regional Museum’s street party on Saturday, September 5.
Street party goers are invited to come and help pour a 1.5metre paper world and create
their own small worlds in the museum’s courtyard during the event.
Green, blue and white clothing has been transformed from rags into liquid paper pulp for
the Dear World paper pouring project.
Dear World is one of five arts projects to receive an inaugural 2026 Ingrained Foundation
Climate Action Arts Grant administered through Arts Northern Rivers.
A key component of the Dear World project will be giving people an opportunity to reflect
on actions that they want leaders to take to address climate change.
‘People want their voices to be heard. Art gives us a chance to create the world we want
and to send leaders our message to take climate action now’ said Ms Matthew.
Participants can write their ideas on ‘wish-tags’ during the paper world art event which will
be later transcribed onto postcards to send to the COP31 Climate Change Conference.
This two part Dear World project will be followed by a pop up exhibition of the paper worlds
and a postcard writing event in the museum courtyard on October 31.
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