As we near the end of A Revolt in Bernicia’s Garden programme, it’s time to make ‘compost’–process our learnings, notes and photos into a collective zine.
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As we near the end of A Revolt in Bernicia’s Garden programme, it’s time to make ‘compost’–process our learnings, notes and photos into a collective zine.
Composting teaches us all parts of life have a cycle of decomposition. Composting is a slow physical, chemical, biological energy transfer from one nutrient form into another, with the help of microbes, bacteria, fungi and a bit of human intervention. Made from all the garden left overs, organic matter, fresh plants, moisture, cuttings, stalks, branches, leaves, and spent coffee.
Borrowing from this alchemical process, we gather our composting ‘ingredients’ – these are our learnings and unlearnings, our workshop notes, our pruning instructions, recommended books, poetry read aloud, walking routes, maps, photos and thoughts that have grown along the way.
Composting is an act of creation.
Through conversation and a collective study of resources gathered, join us to make a collective zine from all our ‘greens’ and ‘browns’ and ask the question “what does our Revolt compost into?”.
This event is open to all; whether you could or could not attend the walks, workshops and events as part of A Revolt in Bernicia’s Garden programme, and anyone interested in zine making, composting or gardening.
Sage Brice is a published geographer and exhibiting artist. She is a NewBridge Project Researcher-in-Residence working alongside Holly Argent on In Bernicia’s Queer Garden. Her graphic non-fiction article ‘Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography’, published in the journal Gender, Place & Culture, can be found in (and borrowed from) our Reading Room.
This event is part of our current exhibition For Solidarity: Document H.E.T., Alternative Publishing and Community Undercurrents, an exhibition of pre-internet printed matter and ephemera forming a backdrop for a public programme on solidarity today.
Saturday 28 March 2026
1–4pm
Free
The NewBridge Project
Shieldfield Centre
4-8 Clarence Walk (off Stoddart Street)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AL
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