Magic Me: Generation Rebellion notebook

Magic Me, an intergenerational charity based in east London, runs an annual Women’s project, which partners local older women with young women from Mulberry School for girls.

We started the project in 2020 with participants exploring how to be an activist in response to the climate and ecological crisis. In 2021 participants got together to look at how we can all get involved on a global and local level. We looked at the main causes of the crisis, then identified the root causes and the systems we currently live in. We used collaborative arts, always working across generations, to make films, artworks and a notebook to help share this work and encourage others to get active. The project was called Generation Rebellion.

The notebook was created to give out to the project participants, their family and friends, people who came to the local event and members of the public.

The notebook celebrates what all the women created and turns it into a guide offering encouragement for people to get involved in climate advocacy and activism. Many of the questions and prompts were inspired by questions the women asked the audience at COP26. The notebook encourages people to think about the role they can play in the climate justice movement, as well as giving advice on how to find communities to be a part of.