Lowestoft climate change murals inaugurated
One mural is painted on the side of the Indian restaurant on Bevan Street At a glance Lowestoft, Suffolk, is celebrating the inauguration of large murals that aim to raise awareness of the climate emergency The designs were created with the help of local people The town hopes they will draw attention to the area's flooding risk A coastal town has inaugurated large murals that aim to raise awareness of the climate emergency. The designs were created with the help of local people in Lowestoft, Suffolk, who responded to a public call-out and attended workshops with artists. The town has formally inaugurated the completed artworks, on the sides of two buildings, and hoped they would draw attention to the area's flooding risk. Residents are concerned about rising sea levels and said they wanted their voices heard at a regional and national level. Lowestoft was flooded after a tidal surge in December 2013 The two murals are located at 10, Bevan Street and at 62, Stanley Street at the junction with Wollaston Road, both to the west of the town centre. The event was hosted by Rights Community Action, which produced the murals in collaboration with creative collective Glimpse and Suffolk-based Art Eat Events CIC. The Use Your Vocie mural is located on the side of a house at the junction of Stanley Street and Wollaston Road Penelope Dack, from Lowestoft Arts Centre , external , said the murals were there to show that people "need to speak up, they need to come together". "We need to be more powerful to get the message across that things are changing and they're changing very quickly and very badly for us," she added. "I think we are in crisis; we only have to look around us to see what's happening. "[There are] rising water levels all along the Waveney valley, with which I am very familiar, places are flooding that never flooded before. "They have done lots of work on the riverbanks, but that's not going to stop what's happening to us and to the planet." Public consultation begins on tidal barrier plan Town floods 'could have been prevented' - report In pictures: Tidal floods in Suffolk Local resident Debbie thought the murals were a "brilliant call to action". "I think it's a way of communicating with the public because people need to know what's going on and what's going to happen, and this is one way of starting a conversation," she said. The event was held today at the Crown Lounge Real Indian restaurant on Bevan Street East, where one of the murals is located. Local poet Dean Parkin attended as special guest and the event included refreshments, live music and a free film screening. Follow East of England news on Facebook , external , Instagram , external and Twitter , external . Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk , external or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830 Murals aim to inspire climate change action Rights Community Action Eat Art Events Man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping young girl from her home in Suffolk town British Sugar plans new office building at Bury St Edmunds factory 5 Suffolk icons our readers want to see immortalised with a statue Suffolk town to feature on Channel 5 show 5 places where you can see the autumn change in Suffolk Popular nearly new sale to return to Suffolk village Race against time to save Morocco quake survivors US denies Cold War with China in historic Vietnam visit How Russia and West agreed on Ukraine G20 language Florida's first hurricane-proof town The greatest spy novel ever written? Why is everyone crazy about Aperol? 2023 BBC.