What role does culture play in responding to the climate crisis? How do we build the conditions for it to play that role at speed and scale?
People’s Palace Projects is back for another year of London Climate Action Week, setting the agenda for culture and climate. Here’s what we have planned.
Wednesday, 24 June | 6 PM | BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End
Documentary screening + talk: How to Survive? Climate Realism and the Art of Collective Resilience
In partnership with Visão Coop — the Brazilian initiative that brought the concept of Mutirão (collective action) to the COP30 Presidency — PPP and Queen Mary University of London present a documentary screening and panel discussion. Opening with PPP’s short film Art for Climate, followed by How to Survive, the programme explores Climate Realism as a language that translates the complexity of the climate crisis into accessible, sensory and mobilising experiences rooted in the realities of communities across Latin America.
Confirmed speakers include Marcele Oliveira, COP30 Climate Youth Champion, Maria Augusta Arruda, Director of Brazil’s National Biosciences Laboratory (CNPEM), Gunjan Nanda, Co-Founder of the Entertainment + Culture Pavilion, Fabrícia Sterce, director of How to Survive, and Syed Jazib Ali, documentarian, media practitioner, and founder of Mudland Studio.
Thursday, 25 June | 6 PM | BFI Southbank, Screen NFT3
PPP presents Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica
Invited by the BFI to curate and moderate a panel as part of London Climate Action Week, PPP presents a landmark of hybrid political cinema. A young woman travels a newly opened highway with a truck driver, witnessing exploitation along the route. Blending documentary and fiction, Iracema exposes the human cost of Amazonian ‘development’. Long banned but now restored, the film remains urgently resonant amid contemporary debates over land and extraction. Panel discussion moderated by PPP with film director Jorge Bodanzky and Amazon expert Dr Erika Berenger.
Friday, 26 June
International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change
This high-level seminar convenes policymakers, artists, creatives, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and activists to explore how culture shapes collective imagination, strengthens social cohesion, and mobilises societies to take action.
Confirmed speakers: Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, President of COP30, Es Devlin CBE, artist and stage designer, Louis VI, rapper, musician, zoologist, filmmaker, and founder of Nature Ain’t a Luxury, Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at UCL, Sonia Guajajara, Federal Deputy and Brazil’s former Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Professor Tim Lenton OBE, Founding Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science, University of Exeter.
Hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil in partnership with the COP30 Presidency, People’s Palace Projects at Queen Mary University of London, Julie’s Bicycle, the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London, the Embassy of Brazil in London, Instituto Guimarães Rosa and Volans.
Attendance by invitation only.
Saturday, 27 June | 3:15 PM | BFI Southbank, Screen NFT2
Replikka UK premiere
The award-winning PPP short documentary Replikka, winner of Best International Short Documentary at Hot Docs 2026 and qualified for Oscar nomination, makes its UK debut, screening alongside The Father and the Shaman, also set in the Xingu Indigenous Territory. A Q&A with Felipe Tomazelli, co-director of The Father and the Shaman, and Yula Rocha, PPP Communication Lead and the producer of Replikka, will follow the screening.
Tuesday, 30 June | 6:10 PM | BFI Southbank, Screen NFT2
Replikka Screening
If you missed the premiere on Saturday, here is another chance to watch Replikka, directed by Piratá Waurá and Heloisa Passos, screening once again alongside The Father and the Shaman.
We look forward to seeing you at some of our events. Please feel free to bring along friends and colleagues.