Screening
Screening: This Changes Everything
30 Nov 2015
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Tickets are £12.00 / £8.00 concession.
Address
- Strand
- WC2R 1LA
- London
- WC2R 1LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176, while the River Bus Service can be taken to Embankment and Savoy Piers.
- Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
- Charing Cross, Waterloo and Blackfriars.
What if confronting the climate crisis is a chance to build a better world? Julie's Bicycle and Somerset House are co-hosting a screening of the new documentary from Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. The screening will be followed by a panel debate about the role of culture in sustainability.
About
On the opening day of the UN's 21st Climate Change Talks in Paris, Somerset House and Julie's Bicycle have teamed up to debate the role of culture in shaping a sustainable society.
Introduced by Jonathan Reekie, Director of Somerset House Trust, the evening will begin with a screening of This Changes Everything, an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Julie's Bicycle.
Panellists include:
- Alice Sharp, Director and Curator, Invisible Dust
- Juliet Davenport, CEO, Good Energy
- Guppi Bola, Co-founder of Healthy Planet and Europe Network Lead, New Economics Foundation
This event is part of the ArtCOP21 festival of art and climate change, and the Coming of Agecampaign.
Tickets are £12.00 / £8.00 concession.
