We wanted to use culture to explore the big issues affecting our planet.

We were proud to host major artworks such as internationally acclaimed Sun & Sea, brought to the borough in partnership with LIFT and Serpentine, which transformed the Albany in to a beach and was voted Time Out London’s top theatre experience of 2022.

Breathe:2022 involved hundreds of drawings of local activists ‘fighting for breath’ by artist Dryden Goodwin appear on bridges, buildings and bus stops across the borough, culminating in an impressive projection on the side of Lewisham Old Town Hall in December.

Children and young people got involved by performing passionate song, dance and poetry in Seven Poet Trees and Trinity Laban’s Hope 4 Justice,and thousands of people came down to Forster Memorial Park on the August Bank Holiday weekend to enjoy GAIA, Luke Jerram’s striking replica of planet Earth.