Events
Panel: Cultural industries and the climate crisis: Insights from Latin America
This event seeks to highlight the ways in which the cultural industries in Latin America are responding to the climate crisis, and bring this into dialogue with approaches in the UK. Acknowledging the different contexts across each continent and within the Latin American region, the event is conceived as a dialogue of experiences between researchers/practitioners who work between the UK and Latin America, with a focus on Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Speakers will reflect on the challenges and opportunities of cultural climate work in each context, the innovations that have emerged from different places, and the lessons that the UK can learn from Latin American approaches.
Panel discussion will be chaired by Paula Serafini (Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries, QMUL) with Virginia Avila (Co-Director at Ñandú/ National University of Rosario (UNR), Thiago Jesus (Co-Director at People’s Palace Projects, QMUL), Graciela Melitsko Thornton (Julie’s Bicycle) and Paul Merchant (University of Bristol)
Workshop: A guide to environmental management in cultural organisations
We often see climate action toolkits emerging from the UK, but how is the Latin American cultural sector innovating in this space?
We’ll be diving into radical, and contextualised approaches emerging from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, and fostering a dialogue on what the UK can learn from our region.
Join us for a hands-on workshop for cultural organisations! Spaces are limited to 20 people!
The workshop will be followed by a panel discussion (5-7pm)
LCAW- Iracema film screening at the BFI + Q&A by PPP
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 Dr Erika Berenger (tbc).
LCAW- How to Survive? Climate Realism and the Art of Collective Resilience
What does it take to survive the climate crisis? What if the climate crisis is also a narrative problem? Who gets to shape that story?
Join us for an evening of film, science, and climate storytelling that brings together artists, scientists, and voices from the Global South to explore Climate Realism as an emerging language for collective action.
The evening opens with Marcele Oliveira, COP30 Climate Youth Champion and Maria Augusta Arruda, Director of Brazil’s National Biosciences Laboratory (CNPEM) and Senior Consultant to the COP30 Presidency.
The session is followed by the private screening of How to Survive, a documentary centred on the lived realities of people and collectives across Latin America navigating the complexities of the climate crisis, opened by Art for Climate, a short film following Brazilian artists as they transform environmental experiences into performance and collective action.
The evening concludes with a panel discussion with Fabrícia Sterce, director of How to Survive, and Syed Jazib Ali, documentarian, media practitioner, and founder of Mudland Studio. Additional speakers to be announced.
An event by Visão Coop, People's Palace Projects / Queen Mary University of London, and Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials, as part of London Climate Action Week.
Free to attend. The event will be held in English with no translation. Register to secure your place.