
Events
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XR Nottingham Book Club
Taking Place Wednesday 4 June
A bit more about the book:
The scientists of XR have written a book (with a forward by Chris Packham)! In this important and timely book, scientists from a broad range of disciplines detail their personal responses to climate change and the ecological crises that led them to form Scientists for XR and work tirelessly within it. Whether their inspiration comes from education or activism, family ties or the work environment, the scientists writing here record what drives them, what non-violent direct action looks like to them, what led them to become interested in the environmental crisis that threatens us all and what they see as the future of life on Earth. (also, it’s very short).
Lonely Oaks (Vergiss Meyn Nicht)
Showing Friday 6 June
Over the last decade, environmental activists have occupied a dense forest in West Germany. Meyn’s footage, immersive and at times intentionally disorientating – it was mostly shot with a 360° camera mounted on to his bicycle helmet, allowing the filmmaker to move freely across treetops – features interviews with activists, captures brutal police evictions, and interrogates intentions of the occupation alongside the wider landscape of climate activism. It was during a 2018 police operation, when they attempted to clear a site, that Meyn fell to his death. It’s a shocking moment that suffuses the film with pathos and tension, as well as driving its urgent search.
Posthumously completed by a group of Meyn’s friends and fellow students, Lonely Oaks is a timely and moving documentary about the climate crisis and the nuances of protest.
Mammoth Mending Workshop
Taking Place Sunday 8 June
After Life
Showing Thursday 12 June
This is a screening by Jackie Treehorn Productions, an independent film club showcasing a large variety of films throughout Nottingham.
After death, the recently deceased are processed before entering their personal heaven, which takes the form of one happy memory relived for eternity.
Hope For Our Rivers
Showing Friday 13 June
The Line We Crossed
Showing Saturday 28 June
A British story of dissent, drawn from the frontlines of climate resistance. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the quiet unraveling of our protest rights. The film challenges audiences to question what makes dissent effective and where the line of acceptability is.
For two years we documented how the right to protest in the UK is under threat and how environmental defenders, in particular, are being targeted. We have witnessed first hand how they are being silenced in court, criminalised and are receiving disproportionate punishments for nonviolent protest. The right to nonviolent protest is a fundamental pillar of democracy and enshrined in many laws to which the UK government are signatories.