Beach art to open Cornish climate change festival

Bill Bartlett uses poles and ropes to create patterns of sacred geometrical circles in the sand

A town in north Cornwall is hosting a series of events about climate change on Saturday.

Bude Climate Festival will feature music, comedy, theatre and arts activities from sunrise to sunset.

The festival will open with artist Bill Bartlett creating a large collaborative piece of beach art on Summerleaze Beach.

Events during the day are free and people wishing to attend should book places on the Bude Climate Partnership website, organisers said.

'Renewable art canvas'

Mr Bartlett's art is inspired by the mathematical Fibonacci Sequence - where each number in the sequence is created by adding the previous two together - which also appears in nature.

He said: "Patterns in cells are circle work, from the small, like DNA, to the very big, by which a galaxy is Fibonacci."

In the two-hour session the artist teaches people to use poles, tools and ropes to create sacred geometrical circles in the sand to make patterns.

"Everyone's got a bit of an artist in them, a creative ability," Mr Bartlett said. "When the tide comes in, it's a renewable art canvas."

Bill Bartlett will create a collaborative piece of beach art on Saturday morning

Activities for children at the festival include storytelling and circus skills, while for older visitors there will be a fashion village and a bicycle maintenance hub.

A series of films about climate change will be shown and there will be a panel discussion about adapting to climate change.

The full list of events can be found on the Bude Climate Partnership website.