
Events
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Climate, Water, Life and Land – Resilient Communities in East Africa
Showing Today
Director: Sally Bashford-Squires
A Documentary Film Exploring Community, Togetherness and Change in Rural Uganda. Eitai is a powerfully moving documentary that delves into the challenges faced by a rural community in North-Eastern Uganda. Filmed in Teso and co-produced with celebrated Masai filmmaker Sonyanga Weblan, Eitai—an Ateso word for "community togetherness"—is based on doctoral research conducted by Sally Bashford-Squires, a PhD graduate of Nottingham Trent University. The documentary explores critical global issues, including the interconnected challenges of climate change, poverty, alcoholism, and gender-based violence (GBV). It highlights how social enterprise projects not only provide economic opportunities but also create safe spaces for knowledge sharing, environmental action through tree planting, and community sensitisation via music, drama, and dance. Through vivid storytelling, Eitai underscores the importance of indigenous knowledge and communitarianism in addressing pressing global crises. It calls for stronger relationships among people, the land, and non-humans to mitigate further environmental degradation. The film also captures unique narratives on combating HIV and GBV, as told by participants through their lived experiences and cultural expressions.
Sally Bashford-Squires, formally an Assistant Head Teacher of a Nottinghamshire Infant School, now lectures in Public Health at The University of Greenwich. She recently completed her PhD in critical public health from Nottingham Trent University. Her doctorate explored how social enterprise projects impact on women's health in Teso, Uganda. Sally is also Chair and founder of a Nottingham Registered Charity called 'The Mustard Seed Project - Uganda' which supports the social enterprise projects featured in the documentary.
Sonyanga Weblan holds a Master's Degree in Media and Globalisation from Nottingham Trent University. He is part of the Maasai community from Kenya and star of the award- winning film 'Warriors' which follows the story of how Sonyanga and his peers used cricket as a leverage for ending female genital mutilation in his community. Sonyanga has continued to work to end FGM through sport and community sensitisation projects and his work has been celebrated by the United Nations. Sonyanga currently works as a freelance film maker in Kenya, capturing issues that impact on his communities.
More information on Sally's charity: www.mustardseedprojectuganda.com
Short Film Screening + Workshop: Bringing People Back to the Farm
Taking Place Saturday 9 August
Join us for an afternoon of film and creative collaboration at Mammoth - A Climate Action Cinema.
We’ll start by watching a short film — Into the Soil — a 30min documentary film that follows Brigid LeFevre who runs the community supported agriculture operation ”Förädlad” in Järna, Sweden.
After the screening, you’ll take part in a hands-on 2.5-hour workshop where we’ll explore how to reconnect people with farms in Nottinghamshire. Whether you’ve volunteered on a farm before or are just curious about climate, community, and land — this is for you.
Workshop: "Bringing People Back to the Farm"
This participatory research workshop is part of a local project exploring how to make community and regenerative farms more accessible, welcoming, and fulfilling for volunteers.
Together, we will:
- Reflect on what makes volunteering meaningful
- Explore the emotional and practical barriers to getting involved
- Co-create ideas for new kinds of volunteer experiences
- Use storytelling, collage, and prompts to imagine what a dream community-farm programme could look like
Who can join?
Participants must be 18+ and live in Leicestershire or Nottinghamshire, with an interest in farming, food growing, nature, or volunteering. No experience needed — just curiosity and willingness to share.
Limited to 16 participants
All participants will receive a £25 thank-you for their time (tickets cost £5, so you receive £20 net).
This event is part of a research study in collaboration with Grange Farm, Loughborough University, and Nottingham Trent University.
Finding the Money
Showing Friday 15 August
Power Station
Showing Friday 22 August
Inspired by lockdown mutual aid initiatives, artist-activists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn decided to turn their street into an energy-generating powerhouse – a prototype for a new way of living, with the hope of galvanising a wider push towards sustainable alternatives. Directed by the duo, POWER STATION charts their turbulent journey, from pitching the idea to their neighbours and sleeping on the roof of their home to raising finance and launching a bid for a Christmas number one single. By turns funny and heartwarming, Powell and Edelstyn’s film is a vibrant portrait of their local neighbourhood, and a charming testament to the power of art in changing minds about what could be possible.
Architecton
Showing Saturday 30 August
The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture.
Monumental in scale and vision and largely without narration, it’s an absorbing journey that takes us from tomb-like Ukrainian cities through mind-boggling modern quarrying and construction methods to an ancient stone monolith in Lebanon. With architect Michele De Lucchi as our occasional guide, it manages to ask searching questions about our short-sighted use of natural resources: how do we build, and how can we build better – before it’s too late?