Birmingham’s Midlands Arts Centre is hosting a ‘family-friendly festival celebrating creativity and local action for our shared planet’ this September.

Taking place on Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September, The Big Green Weekender features, among other attractions, a fruit and herb-growing workshop, a new film about Birmingham’s roller-skating community, and two short climate-inspired dance films by Sima Gonsai: And Breathe and Cultivate (pictured).

Saturday highlights include live music from mbira musician and singer Millicent Chapanda, singer and songwriter Abi Budgen and rapper Dragon X. There's also sticker-making workshops, free bike checks on the venue's outdoor terrace, t-shirt printing workshop, a Walk Through the History of Water in Cannon Hill Park, a Climate Grief Karaoke Party at 6pm and evening performance of Women & Theatre's Not The Last at 7.30pm.

On Sunday, visitors can enjoy a family-friendly, high-energy performance from the genre-bending Surge Orchestra. The Balsall Heath repair cafe will also be on hand to help you repair small household items / textiles and furnishings that may have otherwise had ended up in landfill. You can also learn how to turn old clothes into art and have an input to the creation of a collective zine (collage magazine) to encourage climate action.

Sunday is also the last chance to catch Women & Theatre's Not The Last.

For further information and the full line-up of attractions, visit macbirmingham.co.uk